Elon Musk credits ‘The Simpsons’ for predicting his Twitter takeover

The Simpsons have carried out the unpossible once more.

Elon Musk is highlighting a 2015 episode from the Fox animated sitcom that seemingly hinted at his Twitter takeover.

“Simpson’s predicts I purchase Twitter S26E12,” Musk, 51, tweeted Saturday.

The episode, titled “The Musk Who Fell to Earth,” begins by exhibiting Lisa Simpson tending to a birdhouse with an indication that reads, “House Tweet House.” She is feeding child birds when a bald eagle snaps them up and kills them.

Because the eagle flies into the space, Musk arrives in his rocket ship. Fireplace from the plane incinerates the eagle — a longtime emblem of the U.S.

“Brace yourselves, household. We're about to satisfy a being with intelligence far past ours,” Homer Simpson says earlier than directing Bart to seize his baseball bat.

Elon Musk says "The Simpsons" predicted his Twitter takeover
Elon Musk says “The Simpsons” predicted his Twitter takeover on an episode that aired in January 2015.
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Since taking over Twitter last month, Musk has made wholesale changes to its content moderation policy.
Elon Musk is photographed at Twitter headquarters.
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Musk takes off his house helmet and identifies himself: “Hiya, I’m Elon Musk.”

Homer hurls the bat at his head. Lisa yells, “Dad, no! Elon Musk is presumably the best residing inventor.”

Elon Musk says "The Simpsons" predicted his Twitter takeover
Elon Musk says “The Simpsons” predicted his Twitter takeover on an episode that aired in January 2015.
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The digicam pans to a brand new technologically superior birdhouse that has attracted a number of birds.

“I assume humanity needs its change as soon as birdhouse at a time,” Lisa says as Musk re-boards his ship.

The Simpsons have lengthy been identified to foretell future real-life eventualities.

Followers of “The Simpsons” are additionally satisfied the present predicted England and America’s woeful 0-0 World Cup 2022 draw that performed out Friday.

On the 1997 episode “The Cartridge Household,” the household watches a TV advert for a match that can decide “which nation is the best on Earth,” however simply seconds into the motion, Homer is heard screaming “boring!”

A lot of different predictions that ultimately got here true embrace Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential run and Germany lifting the World Cup in 2014.

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