‘The Simpsons’ are once again getting credit for predicting American politics
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Updated
Jul 23, 2024, 5:04 PM
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Jul 23, 2024, 10:42 AM
Could The Simpsons please start sharing some lottery numbers?
The long-running animated television series is once again being hailed as a modern day Nostradamus.
In an episode titled Bart To The Future, which was released in 2000, Lisa Simpson is shown growing up to become the first female president of the United States.
She is dressed in an outfit strikingly similar to the one the US’ first female Vice-President Kamala Harris wore to the 2021 presidential inauguration, including her accessories.
Al Jean, one of the best known among The Simpsons writers, commented about the similarity on social media.
“@TheSimpsons ‘prediction’ I’m proud to be a part of,” he wrote on X.
But this was not the first time an episode of The Simpsons has served as a coincidental fortune-teller.
Here are a few other examples of the show’s accurate squints into the future:
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Lisa Simpson became president in that episode after a “President Trump”, 16 years before Donald Trump was actually elected to the US presidency. However, reports the animated series foresaw an image of Trump on an escalator and predicted the electoral map from his win turned out to be false.
Politics tamfitronics Lady Gaga playing the Super Bowl
The singer appeared as a guest on The Simpsons in 2012. An animated Gaga is shown playing a concert in which she flies through the air – much like she did during her half-time performance at the Super Bowl, the annual US football league championship game, in 2017.
Politics tamfitronics Smartwatches
Well before you could strap that Apple smartwatch on your wrist, The Simpsons had something similar in a 1995 episode.
Politics tamfitronics Siegfried and Roy tiger attack
Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn, the famous Las Vegas performers who worked with big game cats, were parodied by the show in 1993.
In the episode, a white tiger attacks the characters “Gunter and Ernst” during their act, as revenge for having been snatched away from his life in the wild.
In real life, Horn suffered a career-ending injury in 2003 after a tiger attacked him during a show.
Politics tamfitronics Cypress Hill
The hip-hop group Cypress Hill discussed collaborating with the London Symphony Orchestra in a 1996 episode of The Simpsons titled Homerpalooza.
Nearly three decades later, the two ensembles recently did just that in a performance at London’s Royal Albert Hall. CNN
