Over the course of 31 seasons and more than 680 episodes, has covered a lot of ground, told a lot of stories, and poked fun at nearly every pop-culture moment.
However, the groundbreaking show has also been shockingly prophetic.The uncanny ability for the Fox animated sitcom to seemingly predict the future has been well-established over the years, but the recent global pandemic and subsequent «invasion» of so-called murder hornets has brought the show's fortune telling powers into the spotlight once again, thanks to a 1993 episode.The episode in question, «Marge in Chains,» features a joke where the people of Springfield get sick from a contagious airborne flu-like virus.