The Simpsons are once again getting credit for predicting American politics
Could The Simpsons please start sharing some lottery numbers?
TV's longest running series is once again is being hailed as a modern day Nostradamus.
In episode titled Bart to the Future, which released in 2000, Lisa Simpson is shown growing up to become the first female president of the United States.
She's dressed in an outfit strikingly similar to the one America's first female Vice President Kamala Harris wore to the 2021 inauguration, including her accessories.
Watch the video above.
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Kamala Harris at the 2021 inauguration, dressed similarly to Lisa Simpson as US president. Getty
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 it's not the first time an episode of The Simpsons has served as a coincidental Magic 8 Ball.
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Here are a few other examples of the show's accurate squints into the future:
President Trump
Lisa as President in The Simpsons. Fox
Lisa Simpson became president in that episode after a "President Trump," 16 years before he was actually was elected.
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.
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Lady Gaga playing the Super Bowl
The show also predicted Lady Gaga's 2017 Super Bowl performance five years earlier. Fox
The singer appeared as a guest on The Simpsons in 2012.
An animated Gaga is shown playing a concert for Springfield in which she flies through the air – much like she did during her halftime performance at the Super Bowl in 2017.
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Smartwatches
Smartwatch in The Simpsons - way ahead of its time. Fox
Well before you could strap that Apple smartwatch on your wrist, The Simpsons had something similar in a 1995 episode.
Siegfried & Roy tiger attack
Siegfried Fischbacher and Roy Horn, the famous Vegas performers who worked with big game cats, were parodied by the show in 1993.
Even Siegfried & Roy's tiger attack was seemingly predicted by the show. Fox
In the episode, a white tiger attacks "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.
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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.
Homerpalooza featured in the show and accurately predicted the future. Fox
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