How 'Parks and Rec' called the Cubs' World Series win

Back to the Future Part II was off by one year, but Parks and Recreation nailed it.

As crazy as it is to say out loud, the Chicago Cubs finally, finally won the World Series Wednesday night. It was an epic victory 108 years in the making, something the folks at Parks and Rec seemed to know was coming.

The Cubs mythic victory was famously predicted to come in 2015 in the second Back to the Future, but astute Parks and Rec fans will remember that the NBC comedy predicted it in 2016 in an almost throwaway reference in the show's final season. The season took place in the summer of 2017 (thanks to a time jump), and took Tom (Aziz Ansari) and Andy (Chris Pratt) on a trip to Chicago to visit Tom's old flame, Lucy (Natalie Morales). And Lucy had a little tidbit to share about her life in Chicago.

Parks and Rec creator Mike Schur reminded everyone of his foresight in a tweet after the Cubs' historic win.

It wasn't just a joke for Parks and Rec. It came from real baseball stats and predictions. As Schur explained last week to the Washington Post, "As soon as we decided to throw the last season of Parks and Rec into the future, into 2017, we sort of started calculating what the world might be like ... I was the only person on the staff who cared about baseball enough to track the Cubs’ minor league system."

Too bad most of the Cubs' stars this year weren't even born when Robert Zemeckis made Back to the Future Part II's prediction.