The Simpsons: 10 More Moments More Important Than You Realised
6. Maude At Lisa’s Wedding
When The Simpsons first did an episode set in the future, it was fine. It was cool to see older versions of our favourite characters and what the world of tomorrow looked like.
Now, they've done this trope all the flamin' time and it's really boring. Nobody cares about Bart's stupid kids.
The episode where we first get a glimpse of things to come is Lisa's Wedding from Season 6, when the middle Simpson kid comes across a fortune teller in the woods.
Set in the year 2010, we follow a grown-up Lisa and her ill-fated engagement to snobby Englishman Hugh Parkfield. Guests at the doomed wedding including a wheelchair-bound Krusty, a recently defrosted Mr. Burns, Ned and Maude Flanders... wait a second... Maude Flanders?
The same Maude Flanders that would be killed off in an episode first broadcast in the year 2000? How can be this be?
Maude's appearance in this episode proves that the fortune teller is talking a load of nonsense. This validates why so much of what she foretold failed to come true - she couldn't even predict a woman's death, for goodness sake!
Moral of the story - never trust a weirdo in a tent.