How do they do it?! 10 amazing predictions from "the Simpsons", which already came true

December 17, 1989 on TV channel Fox debuted the longest in the history of American television animated series "the Simpsons." And for three decades the existence of the series, the authors have provided so many events that are not due to different experts and the prophets.

When Donald trump became President of the United States, the Internet has spread the rumor that this event was predicted in the animated series "the Simpsons" in 2000. In the story of 17-series 11 season Lisa succeeds trump as President, but the fact is that the identity of the trump appears as a joke, the most incredible candidate for the position of leader of the country.

Moreover, the businessman in the series does not appear and the frame to become a popular picture taken from the promovideo "the Simpsons" (appeared on the official YouTube channel in 2015), and not from the series. So the prediction for it. Unlike many other finds of the creators of the legendary series.

The economic crisis in Greece

In the episode "Political failure of Homer Simpson" (the 10-episode 23-season) Homer creates his own political talk show and becomes the voice of the middle class of the United States. During the next edition of the show at the bottom of the picture appears Ticker: "Europe put Greece on eBay". After three years, Greece will be in severe crisis and those in the developed European countries will complain due to the fact that they have to pay for the problems of the Greeks.

The winner of the Nobel prize in Economics

Fun fact: @TheSimpsons' Milhouse once predicted MIT Prof. Holmström would win a #NobelPrize. Today, he was right! https://t.co/CC0LRk1avy pic.twitter.com/syhMiJBK2A

— MIT (@MIT) October 10, 2016

In October last year, the mit Professor Bengt Khol'mstrem received the "Nobel prize" in Economics for his contribution to the development of the theory of contact. Soon, the Twitter of the Institute there was a record: "that's Funny, Milhouse from "the Simpsons" once predicted that Khol'mstrem win the Nobel prize. It turned out — he was right!" In 2010, a series in which the characters made a bet, who will choose the Nobel Committee, and Milhouse got to the point, but nerd Martin miscalculated.

The failure of the national team Brazil at the home world Championships

In the spring of 2014, a series dedicated to the upcoming world Cup in Brazil. She was literally stuffed with predictions. First, the authors are absolutely right when he predicted the defeat of Brazilians from Germany. Second, the truth was speculation about corruption in FIFA. A year later he was arrested several officials of the International football Federation and FIFA President Joseph Blatter resigned.

In addition, in the same series of fictional Brazilian footballer El Divo, the leader of the team, was seriously injured. Four months later the star of Brazilians Neymar injured in the match against Colombia and miss tragic semi-final against Germany.

The Ebola Epidemic

The world learned about the existence of the Ebola virus in 2014, when West Africa was an outbreak of fever. But the writers of the series wonderfully drew attention to the virus in 1997. In the 3rd episode of the 9th season, Marge, Bart reads the story from the book titled "Curious George and the Ebola virus" (Curious George and the Ebola Virus). The cover shows a monkey in bed, and it was monkeys, I suspect that they are carriers of the virus.

Spying of the national security Agency

In the movies "the Simpsons movie", released in 2007, slipped in a joke about the fact that the US government monitors all Americans by listening to phone conversations. Six years later, Edward Snowden will tell you that this is no joke and the national security Agency do trades wire.

The Immortality Of The Rolling Stones

British rock group The Rolling Stones formed in 1962 year and still continues to act. 74-year-old Mick Jagger with 73-year-old Keith Richards toured the world, playing a Grand view.

For "the Simpsons" longevity "rolling stones" was not a surprise. Series, shown in 1995, tells the story of Lisa in 2010. In one scene, she is lying with her husband on the bed and on the wall hangs a poster announcing the tour The Rolling Stones in wheelchairs (Wheelchair Tour). However, about wheelchairs they got excited.

Attack on trainers

In 1993 "the Simpsons" parodied the famous German-American Duo of trainers Siegfried and Roy, including the attack on them white tiger. Ten years later the real Siegfried and Roy was attacked by a white tiger during a performance. They survived, but was seriously injured and stopped to speak.

Flying Lady Gaga

The series is famous for the fact that humorously depicts celebrities. For example, singer Lady Gaga appeared suspended from the dome in the bra, releasing a fountain of sparks. It was necessary to happen, that at halftime of super bowl 2016 (the final match of the National football League) part of his performance of Lady Gaga became almost the same flight. Sorry, the sparks from it flew.