Seems "Prison Break's" Wentworth Miller was mildly dismayed to learn that the arms-and-torso tattoo he sports as Michael Scofield, who has map and diagrams hidden within the body art that helped him plan his and his fellow convicts' escape from prison last season, will still be much in evidence when the show returns Aug. 21.

"I didn't expect the tattoo to figure quite as heavily as it did" in the first season, he said. "I'm not sure what fantasy world I was living in."

This season, "I think the tattoo will be a little bit lighter...but Michael has hidden codes, diagrams, names, numbers, symbols in the tattoo that are only needed post-escape, so unfortunately for me, the tattoo is not going anywhere," Miller said at a Fox dinner Monday night.

"Unfortunately" because applying the tattoo -- 20 decals or transfers "that fit together like the pieces of a puzzle [and take] an hour to scrape off at night" -- is a four- to five-hour process.

Miller's still holding out hope that accessing the crucial information won't always require Michael to be shirtless (viewers' mileage may vary here).

"If it's, say, just on my cuff, below my watch and all I have to do is pull up my sleeve, we'll just have to put on the cuff that day," he said.

While he's being worked on, he watches DVDs.

"What am I going through right now? 'Strangers with Candy.'...It's brilliant."

What he likes about it:

"It's so un-PC, which is kind of my quiet humor. And Amy Sedaris is just brilliant. I will never look at snack cakes the same way again."