Is it true that the Simpsons predicted an explosion in Beirut?

Soon after in August 2020, most of the city suffered from the explosion in the capital of Lebanon, users of social networks began to spread a video proving that this was predicted in the popular animated series. We checked whether the Simpsons really warned of the explosion a few years before him.

In the evening of August 4, 2020, a powerful explosion thundered in the port of Beirut. According to the Lebanese authorities, Died more than 200 and more than 6,000 people were injured, and the damage from the incident Assess in $ 15 billion (about 30% per annum of the country). Although first the versions appeared that the warehouse with fireworks exploded, the authorities and journalists quickly established that the cause of the disaster steel 3 tons of ammonium nitrate. In 2014, they were moved from the abandoned cargo ship "Rossus" to the local warehouse. Nevertheless, the version of pyrotechnics quickly became popular on the Internet - it was she who formed the basis Twitov The fact that the catastrophe was predicted in Simpsons.

In support of their approval, the authors of publications on social networks proposed a fragment of one of the series of Simpsons. In this video, Homer comes to the store where fireworks are underground. The seller-Arab takes Homer to a warehouse filled with different pyrotechnics, and the protagonist buys one of the fireworks, after which he decides to set it on fire from a gas stove. Following the branded exclamation "d'O!" In the middle of the Springfield, a powerful explosion occurs, and a mushroom -shaped cloud rises above the ruins of the city.

In fact, this video is glued from two different series of Simpsons. Its most of it Taken From the 25th episode of the seventh season, which was shown in 1996. In that series, Homer really visited a store where they illegally traded pyrotechnics, and then set fire to the fireworks from the stove. Only after that everything was not as shown in a video from social networks: realizing that the firecracker was about to explode, Homer closed it in a dishwasher. Everything ended relatively well - only technology and pipes in the Simpsons house suffered.

The explosion that destroyed the city, which was considered by the prediction of events in Beirut, Showed In the first episode of the 16th season, which was released eight years after the series about the illegal purchase of pyrotechnics. The destruction of the city is in no way connected with the fireworks - the neighbor Homer Ned Flanders presented how he explodes the nuclear power plant on which it works. Recall that in Beirut, not a nuclear power plant exploded at all, but a warehouse in the port.

At the same time, Simpsons do not say that the explosion will happen in Beirut (or another Middle Eastern city) that this will happen in 2020, that the cause of the explosion will become a nitrate - in other words, no exact details are mentioned in the animated series. Explosions, including quite destructive, are shown in hundreds of films, and the video from Simpsons (even if it had not been glued from two different episodes) “predicts” the events in Beirut no more than any of these paintings. Probably, the fact that the creators of the animated series on the Internet have the glory of the seer - they are attributed to the prediction of dozens of events of recent years on the Internet. However, almost all such statements do not correspond reality.

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Read on the topic:

1. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/simpsons-predict-beirut-explosion/
2. https://www.snopes.com/collections/the-simpsons-didnt-predict-that/
3. https://meduza.io/feature/2020/08/22/kto-vinovat-vzryve-v-beyrute