Johnny Depp got his big screen break with Wes Craven’s horror flick Nightmare on Elm Street, but many 1980s TV watchers remember the first showbiz break Johnny received. Depp, then a musician-actor, was picked for the role of Tom Hanson on 21 Jump Street and immediately shot to stardom.

Now that the series is being made into a major motion picture, Depp is ready to re-claim his Hollywood roots. “I’m hoping they’re let me do a cameo,” he recently told reporters when discussing the flick. “Someone will say, ‘Whatever happened to Tom Hanson?’ And they’ll find me somewhere hoarding jars of peanut butter and shaking in my underpants.”

Sure, okay. If Johnny Depp’s on board with it, the whole thing sounds pretty great.