“Family Guy” And “The Simpsons” Stay Strong In The Predictions Game For 2021

The two top primetime series of 2020 for both Disney+ and Hulu respectively, The Simpsons and Family Guy are probably this way for a few reasons. For starters, both series have been figureheads as part of FOX’s Animation Domination lineup for 20 years with no signs of slowing down. Also, they are franchises with deep fanbases that like their TV the way they also like their coffee…raw and unfiltered. This means if you’re going to try to destroy the franchises with extreme PC culture nonsense, you’re going to lose the bedrock of the fanbase.

Finally, The Simpsons just seem to enjoy making predictions that come true. 2021 is only a few days old, and here we are talking about one they just made last year during the recent iteration of the Treehouse of Horror anthology special. You may recall this scene where Homer predicted Springfield in ashes, well, the depiction is not entirely different than what we saw went down during the siege of the US Capitol by right-wing extremists.

That’s only a few weeks away, so we’ll see if that gets any worse. In the meantime, Family Guy is also getting into the predictions game. You may remember the episode “The Peanut Butter Kid” where Peter suggest to Lois that they go long at the valuation of bitcoin which, at the time, was trading at about $400. As of yesterday, bitcoin is trading at $35,000. With the way the government is operating right now, bitcoin might be a good asset to have.

New episodes of The Simpsons and Family Guy return on February 14th only on FOX.

Update 1/8/21:Fans of The Simpsons are also pointing to the episode “The Day The Violence Died”, particularly a scene where a bunch of anthromorphic bills storm the US Capitol. By the way, this image is fake, and was not used in an episode.