Simpsons' prediction about Kamala Harris fails for the first time and leaves unanswered questions

It appears 'The Simpsons' doesn't always get things right after Kamala Harris came up short in her bid to become the President of the United States.

The sitcom predicted that the 60-year-old would come out on top in her battle with Donald Trump, with many firmly believing it would come true given the show's predictive powers over the past 35 years.

The show predicted that Harris would become president back in 2000 in the episode 'Bart to the Future'. Lisa Simpson becomes the first female president of the country, wearing a purple outfit that Harris wore during the 2021 inauguration after Joe Biden beat Trump, including a pearl necklace and earring.

"We've inherited quite a budget crunch from President Trump," Lisa says in the episode, which only adds the irony.

Harris' outfit went viral once news that Biden was bowing out as the Democratic 2024 presidential nominee back in July.

Unfortunately for Harris, who selected Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate, lost the election to Trump, and his new vice president, Ohio Senator J.D. Vance.

Fans react to Simpsons wrong prediction

Many fans took to X to share their shock that 'The Simpsons' would get a prediction wrong, especially one as important as the President of United States.

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"For the first time ever, The Simpsons got it wrong," one person tweeted.

Another asked: "So does this mean The Simpsons episode 'predictions' gonna come to an end since Kamala didn't win."

The show famously predicted that Trump would become president before his first election in 2016, with Matt Groening explaining the prophecy to the Guardian back in 2016.

"We predicted that he would be president back in 2000 -- but [Trump] was, of course, the most absurd placeholder joke name that we could think of at the time, and that's still true. It's beyond satire," he said.

Just last month show runner and executive producer Matt Salman explained why the show is so good at foreshadowing the future.

"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," he told People.

"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."