The Simpsons Prediction of 1998: Russian Aggression

G.the episodes of Simpson often have “Expected” world events which then took place in the “future”, in the years following the broadcasting of the episodes.

It had happened in many cases: from Lady Gaga’s Super Bowl performance (announced eight years earlier) atelection of Donald Trump expected in the episode Bart to the Future aired in 2000, Matt Groening’s previews very often anticipated reality. And it seems to have happened again with the recent one invasion of Russia in Ukrainian territory.

The episode of the Simpsons which talks about the Russian invasion. (Simpson)

Following the episode, some Twitter users became aware that a 1998 Simpsons episode called Simpson Tide – in Italian Sailor Homer – (within the 9th season) he had already “foreseen” everything.

The episode of the Simpsons Sailor Homer

In the episode, Homer accidentally shoots a submarine in Russian waters during a military exercise, pushing a ‘Soviet Union even more aggressive a deploy troops and tanks on the streets and instantly recreate the Berlin Wall.

In one sequence, a Carnival parade in Moscow it revealed hidden tanks and the Soviet army returning to parade through Red Squarewhile Lenin’s embalmed body revived, threatening to “destroy capitalism.” A “forecast” that the historic showrunner of the series, Al Jean, defined as “Really sad»But unfortunately also«very predictable “.

Jean went on to say that “I hate to say it, but I was born in 1961, so 30 years of my life have been lived with specter of the Soviet Union“, He explained in an interview withHollywood Reporter. “So, for me, this is sadly more the norm than a prediction. We just thought that the things [con la Russia] they would go wrong“. And so it was.

Putin is “a bad person”

The Michigan-born artist went on to explain that “the threat never really went awayand you always had to be super vigilant. In 1998, when this episode aired, it possibly was zenith of US-Russian relations“.

“But, since when [il presidente russo Vladimir] Putin was elected, everyone understood that he’s a bad person is that very bad things would happen“. And this war is the most emblematic demonstration of this.

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