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Sadly, this seems to be localised specifically to episodes of The Simpsons; whenever I think of an scene or a quote, within two weeks it will air on tv.
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Yeah, I get that and my boring, rational explanation is that they always show it on TV in production order, so after a few goes round, you start remembering which episodes aired at a similar time last time round.
Sorry to kill the dream
I see the idea of a link between omnipotence and impotence (if you can do anything, what is there to do? The ultimate bored child phenomena) but don't think it applies to the God I believe in. God is inspired to act through love. Sometimes that means doing nothing and sometimes that means doing anything.
In terms of your metaphysical holding the universe together, the Bible says all creation is held together by God. He didn't just 'wind up and let go' but he is still actively keeping the world running.
The human race is so ignorant. Think of all the things that you think 'I don't understand that, but I'm sure there are scientists somewhere do'. I would love to see a book of 'Things you think the human race knows that we actually don't' - I wanna buy that; it'd be fascinating! We don't know why gravity works. Why does the spinning Earth mean things stick to it? We don't know. 97% of the universe is 'missing'; our understanding of the universe says it should exist but we can't see it and we don't know what it's made from.
There is so much that we don't know, and so much we completely fail to understand, and I wonder if in 50, 100, 200 years we'll still be looking for answers. Which makes me think that some things simply can't be explained without a faith in the supernatural.