Did TVB Sitcom Come Home Love: Lo And Behold Predict The Future With Its Ep Involving A Hamster?

Long-running animated series The Simpsons seemingly has the uncanny ability of predicting the future — from Donald Trump’s presidency to COVID-19 (sort of) — and it looks like it may not be the only one.

On Wednesday (Jan 19), TVB sitcom Come Home Love: Lo and Behold aired an episode that happened to involve… a hamster.

If you’ve been keeping up with the news, you would know that the Hongkong authorities have ordered a controversial mass culling of 2,000 hamsters after at least 11 of the rodents at a pet shop tested positive for the Delta variant.

Come Home Love: Lo and Behold stars Mandy Lam and Jack Hui (Photo: on.cc)

In Come Home Love, a scammer attempts to trick Mandy Lam’s character into paying for “help” by making her believe that her brother, played by Kim Li, has been transformed into a lizard and a hamster.

“This is a reminder for everyone to be careful and not to be deceived,” Mandy, 45, explained at a Come Home Love Chinese New Year event that was also held on the 19th. “It should serve as a warning.”

The actress also explained that the hamster plot in the drama was filmed before the pet shop outbreak, so it was totally a coincidence.

“Sitcoms have always had the ability to predict the future,” quipped Mandy’s co-star Jack Hui, 38.

The hamster has since been safely returned to its owner

Netizens were completely amused by this coincidence and left comments like “Don’t turn into a hamster! You will be killed by the government!”, but there were also those who urged everyone not to make jokes out of pity for the poor animals.



Mandy and Jack won Most Popular Onscreen Partnership at this year’s TVB Anniversary Awards

Photos: on.cc, HK01, TVB, Mandy Lam/Instagram