The Simpsons may have predicted results of imminent Presidential election

In a substance of days, America volition beryllium voting for their adjacent president, but an occurrence of The Simpsons has led immoderate fans to judge they already cognize the result.

Democratic nominee Kamala Harris and the enactment party’s nominee Donald Trump are presently successful a neck-and-neck race.

On November 5, millions volition caput to the polls if they haven’t already voted aboriginal – and formed ballots to choose the caller person of America. It’s often known who has won the predetermination by the adjacent morning, but it tin also instrumentality a fewer days for this to beryllium revealed.

When Harris was announced arsenic the antiauthoritarian leader, it didn’t instrumentality agelong for radical to announcement an eerie similarity successful an aged occurrence of the beloved animated series. Bart to The Future aired successful 2000 during play 11 and has led radical to marque comparisons betwixt Lisa Simpson and Harris.

The crippled offers viewers a glimpse into the aboriginal and shows that Lisa – donning a almighty purple suit – is the President of the United States, portion Bart is simply a White House freeloader.

Many connected societal media couldn’t assistance but comparison the scenes to the images of Harris being sworn successful arsenic Vice President successful a precise akin outfit.

Now, arsenic voters hold to soon person their say, relationship De’Ron has erstwhile again shared images from the episode, which they spot arsenic a prediction of the results.

In a screengrab from Bart to the Future, Lisa is sitting successful the Oval Office and is telling her team: ‘As you know, we’ve inherited rather a fund crunch from President Trump.’

Alongside the snaps, De’Ron wrote: ‘I person nary fear’ indicating they consciousness assured that Harris volition beryllium victorious.

Others agreed with their statement, with echoes of ‘same’ and immoderate fingers crossed emojis.

A writer and showrunner for The Simpsons has antecedently opened up astir however they whitethorn person predicted 1 of the biggest stories of the year, down to the tiniest details.

Discussing the prediction with the Hollywood Reporter, showrunner Mike Scully recalled: ‘The pantsuit whitethorn person been a motion to Hillary Clinton astatine the time, oregon we were conscionable going for a powerfulness look.’

‘That seemed to person been a random choice. It whitethorn person been done by the animators,’ helium said of her purple suit, earlier insisting of the pearls: ‘Lisa ever wears them.’

Fans volition beryllium good alert of however the cartoon has forecasted immoderate different immense moments successful history, including the World Cup final, the Titanic submersible calamity past year, and Donald Trump’s presidency.

Reflecting connected the prediction that Donald Trump would tally for President, helium shared that the writers were bouncing astir ‘crazy names’ who would beryllium ‘the stupidest idiosyncratic that America could elect. And idiosyncratic said Donald Trump’.

Shortly aft Biden’s endorsement, fans of the animated sitcom flocked to societal media to stock their astonishment implicit the similarities betwixt the decades-old occurrence and real-life events.

The Simpsons showrunner Al Jean expressed his pridefulness successful having been a portion of the storyline, writing connected X alongside a side-by-side representation of Lisa and the Vice President: ‘@TheSimpsons “prediction” I’m arrogant to beryllium a portion of.’

‘The Simpsons are backmost astatine it again’, wrote X idiosyncratic kirawontmiss, sharing a photograph of Harris donning a purple blazer and pearl necklace, you guessed it, conscionable similar Lisa’s.

‘Simpsons predictions ever accurate’, declared wyalucid.

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

‘I’m present convinced that the radical who wrote the scripts for each occurrence of the Simpsons are clip travellers’, wrote NeoForMVS.

‘The Simpsons truly had immoderate superior detail’, reacted MandalayyBayy__, freaked retired by however adjacent Lisa’s jewellery was the same.

Time volition archer whether Harris volition beryllium palmy erstwhile America heads to the polls, but she has already declared it an ‘honour’ to person President Joe Biden’s endorsement successful her campaign.

‘On behalf of the American people, I convey Joe Biden for his bonzer enactment arsenic President of the United States and for his decades of work to our country,’ she said successful a statement.

The Current Vice President has besides been endorsed by ‘fearless’ Jennifer Lopez, Taylor Swift, Beyonce, Jennifer Aniston, Selena Gomez and the Foo Fighters.

No alien to a coincidence, the writers person often unknowingly foreshadowed personage deaths, governmental milestones, popular civilization scandals, and sporting wins successful the episodes, from the predetermination of Trump to the Super Bowl results.

Most recently, Channel 4 had to propulsion an occurrence from its docket astatine the past infinitesimal aft the weapon onslaught connected Trump astatine his rally successful Pennsylvania.

An occurrence from 1996 follows Lisa arsenic she finds retired that Springfield’s laminitis was a murderous pirate who tried to assassinate George Washington.

One country shows the assassination effort arsenic a instrumentality enforcement serviceman takes purpose astatine the podium of a rally, seemingly mirroring what happened to Trump.

Speaking antecedently astir the conspiracies surrounding the programme, Jean, 1 of its oldest writers, credited their quality to luck and conscionable however galore episodes person been made since The Simpsons premiered successful 1990.

He explained: ‘One of our writers, the feline whose occurrence predicted Donald Trump arsenic President, said it best, “If you constitute 700 episodes and you don’t foretell anything, past you’re beauteous bad. If you propulsion capable darts, you’re going to get immoderate bullseye”.’

‘The 9/11 1 is truthful bizarre. In the World Trade Center episode, determination was a brochure speechmaking $9 a time with an 11 styled up similar the towers. That was successful ’96, which was crazy, like, this insane coincidence,’ helium added.

‘But mostly it’s conscionable educated guesses.’

The Simpsons is disposable to watercourse connected Disney Plus.

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