The Simpsonsis known for many things, including and especiallyits remarkable predictions.
Bart (Nancy Cartwright) takes Santa’s Little Helper to school for show-and-tell.
This time, though, it’s a rather conservative amendment that would make flag burning unconstitutional.
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Some of them have guns, and one of them even has a bomb.
It’s a pretty good episode, too.
One of them even headbutts him.
While this is going on, breaking news runs across the bottom of the screen.
It’s obviously absurd, but it was reflective of the times.
It’s not a very funny episode, but it does have an astonishing connection to the real world.
Many call it the God particle, as it explains how some particles get mass.
But, in a way, that just makes this prediction all the more special.
At the end of the episode, we cut to an establishing shot of 20th Century Fox Studios.
Well, Disney’s always been huge, andThe Simpsonsmakes fun of its own studio all the time.
Cue the robotic conductor ahead of them in the car, which the viewer intuits is doing exactly that.
One guy celebrates that they actually caught someone, and the scene is over.
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This basically describes what Edward Snowden would disclose to the public in his 2013 leak of U.S. government documents.
When Kearney angrily says “Bah!”
and tosses the Newton at Martin, we can at least relate to his frustration.
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It also doesn’t take the world by storm.
Marge appears on the screen, and we infer that she’s back in Springfield.
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