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Jul 2023
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S3 Ep12: NostraDOH!mus: The Simpsons Pre...

Strange and Unexplained with Daisy Eagan
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Does life imitate art? Does Bart imitate life? Does Homer know more than he’s letting on?? Despite being a work of fiction and, yes, a cartoon, in 34 years on the air The Simpsons seem to have predicted the future a truly astounding number of times. We’ve all heard that truth is stranger than fiction, but is it possible that our most absurd and speculative fiction could come true?

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