Kamala Harris Gatecrashed San Diego Comic-Con In the Weirdest Way

In a US predetermination year, adjacent arsenic 1 arsenic rapidly weird arsenic this 1 has go successful caller weeks, you expect candidates (and presumptive candidates) to look each implicit the spot arsenic they motorboat their campaigns to assistance signifier the impending aboriginal of the nation. Rarely are those campaigns astatine Comic-Con, and seldom are they related to having Simpsons brainrot.

But specified was the lawsuit erstwhile Simpsons and Futurama creator Matt Groening climaxed the SDCC Simpsons sheet by teeing up a clip from nary different than Vice President Kamala Harris herself. During the recording, Harris quoted a legendary punctuation from a skit successful the classical 1996 special, “Treehouse of Horror VII”: “We indispensable determination forward, not backward, upward, not forward, and ever twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom.” There are conflicting reports connected the quality of the message, with some reports saying the assemblage believed the signaling was made for the sheet (Harris was not successful San Diego today, but campaigning successful Massachusetts). Others study that the clip is really a resurfaced video from respective years ago, erstwhile a radical of University of Chicago students were seemingly tasked with getting an elected authoritative to recite the infamous quote.

The enactment comes from, of course, “Citizen Kang”, the 3rd and last skit from “Treehouse of Horror VII”. The abbreviated saw recurring Simpsons aliens Kang and Kodos infiltrate the then-upcoming 1996 US Presidential Election, taking the spot of nominees Bill Clinton and Bob Dole. The alien duo past participated successful their rival predetermination campaigns earlier yet assuming power of America, adjacent aft being exposed, owed to the quality of the two-party electoral system.

But Harris’ nascent run has already been inextricably linked with Simpsons memes and shitposts adjacent earlier her astonishment SDCC appearance. In caller days, one resurgent meme astir Harris’ imaginable to go the archetypal pistillate President of the United States this twelvemonth has seen her contrasted with the 2000 occurrence “Bart to the Future” and its ain vision of the adjacent future–putting images of an big Lisa Simpson’s purple pantsuit arsenic the aboriginal President of the US, belaboring a fund crunch inherited from President Trump, with images of Harris successful a similarly-colored suit astatine Joe Biden’s inauguration successful 2020.

Is America acceptable for a President with a caput arsenic addled by Simpsons quotes arsenic the mean thirty-somethings? Perhaps we’re astir to find out.

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