# Prophetic 'Simpsons' moments **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 23, 2006, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prophetic-simpsons-moments/341330 "2006-01-23T23:50:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2006, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prophetic-simpsons-moments/341330/1 "2006-01-23T23:50:25Z")
I just saw the episode with the casino, where the lion mauls the Siegfried and Roy spoof guys. What other Simpsons’ moments turned out to be prophetic? ---
**Author:** ![neofishboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/neofishboy/32/444_2.png) [@neofishboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neofishboy)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prophetic-simpsons-moments/341330/2 "2006-01-24T01:00:36Z")
Barney: “Hey! That looks like Princess Di!!..aww wait, it’s just a pile of rags!” Every time I see that episode, I tell myself “Self, you’re not going to laugh at that…” ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Fight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90ced4/32.png) [@Cat\_Fight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Fight)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prophetic-simpsons-moments/341330/3 "2006-01-24T02:01:27Z")
Didn’t Bill Clinton serve his last term naked and in a tube? ---
**Author:** ![Spudo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@Spudo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spudo)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prophetic-simpsons-moments/341330/4 "2006-01-24T02:15:12Z")
Well, the chimps NASA sent into space DID come back super-intelligent, but you, uh, didn’t hear it from me. ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prophetic-simpsons-moments/341330/5 "2006-01-24T02:16:29Z")
> [@Cat Fight](#): > > Didn’t Bill Clinton serve his last term naked and in a tube? Yeah, but they got the winner wrong. It was Kodos by a landslide. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prophetic-simpsons-moments/341330/6 "2006-01-24T04:35:26Z")
Although the December 2004 tsunami was not centered in Malaysia, I think some people there might have been killed: “500 dead in tidal wave in Kuala…Kualalalala…France.” ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prophetic-simpsons-moments/341330/7 "2006-01-24T13:47:39Z")
In one episode Homer talks about how Barney would fly a plane into the White House. ---
**Author:** ![Gerome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/85e7bf/32.png) [@Gerome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gerome)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prophetic-simpsons-moments/341330/8 "2006-01-24T14:03:18Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > In one episode Homer talks about how Barney would fly a plane into the White House. Nerdy, nerdy, nerdy nitpick: Homer was actually referring to the NASA shuttle they were both competing for a place on. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prophetic-simpsons-moments/341330/9 "2006-01-25T00:16:13Z")
> [@Gerome](#): > > Nerdy, nerdy, nerdy nitpick: Homer was actually referring to the NASA shuttle they were both competing for a place on. Or he could be referring to the jetpack he stole. He doesn’t exactly say what it is, he just mockingly refers to his competitor as Barney “Let’s fly into the White House and kill the President” Gumble. And another thing: how come I can’t find any Tang around here? ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prophetic-simpsons-moments/341330/10 "2006-01-25T02:02:56Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > In one episode Homer talks about how Barney would fly a plane into the White House. “They put all the jerks in Tower One.” One of my favorite prescient moments was when Otto’s ex-girlfriend says to Marge, “Wow, you’re a regular Martha Stewart…well, without the evil!” This was 2 years before Martha’s little brouhaha with the law. ---
**Author:** ![Malodorous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47774/32.png) [@Malodorous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malodorous)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prophetic-simpsons-moments/341330/11 "2006-01-25T02:13:58Z")
> [@mobo85](#): > > He doesn’t exactly say what it is, he just mockingly refers to his competitor as Barney “Let’s fly into the White House and kill the President” Gumble. When did the episode first air? When I saw it in reruns I figured that it was a reference to the guy who flew his Cessna into the WH in an attempt to kill Clinton (1994 I think). That would make the joke a reaction to past events, not prophetic of 9-11 terrorists plans. ---
**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prophetic-simpsons-moments/341330/12 "2006-01-25T03:05:11Z")
…either that or somebody remembered [Sam Byck](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Byck), either directly or from being a Sondheim fan. “Ya know why I did it? Cause there isn’t any Santa Claus!” ---
**Author:** ![carterba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85e7bf/32.png) [@carterba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carterba)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prophetic-simpsons-moments/341330/13 "2006-01-25T04:20:46Z")
In the George Bush episode, Homer impersonates Jeb Bush and George W. Bush. Homer: It’s your sons, Jeb Bush and George Bush Jr! George Bush: Bar, the boys are here! They’ll help me think of a plan! Barbara Bush: Oh George, the boys probably just want letters of recommendation. I believe this was before they became governors of Florida and Texas. Of four Bush brothers, the writers picked the two that would go on to national prominence. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prophetic-simpsons-moments/341330/14 "2006-01-25T04:41:10Z")
> [@Malodorous](#): > > When did the episode first air? February 24, 1994. Clinton, eh? If anyone would know where to get Tang, it would be him. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prophetic-simpsons-moments/341330/15 "2006-01-25T05:00:31Z")
“Sometiimes I widdles the few-cher” /Cleatus ---
**Author:** ![Hail\_Ants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dc4da7/32.png) [@Hail\_Ants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hail_Ants)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prophetic-simpsons-moments/341330/16 "2006-01-25T07:49:15Z")
> [@](#): > > When did the episode first air? When I saw it in reruns I figured that it was a reference to the guy who flew his Cessna into the WH in an attempt to kill Clinton (1994 I think). That would make the joke a reaction to past events, not prophetic of 9-11 terrorists plans. That happened **before** that nut flew the Cessna into Clinton’s WH. I remember because right after the real event occurred my brother and I, both huge Simpsons fans, wanted to be the first to use the, _“I don’ see Barney “Let’s fly into the White House and kill the President” Gumble!”_ on each other (he remembered before me). BTW, it was episode [1F13 Deep Space Homer from season 5.](http://www.snpp.com/episodes/1F13.html) ---
**Author:** ![Malodorous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47774/32.png) [@Malodorous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malodorous)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prophetic-simpsons-moments/341330/17 "2006-01-25T08:46:45Z")
> [@Hail Ants](#): > > That happened **before** that nut flew the Cessna into Clinton’s WH. I remember because right after the real event occurred my brother and I, both huge Simpsons fans, wanted to be the first to use the, _“I don’ see Barney “Let’s fly into the White House and kill the President” Gumble!”_ on each other (he remembered before me). Wow, looks like the real-life crash was Sept of that year, while the episode ran in Feb. One wonders if the nutcase pilot didn’t first get the idea from the Simpson’s episode aired a few months earlier. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prophetic-simpsons-moments/341330/18 "2006-01-25T20:27:56Z")
Looking at the transcript, I see that I was wrong- Homer _was_ suggesting that Barney would use the rocket to kill the President. ---
**Author:** ![zagloba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/977dab/32.png) [@zagloba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zagloba)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prophetic-simpsons-moments/341330/19 "2006-01-25T20:51:12Z")
My favorite Simpson’s “prophecy,” if you can call it that, was the episode where Marge plays Blanche in a musical version of _A Streetcar Named Desire_. The whole concept was so over the top I thought it was hilarious. I mean a _Streetcar_ musical – pffft… like anyone would seriously do that! Then Peter Sellars went and wrote a Streetcar **Opera**! ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2006, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prophetic-simpsons-moments/341330/20 "2006-01-25T21:04:07Z")
I just caught the old (first season?) episode when Bart goes to Hell. The devil tells him it was a mistake and he is not due to die until the Yankees win the pennant again which is almost a hundred years from now. Now that I think about it, not very prophetic 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/prophetic-simpsons-moments/341330.md?page=2)