You know, the phrase “The Simpsons predicted it” is thrown around a lot these days. The show famously “prophecised” that Donald Trump would become the US president, but fans claim The Simpsons has predicted a bunch of other stuff too.
The most recent cab (or Cat, if you will) off the rank is a classic. Twitter reckons that the long-running series may have predicted the Cats flop of late last year.
https://twitter.com/jazzymixel7/status/1233868749029150720
The alleged prediction comes from the season 17 episode, “The Girl Who Slept Too Little”. The moment in question? An Itchy & Scratchy cartoon from within the show. In the cartoon, Scratchy attends a film adaptation of the musical, Cats. After watching for a few minutes, Scratchy remarks that, “this is so boring” before shooting himself in the head. The End.
I mean, look. There are a definitely a few points of similarity between the episode and last year’s Cats trainwreck. For one thing, a Cats cinematic adaptation hadn’t been attempted at the time of the episode’s airing. There was a lowkey, direct-to-video film released in 1998, but who knows whether The Simpsons writers would’ve even been aware of that.
The negative reception to the film portrayed in the Itchy & Scratchy cartoon is the main leg on which this theory stands. But of course, the idea of a Cats movie had been lampooned in the media for years before the episode aired.
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I guess the jury’s still out on this one…
