‘Time travellers’: Fans spot truly wild new Simpsons prediction

A female President, dressed identically to Kamala Harris, complaining about former President Trump – how is this clip 24 years old?

Kamala Harris and Lisa Simpson.

An episode of The Simpsons that aired in March 2000 is going viral on social media amid the recent news that President Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed VP Kamala Harris to become the next Democratic nominee.

The episode, titled “Bart to the Future,” shows Lisa Simpson taking office as the first female president of the United States after Donald Trump leaves the country in “quite a budget crunch.”

The episode previously went viral in 2016 for successfully predicting Trump’s presidency, but fans took to social media after realising the outfit Lisa is wearing — a purple suit and a string of pearls — bears a striking resemblance to the outfit Harris wore to President Biden’s inauguration in 2021, causing speculation that the show inadvertently predicted Harris’ presidency, as well.

The comparison made Simpsons fans on social media go wild.

“I’m now convinced that the people who wrote the scripts for each episodes of the Simpsons are time travellers,” a fan wrote on X.

“Bro one of the writers fr has to be a time traveller at this point,” one fan commented on X.

Another noted that, since the show has been on the air for 30 years, there were bound to be some coincidences. “When you make enough content, you’re bound to be right sometimes,” they said.

Kamala Harris at Joe Biden’s 2021 inauguration … Picture: AFP

… and Lisa Simpson in 2000, on her first day as a post-Trump President.

The Simpsons is regularly accused of being able to “predict” the future, especially after it successfully predicted that Trump would one day take office.

Dan Greaney, who wrote “Bart to the Future,” told The Hollywood Reporter in 2016 that the episode was “a warning to America.”

We could do a lot worse than President Lisa Simpson.

“The important thing is that Lisa comes into the presidency when America is on the ropes, and that is the condition left by the Trump presidency,” Greaney said. “What we needed was for Lisa to have problems that were beyond her fixing, that everything went as bad as it possibly could, and that’s why we had Trump be president before her.”

He added, “The Simpsons has always kind of embraced the over-the-top side of American culture … and [Trump] is just the fulfilment of that.”

The cartoon series recently made headlines when a “doctored” still from the show went viral following the recent assassination attempt on Trump, appearing to imply that the series somehow predicted Trump’s death.

The Simpsons has an ever-growing list of creepy “predictions” – and a few that have turned out to be hoaxes.

Executive producer Matt Selman condemned the misinformation.

“Anyone who thinks The Simpsons would include such horrifying content on a family TV show doesn’t really watch the show or have any understanding of The Simpsons at all,” he told TMZ.

An episode of The Simpsons was also pulled from the U.K.’s Channel 4 the day after the assassination attempt because it alluded to political assassinations.

This story originally appeared on Decider and is republished here with permission.