WATCH: The Simpsons show may have prophesied Titan sub disaster 14 years ago
As tragedy takes place, people are speculating links between the incident and the predictions made by The Simpsons
June 22, 2023
Social media is abuzz with speculations that the American animated TV series The Simpsons had prophesied about the Titan Five submersible tragedy in one of its episodes nearly 14 years ago.
Michael L Reiss, one of the writers as well as producers of the show, who once took the tour to the Titanic shipwreck as a passenger in the same submersible Thursday wrote on social media that the television series had made a comic prediction about the disaster.
The OceanGate-owned submersible Titan went 12,000 feet deep into the ocean to explore the wreckage of the Titanic ship that sank in 1912. The Titan carried a crew of five crew including a pilot and the CEO of the vessel company, OceanGate.
Reiss told people about his experiences as a passenger on the vessel, after going on a number of voyages.
And currently, as the tragedy took place, people are speculating links between the incident and the classic animation.
According to social media account named Four Finger Discount wrote, "Weird Fact: Former Simpsons showrunner @MikeReissWriter last year rode the same Titanic submersible that is now missing. The last episode he ever produced was ‘Simpson Tide’, involving Homer and co. getting stuck on a damaged submarine."
Reiss was the executive producer till the last episode of Simpson Tide but was the producer of the series until 2009.
In this episode, the submarine was hit by a depth charge and was stuck in a dangerous situation within the leaking craft.
Being famous for its predictions, other people have also underlined a plot point from the 10th episode of the seventeenth season titled "Homer’s Paternity Coot", showing Homer coming close to running out of oxygen in a submersible after crashing it unknowingly.
The connections emerged after Reiss talked about his experiences on the Titanic submersible Monday at BBC Breakfast, saying: “I know the logistics of it and I know how vast the ocean is and how very tiny this craft is.
"If it’s down at the bottom I don’t know how anyone is going to be able to access it, much less bring it back up," he added.
Reiss also described that he had gone on three different dives with the company OceanGate Expeditions and that they “almost always lost communication”.
"I got on the sub and at the back of my mind was well, I may never get off this thing, that’s always with you," he said.
Reiss said that Titan is "a beautifully designed craft; however, the nature of the expedition makes problems possible."
"This is not to say this is a shoddy ship or anything, it’s just that this is all new technology and they’re learning it as they go along," he said.
"You have to just remember the early days of the space programme or the early days of aviation, where you just make a lot of mistakes on the way to figuring out what you’re doing."
