Lisa Simpson For President? Harris 2024?
‘The Simpsons’ are once again getting credit for predicting American politics
“Well, the sourpuss answer I always give that no one likes is that if you study history and math, it would be literally impossible for us not to predict things,” showrunner and executive producer Matt Selman told People in an interview published Sunday. “If you say enough things, some of them are going to overlap with reality, and then that’s the math element. And then, the history element is if you make a show that is based on studying the past foolishness of humanity, you are surely going to anticipate the future foolishness of humanity as it sinks further into foolishness fair. So we don’t really think about it”
Executive producer Matt Selman
In the episode titled “Bart to the Future,” Lisa Simpson is shown growing up to become the first female president of the United States. The Simpsons predicted it again! Fans go wild over viral meme comparing Kamala Harris in purple suit to Lisa's presidential look from THAT eerie year 2000 episode..Daily Mail
In the 2000 episode “Bart to the Future,” a look into the future showed Lisa Simpson as President of the United States, telling her staff, “As you know, we’ve inherited quite a budget crunch from President Trump.”