“The Simpsons did it” again: this time they may have predicted Las Vegas’ hot new NHL hockey team, the Las Vegas Golden Knights, winning the Stanley Cup trophy.
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The Simpsons season 10 episode ‘Viva Ned Flanders,’ aired in 1999, sees Homer Simpson and neighbor Ned Flanders head to Sin City to show the sixty-year-old Flanders “the right way to live.”
The two end up heavily intoxicated in their room — located within ‘Nero’s Palace,’ a play on Caesars Palace — and the overturned room includes everything from emptied-out pizza boxes and a stolen golf cart to what appears to be the Stanley Cup.
The real life Caesars Palace currently has a statue in front of the sprawling casino hotel that even sees Caesar adorned with Las Vegas Golden Knights gear, including a branded hockey stick.
An expansion franchise and the first major professional sports franchise based in Las Vegas, the Las Vegas Golden Knights didn’t debut until 2017 — almost 20 years after ‘Viva Ned Flanders.’
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In 1999, before “The Hangover” and the Golden Knights, Homer Simpson and Ned Flanders had the Stanley Cup in Vegas. pic.twitter.com/dnm1ucNtCt
— Nick Cotsonika (@cotsonika) May 26, 2018
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Hey @OverDrive1050 did I just stumble onto the Biggest Conspiracy of 2018? In this episode of The Simpson’s, The Stanley Cup is in the background of Homer & Ned’s Las Vegas hotel room! I better put $100 on them eh? pic.twitter.com/JwH1yknAYt
— Adam Wooldridge (@WoolyGoalie) May 26, 2018
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It’s true! From the episode “Viva Ned Flanders”!!! Any @TheSimpsons animators or writers care to comment? pic.twitter.com/LWKwuAHqqc
— 之铁台风球迷 (@IronCaniac) May 26, 2018
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Nothing to see here. Just The Simpsons predicting the future per usual. https://t.co/baLuMzRMzi
— Not Eric Prydz (@PromoteJosh) May 27, 2018
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This show predicts everything. ? https://t.co/zGQAQFLbAM
— Dave Cunning (@davecunning) May 26, 2018
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This is so random it’s spooky…. https://t.co/VwpnMrrkgS
— Ryder Donohue (@RyderDonohue) May 26, 2018
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Well, congrats Vegas! The Simpson’s are never wrong. https://t.co/N5HdIvmiah
— Zachary Holden (@zachary_holden) May 26, 2018
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Looks like they won Wimbledon too.
— Jason Brough (@JasonBroughTSN) May 26, 2018
The Las Vegas Golden Knights are facing the Washington Capitals in the battle for the Stanley Cup.
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