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12-14-2017, 10:36 PM
'The Simpsons' predicted Disney would take Fox over one day
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Trust The Simpsons to have predicted one of the biggest entertainment acquisitions in media history 20 years ahead of its time.*
The Fox sitcom foresaw the company being owned by Disney back in 1998. In the episode, Homer gets a personal assistant job in Hollywood and pitches his script at 20th Century Fox, "a division of Walt Disney Co."
SEE ALSO: Disney buys 21st Century Fox for $52 billion as it prepares for war with Netflix and Amazon (http://mashable.com/2017/12/14/disney-fox-netflix-amazon/?utm_campaign&utm_cid=a-seealso&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source)
Season 10, episode 5, "When You Dish Upon A Star" aired Nov. 8, 1998 and guest starred Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger, Ron Howard, and Brian Grazer as themselves. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/12/14/disney-fox-the-simpsons-prediction/)
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Trust The Simpsons to have predicted one of the biggest entertainment acquisitions in media history 20 years ahead of its time.*
The Fox sitcom foresaw the company being owned by Disney back in 1998. In the episode, Homer gets a personal assistant job in Hollywood and pitches his script at 20th Century Fox, "a division of Walt Disney Co."
SEE ALSO: Disney buys 21st Century Fox for $52 billion as it prepares for war with Netflix and Amazon (http://mashable.com/2017/12/14/disney-fox-netflix-amazon/?utm_campaign&utm_cid=a-seealso&utm_context=textlink&utm_medium=rss&utm_source)
Season 10, episode 5, "When You Dish Upon A Star" aired Nov. 8, 1998 and guest starred Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger, Ron Howard, and Brian Grazer as themselves. Read more... (http://mashable.com/2017/12/14/disney-fox-the-simpsons-prediction/)
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