Making Money By Stealing Cooking Grease
Throughout the show, Homer is duped by a slew of “get rich quick” schemes. One of them involves him taking cooking oil and selling it for a profit from various sites throughout the city. It’s unclear whether the show directly inspired juvenile offenders or if they came up with the same ludicrous premise as Homer. However, in order to make a quick buck, people in New York were engaging in the same practice.

Making Money By Stealing Cooking Grease
The Ebola Outbreak
In a Simpsons episode from 1990, Marge tries to cheer up her husband by reading him a book. “Curious George and the Ebola Virus” is the story’s title. Despite the fact that the Ebola virus was known to exist prior to the airing of this episode, the primary outbreak did not occur until 2014 or 2015.

The Ebola Outbreak

