The Simpsons ‘predicted’ events like Kamala Harris becoming VP to Richard Branson’s spaceflight years before 2021
THE Simpsons is credited with predicting over 30 real-life events, including three major developments in 2021 -- what's next?
Throughout its 32 seasons, many uncanny plotlines have made their way to the screen on The Simpsons.
The prophetic, animated FOX series has eerily anticipated events from 9/11 to Richard Branson's trip to space this year.
Richard Branson's space voyage
Fans say Branson's trip to space was predicted in a 2014 Season 25 episode that featured the British billionaire.
An animated Branson is seen admiring a painting while floating aboard his interstellar spacecraft, The pointed out.
Virgin Atlantic, Branson's airline, responded to a fan's side by side photos of Branson in space and in the episode by , “‘The Simpsons’ predicted it…” with a clapping hands emoji.
While the view of Branson and his grin are strikingly similar, some critics said it was well-known in as early as 2004 that Virgin Galactic aimed to transport tourists into space.
Ted Cruz's mid-crisis vacation
Fans also credit the show with predicting a difficult situation for Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who flew to Cancun with his family in February during a fierce winter storm.
Hundreds of thousands of people in his state were without power and 210 deaths were tallied.
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Fans drew parallels to a 1993 Simpsons episode, titled Marge In Chains, that showed Springfield’s Mayor Joe Quimby in a broadcast news conference.
He was warning citizens of a pandemic sweeping the town but was cut short when the camera revealed he was standing on a Caribbean beach in a bathing suit.
Podcaster Jesse Brenneman said of the parallel: “Surely this has been said, but not abandoning your constituents to take a tropical vacation is such a comically low bar that it’s literally a ‘Simpsons’ gag."
First female vice president
One of the biggest occurrences this year that the show is said to have previewed was Kamala Harris becoming vice president.
Social media users pointed to a 2000 episode of the show, named Bart to the Future, which depicted Lisa Simpson becoming the first female president of the US.
While Harris wasn't elected as president, fans pointed out Lisa's purple ensemble, similar to Harris' outfit during the January 2021 inauguration.
The pair both don pearl necklaces and earrings.
Riots at the Capitol
Fans say The Simpsons also predicted the January 6 Capitol riots decades before the mob stormed Washington, DC.
Francis Creaven shared a from the 1996 episode, titled The Day the Violence Died.
A Capitol Hill politician holds a freshly ratified amendment to the Constitution that permits police to beat “those liberal freaks.”
The episode then showed a group of gun-firing, bomb-throwing amendments yelling and running up the government building’s steps, The New York Post reported.
Fans say the more recent 2020 Treehouse of Horror episode also forecasted the invasion and trail of destruction left behind.
The New York Post also noted a piece of Simpsons fan art from 2018 that some fans said foreshadowed the Astroworld tragedy in November.
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After the concert left 10 people dead, fans circulated a Simpsons-inspired digital photo that showed Lisa and Homer walking into a giant head similar to Scott’s “Astroworld” album cover.
It was captioned “The Simpsons knew," though the photo never appeared on The Simpsons.
