Video Calling (Episode: "The Simpsons Movie", 2007)

The Simpsons has earned quite the reputation for seemingly predicting the future. It’s actually a bit of a meme at this point, with fans pointing out how many things in the real world appear to have been "predicted" by the show, sometimes years in advance. While some of these predictions are purely coincidental or the result of broad satire, others do seem oddly prescient.

Video Calling (Episode: "The Simpsons Movie", 2007)

• What happened: In the movie, there’s a scene where characters use video calling. This seemed like futuristic technology at the time.
• Reality: Video calling became widely accessible and used with platforms like Skype and FaceTime in the late 2000s, becoming mainstream by the 2010s.