At this point, “The Simpsons” are running rings around Nostradamus.
The 32-year-old animated comedy series has once again shocked fans and thrilled online meme makers because of a decades-old scene that accurately predicted a modern news event — this time, Sen. Ted Cruz’s embarrassing mid-disaster jaunt to Cancun.
A 1993 episode of the Fox show titled “Marge in Chains” featured a scene showing Springfield’s Mayor Joe Quimby broadcasting a press conference to inform his cartoon citizens about a pandemic ravaging the Simpson clan’s hometown.
As the Kennedy-sounding Quimby sends out his message to voters, however, it’s revealed that he’s actually standing on a beach in the Caribbean in a bathing suit, and only standing in front of an office set while wearing just the top half of his suit.
https://nypost.com/2021/02/19/the-simpsons-predicted-ted-cruzs-cancun-debacle-back-in-1993/