{"id":9688,"date":"2020-05-07T10:32:24","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T14:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/?p=9688"},"modified":"2020-05-08T11:40:12","modified_gmt":"2020-05-08T15:40:12","slug":"once-again-the-simpsons-were-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/blogs\/middays\/2020\/05\/once-again-the-simpsons-were-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Once Again &#8216;The Simpsons&#8217; Were Right!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did &#8216;The Simpsons&#8217; get it right again?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The show has been running now for over three-decades and during that time, there have been a few episodes that ended up becoming quite close to real life. They predicted Trump would be elected, smart watches and even the US winning a medal in curling. I joked when all this started asking, &#8220;how did this episode turn out on The Simpsons?&#8221;\u00a0 Turns out they did in fact have an episode that comes pretty close to matching what we are going through now.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s from 1993, the\u00a0episode is titled &#8220;Marge in Chains&#8221; and shows a mysterious virus from Asia invading the town of Springfield. The disease, which originated in Japan, is called the &#8220;Osaka Flu&#8221; and much like Corona, it spreads like wildfire throughout the town.<\/p>\n<p>So first, you have the pandemic aspect, but while the townspeople are demanding a cure, Dr. Hubert he\u00a0tells the protesting crowd that the only thing he can offer is a placebo and he recommends bed rest.\u00a0 Then in come the &#8220;Murder hornets!&#8221; Wondering where the placebo is, the crowd turns over a truck. Unfortunately, the truck is full of killer bees which immediately start attacking them.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone know any of the writers over there? I think we&#8217;d all really like to know if there is anything else we should prepare for!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/liiVX55tJ7E?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Did &#8216;The Simpsons&#8217; get it right again?","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":9696,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1663,770],"class_list":["post-9688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middays","tag-coronavirus-pandemic","tag-the-simpsons"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-14 09:51:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/classicrock981.com\/blogs\/middays\/2020\/05\/once-again-the-simpsons-were-right\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9688"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9711,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9688\/revisions\/9711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cklofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}