Was it a case of low-life imitating art? The “Simpsons” has become known as the pop culture oracle, credited for predicting everything from the COVID-19 pandemic to AI taking our jobs. Now, fans claim that a 25-year-old episode of the clairvoyant cartoon anticipated one of the most sordid sagas of our age — Jeffrey Epstein’s “pedophile” island. In the allegedly prescient episode, titled “The Computer Wore Menace Shoes,” which aired in 2000, Homer discovers the internet and starts a gossip blog.

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