Entertainment That Made Crazy-Specific, Crazy-Accurate Predictions

Sometimes the fiction gets things exactly right.
Entertainment That Made Crazy-Specific, Crazy-Accurate Predictions

Look, we don't want to go around telling folks that we think prophets are real and stuff, but there certainly is compelling evidence. And we aren't talking about holy books or fortune cookies. We're talking about entertainment that you've probably read and or seen or heard, all without ever realizing you were glimpsing the future.

For example ...

IN 1999, CHRIS ROCK OPENED HIS HBO SHOW BY JOKINGLY SAYING O.J. SIMPSON VISITED TO PROMOTE A VIDEO. DIanT KILU MY wife! But If DID. Horo's How Rd Do I
EMINEM'S VIDEO LIKE TOY SOLDIERS SHOWS RAPPER PROOF DYING IN THE HOSPITAL AFTER GETTING SHOT. 44 22 TWO YEARS LATER, PROOF WAS INDEED FATALLY SHOT.
H.G. WELLS FIRST WROTE ABOUT THE ATOM BOMB IN A 1914 NOVEL CALLED THE WORLD SET FREE. IT WOULD BE DECADES BEFORE SCIENTISTS MADE THE BOMB REAL. Wells

Seinfeld

ON SEINFELD, JERRY AND ELAINE EAT NONFAT FROZEN YOGURT BUT GAIN WEIGHT. THEY DEDUCE THAT THE YOGURT ISN'T AS NONFAT AS IT CLAIMS. just a few months
A FOOTBALL POSTER IN POL TERGEISTSAYS 1988 SUPER BOWL XXIl. BPAME WHICH IS WEIRD, BECAUSE THE FILM WAS RELEASED IN 1982. In 1988, on the day of supe
IN 1969, MONTY PYTHON GAVE US THE MOUSE PROBLEM. The Little WHITE ROLENT Roou A NEWS REPORT INVESTIGATES MEN DRESSING UP AS MICE AS A FETISH. The id
IN 1987, APPLE RELEASED A PROMO VIDEO IMAGINING FUTURE TECHNOLOGY. G IT SHOWED A TABLET COMPUTER WITH VIDEO CHAT AND VOICE-BASED SEARCH. The scene was
IN 2003, CHAPPELLE'S SHOWFEATURED A SKETCH TITLED TRADING SPOUSES, PLAYING OFF THE REALITY SHOW TRADING SPACES. IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A PARODY. It's a
WARREN ZEVON'S FACTORY ENDS WITH KICKIN' ASBESTOS IN THE FACTORY/ BREATHIN' THAT PLASTIC IN THE FACTORY. ZEVON DIED OF LUNG CANCER FROM INHALING A
THE THIRD EPISODE OF MADTV FEATURED A FAKE TRAILER MASHING UP APOLLO 13 AND FRIDAY THE 13TH. APOLLO THE 13TH JASON TAKES NASA THE INSPIRATION WAS SOLE
CHECK THE NAMES IMPRISONED WITH WESLEY SNIPES AND SYLVESTER STALLONE IN DEMOLITION MAN: CRYO-PENITENTIART SCHEDULE HEARING MORNIING 10# INHATE TINE 35
ROBERT HEINLEIN'S 1961 NOVEL STRANGER IN A STRANGE LANDPREDICTED 3-D COMPUTERS IN EVERY HOME. IT ALSO CAME UP WITH A MUCH MORE SPECIFIC PREDICTION: SC
ONE OF JACKIE WILSON'S BIGGEST HITS, 1958'S LONELY TEARDROPS, FEATURES THIS SOULFUL LINE: Lonely Teardheps MY HEART IS CRYIN', CRYIN'. on septembe
THE 2005 SHOW EXTRAS FEATURES A FICTIONAL HOLOCAUST FILM STARRING KATE WINSLET. SAYS WINSLET, CYNICALLY: DO A FILM ABQUT THE HOLOCAUST, YOU'RE GUARAN
A FORGETTABLE 1995 HBO MOVIE CALLED ABOVE SUSPICION FEATURED CHRISTOPHER REEVE. ... AS AN OFFICER CONFINED TO A WHEELCHAIR. This film aired May 25. Ma
IN CHINATOWN. ONE CHARACTER'S ALLEGED SISTER IS ACTUALLY HER MOTHER. JACK NICHOLSON'S REAL-LIFE ALLEGED SISTER TURNED OUT TO BE HIS MOTHER. TIME magaz
30 ROCK'S TRACY JORDAN CAME UP WITH A RIDICULOUS PLAN TO FUSE THREE PIECES OF MEAT INTO A FOOD BALL. FOUR YEARS LATER KFC UNVEILED THE DOUBLE DOWN.

Muammar Gaddafi

MATTHEW PERRY'S SHOW SECOND CHANCE SHOWED THE CHARACTER IN HEAVEN WITH ST. PETER AND MUAMMAR GADDAFI. ACCORDING TO THIS SHOW, GADDAFI DIES ON JULY 29,
WAG THE DOG'S PRESIDENT, CAUGHT CREEPING ON A GIRL, DISTRACTS THE MEDIA WITH A WAR. A CLEAR PARODY OF BILL CLINTON AND MONICA LEWINSKY? NOPE. You migh
SAM COOKE'S FRANKIE AND JOHNNY': FRANKIE REACHED DOWN IN HER POCKETBOOK I AND UP WITH A LONG.44. SHE SHOT ONCE, TWICE, THREE TIMES I JOHNNY FELL

Don't Let These Facts Out Of Your Sight!

IN 1978'S GAME OF DEATH, A PROP GUN FIRES A REAL BULLET, KILLING BRUCE LEE'S CHARACTER. BRUCE LEE'S SON DIED THE SAME AY-EXCEPT FOR REAL. In 1993, LEE
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