The Simpsons has become notorious for its predictions. Whether by deep-insight or by total fluke, Matt Groening and his team at the long-running Fox animated sitcom have foretold numerous future events. We're talking about everything from what Kamala Harris would wear when being sworn in as the first female Vice President of the United States to the NSA spying on civilians. Seriously, when you go through the list of predictions, it becomes blatantly clear that the guys had their fingers on the future's pulse long before the public did... But none of these predictions compare to those made by South Park.

The vast majority of the predictions that The Simpsons have made throughout the past 32 seasons have been extremely specific. Therefore, they feel lackluster in comparison to the deep, thoughtful, and somewhat terrifying accuracies of the cultural and philosophical predictions that Trey Parker and Matt Stone have made on South Park. While both The Simpsons and South Park have made truly astounding predictions of the future, the ones on South Park have been far more accurate in terms of who we've become as a society and where we're headed...

South Park Accurately Predicted The Future In Almost Every Episode

Because of the amazing way that the creators of South Park write their show every episode is topical. Each episode and special takes about a week to create and airs almost immediately upon completion. This means the writers are drawing upon what is happening in entertainment and society as a whole when it's actually happening. This is in contrast to The Simpsons which writes, animates, and edits its shows months before they air.

Because of Matt and Trey's keen observational skills (and the fact that they remain in the middle of the political spectrum without giving in to the pressures from the far-left or far-right) they can take a bird's-eye view of any given situation. This allows them to see where the extremes are likely to take things... that's when satirization comes into play. Only, we now live in a society where what's satirical is also reality...

An example of this is the episode where Randy Marsh is outed as a Christopher Columbus lover after trying to get the controversial historical figure banned. Just days after the episode aired, a teacher who caused a national stir when she rejected Dr. Suess's books from Melania Trump on the grounds that they were "racist propaganda" was featured in photos where she affectionately dressed as The Cat In The Hat while teaching her students. In short, the creators of South Park could see just how ludicrous similar real-life issues were as well as the hypocritical nature of those who take them up.

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Other examples of these kinds of predictions include knowing that Elon Musk would want to build and send a rocket to Mars, predicting the spread of the Ebola Virus due to lack of preparation and understanding, foreshadowing that Mel Gibson was deeply antisemitic, and, yes, that someone like Donald Trump would become President due to growing nationalism and a fear of "the other".

While The Simpsons predicted the presidential win of Donald Trump ages before South Park, Matt and Trey's show depicted a couple of Trump's exact policy decisions as well as the reasons people would vote for a man like him. On the other hand, a little more than a year later, they famously thought Trump would lose to Hillary Clinton and had to re-write and re-animate the episode mere hours before it was supposed to air.

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South Park's Social Observations Have Become Fact

The greatest asset that the writing team on South Park has is their keen observational skills. While The Simpsons may be able to magically predict extremely specific things that won't happen until years into the future, South Park is masterful at understanding the broad strokes of society and ultimately how ridiculous it can be. If art imitates life, there's no doubt that the flip side is true for South Park.

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While there's no shortage of examples of trends and societal perspectives that South Park has predicted years before they came to pass, some of the most notable examples include the use of trigger warnings, cancel-culture, and basically the entirety of the #MeToo Movement... ahem... ahem... Sexual Harassment Panda. Then there's society's increasing dependence on technology and conglomerates like Disney and Amazon. But their most astute is to do with how divided society would become.

Whether it's tribalism fueled by the "They took our jobs" people, the arrival of immigrant aliens from the future, or PC frat-bros, South Park is absolutely amazing at focusing on how real-life issues feed the insecurities and fears of each and every one of us. Matt and Trey can see how emotional, financial, racial, and/or geographical pain causes us to give in to radical, hateful, or downright stupid ideologies that make matters so, so, so much worse. While they always write the most extreme and seemingly dystopian outcomes, they are so observant that almost everything they've created has actually happened.

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