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The Yard Work Simulator became FarmVille<\/h3>\n

\"Kids<\/p>\n

On “The Simpsons”\u00a0Season 9, Episode 12 \u2014 “Bart Carny”\u00a0\u2013 Marge tries to get the kids to do some yard work. She’s disappointed when they refuse, but Homer, as his usual oblivious self, ends up taking them all to the carnival anyways. Once there, they want to go on all fun rides, with Bart expressing his enthusiasm over trying the “Yard Work Simulator,”\u00a0despite his reluctance to perform any actual yard work earlier.<\/p>\n

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The Simpsons predicts smartwatches<\/h3>\n

\"Hugh<\/p>\n

When it comes to “The Simpsons”\u00a0predictions, the Holy Grail remains the Donald Trump premonition in Season 11’s “Bart to the Future.”\u00a0This is just a throwaway line in a flash forward episode showing Lisa as President of the United States, but before that, “The Simpsons”\u00a0had a different peek into the future with Season 6’s “Lisa’s Wedding.”\u00a0It sees Lisa almost getting married to her first love, Hugh Parkfield. When his first attempt at a proposal goes wrong, he immediately speaks into a phone located on his wrist.<\/p>\n

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Video calling continues making things awkward<\/h3>\n

\"Marge<\/p>\n

“Lisa’s Wedding”\u00a0actually has quite a few technological predictions that were supposed to come out in the far-off year of 2010 \u2014 in case you need to be reminded of how long “The Simpsons”\u00a0has been airing. After Hugh proposes, Lisa calls Marge on a video phone to tell her the good news. Much like Hugh’s smartwatch featuring a flip phone, the video calling device has some old-school sensibilities, such as how you still need to input a number using a rotary dial.<\/p>\n

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Robot librarians slowly taking over<\/h3>\n

\"Robot<\/p>\n

“The Simpsons”\u00a0certainly didn’t invent robots, and society has been hard at work trying to create these mechanical entities. Sometimes, this leads to useful inventions, but other times, it leads to some truly haunting robots getting put out into the world. In “Lisa’s Wedding,”\u00a0the robots featured here \u2014 not counting the tin men seen toward the beginning \u2014 include a librarian whose face catches fire after crying.<\/p>\n

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Simpsons had 3D-printed food first<\/h3>\n

\"Marge<\/p>\n

Season 16’s “Future-Drama,”\u00a0yet another peek into what could happen if the Simpson family ever aged, sees Bart and Lisa graduating high school. Marge takes a picture of the two before they go to prom, only for the photo to expand into a cake. Marge then exclaims, “It’s so great. We can do anything now that scientists have invented magic.”<\/p>\n

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The Simpsons get a smart house before it’s cool<\/h3>\n

\"Marge<\/p>\n

It often takes a more far-out framing device to see “The Simpsons”\u00a0dabble with new technology. “Treehouse of Horror XII”\u00a0includes a segment where the family gets a new smart home, tricked out by a nefarious AI voiced by Pierce Brosnan. It does everything for them, from cooking their favorite foods to cleaning the dinner table. Of course,\u00a0the AI also falls in love with Marge and tries to kill Homer, but before that, it shows off some pretty nifty technology.<\/p>\n

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Herb Powell paved the way for baby translators<\/h3>\n

\"Herb<\/p>\n

On Season 2 of “The Simpsons,” we learn Homer has a half-brother named Herb, who is voiced by Danny DeVito. He’s a successful businessman who loses his fortune by the end of the episode due to Homer’s incompetence. Fortunately, he gets redemption in Season 3’s “Brother Can You Spare Two Dimes”\u00a0when he borrows money from Homer for a gadget that’ll put him back on top \u2014 a baby translator. Maggie Simpson makes for the perfect test subject, as he analyzes her coos to figure out what she’s really trying to say.<\/p>\n

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Springfield gets the Apple Vision Pro first<\/h3>\n

\"Agnes<\/p>\n

The history of practical VR goes back decades, usually involving people wearing some kind of goggle-esque headset to see things that aren’t really there. “The Simpsons”\u00a0certainly didn’t invent the aesthetic, but it’s hard not to see similarities between the VR headsets featured in Season 28’s “Friends and Family”\u00a0and the Apple Vision Pro, which would come out eight years after the episode.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Yard Work Simulator became FarmVille On “The Simpsons”\u00a0Season 9, Episode 12 \u2014 “Bart Carny”\u00a0\u2013 Marge tries to get the kids to do some yard work. She’s disappointed when they refuse, but Homer, as his usual oblivious self, ends up taking them all to the carnival anyways. Once there, they want to go on all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1801,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trustedrespones.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trustedrespones.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trustedrespones.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trustedrespones.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trustedrespones.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trustedrespones.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1802,"href":"https:\/\/trustedrespones.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1800\/revisions\/1802"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trustedrespones.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trustedrespones.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trustedrespones.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trustedrespones.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}