Though MIT Professor Bengt Holmström wouldn't win the Nobel Prize for another six years,Mr & Mrs Jones (2010) back in 2010 Milhouse saw his potential.

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On Monday, the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences went to Holmström and Harvard University's Oliver Hart. Shortly after the announcement, MIT shared this bit of Simpsons trivia:

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Indeed, Milhouse bet on Holmström in the 2010 episode "Elementary School Musical." In the world of The Simpsons, that year's prize went to economist Jagdish Bhagwati.

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