When reality and The Simpsons collide

I've been staying away from writing about The Simpsons the same way I stay away from the cookies I bought a few days ago: I promise myself to only have a couple, but then I figure one more won't hurt, and then I decide to eat another to make it an even number, and by the end I've eaten twenty cookies and written about The Simpsons just as much.

So yeah, we've been saturated with Simpsons stuff ever since the movie came out, but when I came across this article in Reuters, I could not, as a fan, keep my mouth shut and not tell other fans about it.

It seems a woman in Germany has lived most of her life with a pencil in her brain. She fell down at the age of four and the pencil lodged itself in her head, causing headaches and nosebleeds her entire life but not affecting any vital brain functions. Only recently could it be removed (well, everything but the tip).

Clearly, it was a sign The Simpsons occupies way too much of my own gray matter, because I immediately thought of the episode "HOMR" from season twelve in which Homer finds out he's had a crayon in his brain most of his life, and that it's been the cause of his idiocy the whole time. The idea seemed so far fetched and yet, here we are years later and almost the exact same thing has happened to a real person.

As an experiment, I've come up with come headlines we might be seeing in the future, based on other animated series. Come up with some of your own and we'll see if any of them come true.

Lab mouse who sounds like Orson Welles takes over planet

Coyote found dead after giant slingshot mishap

Colorado youth inexplicably killed and resurrected two hundred times

Dog adopts young boy, travels back in time