Is it true that the Simpsons predicted the Olympics in Paris and the dollar for 1000 rubles?

In August 2023, a new prediction from the creators of the popular animated series was widely dispersed in RuNet: supposedly 24 years ago they showed that the summer Olympic Games - 2024 will be held in the capital of France, and the Russian currency will sharply become more expensive about the American one. We checked this message for reliability.

On August 14, the posts of approximately the same content: “In the 10th season of Simpsons from 1999, they found a forecast for 2024: the Olympics will be held in Paris, and they will give 1000 rubles for the dollar. The forecast began to come true: the summer Olympic Games - 2024 will actually be held in France. [Chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation Elvira] Nabiullina, your move. " At the same time, a short fragment of one of the episodes of the animated sitcom is attached to most publications.

According to the TGSTAT service, by the time of writing this analysis, almost 700 such records were placed in Telegram, which scored 10.1 million views in total. Among the most popular channels that have placed such posts - ""Ax 18+"(2.4 million views),"Trukha⚡️ Ukrainian"(1 million)," "Dual"(423 000),"Nexta Live"(299 000), TG Team Russia (260,000), "Mousetrap"(252 000),"KB"(242 000), Kosti (174 000), Yaplakal.com (137,000) and MDK (131 000). Publications on prediction are found in "VKontakte", For example in public"Borsch"(136,000 views) and"Zsh"(81 000), in Twitteras well as on "Picabu"And media sites, among which"Gazeta.ru", magazine Men Today, "Public news service" And "Komsomolskaya Truth".

The viral video is the initial scene of the 20th episode of the 10th season of Simpsons, which is really the premiere of took place in 1999. The series was called "The Old Man and the Three" (The Old Man and the 'C' Student). The video is distributed in the voice acting with which the animated series was broadcast on Russian television. Although the translation was not always accurate, in this passage the meaning of all phrases corresponds primary source.

The episode begins with a meeting of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), at which they choose the venue of the following Olympic Games (the time was not specified, but in reality in 1999 examined Applications for the organization of the 2006 Winter Olympic Games). The representative of France said that Paris would have been perfectly suitable for such an event, and after the request of the chairman of the committee to explain the reasons threw a glass of wine in the face with the words: “I have nothing to talk about with types like you.” Then the Frenchman added: “I am waiting for your answer,” after which I myself already got wine in the face. At the end of the passage spreading through social networks, the word I took it Representative of Russia: "I recommend Moscow, where 7 rubles are given for an American dollar." At this moment, he comes to the pager about the change in the course: “12 rubles. 60 rubles. 1000 rubles! I have to run! "

It turns out that in the disclosed video it is never alleged that the Olympics will take place in France - in the animated series, this country only claimed to hold it. Along with the representative of Paris behind the central rostrum, there were delegates from Poland and another country (its name began with Latin letters BE - it was probably Belarus, but later the same person wore a tape with the name at CA), Russia also nominated their candidates, Mongolia, Argentina, Japan, Great Britain, etc. But all of them are all of them. Stopped The chairman of the IOC, who read the letter of Lisa Simpson. According to the girl, her city of Springfield is not suitable for the Olympics, but she would like to carry a torch with Olympic fire there. However, the sports official said that the games will take place there, although no one else agreed with his decision. Later, members of the IOC came to the Springfield with the inspection, in front of which were a local school. In conclusion on the stage I went out Bart Simpson, who offended representatives of other countries with his jokes, and as a result, the head of the IOC canceled the Olympics in Springfield. In the middle of the Marge Simpson series reportedthat the games were transferred to Shelbill - another fictional city from the universe of the animated series.

The fact that the summer Olympics of 2024 will take place in Paris, became It is known In September 2017. However, in the mention of this city in Simpsons, 18 years earlier there is nothing unusual, given the transfer of a number of other countries and the fact that at the beginning of the 20th century the capital of France is already twice She became the venue of the Olympics, Participated in the race for the 1992 Olympics and in December 1998 Serve Application for the Olympics-2008.

A video with references to the Olympics in Simpsons. We are interested in fragments 0:05–3: 04 and 5:09–5: 57.

In 2020, in the midst of the Pandemia of Coronavirus, the messages were also dispersed over the network that the Simpsons were also predicted by Covid-19, although the factor found outthat between the plot of the animated series and real events there was little in common. Then The Hollywood Reporter Taken Interview with Bill Okli -The co-authors of that series about the virus, who worked on the show from the 3rd to 10th season. He said that he does not like it when his work is used for such "vile" purposes. According to Okley, most often the authors of the animated series relied on the events that had already occurred: “There are very few cases when the“ Simpsons ”predicted something. These are mainly simple coincidences, because the episodes are so old that the story is repeated. Most of those episodes are based on the events of the 60s, 70s or 80s that we knew about. ”

Apparently, a new prediction appeared on August 14, 2023, it was no coincidence - on this day the dollar exchange rate He got up Above 101 rubles for the first time since March 2022. Probably, someone decided to joke on this subject, supplementing his meme with an incorrect fact about the Olympics in Paris from Simpsons. At the same time, the authors of the animated series in their work simply ridiculed the fall of the ruble exchange rate in the 1990s, when the Russian currency could sharply cheaper Ten times in a very short time.

Photo on the cover: screenshot of the frame from the animated series

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