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King Julien tries to convince Rico that “misfortune cookie” curses are real.
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The zoo orders Chinese food, which they pay for with quarters from the zoo fountain. When Rico gets a fortune cookie that says "You will soon meet with a F-O-W-L end.", Rico and everyone else thinks that it is a F-O-U-L end. King Julien tries warning Rico to heed his "misfortune cookie", his friends tell him it's a silly superstition. But he decides to make the Penguins believe there is a curse on Rico by actually hurting him.
The next day, Rico encounters a number of strange mishaps, including the penguin habitat's water being drained, a snack cart running Rico over, and Burt the elephant suddenly falling out of the sky and landing on him. This results in him believing in the curse of the fortune and he hides within a pillow fortress.
The other three Penguins refuse to believe that supernatural bad luck is at work and investigate Rico's mishaps. They determine that the snack cart was pushed, Burt tells them he was hit with a needle on the butt and lemur fur is found in their habitat. Skipper licks the fur, finding it to be full of hair products, meaning that Julien is most likely the culprit responsible. They then confront Julien, accusing him of being behind the mishaps. Julien initially denies the accusation before Maurice turns up with a snake to bite Rico and gives him away. After confessing his guilt, Julien is forced to tell Rico the truth, but Rico still doesn't believe him and stays inside the pillow fortress.
The Penguins and Julien decide to hold a fake curse breaking ceremony. The other lemurs and Marlene helped, King Julien wears his curse-breaking crown and makes Rico go through three terrible trials. First, the Journey of a Thousand Tears (walking the path of the tikis, while peeling an onion and being smacked by fishes). Second, the Journey of a Thousand Burdens (carrying heavy things and whistling while he does so). Third, the Trampling by a Thousand Rhinos (being trampled by Roy, the zoo's one resident rhino, a thousand times; slight glitch and Julien lost count). Finally Rico is pronounced curse free. Rico believes that he's cured.
On the way back to their habitat, a male duck lands on Rico's face, apologizes, and flies away. Private realizes that a duck's rear would be a "fowl end", which proves his and Rico's other friends' mistake. Rico's fortune came true after all, and then Julien gloats to him that he was right.