Assault of the Capitol, inauguration of Joe Biden, Spatial flights of billionaire Richard Branson: the Simpsons had predicted the year 2021<

On September 11, the election of Donald Trump or the Covid-19 pandemic, the creators of the American animated series often gave the impression of having a crystal ball in their pencils.And 2021 does not seem to have escaped the rule for the writers of Homer Simpson's family.Other predictions have indeed occurred.Starting with one of the most striking images of the year: the Capitole assault in Washington on January 6, 2021, by the supporters of Donald Trump who refused the outcome of the presidential vote.Riots imagined by the Simpsons twice.In the Simpson Horror Show XXXII episode, broadcast in November 2020, where you could see the images - dated January 20, 2021, the day when Joe Biden took office - of an apocalyptic world.Without forgetting a Homer who forgets to vote or an old man who considers it after having "voted for Kanye West".But also in an episode of 1996 baptized the day when violence has died out a number of characters storm the Capitol with weapons and bombs.

For this year, the Simpsons had also predicted the nomination of Biden - following the pandemic - commented by Tom Hanks.In a scene from the film The Simpsons released in 2007, the star indeed gives a speech to the country and after Springfield was placed under a glass dome."The American government has lost its credibility, so it borrows me."Better still: the series had even predicted the holding of Kamala Harris, who was sworn in as the first woman vice-president, during this inauguration day.Indeed, her purple costume and pearl necklace strongly resembled those worn by Lisa when she took oath as president in the episode the Simpsons in 30 years.An episode that had anticipated the US national debt."As you know, we have inherited a hell of a budgetary crisis by President Trump," says Lisa Simpson.

Finally, when the businessman Richard Branson flew to space on board VSS Unity last July, this real fact looks like a scene from a 2014 episode, the war of art.The counterpart Klaus Ziegler declares there to Lisa that his "false gives pleasure to people around the world" before pointing people looking at works of art ... including a certain Richard Branson enjoying a painting from a spacecraft.