Simpson is notorious for making some important and outrageous predictions ahead of his time.
This time, they may have predicted the Twitter takeover that is causing quite a stir on the microblogging website.
On Saturday, Elon Musk tweeted a clip from a 2015 episode of the animated sitcom that apparently hinted that he would be taking over the microblogging website, Twitter.
Musk, 51, tweeted, “The Simpsons [sic] predicted I buy Twitter S26E12.
Simpson’s predicts I buy Twitter S26E12 pic.twitter.com/yVmWGwrYY6
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 26, 2022
The episode, titled The Musk Who Fell to Earth, opens with Lisa Simpson pointing to a birdhouse that reads, ‘Home Tweet Home’, indicating that it represents Twitter. While Lisa was feeding the baby birds, a bald eagle grabbed them and carried them to a tree.
Lisa’s mother, Marge, tries to comfort her child that the eagle may be feeding them, but almost immediately he recovers when the bird’s skeleton falls on Lisa’s head.
As the Eagle flies off into the distance, Musk reaches into his rocket ship. Aircraft fire burns the eagle – a longtime symbol of the United States via New York Post.
“Brace yourself, family. We’re about to meet a being far beyond our intelligence,” says Homer Simpson before instructing Bart to grab his baseball bat.
Musk took off his space helmet and introduced himself, “Hi, I’m Elon Musk.”
Homer throws the bat at his head and Lisa yells, “Dad, no! Elon Musk is possibly the greatest living inventor.”
The camera then pans to a new technologically advanced birdhouse, which has a solar panel that powers a fan to cool the birds and a motor that provides running water, which has several It has attracted birds.
“I guess humanity needs a change in the birdhouse one at a time,” Lisa says as Musk re-boards his ship and heads out.
Watch the scene here:
