We're still at the point where the old Nintendo R.O.B. Honestly, it's right smack in the middle of those two designs. When this episode came out, they didn't anticipate Jim Carrey's future efforts to be taken seriously as an actor ... and then his awkward return to rubber-faced comedy when things didn't work out that well. I'm pretty sure this is what classrooms look like here in California . Now available in paperback and Kindle formats too! The only thing that airlines have redesigned is the "how to turn the passengers upside-down and shake all of the change out of their pockets like a '50s-era bully" handbook. Give the British a little more credit than that. Instead of gradually transitioning to a hardcore sex channel, Fox spawned Fox News, which led the charge to levy enormous fines against channels like Fox... for trying to transition to hardcore sex channels . And yet we still watch the same "Simpsons" episodes over and over and over.
– During its sixth season in 1995, The Simpsons gazed into the future—specifically, 2010—in the “Lisa’s Wedding” episode. Writing at 11points.com, Sam Greenspan lists 11 things about this year the episode got right: Soy snacks: Not only did the show predict their popularity, it also “nailed their horrible, horrible flavor.” Celebrity arrests: “During Kent Brockman's newscast, he lets viewers know that if they see any celebrities, consider them dangerous”—and today, “celebrities really do get arrested at a prodigious rate.” Rolling Stones still at it: A poster for the “Rolling Stones Steel Wheelchair Tour 2010” is shown, and the band is now “old but still going strong,” Greenspan writes. They “really ignored the whole ‘live fast, die young’ credo of rock-and-roll.” Credit cards everywhere: In the Simpsons episode, plastic is used at a vending machine. And it’s true: “2010 is the time when we'll happily jam our credit cards into anything. We sure as hell aren't going to carry around a bunch of cash anymore. We're not cavemen after all.” Thousands of cable channels: Yep, got that, Greenspan concludes: “And yet we still watch the same Simpsons episodes over and over and over.” For the complete list, click here—or for the follow-up, 11 predictions the show got wrong, click here.