The Simpsons Predict the Future Better Than a Witch (Gallery)

This week Disney bought a large portion of Fox's assets in a $ 52 billion deal. The deal, which will most likely change the look of Hollywood, is predicted by the animated Simpsons.

The "prophecy" for the contract between the two corporations dates from the far-off 1998:

What is more, the  crazy family, whose first episode was broadcast on December 17, 1989, turned out to be a prophet of many events.

Perhaps it's not so marvelous that creator Matt Groening and his team go out over and over again - the show has been on a 28-year screen and keeps the record for the most animated series.

These are over 600 episodes of so-called adult animation filled with political and social satire. They are Homer Simpson, a beer lover who works at Springfield's Nuclear Power Plant, his wife Marge, the stereotype of a housewife sitting at home. The children are the hooligan Barth, the accountable and socially responsible Lisa and the baby Maggie, who hardly talk.

At first sight confused, the family managed to function and entertain the audience for 29 seasons, and, as it turns out, to know the future.

In the gallery you will see a few cases in which Simpsons, or as they would say here - the Simpsons - were more straight than Nostradamus.

Inventing the iPod

In one of the episodes of the series, the hi-tech intercom looks exactly the same way it looks like the first generation of iPod players. The episode dates back to 1996, and the first iPod was introduced to the audience in 2001 - five years later.

Google takes over the world

In this futuristic episode, Lisa is already big and at one point admits Google has captured more than half the world, yet it's a ...