Oscar winning actress Kathy Bates is about to make an appearance on the CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men. But her role wouldn't be about herself, it's more like she comes in to replace Charlie Sheen's character Charlie Harper, and mock his character. The CBS sitcom has confirmed plans to bring back Sheen's deceased character as a ghost harbored in the body of Kathy Bates.

Bates will channel Sheen during an April 30 episode of the show, wherein Jon Cryer's character suffers a minor heart attack and lands in the hospital, where they keep all the catheter jokes. It's also where he's visited by Bates-as-Sheen, whose return presumably provides a sense of closure by letting him know that death is but a window to a new life in the most ironic physical form the universe's writing staff can conceive, provided that physical form isn't busy taping Harry's Law.

Anyway, fans will note that this marks only the second time in the past several months that the show has channeled Sheen's character, because it doesn't need him. Meanwhile, network CBS recently said they are in preliminary discussions to renew the series for another series, could be along with Ashton Kutcher.