1. When Donald Trump became president of the United States:
2. When Lady Gaga was suspended from the air during a performance:
3. When Homer voted on a rigged voting machine:
4. When a statue of a problematic figure got beheaded:
5. When two characters modeled after Siegfried and Roy were attacked by a tiger:
6. When smart watches became a must-have accessory:
7. When the Ebola virus hit the world:
8. When the US beat Sweden in curling in the Winter Olympics:
9. When Bengt Holmström won the Nobel Prize:
10. When Daenerys torched all of King's Landing in Game of Thrones:
11. When JC Penney's went out of business:
12. When kids became obsessed with farming and agriculture games:
13. When the Amazon was on fire:
14. When Disney+ announced The Mandalorian:
15. When Cats was a box office bomb and overall awful film:
16. When tech devices would predict your text (usually incorrectly):
17. When Homer solved the Higgs boson equation:
18. When Bart caught a three-eyed fish next to a nuclear power plant:
19. When horse meat was found in food:
20. When Greece took an economic downturn:
21. Finally, when Disney bought Fox:
CORRECTION
An earlier version of this post included a TikTok that pointed out a few instances in which The Simpsons predicted the current events of 2020. That has since been debunked, so please enjoy these other moments throughout history that The Simpsons seemingly predicted.