Move over Mr. Weatherbee, there’s a new principal in town. As just announced at Riverdale‘s San Diego Comic-Con panel, Kerr Smith (The Fosters, Life Unexpected) will be joining The CW series in a recurring role as Riverdale High’s new principal, Mr. Honey.

Showrunner Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa described the character as, “a bit of a hard-ass who takes a harder line with the students this year, especially with the seniors.” He’ll first appear in Season 4’s second episode, titled “Chapter Fifty-Nine: Fast Times at Riverdale High.”

After the over-the-top nature of Season 3, which found the citizens of Riverdale dealing with a seeming stick monster called The Gargoyle King, and a cult named The Farm who turned out to be secretly harvesting organs, Season 4 has promised to return the series to the mix of mysteries and high school fans fell in love with in Season 1.

Don’t worry, it’s still Riverdale, so we’re sure things will go off the rails quickly. After all, Season 3 left off with a huge cliffhanger: a flash forward to Spring Break showed Betty (Lili Reinhart), Archie (KJ Apa) and Veronica (Camila Mendes) huddled around a bonfire in their underwear, covered in blood, Jughead (Cole Sprouse) nowhere in sight. Until then, though, there’s the promise that the Riverdale High teens will actually do teenager things in their Senior Year (unlike Junior Year, which saw them managing various small businesses).

Part of that is re-centering the show on high school, including cheerleading, high school sports, senior prom, and of course, graduation. The epic highs and lows of football, as the meme goes. That clearly includes the introduction of a foil a little stronger willed than Waldo Weatherbee (Peter Bryant), whose main mode seemed to be hearing all of Archie’s crazy ideas, thinking for a second, and then saying “I’ll allow it.” That includes the proliferation of gangs on high school premises, under the guise that they’re school clubs.

Mr. Honey follows the regular ridiculous Riverdale nomenclature, and is either based on the classic The Archies song “Sugar, Sugar,” or Miss Honey from Matilda. Though if it’s the latter, his character sounds a lot like that movie’s Miss Trunchbull. And it certainly seems like he may be cracking down on Jughead in particular, as Cole Sprouse revealed during Comic-Con interviews that his character will be heading to a prep school this season, only connecting with his friends on the weekends.

Of note, Smith’s Mr. Honey is the third principal we’ve seen on the show, after Weatherbee, and a flashback episode in Season 3 which introduced the doomed Principal Featherhead (Anthony Michael Hall). Other than the credits above, Smith is probably best known for playing Jack on Dawson’s Creek and Kyle on Charmed, as well as his appearances in the horror movies Final Destination and My Bloody Valentine 3D. Here’s hoping he fares better than Featherhead, who ended up dead in a closet.

Riverdale returns to The CW on Wednesday, October 6 at 8/7c.

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