'The Simpsons' didn't just predict that Donald Trump would become president, the show also predicted that Team USA would win curling gold against Sweden. Photo / 20th Century Fox
'The Simpsons' didn't just predict that Donald Trump would become president, the show also predicted that Team USA would win curling gold against Sweden. Photo / 20th Century Fox
The Simpsons has once again predicted the future, this time with the results of the Winter Olympics Curling.
In a 2010 episode titled "Boy meets Curl", Homer and Marge take up curling, and they, along with Principal Skinner and his mum, lead the US Team to a gold medalduring that year's games in Vancouver.
'The Simpsons' didn't just predict that Donald Trump would become president, the show also predicted that Team USA would win curling gold against Sweden. Photo / 20th Century Fox
Ironically in that episode, the Simpson's team beat Sweden, just as the USA did in a shocking upset victory over Sweden in Pyeongchang on Saturday.
Team USA's John Shuster celebrates a point during the gold medal game. Photo / Getty
This isn't the first time the cartoon, now in its 29th season, has made a joke that turned out to be prescient, the Daily Mail reported.
In probably the most famous, and most telling coincidence, in 2000, in an episode called "Bart to the Future", Lisa Simpson becomes president, and she "inherits quite a budget crunch from President Trump".
Writers called their 2000 'President Trump' episode 'a warning to America'. Photo / 20th Century Fox
In a 2016 interview with The Hollywood Reporter, writer Don Graeney called the episode a "warning to America", noting that a Trump presidency "just seemed like the logical last stop before hitting bottom". It was pitched because it was consistent with the vision of "America going insane".
The Simpsons also 'predicted' the Ebola outbreak, Greece's economic difficulties, and a horse meat scandal.
Five years before she dove into the NRG Stadium to perform her Super Bowl halftime show, Lady Gaga was the subject of a Simpsons episode called "Lisa goes Gaga", in which a Gaga-like character descends on Springfield to perform.
In 1998, in an episode where Ron Howard wants to direct a movie that Homer wrote, one scene shows the exterior of 20th Century Fox, and on the sign it says "a division of the Walt Disney Company".
Disney made a deal to acquire 20th Century Fox in December, 2017.
