Simpsons episode Bart vs Australia, foreshadowing of youth social media ban?
Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2025 1:11 am
The Simpsons is well known for predictive programming. It's widely known that in the episode where they visited New York, there was the $9 bus ticket with the picture of the world trade center towers, a foreshadowing of 9/11.
One of the main themes in the episode of the Simpsons, Bart vs Australia, was that Bart tricked a young Australian kid into accepting a collect call, taking advantage of that the kid didn't know that would result in harm to his parents (a 400 dollarydoo bill for accepting the collect call). Even though that episode far predates social media and widespread Internet, it depicts a situation where a child might be vulnerable due to the use of international communication means.
The creators of the Simpsons and the big corporate media have connections to the hidden power organization that design society. Those entities plan decades in advance, thus at the time the Simpsons Bart vs Australia episode was made, there were already plans to build today's online infrastructure.
One of the main themes in the episode of the Simpsons, Bart vs Australia, was that Bart tricked a young Australian kid into accepting a collect call, taking advantage of that the kid didn't know that would result in harm to his parents (a 400 dollarydoo bill for accepting the collect call). Even though that episode far predates social media and widespread Internet, it depicts a situation where a child might be vulnerable due to the use of international communication means.
The creators of the Simpsons and the big corporate media have connections to the hidden power organization that design society. Those entities plan decades in advance, thus at the time the Simpsons Bart vs Australia episode was made, there were already plans to build today's online infrastructure.