Did the Simpsons predict Russia’s war on Ukraine?
Fans of the long-running cartoon sitcom claim it predicted the current crisis between Russia and Ukraine in an episode way back in 1998.
A clip from the episode “Simpson Tide” shows a United Nations meeting between Russia and the United States that quickly turns into Russia announcing the return of the Soviet Union. Complete with hidden tanks, barbed-wired walls and even a zombified Lenin raising from the dead to declare he “must crush Capitalism”.
Check out this clip from Twitter:
The Simpsons predicted the
Crisis of #Putin, #Russia,#Ukraine and #Donetsk and#Luhansk way before it was cool 🤯😆#RussiaUkraineCrisis#Ukraina #ukrainerussia #USA pic.twitter.com/Hqd2icRj6w
— Genius Manushya (@GeniusManushya) February 22, 2022
While it is not an exact match for the war Russia is currently waging in Ukraine, it comes close enough for some fans to chalk it up as yet another Simpsons prediction.
“At what point are we gonna make Matt Groening tell us how he does this?” one fan tweeted, referring to the show’s creator.
“THE SIMPSONS ALWAYS PREDICTS EVERYTHING,” wrote another.
“Pretty sure most world events were predicted by the Simpsons at some point,” said another.
It comes just weeks after another Simpsons prediction appeared to come true, this one from the show’s 2007 big screen outing, The Simpsons Movie.
In the film, A-list actor Tom Hanks appears in animated form as a spokesman in an ad for the US government, with this memorable line during his brief cameo: “Hello, I’m Tom Hanks. The US government has lost its credibility so it’s borrowing some of mine.”
Here we are, 15 years later, and Tom Hanks is working as a spokesman for the US government in real life, narrating a new White House video promoting the achievements of the Biden administration during its first year in office.
It’s the latest in a long line of alleged predictions the writers of The Simpsons have unwittingly made about future events.
Images: The Simpsons (1998)