“The Simpsons” also predicted the great blackout of Spain

Any relevant event in the history of humanity in recent decades has previously appeared in “The Simpsons.” It is a phrase made, almost a meme that has acquired the category of popular wisdom and that is counted between the oldest collective knowledge samples of the digital era.

Of course, the recent blackout in Spain and Portugal has become part of the long list of ‘The Simpson’ predictions: it is neither very tight nor very accurate, but that does not prevent the myth from continuing to fatter.

The blackout in “The Simpsons”

A couple of episodes that make supposed reference to the blackout last Monday have been viralized in recent days.

In ‘The last day of Springfield’, issued in 1998, the city runs out of light, with traffic lights and unusable phones, and the nuclear plant where Homer works stops. Of course, chaos and anarchy take over the streets, something that did not happen here.

On the other hand, in 2023 the episode ‘How beautiful is to pipify it’ was issued, where Springfield suffers a blackout for a fire in the nuclear plant.

Here the consequences are almost apocalyptic, and Lisa tells the story in the distant future, explaining that the city lights candles every year to commemorate the events.

The explanation of the prophecy

Either simple: These two blackouts do not make any reference to Spain or to the date on which it occurred.

Simply, they are blackheads that end up leading to the Apocalypse, a trope of science fiction that have exploited recent series such as ‘Blackout’ or ‘The collapse’, or the movie ‘Leave the world behind’, but which we have also seen in very previous films: ‘The domino effect’ is one of the most notorious, but there are also based on real blackouts, such as ‘Blackout in New York’ or ‘Summer of Sam’ of which the American city suffered in 1977.