Incase you hadn't heard the news, the pint sized pop legend Prince will be appearing on a forthcoming episode of Zooey Deschanel's New Girl - due to air on the same day of the Superbowl (2nd Feb).
In an interview with E! News, producer Brett Baer explained "He contacted us last season because he's a huge fan. He knows everything about the show. He contacted Zooey and Hannah [Simone] directly and asked to do the show. We couldn't work it out last year. But when the Super Bowl thing was floated, it was perfect timing.""His thing was all about getting to Jess and trying to bring out this inner part of her that hadn't been brought to the forefront. The word hip tips was sort of the thing. He put it, I think I can give her some hip tips!"
The singer was apparently very specific in explaining what he wanted his role on the show to be. "He said, ‘I want to be involved in the show in a real way and I want to help Nick and Jess with their relationship,'" according to executive producer Dave Finkel.
"He's genuinely funny," Finkel adds. "He's got a very quiet, wry sense of humour but he kills. There's a moment in the episode where he's sitting in between Zooey and Jake on a bench. And it's a silent beef and he's just looking between them trying to figure them out. And it's hilarious. He has crazy comic instincts."
We are still waiting for some video footage of what will undoubtedly be either a complete train wreck or totally awesome (more likely the latter, seriously when has Prince ever done anything bad - check out his version of Foo Fighters' Best Of You at the 2007 Superbowl half time show, it's awesome), but in the mean time...here's a picture.
The episode will air in the USA on 2nd Feb 2014, and some time within the next decade in the UK...