S09E03 · The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson · (1997)
The Simpsons Episode · 1997
Marge reads a children's book called 'Curious George and the Ebola Virus'.
What Really Happened · 2014
A massive Ebola outbreak spread across West Africa, killing over 11,000 people.
2014
The Full Story
In 'The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson', Marge reads Bart a children's book titled 'Curious George and the Ebola Virus' as a casual background gag — a lethal haemorrhagic fever treated as bedtime story material. In 2014, the largest Ebola outbreak in recorded history swept West Africa, killing over 11,000 people and prompting a global public health emergency; cases appeared in the US and Europe for the first time. The throwaway title became a public health crisis seventeen years later.
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foreshadowed real-world events. This prediction appeared in S09E03 ("The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson"), which aired in 1997.
It was confirmed true in 2014.
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