"Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish," this Season 2, Episode 4 shows Marge serving three-eyed mutated fish to Burns, showing pollution causing a catastrophe. Mirroring this dark move, the UK's Food Standard Authority in 2022 announced getting rid of the rule limiting the levels of radioactivity in foodstuffs.
Another prediction by the Simpsons that came true was when in 1993, Yankees manager Stump Merrill benched Don Mattingly for refusing to cut his hair on game day. A similar instance was shown in season 3, episode 16 of the animated series a year prior.
Episode 10 of season 5, "$pringfield, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalised Gambling," showed the famous LA entertainers Siegfried and Roy attacked by their trained white tiger in a throwaway gag. Ten years later, in 2003, one of the duo's tigers attacked and almost killed Roy.
Another prediction by the Simpsons that came true was the release date of The Matrix. In season 15, episode 14, "The Ziff Who Came To Dinner," Homer was seen standing in front of the poster for "A Matrix Christmas." Seventeen years later, The Matrix Resurrections was released on December 22, 2021.
In 2022, actor Tom Hanks appeared in a commercial for US President Joe Biden that focused on the president's successes and downplayed the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. A similar instance appeared in the Simpsons movie where Tom Hanks appears in a commercial for the US government.
Another Simpsons prediction that came true was in season 11, episode 17, "Bart to the Future," which showed Bart a vision of the future where Lisa becomes the president, and where she announces that they inherited a lot of debt from Donald Trump, and 16 years later he became the 45th president of the United States.
One of the most prominent predictions by the Simpsons was in season 10, episode 5, "When You Dish Upon a Star," showing Disney buying 20th Century Fox. A similar instance occurred in real life when, in 2017, Disney's $71 million merger saw the company buy Fox.
We can never forget those two years we spent in fear of the Coronavirus. A similar instance was shown in episode 21 of season 4, "Marge in Chains," which showed that Springfield residents had to go on bed rest. While the Simpsons didn't address COVID-19, the fact that Osaka flu leaves people bed-bound and spreads like a fire is similar to the properties of the coronavirus.