{"id":183266,"date":"2021-02-19T21:17:14","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T18:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-simpsons-predicted-ted-cruzs-cancun-debacle-back-in-1993\/"},"modified":"2021-02-19T21:17:14","modified_gmt":"2021-02-19T18:17:14","slug":"the-simpsons-predicted-ted-cruzs-cancun-debacle-back-in-1993","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-simpsons-predicted-ted-cruzs-cancun-debacle-back-in-1993\/","title":{"rendered":"#The Simpsons predicted Ted Cruz’s Cancun debacle back in 1993"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#The Simpsons predicted Ted Cruz’s Cancun debacle back in 1993<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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At this point \u201cThe Simpsons\u201d are running rings around Nostradamus. <\/p>\n

The 32-year-old animated comedy has once again shocked fans and thrilled online meme makers because of a decades-old scene that accurately predicted a modern news<\/a> event \u2014 this time, Sen. Ted Cruz\u2019s embarrassing mid-disaster jaunt to Cancun.<\/p>\n

A 1993 episode of the Fox show titled \u201cMarge in Chains\u201d featured a scene showing Springfield\u2019s Mayor Joe Quimby broadcasting a press conference to inform his cartoon citizens about a pandemic ravaging the Simpson clan\u2019s hometown. <\/p>\n

As the Kennedy-sounding Quimby sends out his message to voters, however, it\u2019s revealed that he\u2019s actually standing on a beach in the Caribbean in a bathing suit, and only standing in front of an office set while wearing just the top half of his suit.<\/p>\n

\"On
\u201c\u2009\u2019The Simpsons\u2019 have done it again,\u201d fans say.<\/span>Getty Images; Fox<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Similarly, Sen. Cruz was prompted to issue a statement claiming that he had flown to Cancun, Mexico this week to chaperone his family, but had every intention of returning to Texas immedia<\/a>tely \u2014 where nearly 300,000 Texans have found themselves without power for multiple days during historic snow and ice storms this month. <\/p>\n

So far, nearly 50 people have died from the severe winter weather event.<\/p>\n

Cruz later admitted it was \u201ca mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Mayor
The scenario sees Springfield Mayor Joe Quimby broadcasting a press conference to inform the public about a pandemic, and assure he had not escaped to the Bahamas.<\/figcaption>
Fox<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cSurely this has been said, but not abandoning your constituents to take a tropical vacation is such a comically low bar that it\u2019s literally a Simpsons gag,\u201d wrote podcaster<\/a> Jesse Brenneman.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018The Simpsons\u2019 have done it again,\u201d tweeted one fan<\/a> alongside the episode clip in question.<\/p>\n

This is hardly the first time the show has shown an eerie ability to foreshadow future events. <\/p>\n

There are perhaps dozens of bygone premonitions dreamed up by \u201cSimpsons\u201d animators. <\/p>\n

Most recently, it was Vice President Kamala Harris\u2019 aubergine power suit, worn during the Presidential Inauguration on Jan. 20, that reminded viewers of the time Lisa Simpson, while also wearing a purple three-piece, became the first female president of the US, in an episode that aired over 20 years ago. <\/p>\n

The same episode also produced an early harbinger of the Donald Trump presidency, during which President Lisa Simpson complains that she\u2019d \u201cinherited quite the budget crunch from President Trump.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n