How The Simpsons became the internet’s favorite prophet 🧐

When a creator’s name popped up in the Epstein files, the internet revived one of its favourite debates about The Simpsons 🧩

1. The Simpsons never leaves the group chat 📺🔥

The long-running animated sitcom isn’t just a cartoon — it’s pop-culture folklore. Since 1989, it has roasted politics, tech, media, and everyday life through the Simpson family in the fictional town of Springfield.

Its jokes are instantly recognisable, endlessly meme-able, and often built around emerging trends, technologies, and headline moments.

Decades later, clips from the show keep resurfacing online — linking old jokes to new events and giving the series a “prophetic” reputation.

Recently, it trended again after co-creator Matt Groening was mentioned in documents related to Epstein.

And once again, the internet asked: Did The Simpsons know? 👀

2. Time + math were always going to cook 🔢😵

Over 35+ years, the show has produced thousands of jokes about society and where it might be headed.

Statistically, some were always going to line up with real-world events. Longtime showrunner Al Jean has addressed this directly: it’s cherry-picking. Out of decades of material, people spotlight the few moments that resemble reality — and ignore the hundreds that didn’t.

It feels shocking because we’re shown the hits — rarely the misses.

That’s not prophecy. That’s probability doing what probability does.