A closer look
Parks and Recreation writer Mike Schur wrote a throwaway joke into a season seven episode predicting that the Chicago Cubs would win the 2016 World Series. Since the final season involved a time jump to the year 2017, the joke aired in 2015, and the Cubs miraculously went on to break their century-long curse exactly as the script had prophesied. Forget the Mayans or Nostradamus, because the only oracle we should actually trust with our collective future is a cynical television comedy writer who was just trying to pad out three seconds of screen time with a mild sports gag
