When Rich and Fozzie made it to Jenny's diner, Rich hid the bear in his jacket. Jenny walked over and couldn't help but notice something fishy.
"Tell me, Richie." She said. "Is that a bear in your jacket, or are you just happy to see me?"
"Cut the comedy, Jenny." Said Rich. "I've had a very rough day." They soon walked into the kitchen where rats were cooking. "I need to get out of these cuffs."
"Oh, swell." Said Jenny with sarcasm. Rich then opened his jacket to reveal Fozzie Bear.
"What's Fozzie doing here?" Asked Rizzo.
"Rich is gonna help me clear my name!" Claimed Fozzie, and the rats all cheered for him.
"I thought you were never gonna take a puppet case again." Said Jenny. "What did you have? Change of heart?"
"Nothing has changed." Replied Rich. "Someone made a monkey out of me, and I'm gonna find out why! Do you have any tools?" One of the rats on the shelf knocked down a toolbox, making it fall to the ground. Rich opened the toolbox and found a hacksaw. He and Fozzie walked to a box to find a stable place to saw off the cuffs.
"Hold still, will you?" He asked. Fozzie slipped his hand out of the cuff to hold the box.
"Does this help?" He asked.
"Thanks." Said Rich. Suddenly, he realized something. "You're telling me you could've slid your hands outta those cuffs at any time?!"
"Not at any time." Said Fozzie. "Only when it was funny. Wocka wocka wocka!" Before Rich could hit him, Fozzie climbed a shelf. Rizzo then noticed something in Rich's pocket.
"Stop snooping in there!" He demanded. Rich put his hand into his pocket, pulled out the photo from the other night, and threw it to Jenny.
"What's that, Richie?" She asked.
"Just look at it." Replied Rich. Fozzie climbed down the shelf to take a look.
"Mr. Beasley's will." He said. "But isn't he a little young to write a will?"
"You just have to dispend your belief." Said another rat.
"Yeah," Said Rich, still sawing off the cuff. "And I think Kirk Thatcher played the part of sound mind and your wife the sound body."
"What's the scheme, Richard?" Asked Jenny.
"I don't think they got to the will." Rich explained.
"But how do you know?" She asked.
"Because they were still looking for it after they killed him." Said Rich.
"Anything I can do?" Jenny asked.
"Perhaps you could check the Internet at the local library." Said Rich.
"Let me get this straight." Said Fozzie. "You're saying my boss, Kirk Thatcher, dropped a safe on Chuck Beasely's head just so he can get his hands on Puppetown?"
"That's my theory." Said Rich, who finally broke out of the cuffs. "Can Fozzie stay here for a couple of days?"
"He's not gonna do anything stupid, will he?" Jenny asked. Fozzie strapped whoopee cushions to a pair of shoes and showed them to the rats.
"Hey, look!" He said. "Fart shoes! Patent pending." Rich started walking towards the exit.
"And where will you be going?" Jenny asked Rich.
"I'm going to Cyclia to find more evidence." He answered, and Rich left the diner to head to Cyclia.
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Later that night, Rich walked over to Cyclia and broke into Janice's dressing room. However, she wasn't in there. He opened the door to escape, but instead, he found Miss Poogy there, who punched him unconscious. When Rich woke up, he saw Judge Coleman and the Moopets standing there.
"Pick him up." He said, and Poogy did so and placed Rich on a chair. "Rummaging around in a woman's dressing room. Tsk, tsk, tsk. What were you looking for, Mr. Jewel?"
"Last week," Janooce said. "They wanted her email. For really?"
"Look, doll." Said Rich. "I was looking for Beasely's will!"
"Chuck Beasely had no will." Said Coleman.
"Yes, there was!" Rich argued. "Kirk Thatcher and possibly Janice killed him for it."
"That didn't happen." Said Coleman. "We spoke to Janice, not Janooce, this morning, and she said she was innocent. As punishment for breaking into a women's dressing room, the Moopets will give you a tour downtown ."
"That doesn't sound so bad." Said Rich. "Where downtown? Brooklyn? NYC? The Bronx?"
"Downtown Puppetown." Said Coleman, and the Moopets started giggling.
"We warned you to stay out of this case, Jewel." Said Poogy. "But you didn't listen." The Moopets tied up Richard and drove him into Puppetown for the night. The next morning, Rich was outside the entrance of Puppetown, but felt strange.
"Ugh, what did you do to me?" Asked Rich.
"Look in the mirror." Said Kermoot, handing Rich a mirror. When he looked in the mirror, he was terrified: He had a chicken puppet head.
"Aaahhh!!!!" He shouted. "I've been Muppetized!"
"Hope you learned your lesson, Mr. Jewel!" Said Miss Poogy, and the Moopets drove off. He ran back to his and Jenny's apartment so he could get the chicken head off.
Author's Notes: Fozzie slipping his hand out of the cuff is inspired by Rowlf's live appearance on The Arsenio Hall Show in 1989. Rowlf (along with Fozzie) requires two puppeteers (one for the head and right arm, and another for the left arm), but only one puppeteer was present that night: Jim Henson. As a result, Rowlf's left arm was in a sling.
In The Muppets 2011, Fozzie invents fart shoes by strapping whoopee cushions to an old pair of shoes.
Rich getting a chicken head in this chapter is inspired by a deleted scene in Who Framed Roger Rabbit: After sneaking into Jessica's dressing room, Judge Doom punishes Eddie by ordering the Weasels to bring him to Toontown and get a toon pig head stuck on his own head.
The chicken head is also a reference to a rooster Jim Henson's Creature Shop created over 20 years ago for ADEG Supermarkets . If you ask me, he looks like Chicken Boo from Animaniacs.
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