The Simpsons ‘predicted’ Kamala Harris’ presidential run over 20 years ago down to finest details

Another day, another prediction from The Simpsons.

Following the news that Joe Biden has dropped out of the presidential race, it didn’t take long for people to notice an eery similarity in an old episode of the beloved animated series.

On Sunday night (July 21), Biden, 81, confirmed with a statement that he will no longer face Donald Trump in a bid for another term in the White House, after much speculation about his health and competency.

The US President has endorsed his Vice President, Kamala Harris, to replace him as the Democratic nominee, resulting in endless memes and social media chatter – as to be expected.

One tweet came from someone who noticed a glaring similarity between this weekend’s political events and The Simpsons episode titled Bart to the Future.

Bart to the Future first aired in March 2000 as the 17th episode from series 11 of The Simpsons.

The plot offers viewers a glimpse into the future and shows that Lisa is President of the United States, while Bart is a White House freeloader.

Picking up on the similarities, Simpsons fans took to social media, having noticed that hypothetical President Lisa even wears the same outfit Harris wore when she was first sworn in as VP.

‘The Simpsons are back at it again’, wrote X user kirawontmiss, sharing a photo of Harris donning a purple blazer and pearl necklace, you guessed it, just like Lisa’s.

‘Simpsons predictions always accurate’, declared wyalucid.

‘Whoever the writers were for the Simpsons needs to be studied at Harvard’, added Kingehsan18.

‘I’m now convinced that the people who wrote the scripts for each episodes of the Simpsons are time travelers’, wrote NeoForMVS.

‘The Simpsons really had some serious detail’, reacted MandalayyBayy__, freaked out by how even Lisa’s jewellery was the same.

Time will tell whether Harris will be successful when America heads to the polls later this year, but she has already declared it an ‘honour’ to have Biden’s endorsement in her campaign.

‘On behalf of the American people, I thank Joe Biden for his extraordinary leadership as President of the United States and for his decades of service to our country,’ she said in a statement.

‘I am honoured to have the President’s endorsement and my intention is to earn and win this nomination.’

This is far from the first time The Simpsons has ‘predicted’ a major world event.

No stranger to a coincidence, the writers have often unknowingly foreshadowed celebrity deaths, political milestones, pop culture scandals, and sporting wins in the episodes, from the election of Trump to the Super Bowl results.

Most recently, Channel 4 had to pull an episode from its schedule at the last minute after the gun attack on Trump at his rally in Pennsylvania.

An episode from 1996 follows Lisa as she finds out that Springfield’s founder was a murderous pirate who tried to assassinate George Washington.

One scene shows the assassination attempt as a law enforcement officer takes aim at the podium of a rally, seemingly mirroring what happened to Trump.

Speaking previously about the conspiracies surrounding the programme, Al Jean, one of its oldest writers, credited their ability to luck and just how many episodes have been made since The Simpsons premiered in 1990.

He explained: ‘One of our writers, the guy whose episode predicted Donald Trump as President, said it best, “If you write 700 episodes and you don’t predict anything, then you’re pretty bad. If you throw enough darts, you’re going to get some bullseye”.’

‘The 9/11 one is so bizarre. In the World Trade Center episode, there was a brochure reading $9 a day with an 11 styled up like the towers. That was in ’96, which was crazy, like, this insane coincidence,’ he added.

‘But mostly it’s just educated guesses.’

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