


How has The Simpsons, once one of the smartest comedies ever made, managed to stay on TV for so long despite becoming so uninspired, mundane, and irrelevant? But McClure’s line seems weirdly the most prophetic. “Who knows what adventures they’ll have between now and the time the show becomes unprofitable?” In recent years there’s been plenty of talk about how The Simpsons kept predicting the future, supposedly foreseeing everything from the discovery of the Higgs boson to President Trump. “Yes, the Simpsons have come a long way since an old drunk made humans out of his rabbit characters to pay off his gambling debts” says Troy McClure in ‘The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular’.
