Uk forsker Alexander Townley bliver betalt for at se Simpsons for forudsigelser. Gangen virker stadig, fordi showet bliver ved med at slå.

NOTTINGHAM, ENGLAND - Alexander Townley, 26, fik betalt omkring £5.000 - $6.804 i 2022 skriverier - at sidde med hver episode af The Simpsons og katalogisere de klude, der senere lignede profeti. The New York Post og LADbible treated it as a dream job. The list is famous: Lisa Simpson inheriting a budget crunch from President Trump in the 2000 episode “Bart to the Future,” Disney buying Fox, auto-correcting phones, smartwatches, a Lady Gaga Super Bowl. Thirty-plus seasons of a show that throws everything at the wall will hit a few times. The job is to clip the hits.

The gag still prints because the writers have been mocking the same American future for three decades, and America keeps cooperating. In 2024 outlets lined the 2016 episode “Friends and Family” up against Apple’s Vision Pro. Trump’s return to the ballot made the chalkboard gag — “Being right sucks” — look like a second punchline. The AEGIS Alliance will not baptize a cartoon as intelligence. We will say coincidence plus volume plus a writers’ room that reads the newspaper is not a crystal ball. It is a mirror that got lucky.

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