it’s not surprising that this truly
inventive long-running series got more
than a few things right
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
Simpsons jokes that came true every May
10th local residents gathered and drive
snakes into the center of town and whack
them to snake heaven before we begin be
sure to tune in to watch moto live
coming at you from London on July 12th
with musical performances by L Lu Leif
Erikson and Louie Robinson for this list
we’re focusing on those real-world
events that were not easily predictable
and yet they actually occurred after a
similar thing happened on an episode of
The Simpsons however we’re excluding
those moments or events that
purposefully mirrored the show oh and a
spoiler alert is now in effect hey hey
you’re taking agree Jon Gries now da we
run the grease racket in this town
number 10 Lady Gaga’s high-wire act
in the Super Bowl 51 halftime show Lady
Gaga impressed pretty much everyone by
descending from the top of Houston’s NRG
Stadium on wires mid performance well it
may have been the first time Gaga pulled
this off for real her animated self had
performed a similar high wire act five
years earlier on The Simpsons in fact
the wires weren’t the only similarity
between the two performances I love you
ladies well she wasn’t wearing a fire
shooting brought the Super Bowl she did
perform part of the act with drones in
the background quite similar to the
birds that flew off her in her Simpsons
appearance number 9 the mile-high dining
club restaurant tricked out like an
airplane complete with turbulence may
not be the ideal spot to hold your
wedding anniversary dinner at least
that’s what Homer and Marge find out in
a 1998 episode Bart and Lisa sure like
it though and it seems like other diners
across the globe also enjoy similar
experiences on a regular basis since the
early 2000 a plane themed restaurants
and restaurants created inside former
active aircraft have been popping up all
over the world
some offer fancy dining others more
affordable fare and there’s even a
McDonald’s built inside a Douglas dc-3
in Taupo New Zealand number 8 the left
tour iam well if we didn’t deliver to
you in a classic 1991 Simpsons episode
Ned Flanders opens a store called the
left or iam that sells all things left
handed there are left handed can openers
Ledger’s and even a car with a
left-handed gearshift the idea doesn’t
catch on it first and plan ders almost
goes bankrupt
fortunately Homer decides but he doesn’t
want to see his neighbor fail after all
and let’s all the South paws and
Springfield’s know where they can buy
what they’re looking for Wow turns out
it is a good business idea both on
screen and off because in real life the
people behind the previously defunct
1978’s lefty San Francisco decided to
reopen their left hand store with a new
contemporary twist in 2008 and also
launched an online store to Ned Flanders
the richest left-handed man in town
number seven the yardwork simulator man
look at all this stuff
pull weeds mow lawn scooping bad dog
business in this 1998 episode Marge
can’t get Bart and Lisa to do any yard
work
that is until Bart discovers a virtual
reality simulator of the labor at a
traveling carnival that she can’t seem
to pull him away from I want to go in
the yard work simulator eleven years
later millions of people many of whom
probably couldn’t be bothered to tend to
actual plants and green spaces fell in
love with farmville a video game that
lets them do just that from behind their
screen now with the increasing
popularity of commercially available
virtual reality could have be our yard
work simulator be far off but one
ringers Canada’s honoured walk number
six snake whacking it’s one of those
classic Simpsons moments that was
clearly meant to take an issue – it’s
absurd conclusion in this case the
mistreatment of snakes in the 1993
episode the town of Springfield is
excited about whacking gay when they
drive snakes to the center of town and
repeatedly hit them on the head to kill
them
only Lisa and Bart seem to have a
problem with this festival of senseless
violence and put a stop to it with the
help of Barry White don’t bother the
snakes leave all the snakes
[Music]
twenty years later the Florida Fish and
Wildlife Conservation Commission
announced the Python challenge which
sadly was a real contest awarding $1500
to the person who killed the most
pythons in the Everglades truth really
is stranger than fiction number five
bloody billboard in 2008 television New
Zealand really wanted to get the word
out about their broadcast of Quentin
Tarantino’s very violent film Kill Bill
so they erected a billboard that rained
fake blood down on cars and presumably
anyone below while this marketing tactic
may have been a real-world first The
Simpsons had done something similar back
in a 1992 episode everyone in
Springfield is so excited about the
upcoming release of the itchy and
scratchy movie that even a newlywed
couple doesn’t seem to mind that the
billboard promoting the film drops red
goo all over them number four gym mats
in food I don’t care what you say I can
taste the newspaper when Springfield
Elementary faces one of its many budget
crunches Principal Skinner decides to
cut some corners at the expense of his
students health lunch lady Doris helps
out by grinding discarded gym mats into
the cafeterias food
so even she’s skeptical of the
nutritional value of the mat there’s
very little making these gym med
meanwhile in real life it wasn’t a
budget crunch that made Subway and other
restaurant chains use azo dye carbon
amide to make their bread rather the
food additive which is a chemical found
in yoga mat was used to give bread
elasticity and it’s used to make the
bread stronger to strengthen the bread
and subway says hey it’s safe subway was
forced to admit what they’d been doing
in 2014 and confirmed they were stopping
this process 19 years after this
Simpsons episode aired number three
stealing grease the grease traps in this
kitchen have never
in 2012 with the price of cooking grease
on the rise licensed karting companies
in New York City reported break-ins and
witnessing thieves stealing grease they
were supposed to pick up from outside of
restaurants 14 years earlier homer and
Bart had the same idea in the episode
Lord of the dance
their slippery criminal empire
eventually ends after a run-in with
groundskeeper Willie during a foiled
Greece heist at Springfield Elementary
my name is Damon please know well most
of the real world bandits got away with
their crime there’s still no acne grease
and shovel company as far as we know
anyway number 2 three-eyed fish wait a
minute 1 2 3
Simpsons fans will never forget blinky
the infamous three-eyed fish that Bart
catches in front of an investigative
reporter in this classic 1990 episode
the culprit for this aquatic abnormality
is clear the Springfield nuclear power
plant
mr. burns even tries to spin blinky
third eye into a political advantage but
ends up being unable to swallow his own
words or the fish
unfortunately it only took 21 years
before a similarly mutated fish was
caught in reality this happened in
Argentina in the waters near you guessed
it a nuclear power plant then in 2015
another three-eyed fish was reportedly
caught in Brooklyn though some deemed it
a hoax grilling before I hit the ground
number one
President Trump The Simpsons spent a
decent amount of time spoofing Donald
Trump’s rise to the presidency while it
was underway for real but 15 years
before Trump launched his campaign for
the presidential election they predicted
the business mogul would one day occupy
the Oval Office in a 2000 episode Bart
sees a vision of the future where he’s
unemployed while Lisa is President of
the United States in a budget meeting
she refers to a deficit left by her
predecessor President Trump and you know
we’ve inherited quite a budget crunch
from President Trump how bad is it
secretary Van Outen we’re broke The
Simpsons actually responded to this
prediction five days after Trump was
elected the 45th President of the United
States in 2016 with Bart summing up his
feelings in writing being write sucks on
the chalkboard at least I’ll always help
this
do you agree with our picks check out
these other great clips from watch mojo
and subscribe for new videos every day
[Music]
inventive long-running series got more
than a few things right
welcome to watchmojo.com and today we’re
counting down our picks for the top 10
Simpsons jokes that came true every May
10th local residents gathered and drive
snakes into the center of town and whack
them to snake heaven before we begin be
sure to tune in to watch moto live
coming at you from London on July 12th
with musical performances by L Lu Leif
Erikson and Louie Robinson for this list
we’re focusing on those real-world
events that were not easily predictable
and yet they actually occurred after a
similar thing happened on an episode of
The Simpsons however we’re excluding
those moments or events that
purposefully mirrored the show oh and a
spoiler alert is now in effect hey hey
you’re taking agree Jon Gries now da we
run the grease racket in this town
number 10 Lady Gaga’s high-wire act
in the Super Bowl 51 halftime show Lady
Gaga impressed pretty much everyone by
descending from the top of Houston’s NRG
Stadium on wires mid performance well it
may have been the first time Gaga pulled
this off for real her animated self had
performed a similar high wire act five
years earlier on The Simpsons in fact
the wires weren’t the only similarity
between the two performances I love you
ladies well she wasn’t wearing a fire
shooting brought the Super Bowl she did
perform part of the act with drones in
the background quite similar to the
birds that flew off her in her Simpsons
appearance number 9 the mile-high dining
club restaurant tricked out like an
airplane complete with turbulence may
not be the ideal spot to hold your
wedding anniversary dinner at least
that’s what Homer and Marge find out in
a 1998 episode Bart and Lisa sure like
it though and it seems like other diners
across the globe also enjoy similar
experiences on a regular basis since the
early 2000 a plane themed restaurants
and restaurants created inside former
active aircraft have been popping up all
over the world
some offer fancy dining others more
affordable fare and there’s even a
McDonald’s built inside a Douglas dc-3
in Taupo New Zealand number 8 the left
tour iam well if we didn’t deliver to
you in a classic 1991 Simpsons episode
Ned Flanders opens a store called the
left or iam that sells all things left
handed there are left handed can openers
Ledger’s and even a car with a
left-handed gearshift the idea doesn’t
catch on it first and plan ders almost
goes bankrupt
fortunately Homer decides but he doesn’t
want to see his neighbor fail after all
and let’s all the South paws and
Springfield’s know where they can buy
what they’re looking for Wow turns out
it is a good business idea both on
screen and off because in real life the
people behind the previously defunct
1978’s lefty San Francisco decided to
reopen their left hand store with a new
contemporary twist in 2008 and also
launched an online store to Ned Flanders
the richest left-handed man in town
number seven the yardwork simulator man
look at all this stuff
pull weeds mow lawn scooping bad dog
business in this 1998 episode Marge
can’t get Bart and Lisa to do any yard
work
that is until Bart discovers a virtual
reality simulator of the labor at a
traveling carnival that she can’t seem
to pull him away from I want to go in
the yard work simulator eleven years
later millions of people many of whom
probably couldn’t be bothered to tend to
actual plants and green spaces fell in
love with farmville a video game that
lets them do just that from behind their
screen now with the increasing
popularity of commercially available
virtual reality could have be our yard
work simulator be far off but one
ringers Canada’s honoured walk number
six snake whacking it’s one of those
classic Simpsons moments that was
clearly meant to take an issue – it’s
absurd conclusion in this case the
mistreatment of snakes in the 1993
episode the town of Springfield is
excited about whacking gay when they
drive snakes to the center of town and
repeatedly hit them on the head to kill
them
only Lisa and Bart seem to have a
problem with this festival of senseless
violence and put a stop to it with the
help of Barry White don’t bother the
snakes leave all the snakes
[Music]
twenty years later the Florida Fish and
Wildlife Conservation Commission
announced the Python challenge which
sadly was a real contest awarding $1500
to the person who killed the most
pythons in the Everglades truth really
is stranger than fiction number five
bloody billboard in 2008 television New
Zealand really wanted to get the word
out about their broadcast of Quentin
Tarantino’s very violent film Kill Bill
so they erected a billboard that rained
fake blood down on cars and presumably
anyone below while this marketing tactic
may have been a real-world first The
Simpsons had done something similar back
in a 1992 episode everyone in
Springfield is so excited about the
upcoming release of the itchy and
scratchy movie that even a newlywed
couple doesn’t seem to mind that the
billboard promoting the film drops red
goo all over them number four gym mats
in food I don’t care what you say I can
taste the newspaper when Springfield
Elementary faces one of its many budget
crunches Principal Skinner decides to
cut some corners at the expense of his
students health lunch lady Doris helps
out by grinding discarded gym mats into
the cafeterias food
so even she’s skeptical of the
nutritional value of the mat there’s
very little making these gym med
meanwhile in real life it wasn’t a
budget crunch that made Subway and other
restaurant chains use azo dye carbon
amide to make their bread rather the
food additive which is a chemical found
in yoga mat was used to give bread
elasticity and it’s used to make the
bread stronger to strengthen the bread
and subway says hey it’s safe subway was
forced to admit what they’d been doing
in 2014 and confirmed they were stopping
this process 19 years after this
Simpsons episode aired number three
stealing grease the grease traps in this
kitchen have never
in 2012 with the price of cooking grease
on the rise licensed karting companies
in New York City reported break-ins and
witnessing thieves stealing grease they
were supposed to pick up from outside of
restaurants 14 years earlier homer and
Bart had the same idea in the episode
Lord of the dance
their slippery criminal empire
eventually ends after a run-in with
groundskeeper Willie during a foiled
Greece heist at Springfield Elementary
my name is Damon please know well most
of the real world bandits got away with
their crime there’s still no acne grease
and shovel company as far as we know
anyway number 2 three-eyed fish wait a
minute 1 2 3
Simpsons fans will never forget blinky
the infamous three-eyed fish that Bart
catches in front of an investigative
reporter in this classic 1990 episode
the culprit for this aquatic abnormality
is clear the Springfield nuclear power
plant
mr. burns even tries to spin blinky
third eye into a political advantage but
ends up being unable to swallow his own
words or the fish
unfortunately it only took 21 years
before a similarly mutated fish was
caught in reality this happened in
Argentina in the waters near you guessed
it a nuclear power plant then in 2015
another three-eyed fish was reportedly
caught in Brooklyn though some deemed it
a hoax grilling before I hit the ground
number one
President Trump The Simpsons spent a
decent amount of time spoofing Donald
Trump’s rise to the presidency while it
was underway for real but 15 years
before Trump launched his campaign for
the presidential election they predicted
the business mogul would one day occupy
the Oval Office in a 2000 episode Bart
sees a vision of the future where he’s
unemployed while Lisa is President of
the United States in a budget meeting
she refers to a deficit left by her
predecessor President Trump and you know
we’ve inherited quite a budget crunch
from President Trump how bad is it
secretary Van Outen we’re broke The
Simpsons actually responded to this
prediction five days after Trump was
elected the 45th President of the United
States in 2016 with Bart summing up his
feelings in writing being write sucks on
the chalkboard at least I’ll always help
this
do you agree with our picks check out
these other great clips from watch mojo
and subscribe for new videos every day
[Music]
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