- The Simpsons have a reputation, often wrongly, for "predicting" events. Could they have anticipated the coronavirus epidemic that would occur in 2020 in 1993?
- This is what a montage suggests.
- The reality show did not predict the Covid-19 epidemic.
Did the Simpsons predict 27 years ago that the coronavirus epidemic would occur? This is what wrongly suggests a montage showing extracts from episodes of the series. The montage, made up of four vignettes, was notably shared by Tom Felton, where he collected 320,000 “likes” in 24 hours on the account of the actor revealed by the Harry Potter film series .
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The first three images are authentic, the last, showing the character of presenter Kent Brockman with the inscription "coronavirus", has been modified, as noted by Snopes, a US fact-checking site. The first three images come from episode 21 of season 4, as seen on the montage shared by the British actor. In this episode, a flu epidemic spreads through Springfield, after Homer received a package from Osaka, Japan.
The last panel has been modified. The inscription "coronavirus" has been added to the thumbnail visible next to the presenter. The original image is visible in the video below, at 2 minutes 26:
Images of The Simpsons , whose 31st season is currently airing in the United States, are often hijacked to claim that the writers of the series have "predicted" events. They did not anticipate the death of Kobe Bryant in a helicopter crash, as recalled by our colleagues from Africa Check, nor did they plan a meeting which took place in 2017 between Donald Trump, Salman, the king of Saudi Arabia, and Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the Egyptian president, underlines AFP.
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