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Out of all the TV shows that have ever existed, there's one that always seem to get predictions about the future eerily correct.
The Simpsons is the longest running animated series and sitcom in America, with over 760 episodes and counting. When you make that much content, you’re going to hit the nail right on the head more than a couple of times, and likely even predict the future, which
The Simpsons is famously known for.
One could argue that they
predicted Donald Trump's 2024 campaign, as well as the
OceanGate submersible disaster that took over the news cycle last summer. There's a long list of things that the 35-year-old show has
possibly predicted, and an episode from 1996 had to be pulled from TV this past weekend due to its parallels to the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.
As you very well know,
Trump nearly lost his life this past Saturday when someone climbed on top of a building near his Pennsylvania rally and took shots at the former Commander N' Chief. That incident was bizarrely similar to the episode that was set to air in the UK, but was pulled at the last minute and replaced with a more modern
Simpsons episode.
The episode, titled "Lisa the Iconoclast," features Lisa (the young genius of the Simpson family) writing an essay on the town of Springfield's founder - Jebediah Springfield. She soon finds out that the town's founder and hailed hero isn't all that he seems. Springfield was actually a murderous pirate, but the town's history had remembered him as a unflappable, indisputable legend.
So during the town's celebration revolving around Jebediah Springfield, Lisa was going to inform the citizens of Springfield that their hero was actually a fraud. Just as she was about to reveal the truth about Jebediah to those at the celebration, the scene cuts to a nearby rooftop, where a sniper and Springfield's Mayor Quimby are waiting to see what she says to decide if they'll "take the shot" or not.
Lisa ultimately opts to not tell Springfield the truth because, in her eyes, the
idea of what Jebediah Springfield was is more valuable than the truth about him. So it doesn't exactly follow along with the scary, violent attack that took place on Trump, but it was close enough to lead a TV executive to pull the episode.
Probably better safe than sorry, because the UK station would have gotten a lot of flak if the assassination-adjacent episode aired. You can take a look at the clip from the episode below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3TmzpwVfZY&t=1s
