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Don't Look Up and The Simpsons

Ed William
Mar 14, 2022
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Photo by Jack B on Unsplash

*SPOILERS ABOUND*

Several commentators have picked up on the numerous similarities between Don’t Look Up and the Simpsons episode Bart’s Comet. Each story features a society discovering, via a professor and his young student, that an asteroid is heading directly for earth. In each case the asteroid will br…

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