But Why, Though? Charlie Sheen Reprises His Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Role For The Goldbergs

“Drugs?”

As a person who has never seen The Goldbergs but has Ferris Bueller’s Day Off memorized, I’m not sure how I feel about this:

PEOPLE can exclusively reveal that Sheen, 49, will be paying homage to his “Boy in the Police Station” character from the 1986 classic Ferris Bueller’s Day Off in an upcoming episode of ABC’s The Goldbergs.

Sheen is reprising the role nearly 30 years after the leather-jacketed bad boy was told by Bueller’s sister, Jeanie (Jennifer Grey), to “blow [himself]”.

Airing in early 2015, the episode will follow Barry (Troy Gentile) as he fakes being sick in an attempt to create his own epic, Bueller-esque day off.

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Jill Pantozzi is a pop-culture journalist and host who writes about all things nerdy and beyond! She’s Editor in Chief of the geek girl culture site The Mary Sue (Abrams Media Network), and hosts her own blog “Has Boobs, Reads Comics” (TheNerdyBird.com). She co-hosts the Crazy Sexy Geeks podcast along with superhero historian Alan Kistler, contributed to a book of essays titled “Chicks Read Comics,” (Mad Norwegian Press) and had her first comic book story in the IDW anthology, “Womanthology.” In 2012, she was featured on National Geographic’s "Comic Store Heroes," a documentary on the lives of comic book fans and the following year she was one of many Batman fans profiled in the documentary, "Legends of the Knight."

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