Marcel
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| CHARACTER | ||||
| Marcel the monkey | ||||
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| First appearance | The One With The Monkey | |||
| Last appearance | The One After The Superbowl, Part 2 | |||
| Number of episodes | 8 | |||
| Portrayed by | Two female Capucins called Monkey and Katie | |||
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| Gender | Male | |||
| Date of birth | - | |||
| Occupation | Actor | |||
| Relatives | Ross Geller (owner) | |||
Marcel was Ross' pet capuchin monkey, during season one. He also made other appearances and was mentioned later on. He has a fondness to the song The Lion Sleeps Tonight.
[edit] Season 1
In "The One With The Monkey", Ross shows up to Monica's New Years Eve party with Marcel as his date. On one occasion in "The One Where The Monkey Gets Away", Rachel has to look after Marcel and while watching a soap together he runs off. She quickly reports him missing, much to the fury of Ross, as Marcel is an illegal exotic animal. The group sets out to find the monkey before the authorities do. The woman searching for him turns out to be a classmate of Rachel and Monica, but they didn't treat her too well. Phoebe then finds Marcel, at the same time as the woman. Pheobe jumps in the line of the tranquillizer dart which is aimed at Marcel. Rachel then uses this as a bribe to allow Marcel free.
At the end of the season, Marcel "reaches his sexual maturity" and therefore Ross, sends him off to a zoo in San Diego. When saying goodbye, Rachel gives Marcel a Curious George doll, as "something to do on the plane".
[edit] Zoo & film career
After staying at the zoo for some some months, there was a break-in and Marcel was taken (along with a snowy egret, a two-toed sloth, and three hooded sweatshirts from the zoo gift shop). He went into a film career, appearing in a Monkeyshine Beer commercial and then in a movie with Jean-Claude Van Damme. When Rachel asks how big of a star Marcel is, a movie crewman tells her "in human terms? I'd say Cybill Shepherd."
When Ross goes to the San Diego Zoo to see Marcel, the zoo administrator, Dean Lipson tells him that Marcel has died, however a rogue employee tells him the truth and that the story told to Ross is a big cover up because the zoo wants to avoid bad publicity. He tells Ross that the cover-up goes very high up, but is shocked to learn that Lipson knows.
While Marcel is filming Outbreak 2: The Virus Takes Manhattan, Ross tracks him down and spends a final day with him.
