The animated Nostradamus has done it again — or, at least, fan art has.
“The Simpsons” fans have pointed out yet another instance of the notoriously prophetic show apparently predicting the news years before it occurred, this time with the recent Astroworld tragedy. While aired episodes of the cartoon have previously been credited with anticipating everything from Sept. 11 to Roy Horn being mauled by a tiger, the parallels this time actually don’t have to do with the series itself, but with fan art of it.
A piece of “Simpsons”-inspired digital art depicting Lisa and Homer walking into a giant head similar to rapper Travis Scott’s “Astroworld” album cover and stage set has been circulating on Twitter with the caption “The Simpson’s knew” The Sun reported. The image, however, never appeared on “The Simpsons” and is, in fact, fan art dating to 2018, according to the publication.
Series devotes have found some other parallels in aired footage of the show, though, including a bit in which Marge sees a sign reading “Roofi Concert 5 miles” and exclaims, “Huh! This concert is oversold. It’s as if a music promoter acted unscrupulously.”
“The Simpsons has done it again #AstroWorld,” one keen observer captioned a tweet of the clip.
Another parallel — which has gone particularly viral in videos laying it out on TikTok — features a 1992 episode of “The Simpsons” in which Homer holds up a copy of the fake publication World Weekly News, comparing it to promotional, newspaper-inspired art of Scott that went viral days before the Astroworld tragedy. The real Weekly World News has famously featured a humanoid-creature named Bat Boy with its jaw agape, in a notably similar format to Scott’s tabloid cover promotional art. All are in black and white.
At least eight people have died since a crowd crush broke out at Scott’s Astroworld festival in Texas on Nov. 5. A mass of concertgoers at Houston’s NRG Park “began to compress” to the front of the stage at around 9:15 p.m., causing mayhem and some people to get hurt, Houston Fire Chief Samuel Peña told reporters early Saturday.