The Simpsons is regularly lauded by fans for eerily predicting major events such as the Trump Presidency and the Titanic submersible disaster in June last year.
But this time, fans are pointing out the similarity between Lisa Simpson and US Vice President Kamala Harris following an X (formerly Twitter) post by Simpsons writer and executive producer Al Jean, who shared a side-by-side photo of the pair.
“@TheSimpsons ‘prediction’ I’m proud to be a part of,” Jean wrote on Sunday.
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The Lisa image comes from the episode Bart to the Future during season 11 of the long-running animated series, and she is seen wearing an outfit very similar to that worn by Harris.
In the episode, Lisa becomes president while the photo used of Harris is from her being sworn in as the first female Vice President of the US, back in 2021.
The two women are wearing a purple blazer, pearl necklace, and pearl earrings in the episode.
Fans also went wild over the similarities in the episodes.
“I’m now convinced that the people who wrote the scripts for each episode of the Simpsons are time travellers,” a fan wrote on X.
“Bro one of the writers fr (for sure) has to be a time traveller at this point,” another fan wrote on X.
Fans of The Simpsons have credited the show for predicting pivotal events in recent history, including the Trump election in 2016, Apple Vision Pro, and the pandemic.
However, back in 2020, The Simpsons former showrunner, Bill Oakley, told Reuters that any “predictions” on the show were simply a coincidence.
“I would say in general when people say The Simpsons has predicted something, it is just that we were satirising real-life events from years before, and because history keeps repeating, it just seems like we were predicting things,” he said.
