Monty Burns Fleeing Circus actually had a rather inane Arnold Palmer joke involving lemonade and iced tea, and on the day the episode airs, Arnold Palmer passed away.
And no one has posted about this yet?
I came here to check this. What a weird coincidence...
shareI know! This is so weird! In the episode, Homer is filling up super soakers, one with lemonade and the other with iced tea. Marge asks Homer what he's doing. He tells Marge that he and Carl are going to "Arnold Palmer" Lenny. Marge questions the idea, and Homer, trying to explain it to her and believing she's unaware of Arnold Palmer and his eponymous drink, says, "You see, Arnold Palmer WAS this golfer..."
My initial reaction was what does he mean by "was"? Last time I checked, Arnold Palmer was still alive. Literally five minutes ago, I switched on the local news and discovered Arnold Palmer passed away just a few hours ago.
How did Homer know?!
I think that they were referencing that Arnold Palmer (who was 87 when he died today) was a retired golfer. As in "no longer plays golf professionally"
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Homer knew about Jose Fernandez, too. Unfortunately, Jose never had a drink named after him, so Homer couldn't fill Super Soakers in his honor.
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Huh.
I think I remember James L. Brooks saying that they could change a line or the chalkboard gag with very little time before the episode aired. Maybe that's what they did. They also managed that live episode recently. I guess the technology is evolving so that the season can be more topical.
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It wasn't just a line, it was a couple scenes with the Super Soakers and the iced tea and lemonade. Palmer's death was announced like an hour after the show aired... so this was a coincidence. Homer didn't predict a death. It was a gag based on the beverage named after Arnold Palmer, nothing about him passing away.
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shareI am 99% certain that you're right -- Homer was saying that he no longer plays golfs professionally (except in the Xarelto commercial with Kevin Nealon). Still, though, it was a strange coincidence. This is not the first time The Simpsons has seemed to have predicted the future.
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Did he die? Some people can live through.
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I came to this board just to see if someone had mentioned this and if not, I was going to make a post about it because that's just so weird.
shareAs did I
But................. SO The 2003 Halloween ep Death pays a call to the Simpsons 2 days later My Grandmother age 97 died
Gonna have a Arnold Palmer now
And that's my two cents
Not a coincidence. The Simpsons and other cartoons have been huge predictive programmers for years and years. Look it up. Along with family guy predicting Bruce jenners transition, 9/11, Boston bombings, and more. Mad world. Glad people are at least noticing.
shareAlong with family guy predicting ... 9/11The irony is that 9/11 almost killed FG. share