Anything but The Simpsons…
Baba Vanga, New Nostradamus, The Simpsons – the great mystics of our time.
Whereas Baba and Nostradamus can be hit and miss, one of the true reliable foreseeing forces of our day is without a doubt the famous TV show full of yellow people.
Since its TV debut, the show has consistently predicted the future with scary accuracy, gaining notoriety for it’s all-seeing episodes.
Some of the biggest predictions by the show include Donald Trump’s rise to presidency, the Titan Submersible incident and even 9/11 to a certain extent.
Now, as we bid farewell to 2024, the show has a new host of prophecies that could happen in 2025.
One of the most likely events to rear its ugly head this year could be the long anticipated arrival of World War Three.
Tensions across the globe continue to grow with conflicts happening on every continent, from the war in Ukraine to the armed conflict in the Brazilian Favelas.
One of the strongest references to impeding doom came in a 1987 short, when Homer is convinced that WW3 has started and insists on rushing the family to a homemade shelter in their back yard.
Separately, in the episode ‘Lisa’s Wedding’, we see Lisa’s fiancé Hugh Parkfield, who is British, visit Moe’s Tavern in the future with Homer and Bart.
Moe says to Hugh that America “saved their [Britain’s] a** in WW2”, to which Hugh replies, “well we saved your a**e in WW3”.
Moe replies: “That’s true.”
Hopefully this prediction doesn’t come true in 2025, however, there could be some redemption in it for the UK, although that said, we all know it was really Russia who saved everyone’s a**es.
On the topic of the end of the world, another prediction that would be far from ideal to happen in 2025 is the actual end of the world.
The episode ‘Thank God It’s Doomsday’ sees a trip to the cinema turn into panic as Homer, Bart and Lisa watch a film about the Rapture, which terrifies Homer to the point where he decides to announce the end of the world to everyone in town.
Homer begins to shout that “stars are falling from the sky” and that “the end is near”.
Coincidentally this is also where we get the famous image of Homer ringing a bell with his “the end is near” sign over his neck.
The last prediction which we really don’t need is the Zombie apocalypse, seen in the 2009 episode titled ‘Treehouse of Horror XX’.
In this instalment, Bart turns out to be the only person in Springfield immune to the zombie virus, leading to him being hunted by the residents who believe they can be saved by eating him.
This doesn’t happen, but Bart does manage to save the town by getting a vaccine into everyone’s food.
Similarities have already been drawn between this episode and the Covid-19 pandemic, although the zombie aspect is, fortunately, yet to become true.
Well, there you have it, War, the Rapture and zombies, the full set of terrible things that we really don’t need on our plates in 2025.
Let’s just hope this time The Simpsons got it wrong.
