‘The Simpsons’ predicted this ‘Game of Thrones’ twist

The destruction of King's Landing on the penultimate episode of Game of Thrones came as a shock to fans of the show who didn't see Daenerys's dark turn coming. It apparently wasn't a shock to the people behind The Simpsons, as a two-year-old episode of the show seems to have predicted how Daenerys and Drogon would torch the city.

Soon after the episode ended, people on Twitter posted a clip from the season 29 premiere, "The Serfsons." In the final scene of that episode, the family watches a dragon burn their village from atop the wall of a castle.

"Look the dragon is burning our village!" Bart says, and the show cuts to a long shot of the hovering dragon spitting fire down below. It's a shot that looks just like one from "The Bells," a shot of Drogon spitting fire on the people of King's Landing. He is observed by Cersei in a tower in the Red Keep, a vantage point similar to the Simpsons' that makes the shot composition eerily similar.

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This isn't the first time The Simpsons has "predicted" something that later came true. The most famous example probably comes from "Bart to the Future," a flash-forward episode from 2000 in which Lisa, the president of the United States, says "We inherited quite the budget crunch from President Trump."

The show has also had a knack for predicting Super Bowls, with three different picks proving correct over the years.

A season 10 episode also showed the 20th Century Fox logo with "A Divison of Walt Disney Co" written underneath it. That one aired two full decades before Disney actually acquired Fox.

And while all of these predictions likely add up to a series of coincidences, we won't exactly be surprised if the next week's Thrones finale features a shyster coming into King's Landing and convincing Cersei that building a monorail to Bravos is a good idea.

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