The list-icles claim that this is a prediction that Texas Senator Ted Cruz would leave Texas to go to Cancun during a deadly winter storm. When the reader has finished clutching their pearls, take for instance the joke where Mayor Quimby left town during a disaster for a beach vacation. Government might one day be run in an incompetent manner. Several of the show's amazing predictions have shockingly claimed that the U.S. (This might be a good time to use Comic Book Guy's sarcasm detector. Only galaxy-brained cartoon fans will comprehend the startling truth: that this is clearly an example of otherworldly predictive power. Those who believe in coincidence might have mistaken this squiggle for an incorrectly placed Washington Monument or perhaps a random, indiscernible spike meant to balance out the shot when positioned next to a hastily rendered Tower Bridge. (Is referencing old poetry a means of predicting the past? By God, The Simpsons have done it again!) Fans of nebulous predictions everywhere believe that The Shard is miraculously featured in the background of a shot of the digital clock face on the Palace of Westminster. or The Simpsons character Colonel Leslie Hapablap ( R. The wedding episode is also said to have predicted the construction of London skyscraper, The Shard, a laudably pointy building that seems "to slip the surly bonds of Earth and touch the face of God," as 1940s poet John Gillespie Magee Jr. If we apply the same logic here that the list-makers did, does that mean that Get Smart and Back to the Future predicted jokes on The Simpsons? Or is it more likely that the pop-culture savvy Simpsons writers saw these or similar works of fiction and actively (or sub-consciously) referenced them in these episodes? For example, the 1995 episode "Lisa's Wedding" is said to have predicted smartwatches and video calls, but even Maxwell Smart used a wrist communicator in the classic 1965 spy comedy series Get Smart, and 1989's Back to the Future Part II featured a video telephone. Even among the better of The Simpsons prediction list-icles, there tend to be one or two lightweight or forced entries used to round out the list, which speaks more to the reader's confirmation bias than to any prognosis by the show's writers. Taking the "louder or dumber" scene as a microcosm of The Simpsons' predictions as a whole, we can extrapolate that many of the show's most heralded predictions are either throwaway gags that coincidentally came true or examples of patterns in human nature that recur frequently. The Simpson family isn't predicting the future our modern society is simply racing The Simpsons to see who can present the dumbest possible outcome for humanity. The comedy writers on The Simpsons may appear to be predicting future events, but in reality, they are constructing satiric barbs that mock society's stupidity by exaggerating it. Simpsons' razor, in contrast, is a philosophy stating that the dumbest possible result is often the most likely. This is a humorous spin on an actual real philosophy, Occam's razor, which suggests that the simplest explanation is often the best one. But many of these so-called predictions can be boiled down to a philosophy one might refer to as Simpsons' razor. What became something of a meme on Twitter and other social media platforms resulted in a slew of list-based articles opining the show's divinely accurate soothsaying. Whenever something noteworthy or downright idiotic takes social media by storm, a diehard Simpsons fan will appear in the comments with a GIF, video, or screen grab to prove that the brilliant prognosticators on the show's writing staff predicted the event and/or calamity long ago.
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