Trivia & Jokes

17 Times People Fell for the Oldest Trick in the Book

Movies & TV

This Is the Reason Lisa Kudrow Is Binge-Watching ‘Friends’

Movies & TV

Drew Carey Says ‘The Price Is Right’ Contestants Are Constantly Drunk, Stoned or Worse

Comedy

Ricky Gervais Reminds Us of When He Punched Up With Hilarious Throwback Post

Trivia & Jokes

40 Random Bits of Trivia That Will Take Seven Years to Digest If You Swallow Them

32 Predictions That Broke the Crystal Balls They Sprung Forth From

Prediction: Hundreds of years from now, we’ll all be floating gray orbs. Only time will tell

32 Predictions That Broke the Crystal Balls They Sprung Forth From

December 02, 2023

The gall on these past predictors. These Nostradamus types who just spouted some line about Mars having two moons 150 years before those two moons were discovered! Who do you think you are, pal? You and the other spot-on dreamers in this batch are, frankly, a little spooky!

32

The West Wing predicted the 2008 presidential election. A nonwhite Democratic legislator defeated an old-school Republican senator in fiction in 2006. Reality followed suit two years later. CRACKED.COM — Source

31

CRACKED.COM Chappelle's Show predicted History Channel's Gangland. In 2003, audiences laughed at Dave Chappelle's skit that had the History Channel covering street gang wars. In 2007, it was no longer a joke. Gangland — Source

30

Morgan Robertson wrote about the Titanic in 1898. That year, Robertson published The Wreck of the Titan: or, Futility, a novel about a huge ocean liner deemed unsinkable until it hit an iceberg. CRACKED.COM — Source

29

CRACKED.COM PRODUCT Captain Kirk used the are a cellphone long 10 TO 74 before you did. RU Your phone no longer has a flip top (probably), but William Shatner as Kirk still beat you to it by several decades. — Source

28

CRACKED.COM amazonkindle The Hitchhiker's DON'T Guide to PANIC the Galaxy revolves around an ebook. T 1 - Mensa L In Douglas Adams' radio series and subsequent novel, written in the '70s, the titular guide is a huge reference book stored in a handheld device. — Source

27

CRACKED.COM MIX Pizza.Net - - - been - Please enter your maine address and phone: - Angela Bennett Address 487 Finley Street - CA to 94290 CH Venice - (318) 853-3472 Power New KJ December Sandra Bullock ordered pizza online in 1995. Back when the web was a new plaything, The Net thrilled audiences with the possibility of ordering fast food with your Power Macintosh. — Source

26

CRACKED.COM YARD WORK SIMULATOR The Simpsons made a FarmVille joke years before Farm Ville. Wouldn't it be silly if people pretended to tend to plants in a computer? The Simpsons thought so in 1998, a full decade before the real thing. — Source

25

Jules Verne nailed several things about Moon missions. In From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon, both written 100 years before actual Moon missions, three brave men are launched in a capsule from Florida, and parachute to the Pacific Ocean upon their return. CRACKED.COM — Source

24

H. G. Wells wrote about air warfare before it was a thing. The War in the Air, written in 1907, anticipated the horror of air bombings. The war comes through the air, bombs drop in the night. Quiet people go out in the morning, and see air-fleets passing overhead- dripping death- dripping death! CRACKED.COM — Source

23

A comic book foretold Pearl Harbor. CONSTATION National Comics #18 depicted an air assault on Pearl Harbor. It was released in November 1941-one month before the attack by Japanese airplanes. GRACKED COM — Source

22

32 Predictions That Broke the Crystal Balls They Sprung Forth From — Source

21

GRACKED.COM two lesser stars, or satellites, which revolve about Mars..._- Jonathan Swift, describing the Red Planet's moons in his 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels. Phobos and Deimos, discovered in 1877 by Asaph Hall — Source

20

A 1995 student PSA featuring 5th graders from Helena, MT not only correctly proclaimed By the time we're in college, the Internet will be our telephone, television, shopping center, and workplace. ка The Greatest Thing in Lh ACH - It also hinted at the Internet's future infatuation with felines. I even found a recipe for cat food cupcakes! CRACKED.COM — Source

19

CRACKED COM THE VIDEOGAME TOM CLANCY'S GHOST RECON UNCANNILY PREDICTED THE RUSSIA - GEORGIA WAR. RELEASED IN 2001, THE GAME WAS SET IN APRIL 2008 - JUST R FEW MONTHS BEFORE THE REAL WAR. — Source

18

DREAM:THEATER LIVE SCENES FROM NEW YORK Pictured above: Dream Theater's original cover artwork for their live 3-CD album Live Scenes from New York ALBUM RELEASE DATE: 9/11/01 CRACKED.COM — Source

17

In a 1969 episode of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, a sketch called News Of The Future accurately predicted Ronald Reagan would be President in 1988. Later that year, yet another News Of The Future segment foresaw the exact year the Berlin Wall would fall. GRAGKED.COM — Source

16

CRACKED COM When the Treaty of Versailles was signed, officially ending the First World War in 1919, French Marshal Ferdinand Foch responded... THIS IS NOT PEACE. IT IS AN ARMISTICE FOR TWENTY YEARS. The Second World War started in 1939. — Source

15

Two weeks before his death in a Chicago hotel, former Weezer bassist Mikey Welsh predicted a twitter post. his own demise via @MikeyWelsh71 Mikey Welsh dreamt i died in chicago next weekend (heart attack in my sleep). need to write my will today. 26 Sep via web @MikeyWelsh71 Mikey Welsh @JVittitow correction-the CRACKED.COM weekend after next — Source

14

CRACKED.COM IN 1999 COWBOY ВЕВОР HAD A PLOT INVOLVING AN ANTIQUE SPACECRAFT BEING USED IN A RESCUE MISSION WHICH NEARLY FAILED WHEN THE SHUTTLES HEAT RESISTANT TILES PEELED OFF IN 2003 THE SPACE SHUTTLE COLUMBIA DISINTEGRATED AFTER ITS HEAT RESISTANT TILES PEELED OFF. THE COINCIDENCE IS CREEPY ENOUGH WITHOUT MENTIONING THAT THE SHIP IN ВЕВОР WAS THE COLUMBIA — Source

13

In The Muppets, Jason Segel wrote a scene that involved Elmo trying to join the Muppets but being stopped by lawyers. The scene was cut out of the movie because Sesame Street lawyers didn't want Elmo to be involved in a Muppet movie. CRACKED.COM — Source

12

UK's House of Cards predicted the fall of Margaret Thatcher The episode in which Margaret Thatcher's character resigned aired only four days before the actual Prime Minister resigned. CRACKED.COM — Source

11

Airplane! 2 predicted the use of full-body A CRIME scanners by airport security TO PO FEDERAL SAFETY PIES BEA As a throwaway gag, pervy airport security watch NSFW full-body scans in the 1982 sequel, hitting a little too close to home in a post-9/11 world. CRACKED.COM — Source

10

An episode of Full House featured Aunt Becky in admissions scandal Uncle Jesse lies on his kids' preschool application, but in the TV show, Aunt Becky 'fesses up. CRACKED.COM — Source

9

Saturday Night Live put Princess Leia in a gold bikini 5 years before Return of the Jedi In the 1978 episode hosted by Carrie Fisher, Fisher plays her iconic character who drops by a 1950s beach. CRACKED.COM — Source

8

DEMOLITION MAN INADVERTENTLY PREDICTED SCHWARZENEGGER'S POLITICAL CAREER. Detective Huxley mentions doing research at the Arnold Schwarzenegger Presidential Library. Stallone's character John Spartan reacts the way you'd think Stallone would. The movie came out in 1993, a full 10 years before Schwarzenegger began his two terms as Governor of California. It also predicted driverless cars, Skype, and GPS. CRACKED.COM https://youtu.be/-OZ_R3YpB1Y — Source

7

32 Predictions That Broke the Crystal Balls They Sprung Forth From — Source

6

THERE'S A POSTER ON ROBBIE'S WALL IN POLTERGEIST FROM THE 1988 SUPERBOWL. An odd choice of SAMPLE - set decoration, considering the movie was released in 1982. And downright creepy when you realize that on SuperBowl Sunday in 1988, Heather O'Rourke, who played Carol Anne, became violently ill. She died the next day. She was 12 years old. CRACKED.COM https://youtu.be/au-QUyjOF7A — Source

5

ENJOYING YOUR KFC DOUBLE DOWN? 30 ROCK THOUGHT OF IT FIRST. miha KFC the - Tracy Jorden MEAT MACHINE SEX MEAT IS THE NEW BREAD! Presenting the U I D for Tracy Jordan Meat - SEENON - Jorden Machine, which saved you from suffering through the bread part of your sandwich, in 2006. The Double Down بلدق came out in 2009. CRACKED.COM http://www.avclub.com/tvclub/30-rock-rural-juror-head-and-hair-209499 — Source

4

ALBERT BROOKS PREDICTED REALITY me TV IN 1979. FILMING THANKSGIVING His mockumentary film Real Life featured an obnoxious, intrusive camera crew trailing a family and deliberately stirring up conflict. It was meant as a sendup of a PBS documentary series, but with the twist that most of the drama was generated artificially by the producer. CRACKED.COM http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/real-life-1979 — Source

3

A GOOFY 1987 SITCOM PREDICTED GADHAFI'S DEATH WITHIN A FEW MONTHS. The show was called Second Chance, and in the pilot STJ PETER'S OFFICE Colonel Moammar July 29, 20TJ Gadhafi shows up in St. Peter's office in July of 2011. Gadhafi actually died in October of that year. Not too far off, for a show that aired 24 years before that date. CRACKED.COM https://youtu.be/o62MU1q-U1k — Source

2

NICKI MINAJ PREDICTED HER COUSIN'S DEATH, WITH A SONG. Why'd you have to leave in July? On a peaceful and serene summer night... Why the doctors could not stop the bleeding... Now you see you not bullet proof... I could've told you about my intuition ... Why'd you have to go so soon? -We Miss You A year after Nicki wrote this, her cousin Nicholas Telemaque was gunned down in July and left to bleed to death. http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/nicholas-telemague- CRACKED.COM 27-shot-death-brooklyn-street-leaving-nightclub-article-1.155416 — Source

1

IN 1987, APPLE MADE A COMMERCIAL PREDICTING BORDERLINE MAGIC PRODUCTS THEY'D INVENT BY 2011. The video featured meall a tablet-style computer with a personal digital assistant that takes - CHTT phone calls and video chats, searches the Fite network - Schedule - Internet, analyzes Desartifucation - - - data, and creates sophisticated graphics. And the Scopy Year: 1230 Rate: 22 whole thing has a touch screen and is voice-activated. THE VIDEO IS SET IN SEPTEMBER OF 2011-JUST A COUPLE OF WEEKS BEFORE APPLE LAUNCHED THE IPHONE WITH SIRI. CRACKED.COM https://youtu.be/QRH8eimU_20 — Source

Scroll down for the next article

Must Read

Movies & TV

The Rock’s Christmas Movie Looks Suspiciously Like a ‘South Park’ Episode

Movies & TV

20 Fictional Characters We’re Glad Aren’t Real

Movies & TV

It’s Mind-Boggling Just How Many ‘SNL’ Stars Will Be Participating in NBC’s Olympic Coverage

Movies & TV

7 Actors Who Look More Like Colin Farrell As The Penguin Than Colin Farrell

Movies & TV

A Real-Life Kwik-E-Mart Just Opened in Tijuana

Trivia & Jokes

14 Highly Uncomfortable Facts About McDonaldland

VIRAL ON CRACKED

1

21 'True Story' Oscar Movies That Ignored The Truth

2

35 Random Bits of Trivia to Cram Into Your Brain With a Hydraulic Press

3

20 Seemingly Innocent Pastimes With Seedy Underbellies

4

42 of the Funniest Tweets from Wednesday, June 26, 2024

5

20 Inventions That Ruined Society