“The Simpsons” doesn’t at all times get it proper.
The animated sitcom’s prediction that Kamala Harris would change into the following US president didn’t come to fruition, after Donald Trump gained the 2024 election on Wednesday.
The present, which has infamously predicted many future occasions over the previous 35 years, signaled that Harris, 60, might change into president manner again in 2000.
Within the episode “Bart to the Future,” Lisa Simpson turns into the primary feminine president of the USA. She sports activities the very same purple ensemble that Harris rocked through the 2021 inauguration, together with the pearl necklace and earrings, after Joe Biden and Harris beat Donald Trump within the 2020 election.
Including to the irony, President Lisa remarks, “We’ve inherited fairly a funds crunch from President Trump.”
The back-to-back visuals of Lisa and Harris of their purple outfits went viral three years after the inauguration, as soon as Harris changed Biden, 81, because the Democratic 2024 presidential nominee in July.
Harris selected Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her operating mate, however they misplaced the election to Trump, 78, and his new Vice President, Ohio Senator J.D. Vance.
Trump gained the all-important swing states of North Carolina, Georgia, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania to clinch the 270 electoral votes. Trump can also be main within the common vote because the nation continues counting ballots.
Followers took to X (previously Twitter) to react to mistaken prediction about Harris.
“For the primary time ever, The Simpsons acquired it improper,” one particular person tweeted.
“So does this imply The Simpsons episode ‘predictions’ gonna come to an finish since Kamala didn’t win,” another person requested.
“The Simpsons” beforehand predicted that Trump would change into president earlier than his first election victory in 2016.
Matt Groening, who created the present, addressed the Trump presidency prophecy in a 2016 interview with the Guardian.
“We predicted that he can be president again in 2000 — however [Trump] was, in fact, probably the most absurd placeholder joke title that we might consider on the time, and that’s nonetheless true. It’s past satire,” he stated.
The present has additionally accurately predicted the Capitol riot, the “Sport of Thrones” finale, the coronavirus pandemic, Girl Gaga’s Tremendous Bowl halftime present, Disney’s buy of twentieth Century Fox, and extra.
Final month, showrunner and government producer Matt Selman defined how the present has nailed foreshadowing the long run.
“Nicely, the sourpuss reply I at all times give that nobody likes is that should you examine historical past and math, it might be actually not possible for us to not predict issues,” Selman informed Folks.
“In the event you say sufficient issues, a few of them are going to overlap with actuality, after which that’s the mathematics factor,” he continued. “After which, the historical past factor is should you make a present that is primarily based on finding out the previous foolishness of humanity, you are absolutely going to anticipate the long run foolishness of humanity because it sinks additional into foolishness honest. So we don’t actually give it some thought.”
Selman additionally stated the one factor “The Simpsons” writers “hate” is when viewers “put clearly faux photographs on-line and say we predicted issues that we didn’t.”
“The Simpsons,” now in its thirty sixth season, airs Sundays on Fox at 8 p.m. ET.
