Apparently “The Simpsons” has done it again: In a season 17 episode, Homer Simpson gets stuck in a submarine on a sunken ship expedition and loses his oxygen. Fans are convinced that the famous animated series has once again predicted a future event!

Last Sunday, the submarine “Titan” went missing around 700 kilometers south of Newfoundland. It was on an expedition to the wreck of the Titanic. The luxury liner, which sank in 1912, lies on the seabed at a depth of around 3,800 meters. There were five people on board the submarine, including Stockton Rush, the managing director of Oceangate. According to the US Coast Guard, the submarine may have imploded near the wreckage of the Titanic.

The long-running animated series The Simpsons has often made headlines in the past for supposedly predicting future events. One of the most recent claims revolves around a 2006 episode in which Homer is stranded on the ocean floor, which was interpreted as a prediction of a recent submarine accident.

The claim

A recent widespread claim circulating across various media and social networks is that a particular 2006 episode of The Simpsons, in which the character Homer Simpson is stranded at the bottom of the ocean, predicts a tragic submarine disaster , which happened recently.

Fact check

To test this claim, let's first consider an episode of The Simpsons. In the episode "Jazzy and the Pussycats" (Season 18, Episode 2), Homer is actually shown in a submarine-like situation, but he is in a drum set that sinks to the ocean floor, rather than a submarine . There is no explicit depiction of a submarine accident in this episode.

Now to the real submarine accident. There really was such an accident in which a submarine sank and five people died. The incident is tragic, but there are no specific similarities to the Simpsons episode other than the general idea of ​​a character being underwater.

Note: People are often selective in their perception and tend to see patterns where none exist, especially in popular cultural phenomena like The Simpsons. This tendency has been confirmed by numerous false claims and our fact checks on The Simpsons over the years.

Conclusion

After examining the facts, we conclude that the claim that The Simpsons predicted the submarine disaster is untenable. While it is true that Homer is trapped underwater in a 2006 episode, there is no specific similarity to the actual disaster, and the claim appears to be based on coincidence and selective perception rather than actual evidence.

The series “The Simpsons” has depicted a variety of events throughout its long history, and in some cases it has even eerily foreshadowed future events. But in this case, as in many others, the supposed "prophecy" seems more a product of the human tendency to recognize patterns and make connections where none exist. So one needs to look at such claims with a critical and informed perspective.


In keeping with the topic, our fact checks on any Simpsons predictions

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