The Fox animated show has been looking into the future since 1989
A still from the episode even features Homer descending an escalator alongside Trump while his supporters cheer him on, an eerie parallel to a similar scene from his campaign trail for the real life 2016 election, this time alongside wife Melania.
In a bit of poking fun at the hand that feeds you, in a 1998 episode titled 'When You Wish Upon a Star,' Homer decides to collaborate with 20th Century Fox and even makes a suggestion to Fox executives, which cuts to the new 20th Century Fox logo with the words "A Division of Walt Disney Co" inscribed below.
In a 1990 episode titled 'Itchy & Scratchy & Marge,' Marge learns a hard lesson on censorship when her demand to crack down on violence in TV ends up backfiring when the famously nude Michelangelo's David makes a stop in Springfield and residents demand it be covered up, resulting in the statue being dressed in a pair of jeans.
The debate over nudity as a form of art was brought up once again almost three decades later in the real world, when some citizens of St. Petersburg, Russia demanded that a copy of the statue displayed in the city be covered up .
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