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Did The Simpsons strike again? From calling Donald Trump‘s presidency 16 years before it happened to seeing Lady Gaga flying over the audience during her Super Bowl halftime show five years prior to her performance, it’s no surprise that the long-running Fox cartoon may have also predicted the tragedy surrounding the missing submersible.
Early Sunday morning (June 18), a sub holding five people dove into the Atlantic Ocean on an expedition to see the Titanic wreck. Nearly two hours later, the vessel lost contact with those above water and has not been relocated since. While the difficult search is still underway, the sub was set to run out of its 96-hour oxygen supply this morning.
In light of the mysterious event, Simpsons fans have noticed some eerie similarities between a 2006 episode of the cartoon and the missing vessel.
In Season 17, Episode 10 — titled “Homer’s Paternity Coot” — Homer Simpson (voiced by Dan Castellaneta) embarks on an undersea adventure with his long-lost father, Mason Fairbanks, in hopes to find a lost treasure in the sunken ship, Piso Mojado.
However, things go awry when Homer — who takes a separate submarine to the depths of the ocean — gets stuck and ultimately separated from Mason. As the episode goes on, he slowly loses consciousness as his oxygen runs low — before eventually waking up in a hospital three days later and surviving.
While the episode doesn’t exactly mirror what’s going on with the OceanGate Expeditions vessel, fans of the show have taken to social media to draw the connection between the two happenings.
“The Simpsons 🤝🏾 predicting predicaments,” one wrote, while another added, “Can someone tell me how The Simpson[s] have predicted so many things, I just can’t understand how ????”
“At this point, I’m pretty sure there’s a secret society making sure to realize IRL some scenarios from The Simpsons,” a third person said.
Someone else joked, “We living in the matrix and whoever wrote The Simpsons is controlling the matrix.”
However, others weren’t buying that The Simpsons episode had any correlation to the Titanic sub.
“The Simpsons didn’t predict anything other than how god damn predictable humans are,” one Twitter user wrote.
“Or maybe it’s the fact that humans are dumb enough to be predictable,” another added, before someone else posted, “I’ve seen at least 10 cartoons that do the ‘explore the sunken ship’ gimmick and they all have the running out of oxygen plot too.”
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