For decades, “The
Simpsons” has proven adept at not only standing the test of time, but even predicting the future.
In season 11, “The
Simpsons” predicted a Donald Trump presidency in the 2000 episode “Bart to the Future.” The year (on the show) was 2030, and the Simpson administration had inherited “quite a budget crunch” from President Trump.
It wasn’t the first time the show predicted the future. It foresaw the plot twist for “Game of Thrones” character Daenerys Targaryen, Bengt R. Holmstrom’s Nobel Prize in Economics and even the mass of the Higgs boson particle.
It might also have predicted coronavirus. In the season four episode “Marge in Chains,” it predicted a global flu pandemic known in the show as the “Osaka Flu,” and spread by a Japanese factory worker coughing into a package.
The Simpsons Might Have Already Predicted the Events of 2020
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The Asian giant hornet is an invasive species that poses a grave threat to bees and even to humans who cross its path. These aggressive hornets will slaughter entire colonies of bees to feed on larvae, and can sting humans through protective beekeeping garb. Officials in Washington state, where the insects were first spotted in the U.S., are trying to eradicate them before they spread to the rest of the country. NewsHour Weekend’s Mori Rothman reports.
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Hari Sreenivasan:
This month the Washington state Department of Agriculture announced that it would remove hundreds of Asian giant hornet traps in preparation for winter when most of the worker hornets and drones die, and the queens find a place to hibernate.