I tracked every “Simpsons predicted it” claim back to the actual episode.

S10E05 – "20th Century Fox, A Division of Walt Disney Co." 21 years before the deal. S07E24 – Cypress Hill with the London Symphony Orchestra. 28 years.
S22E01 – Milhouse casually calls the Nobel Prize winner. 6 years early.

But then you have stuff like the COVID screenshot, photoshopped onto the Osaka Flu episode (S04E21). Bill Oakley called it "gross." The Notre Dame fire scene? Doesn't exist in any episode. The "autocorrect prediction" from S06E08?

That was a joke about the Apple Newton, which was already a product.

I went through 25 of the most viral claims. Tracked every episode, verified air dates, checked what actually existed at the time. 6 were eerily exact. 7 were completely fabricated.