Stranger Than Non–Fiction

Are The Simpsons Talking to Us?

Guest Post:
Though a mainstream media outlet tried to debunk the connection as “fiction,” a comparative look at the two episodes – Episode 21 of Season 4 and Episode 6 of Season 22 – speak for themselves.

Episode 21 of Season 4 centers around a flu that spreads abroad from Osaka, Japan, infecting packages exported from the country to the United States. While the obvious disparity is that it’s Japan rather than China, what’s depicted is suggestive of what we’re now seeing with the coronavirus, which experts say can persist on surfaces – including inside boxes – for up to nine days.



All on its own, this episode could be disregarded as a coincidence. But when paired with Episode 6 of Season 22 of The Simpsons, the predictive programming becomes even more compelling.

In this later episode, a creepy group of globalist plotters is seen sitting around a large, oval table in some kind of bunker trying to come up with the next “phony crisis” to “put Americans back where they belong,” one of the characters is heard stating.

This more sinister plot line shows the heads of several popular television networks, including TBS, TNT, and Bravo brainstorming with the others about ideas. One of them suggests “a good, old-fashioned health scare,” to which they all agree, with one female character emphasizing, “a new disease, no one’s immune.”

“This can’t be a made-up disease,” one of the others also responds. “The only moral thing to do is release a deadly virus into the general public.”