ICE GOING, HOMER

Curling ‘prophecy’

We’re all living in Springfield now.

Time and time again, the cartoon world of the “The Simpsons” has come unexpectedly to (real) life as past episodes repeatedly predicted current events.

The latest of the Homeric prophecies to be fulfilled came last weekend, when the US men’s curling team beat the heavily favored Swedes to win gold at the Winter Olympics.

The victory mirrors a 2010 episode titled “Boy Meets Curl,” in which Homer and Marge take up curling and defeat a team from Sweden at the Vancouver Olympics.

There’s even a medal ceremony in the 8-year-old episode that is surprisingly like what happened in Pyeongchang, South Korea, on Saturday.

This adds to a dizzying list of predictions the long-running sitcom has correctly made, including a Donald Trump presidency, Disney’s acquisition of “Simpsons” parent company 20th Century Fox, and others.

In the now-infamous 2000 flash-forward episode “Bart to the Future,” Lisa wins the US presidency and warns her Cabinet, “As you know, we’ve inherited quite a budget crunch from President Trump.”

“What we needed was for Lisa to have problems that were beyond her fixing — that everything went as bad as it possibly could, and that’s why we had Trump be president before her,” writer Dan Greaney told The Hollywood Reporter in 2016 after Trump won the GOP nomination.

A sight gag in a 1998 episode shows a sign on the Fox back lot that reads, “20th Century Fox: A Division of Walt Disney Co.”

Three decades later, that joke would come to fruition when Disney acquired much of the parent company, now 21st Century Fox, in December 2017.

The show also showed its Nostradamus-like abilities last month, when Tesla billionaire Elon Musk began selling working flamethrowers that were similar to the one used by fictional “Simpsons” evil-genius billionaire Hank Scorpio in the 1996 classic “You Only Move Twice.”