Cause he's on the list: Lions, tiggers, and "Bears". Dorothy (Ashanti) thinks he is a log and Toto (Pepe) screams when he finds out it's a lion! Interestingly, this isn't the first time Fozzie portrayed the Cowardly Lion as he did so in
The Muppets Go to the Movies (1981) (1981) although in the Brooke Shields episode of
The Muppet Show (1976), a year earlier, Fozzie dresses up as the Tin Man!