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The mystery of the "Fox Leg," the severed appendage still nestled in a workboot that was discovered in a Malibu landfill and which was believed to have originated from a construction site on the Fox lot, may have finally come to an anticlimactic end. Authorities now believe it belongs to a suicide victim from Paramount (the town, not the studio) and that the foot might have been discarded when discovered by a shocked motorist. In the interest of softening the blow of disappointment at this turn of events, an alternate theory: Recently-departed Fox president Gail Berman found the foot stuck to the grille of her SUV, then kept it as a desk toy meant to intimidate her business associates. ("Hey, if you don't like the episode order reduction, maybe your tootsie would look nice next to Bootsy Joe's here. How does that float yer boat, Grazer?") When Berman took her new position at Paramount (the studio, not the town), she simply tossed the foot in the trash. And the rest, as they say, is completely fabricated history.