Given The Simpsons’ propensity for foreseeing the future, viewers shouldn’t be shocked if they believe the TV series anticipated Raygun’s viral Olympic breakdancing moment.
Rachael Gunn, an Australian breakdancer, gained online fame following her ‘hilariously ridiculous’ Olympic performance.
Even while it was quite exciting, Gunn tragically lost the event without scoring a single point.
Six criteria factors were used by the Olympic judges to grade each athlete: musicality, performativity, technique, charisma, and inventiveness.
Even if the judges weren’t delighted by the performance, the crazy routine kept spectators at home entertained.
Some Simpsons viewers even believe that the performance was strikingly similar to Homer’s dance in front of Mr. Buns and Smithers from a legendary episode that aired more than 30 years ago.
In the 1993 episode, the beloved character gets elected president of the the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant’s trade union.
Homer organizes the employees into a collective strike to get their dental benefits reinstated.
You ask, what is the purpose of this strike? To avoid the family having to pay massive amounts for Lisa’s new braces.
Through some cunning maneuvering, Homer is able to negotiate a deal, but there’s a catch: he has to step down.
The main character is delighted to oblige and jumps on the floor and dances around on his side in a magnificent manner to rejoice.
Social media users have drawn comparisons between Raygun’s Olympic performance and this one.
“Once again, The Simpsons totally nailed it predicting Raygun’s Olympic Breaking routine,” one person penned on Twitter.
So how exactly do The Simpsons seem to be able to anticipate the future?
Well, one of the show’s writers has already disclosed how it accomplishes so much successfully.
Al Jean told NME: “One of our writers, the guy whose episode predicted Donald Trump as president, said it best, ‘If you write 700 episodes and you don’t predict anything, then you’re pretty bad. If you throw enough darts, you’re going to get some bullseyes’.”
Jean acknowledged that some of the forecasts are somewhat unsettling, even if The Simpsons has an excellent accuracy record.
“The 9/11 one is so bizarre,” the writer said. “In the World Trade Center episode, there was a brochure reading $9 a day with an 11 styled up like the towers. That was in ’96, which was crazy, like this insane coincidence. But mostly it’s just educated guesses.”
He added: “Stanley Kubrick made the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1968 and there’s Zoom and iPads in it but that’s because he had futurologists helping him construct what the world might look like in 30 years’ time.”
