Many people could not help but draw similarities between the Inauguration Day 2021 and the past. No, they do not compare it to the inaugurations of the previous president, but to old scenes in ‘The Simpsons’.
The 2000 episode “Bart to the Future” is a play about “Back to the Future” – but it very much reflects our present. In the episode, Lisa Simpson, who becomes president, wears a purple jacket and pearls. On Inauguration Day, Vice President Kamala Harris wore the same outfit.
It was not just the dress code that was similar. As Lisa sits in the Oval Office, she says her presidency inherited a rather budgetary crisis from President Trump.
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For the past four years, many fans of ‘The Simpsons’ have pointed this out predict the show Mr. Trump will one day be president. This episode also accurately predicts that a woman would become one of the most powerful leaders in the US after his term.
The parallels between the animated universe and Inauguration Day do not end there. In “The Simpsons Movie”, from 2007, Tom Hanks expresses himself – someone who is generally regarded as a sincere guy and a humble, friendly acquaintance. “Hello. I’m Tom Hanks. The U.S. government has lost its credibility, so he borrows from mine,” Hanks jokes in the episode.
Fans could not help but point out that Hanks presented ‘Celebrating America’ on the inauguration night. Host of the star-studded program, Hanks more or less acted as a spokesman for America – similar to his ‘credible’ Simpsons character, who is a spokesman for a ‘new’ Grand Canyon.
The prediction of Lady Gaga’s national anthem during the inauguration did not predict, it predicted elements of her Super Bowl show in 2012 in 2012. And that has made other predictions about entertainment before, such as with the explosive outcome of the penultimate episode of “Game of Thrones” – two years before it aired.