{"id":1263402,"date":"2022-02-01T22:23:34","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T03:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1263402"},"modified":"2022-02-01T22:23:46","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T03:23:46","slug":"fact-check-did-the-simpsons-predict-the-canadian-freedom-convoy-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-the-simpsons-predict-the-canadian-freedom-convoy-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did \u2018The Simpsons\u2019 Predict The Canadian \u2018Freedom Convoy\u2019 Protest?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-did-the-simpsons-predict-the-canadian-freedom-convoy-protest%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1263402&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>A video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jeff.matthews.942\/posts\/4956100064410365\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> claims an episode of \u201cThe Simpsons\u201d predicted the \u201cFreedom Convoy\u201d trucker rally in Canada.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Verdict: False<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>The video consists of scenes from two different episodes of the show. The screaming heard in the video was digitally inserted into the clip.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><span>Fact Check:&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of Canadian truckers and their supporters have driven in convoys to Ottawa to protest against a new federal vaccine mandate that would require truckers to quarantine after crossing back over the Canadian border if they are unvaccinated, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-us-canada-60164561\">BBC<\/a>. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau criticized the protest, which has been dubbed the \u201cFreedom Convoy,\u201d as \u201can insult to memory and truth,\u201d the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>A video shared on Facebook claims the comedy series \u201cThe Simpsons\u201d predicted the turn of events. The video shows what appears to be a 20-second clip from an unnamed episode of the show that includes two scenes. The first scene shows Bart and Homer Simpson, characters in the show, in a semi-truck that is being followed by a convoy of other semi-trucks. The subsequent scene shows a character resembling Trudeau screaming and shouting as he crawls out the window of a building marked with Canadian flags.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Simpsons strike again,\u201d reads the video\u2019s caption. \u201cSure does look like Trudeau at the end. Word on the street os (sic) Trudeau has fled to hide as a massive trucker strike heads to Ottawa. Funny how those Simpsons predict things.\u201d&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/04\/19\/fact-check-the-simpsons-predict-prince-philip-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Does This Image Show \u2018The Simpsons\u2019 Predicting Prince Philip\u2019s Death?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The video, however, is a combination of scenes from two separate episodes. Check Your Fact traced the first clip to a 1999 episode titled \u201cMaximum Homerdrive.\u201d In the episode, Homer Simpson takes his son Bart Simpson on a cross-country trip on behalf of a trucker who died, according to the plot synopsis on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0781979\/\">IMDb<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The second scene featured in the Facebook video comes from a 2019 episode titled \u201cD\u2019oh Canada,\u201d in which Lisa Simpson, another character from the show, is mistakenly given Canadian citizenship, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt10126678\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">IMDb<\/a>. In the scene, the character of Trudeau is talking with Lisa Simpson via video when he crawls out the window. The screaming heard in the version of the scene shared on Facebook has been digitally inserted into the clip.<\/p>\n<p>All 32 seasons of \u201cThe Simpsons\u201d can be streamed on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.disneyplus.com\/series\/the-simpsons\/3ZoBZ52QHb4x\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Disney Plus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time misinformation about the show has spread on social media. In April 2021, <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/04\/19\/fact-check-the-simpsons-predict-prince-philip-death\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Check Your Fact<\/a> debunked a viral Facebook image that purportedly showed a scene from the show in which a character predicts the date of Prince Philip\u2019s death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video shared on Facebook claims an episode of \u201cThe Simpsons\u201d predicted the \u201cFreedom Convoy\u201d trucker rally in Canada.Verdict: False  The video consists of scenes from two different &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1263402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1263402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1263402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1263402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1263402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}