Personally, I’d always figured Prince was just going to be another flash-in-the-pan, one-hit-wonder, easily-forgotten 80’s act. I certainly never expected him to still be popular when “1999” became an outdated song. And I heard he’s just released 2 new albums.

Yeah… Nostradamus I ain’t.

Anyway, back in 1997, he appeared on the short-lived Muppet Show reboot “Muppets Tonight“. This is from that:

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UPDATE: From the comments, Zeke [High Praise!] clarifies on the video:

To give you a little context here, this “music video” is what happened after Rizzo the rat challenged Prince to make a song out of a random item on the cafeteria menu. Afterwards, Rizzo bets him $20 he can’t do it again. He picks another item, Prince immediately starts singing again, and Rizzo facepalms and hands him the money.