As with pretty much every major world event these days, Joe Biden’s announcement that he’s decided to drop out of the presidential race and endorse Vice President Kamala Harris has inspired people to clog up the internet with claims that The Simpsons predicted this eventuality decades earlier.

This particular “prediction” stems from the 2000 episode “Bart to the Future,” the one where Bart is granted a magical vision of his adulthood in which he’s a Jimmy Buffett-loving burnout while Lisa is the country’s commander-in-chief.

The comparison between future Lisa and Kamala Harris was first made back in 2021, after Harris wore a purple dress and pearls, distinctly reminiscent of President Lisa’s wardrobe, on inauguration day.

But even before that apparent coincidence, “Bart to the Future” was singled out for its psychic content owing to a throwaway line about Lisa inheriting “quite a budget crunch from President Trump,...