Did the Simpsons predict Lady Gaga’s Super Bowl performance? We weren’t impressed…

While many media outlets are claiming that cartoon series “The Simpsons” managed to predict Lady Gaga’s Super Bowl half time show with striking accuracy, a closer look at the facts shows the coincidences weren’t really that impressive.

So, what did they get right?

In a 2012 episode of The Simpsons, titled “Lisa Goes Gaga2“, the popular singer does indeed appear in the episode being hoisted above the crowds in a harness wearing a rather outlandish outfit, and this is vaguely visually similar to her Super Bowl half time show in 2017 where she does the same thing.

However…

However, from there, the “striking coincidences” pretty much stop, and more differences than similarities come to light. For example, cartoon Lady Gaga wasn’t performing at the Super Bowl during her Simpsons cameo, and her entrance in The Simpsons was inspired by past events, not events yet to come. Lady Gaga has a history of making unusual entrances and has previously been hoisted over cheering crowds using a zip line way before both the Simpsons episode and the 2017 Super Bowl. And again, her outfit in the 2012 Simpsons episode was one similar to a previous outfit to her 2009 Monster Ball tour (see below.)

Further claims also assert that the same Simpsons episode correctly predicted the light show in the night sky, but this is more than just a stretch and even the most untalented cold reader wouldn’t dare call that a “hit”. For one, the claim uses a still from an entirely unrelated Simpsons episode from 2005, and showed a giant Stetson. The 2017 Super Bowl didn’t depict a Stetson and were instead using illuminated drones that were filmed earlier in the week (they couldn’t fly live since apparently this was “against FAA regulations”.)

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More claims asserted that the Simpsons correctly predicted the final score. However this is just false. An image circulating purporting to show the “coincidence” had been digitally doctored.

We think the media got a little carried away with this one. A sceptical look at the claims and the only similarity between fact and fiction was showing Lady Gaga being holstered above the crowd, though as we mentioned before, the singer had already done that before the episode aired.