Prince driven off The Simpsons

It had all been set up - the sketches drawn, the script prepared, the publicity machine ready to roll. The Prince turned up to record his cameo in The Simpsons and said 'actually, I've got a better script here. And it's written by my chauffeur.'

So Prince won't be appearing in The Simpsons now:

[Matt] Groening tells the New York Daily News, "Prince wanted to do the show, so we wrote him a script. It didn't work out, because his chauffeur had written a script, too, and Prince wanted to use that one."

So, luckily, they never had to have the "how come my character is shorter than Lisa?" talk, either.