‘Simpsons’ fans claim 25-year-old episode about ‘crazy creeps on an island’ was inspired by Epstein

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.

Writing under the alias “Mr X,” the Simpsons’ patriarch starts airing Springfield’s darkest secrets, eventually winning a Pulitzer prize for his “yellow journalism.”

However, when Homer reveals his identity to collect the prize, the tips stop coming in, prompting him to cook stories to keep up his viewership.

Unfortunately, one of these faux reports turned out to be true, whereupon the banana-colored protagonist is captured and whisked away to The Island, a sinister locale where people who know too much go.

Toward the end of the episode, Homer escapes from the shady isle and issues a warning on his website about some “creeps on an island somewhere” who are “secretly running the world.

Go figure: Internet denizens drew parallels between a fictitious cabal and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, who was accused of sexually abusing and trafficking underage girls and young women on Little Saint James and Great Saint James — collectively known as “Epstein Island” — for years with other elites. He was then found dead in a Manhattan jail in 2019.

“The Simpsons warned the world about the orgies on Epstein’s island,” declared one conspiracy theorist. on X.

“The Simpsons were the first to tell us about the Epstein Files,” said another.

Some tinfoil hatters even referenced allegations involving Groening by prominent Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre (then Roberts), who died by suicide in 2025.

In unsealed court documents from 2019, she claims that Epstein forced her to give a foot massage to “The Simpsons” creator aboard the financier’s private jet, Lolita Express, but was repulsed by the “crusty toenails,” Business Insider reported.

Commenters claimed the episode proved Groening’s involvement with one claiming, “Matt Groening put Epstein in ‘The Simpsons.’ Virginia Giuffre wrote about being on Epstein’s plane with Groening and having to massage his sweaty feet!!”

Another declared, “So the creator of The Simpsons was on the Epstein file #EpsteinFiles. It’s all making sense now, the whole show was not predicting s–t it was just an inside joke among the pedophiles….”

“Reminder that Matt Groening was on the Lolita Express with Epstein, sooooo,” said another, along with a clip of the Simpsons episode in question.