The Truth About Whether The Simpsons Really Predicted That Viral 'Coldplay Couple' Moment

The now-infamous Coldplay concert clip involving a CEO and his HR head has taken over the internet and some fans of The Simpsons are convinced the cartoon saw it coming.

In case you missed all the buzz, the man seen cuddling up with a woman at the Coldplay gig wasn’t his wife. It was Andy Byron, the former CEO of Astronomer, and the woman was Kristin Cabot, the company’s head of HR.

Things got even more awkward when the two ended up on the kiss cam. They quickly ducked out of view, which led Coldplay’s Chris Martin to quip: "Either they're having an affair or they're very shy."

If their goal was to keep things low-key, well, that definitely backfired. The moment exploded online, and now it feels like just about everyone has seen the clip.

Byron is married but not to Cabot and following the viral uproar, he stepped down from his role almost immediately. As all of this unfolded, some internet users began claiming The Simpsons had somehow predicted it all.

The idea that The Simpsons can foresee real-life events has been floating around for years, thanks to the cartoon’s many moments that seem oddly close to things that later happened in the real world.

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But when it comes to this specific situation—the so-called “Coldplay couple”—the claim that The Simpsons nailed it ahead of time just doesn’t hold up.

Some social media users shared an image that supposedly came from an old episode of the show. In it, a couple that looks suspiciously like Byron and Cabot is caught on a kiss cam. But here’s the thing—that image is fake.

Snopes decided to investigate. They ran the image through detection software, which indicated there was a 99.9 percent chance the photo was generated using AI.

The fact-checkers also pointed out that while there have been scenes in The Simpsons where Homer and Marge appeared on a kiss cam, none of those episodes resembled this real-life situation at all.

So, it turns out that claim is pretty baseless.

Yes, The Simpsons has touched on similar themes. But unless there's a clear and specific link, calling it a prediction is a bit of a stretch.

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Just because the show once featured Principal Skinner and Mrs. Krabappel sneaking around doesn’t mean it predicted a real-world HR scandal caught on camera. Even showing a kiss cam once isn’t enough to claim prophecy.

Former showrunner Al Jean actually explained how these so-called predictions come about. It really comes down to sheer volume—the show has just been around for that long.

He put it this way: "If you write 700 episodes, and you don't predict anything, then you're pretty bad. If you throw enough darts, you're going to get some bullseyes."