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33 Times Movies and TV Predicted The Freaking Future

By:: Cracked Writers; Brian C. Miller

November 01, 2021

33 Times Movies and TV Predicted The Freaking Future

You know what they say, one thousand monkies on one thousand typewriters will eventually predict the future. That's how it goes, right?

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In The Muppets, Jason Segel wrote a scene that involved Elmo trying to join the Muppets but being stopped by lawyers. The scene was cut out of the movie because Sesame Street lawyers didn't want Elmo to be involved in a Muppet movie. CRACKED.COM — Source: Life Imitates Art: 13 Times Movies & TV Predicted The Future

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IN 1987, APPLE MADE A COMMERCIAL PREDICTING BORDERLINE MAGIC PRODUCTS THEY'D INVENT BY 2011. The video featured meall a tablet-style computer with a personal digital assistant that takes - CHTT phone calls and video chats, searches the Fite network - Schedule - Internet, analyzes Desartifucation - - - data, and creates sophisticated graphics. And the Scopy Year: 1230 Rate: 22 whole thing has a touch screen and is voice-activated. THE VIDEO IS SET IN SEPTEMBER OF 2011-JUST A COUPLE OF WEEKS BEFORE APPLE LAUNCHED THE IPHONE WITH SIRI. CRACKED.COM https://youtu.be/QRH8eimU_20 — Source: 21 Eerily Specific Pop Culture Predictions That Came True

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WILCO'S ALBUM YANKEE WIICO HOTEL FOXTROTPREDICTED THE 9/11 ATTACKS. Tall buildings shake Voices escape singing sad sad songs Voices whine Skyscrapers are scraping together Your voice is smoking -Jesus, Etc. Although the album was released in 2003, it was actually recorded in early 2000-well before the Twin Tower attacks. http://web.archive.org/web/20010826133635/http:/www.chicagotribune.com/ CRACKED.COM features/ifestyle/chi-010815003Baug 15.storycollschi-leisure-hed — Source: 21 Eerily Specific Pop Culture Predictions That Came True

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NICKI MINAJ PREDICTED HER COUSIN'S DEATH, WITH A SONG. Why'd you have to leave in July? On a peaceful and serene summer night... Why the doctors could not stop the bleeding... Now you see you not bullet proof... I could've told you about my intuition ... Why'd you have to go so soon? -We Miss You A year after Nicki wrote this, her cousin Nicholas Telemaque was gunned down in July and left to bleed to death. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/nicholas-telemague- CRACKED.COM 27-shot-death-brooklyn-street-leaving-nightclub-article-1.155416 — Source: 21 Eerily Specific Pop Culture Predictions That Came True

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WARREN ZEVON PREDICTED HIS OWN DEATH. His song The Factory ends with these lines: Kickin' asbestos in the factory Punchin' out Chryslers in the factory Breathin' that plastic in the factory. Zevon died from advanced malignant mesothelioma, which is usually caused by inhalation of asbestos. That wouldn't be so odd if Zevon wrote that song from his personal experience, but he didn't. Не never worked in any such risky environment himself and had no reason to believe he was at risk of mesothelioma. CRACKED.COM www.nytimes.com/2003/01/26/magazine/warren-zevon-s-last-waltz.htm/?pagewanted=all&src=pm — Source: 21 Eerily Specific Pop Culture Predictions That Came True

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IN 1898, MARK TWAIN MADE UP THE TELELECTROSCOPE. OR, AS WE CALL IT, THE INTERNET. The improved 'limitless- distance' telephone was presently introduced, and LOLAND made daily visible doings discussable to everybody, the of the by witnesses audibly separated by too, 100 any number of leagues. Day by day, and night by night, he called up one corner of the globe after another, and looked upon its life, and studied its strange sights, and spoke with its people, and realized that by grace of this marvellous instrument he was almost as free as the birds of the air. -From the — Source: 21 Eerily Specific Pop Culture Predictions That Came True

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A GOOFY 1987 SITCOM PREDICTED GADHAFI'S DEATH WITHIN A FEW MONTHS. The show was called Second Chance, and in the pilot STJ PETER'S OFFICE Colonel Moammar July 29, 20TJ Gadhafi shows up in St. Peter's office in July of 2011. Gadhafi actually died in October of that year. Not too far off, for a show that aired 24 years before that date. CRACKED.COM https://youtu.be/o62MU1q-U1k — Source: 21 Eerily Specific Pop Culture Predictions That Came True

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The movie JFK resulted in Congress to releasing information about the assassination. Oliver Stone's strange conspiracy theory movie drove Congress to release The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act, which released some documents early. CRACKED.COM — Source: Life Imitates Art: 13 Times Movies & TV Predicted The Future

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Star Trek: The Next Generation featured the PADD, sci-f technology extremely similar to the iPad. The fictional mobile touch-screen Personal Access Display Devices has many similarities to the very real iPad created 30 years later. CRACKED.COM — Source: Life Imitates Art: 13 Times Movies & TV Predicted The Future

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Brad Pitt hurt his Achilles tendon while playing Achilles. While filming Troy, Pitt injured his left tendon. CRACKED.COM — Source: Life Imitates Art: 13 Times Movies & TV Predicted The Future

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McDonald's sold like the Seinfeld tops, just joke. muffin NEW McCafé Muffin Toppers Elaine convinces her boss to open a shop that just sells the top of muffins. Decades later, McDonald's tested selling Muffin Toppers. CRACKED.COM — Source: Life Imitates Art: 13 Times Movies & TV Predicted The Future

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An episode of Full House featured Aunt Becky in admissions scandal Uncle Jesse lies on his kids' preschool application, but in the TV show, Aunt Becky 'fesses up. CRACKED.COM — Source: Life Imitates Art: 13 Times Movies & TV Predicted The Future

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CollegeHumor made a Dora the Explorer parody that was eerily close to a real movie that came out years later. The 2012 gritty live-action parody trailer seemed extremely similar to the gritty live-action 2019 movie. CRACKED.COM — Source: Life Imitates Art: 13 Times Movies & TV Predicted The Future

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ROBERT HEINLEIN PREDICTED THE SCREEN SAVER, IN 1961. They went to the living room; Jill sat at his feet and they applied themselves to martinis. Opposite his chair was a stereovision tank disguised as an aquarium; he switched it on, guppies and tetras gave way to the face of the well-known Winchell Augustus Greaves. -Stranger in a Strange Land CRACKED.COM Robert A Heinlein, 1961 Stranger in a Strange Land. — Source: 21 Eerily Specific Pop Culture Predictions That Came True

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ALBERT BROOKS PREDICTED REALITY me TV IN 1979. FILMING THANKSGIVING His mockumentary film Real Life featured an obnoxious, intrusive camera crew trailing a family and deliberately stirring up conflict. It was meant as a sendup of a PBS documentary series, but with the twist that most of the drama was generated artificially by the producer. CRACKED.COM http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/real-life-1979 — Source: 21 Eerily Specific Pop Culture Predictions That Came True

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ENJOYING YOUR KFC DOUBLE DOWN? 30 ROCK THOUGHT OF IT FIRST. miha KFC the - Tracy Jorden MEAT MACHINE SEX MEAT IS THE NEW BREAD! Presenting the U I D for Tracy Jordan Meat - SEENON - Jorden Machine, which saved you from suffering through the bread part of your sandwich, in 2006. The Double Down بلدق came out in 2009. CRACKED.COM http://www.avclub.com/tvclub/30-rock-rural-juror-head-and-hair-209499 — Source: 21 Eerily Specific Pop Culture Predictions That Came True

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THERE'S A POSTER ON ROBBIE'S WALL IN POLTERGEIST FROM THE 1988 SUPERBOWL. An odd choice of SAMPLE - set decoration, considering the movie was released in 1982. And downright creepy when you realize that on SuperBowl Sunday in 1988, Heather O'Rourke, who played Carol Anne, became violently ill. She died the next day. She was 12 years old. CRACKED.COM https://youtu.be/au-QUyjOF7A — Source: 21 Eerily Specific Pop Culture Predictions That Came True

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IN THEIR PILOT EPISODE, THE LONE GUNMEN THWARTED A PLOT TO HIJACK A PLANE AND CRASH IT INTO THE WORLD TRADE CENTER. (Cue X-Files theme music.) It aired in March, 2001. CRACKED.COM https://youtube@ruM32hHsLo — Source: 21 Eerily Specific Pop Culture Predictions That Came True

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JACKIE WILSON HAD A HEART ATTACK WHILE SINGING THE WORDS, MY HEART IS CRYING. - STEREO higher and higher JACKIE WILSON It was 1975, and Jackie was singing his hit song Lonely Teardrops onstage. When he hit the line about his crying heart, he suffered a massive heart attack and collapsed onstage. It took a while for the audience to realize he wasn't just being dramatic. CRACKED.COM — Source: 21 Eerily Specific Pop Culture Predictions That Came True

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CHRIS ROCK NAILED THE TITLE OF OJ's BOOK. O.J. SIMPSON I Didn't Kill My Wife! But If I DID, Here's How I'd Do It It was 1999, on The Chris Rock Show. Не did a segment where he was reminiscing, and held up a video with OJ called I Didn't Kill My Wife! But If I DID, Here's How I'd Do it. Simpson's 2007 book was entitled If I Did It. To be fair, it's possible OJ got the idea from Chris Rock. CRACKED.COM https://youtu.be/KKD4bKVEus — Source: 21 Eerily Specific Pop Culture Predictions That Came True

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The Chris Rock Show called O.J. Simpson's Ki confessional hypothetical MY tell-all. Wite! The 1999 show featured a sketch where Simpson had an instructional VHS called I Didn't Kill My Wife, But If I Did, Here's How I'd Do It while Simpson's actual book, titled If I Did It. CRACKED.COM — Source: Life Imitates Art: 13 Times Movies & TV Predicted The Future

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Airplane! 2 predicted the use of full-body A CRIME scanners by airport security TO PO FEDERAL SAFETY PIES BEA As a throwaway gag, pervy airport security watch NSFW full-body scans in the 1982 sequel, hitting a little too close to home in a post-9/11 world. CRACKED.COM — Source: Life Imitates Art: 13 Times Movies & TV Predicted The Future

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UK's House of Cards predicted the fall of Margaret Thatcher The episode in which Margaret Thatcher's character resigned aired only four days before the actual Prime Minister resigned. CRACKED.COM — Source: Life Imitates Art: 13 Times Movies & TV Predicted The Future

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Saturday Night Live put Princess Leia in a gold bikini 5 years before Return of the Jedi In the 1978 episode hosted by Carrie Fisher, Fisher plays her iconic character who drops by a 1950s beach. CRACKED.COM — Source: Life Imitates Art: 13 Times Movies & TV Predicted The Future

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NASA uses the T-minus countdown because of the movie Woman in the Moon Before NASA existed, the 1929 sci-fi silent film used a countdown clock before launching a rocket. CRACKED.COM — Source: Life Imitates Art: 13 Times Movies & TV Predicted The Future

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33 Times Movies and TV Predicted The Freaking Future — Source: 21 Eerily Specific Pop Culture Predictions That Came True

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HAL IS HERE. The name of HAL, the sentient computer from the 1968 film 2001, is a one-letter shift from IBM. Today we have IBM's Watson, an artificial intelligence so sophisticated that it defeated the two most successful Jeopardy contestants ever. Without being connected to the Internet. CRACKED.COM http://www.ibm.com/smarterplanet/us/en/ibmwatson/what-is-watson.html — Source: 21 Eerily Specific Pop Culture Predictions That Came True

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DEMOLITION MAN INADVERTENTLY PREDICTED SCHWARZENEGGER'S POLITICAL CAREER. Detective Huxley mentions doing research at the Arnold Schwarzenegger Presidential Library. Stallone's character John Spartan reacts the way you'd think Stallone would. The movie came out in 1993, a full 10 years before Schwarzenegger began his two terms as Governor of California. It also predicted driverless cars, Skype, and GPS. CRACKED.COM https://youtu.be/-OZ_R3YpB1Y — Source: 21 Eerily Specific Pop Culture Predictions That Came True

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A 1986 ISSUE OF MAN OF STEEL FEATURED LOIS LANE TRAVELING ON THE SPACE SHUTTLE WHEN IT MET WITH DISASTER AND SUPES HAD TO RESCUE HER. As the artist was completing it, the Challenger disaster happened, killing teacher Christa McAuliffe and all the astronauts on board. DE TEST SECURITY THE COMICS MAN EVENT OF OF THE STEEL CE man NO.1 THE R.L. RESTENDAY METROPOLIS 2000 ALL F can on THE CELEBRATIONS FOR TWO HUNDRED AND AFTER SPECIAL ADDANSEMENTS AND BEEN ANNVERSARY MADE 10 - THE EXPERIMENTAL SPACE-PLANE LAND AT METROPOLIS INTERNATIONAL PENT OUT a the AMPORT 10 EVERYTHING SEEMED TO — Source: 21 Eerily Specific Pop Culture Predictions That Came True

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THE FIRST VIDEO TO PLAY ON MTV PREDICTED ITS SUCCESS. The song was Video Killed the Radio Star, by the Buggles. It wasn't a new song, and music videos weren't new. OH-UH-OH! But they were right. Video replaced radio as the source of new music, soon after. CRACKED.COM http://www.mtv.com/artists/buggles/ — Source: 21 Eerily Specific Pop Culture Predictions That Came True

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SUPERMAN COMICS PREDICTED THE ATOMIC BOMB. MEANWHILE, IN A SECRET UNDER- GROUND WORKSHOP, AN OLD ENEMY OF A Superman SUPERMAN CHUCKLES TO HIMSELF... comic from 1945 SUCCESS AT LAST! THE MOST POTENT WEAPON EVER INVENTED showed Lex IS MINE-PROVED AND PERFECTED- READY TO BRING ME WHATEVER Luthor creating an I DESIRE! outlandish new device called an atomic bomb, to instigate chaos in the city of Metropolis. It was so NOTHING CAN LET'S SURVIVE THE SEE! on-the-nose, the BLAST OF THIS ATOMIC BOMB! Defense Department ordered DC Comics to pull the story. Just months later, the U.S. nuked Hiroshima and Nagasaki. — Source: 21 Eerily Specific Pop Culture Predictions That Came True

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TWO DAYS BEFORE THE ACCIDENT THAT PARALYZED CHRISTOPHER REEVE, HBO AIRED A MOVIE STARRING REEVE IN A WHEELCHAIR. The movie was called Above Suspicion, and it was released on May 25, 1995. Reeves' horseback riding accident was on May 27, 1995. CRACKED.COM http://www.chrisreevehomepage.com/n-1995.html — Source: 21 Eerily Specific Pop Culture Predictions That Came True

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