Fans Are Losing It Over The Kamala Prediction From The Simpsons
"The Simpsons'' has predicted everything from Super Bowl Winners to corporate mergers. But the next president of the United States? Did a decades-old episode drop clues about Kamala Harris's future?
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00:00The Simpsons has predicted everything from Super Bowl winners to corporate mergers, but
00:05the next president of the United States?
00:07Did a decades-old episode drop clues about Kamala Harris' future?
00:11The Simpsons has gained renown over the last few years for its fairly accurate Nostradamus-like
00:16ability to seemingly predict the future, but the latest example may be predicting a more
00:21immediate future that's yet to come.
00:24In the flash-forward episode, Bart to the Future, which aired in 2000, Lisa becomes
00:29Wearing purple and pearls, she finds herself coping with a budget crunch left behind by
00:33the previous president, Donald Trump.
00:36Solving the financial gap threatens to ruin her popularity, as it means raising taxes.
00:40As you know, we've inherited quite a budget crunch from President Trump.
00:45Is it a stretch that a lot of fans think Lisa's victory foreshadows one for Vice President
00:49Kamala Harris, now that Biden has dropped out of the race?
00:52On X, multiple users have noticed that the outfit the adult Lisa wears resembles the
00:56one Harris wore to her inauguration as vice president, with even their pearl necklaces
01:01and earrings matching.
01:03One user wrote,
01:04"'The Simpsons' creators are clairvoyants, or did Kamala Harris have a private joke?"
01:08Images of Lisa placed side-by-side with Vice President Harris gained so much attention
01:13that The Simpsons writer and co-showrunner Al Jean took note.
01:16Posting on his X account, he wrote,
01:18"'The Simpsons' prediction I'm proud to be a part of."
01:21Jean also attached pictures of Lisa and Harris in similar outfits.
01:24With 30-plus seasons of content, it's not too far-fetched to assume that Simpsons fans
01:29are picking and choosing the so-called prescient aspects of the show, with Lisa's purple pantsuit
01:34being just the latest example.
01:36That said, the show writers have long been aware of the show's impact on pop culture
01:40and real-life events.
01:41Sometimes they make those statements on purpose.
01:43But The Future writer Dan Greeney previously commented on his then-outlandish choice to
01:48make Donald Trump president in The Simpsons' world.
01:51He told The Hollywood Reporter,
01:52"...it was a warning to America, and that just seemed like the logical last stop before
01:56hitting bottom.
01:57It was pitched because it was consistent with the vision of America going insane."
02:01He added that Trump was chosen as a figurehead because Lisa needed to triumph against impossible
02:06odds, which the Trump presidency provides her with.
02:09To Greeney, it's just one more example of the way The Simpsons parodies American cultural
02:13excess.
02:14"'Lisa's the president?
02:15I'm a pathetic loser?
02:16I gotta be honest, I'm not loving this vision.'"
02:20Putting aside Donald Trump's presidential victory, The Simpsons has apparently predicted
02:24dozens of future events that have been echoed by reality over the years.
02:29The best example of this just might be the time that The Simpsons managed to predict
02:32the winner of the Super Bowl over three times.
02:35The episode titled Lisa the Greek aired just before Super Bowl XXVI, and the show's writers
02:40managed to correctly predict a Washington victory over the Buffalo Bills.
02:44Fox rolled the dice again by redubbing the episode for broadcast before Super Bowl XXVII
02:49and correctly predicted that the Dallas Cowboys would win.
02:52They did it again for Super Bowl XXVIII, and once again predicted the correct outcome.
02:57Perhaps the series' writers should open a betting parlor.