Over the course of 31 seasons and 677 episodes, The Simpsons has offered up approximately 153,149 jokes, give or take a few thousand. More than a few of those gags have paid off in real life by turning out to be eerily or at least semi-prescient. Is The Simpsons truly able to gaze into the future and mine it for laughs, or is this all mere coincidence? It’s the latter, duh. We predict that you’ll be pretty impressed as you start scrolling and consider the evidence….
- Future Phone
What happened on The Simpsons: In the 1995 episode “Lisa’s Wedding,” a visit to a fortune teller transports Lisa to 2010, when she’s talking to Marge via her phone’s video chat feature, called Picture Phone.
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