- Ross goes to visit Marcel whilst on a trip to California and discovers he is working in commercials. Joey receives a fan letter from an attractive but unstable woman. Phoebe is asked to sing for children at a library.
- Joey's first fan-mail -for his character, Dr. Drake Ramore- is from Erika Ford, who sounds like a crazy stalker, so Chandler and he are scared when she turns up, but given her looks he accepts to dine together- enough for her to think she's Drake's fiancée. Hunky Rob Donan invites Phoebe to play songs for kids in the public library, but her brutally honest lyrics shock the parents. After seeing a monkey like Marcel in a commercial, Ross decides to visit him in the San Diego Zoo, where he's officially told the capucin died but hears the truth from a hush-hush caretaker: he's in a movie being shot in New York so they all go there...—KGF Vissers
- This episode is composed of two episodes. In the first part Joey is stalked by a crazy woman named Erika Ford, who thinks that Joey is actually Dr. Drake Ramoray. Ross goes to the zoo where Marcel is but finds out that Marcel is doing ads and movies, in fact is at NY for a movie. In the second half all the six friends go to the shooting. Chandler meets a beautiful woman who was once humiliated by Chandler when they were kids. Monica and Rachel fight for Van Damme.—Rurouni
- After seeing a monkey in a beer commercial (monkeyshine beer) that reminds him of his former pet monkey Marcel, Ross decides to pay a visit to his old pet at the San Diego Zoo during his business trip to California. When Ross cannot find the monkey, the zoo administrator Dean Lipson (Fred Willard) tells him that Marcel has died (He is given Zoo dollars as compensation). However, a janitor (Dan Castellaneta) later informs Ross that Marcel was kidnapped and forced into show business and is currently filming a movie in New York (the janitor tries to get Ross to pay him a bribe, after telling him everything). Ross was told that Marcel is dead, because they didn't want the bad publicity and hence the cover up. Ross finds out that Marcel is the Monkeyshine monkey. Ross tracks down Marcel, who is shooting for a movie in NYC. They visit the set and Marcel is in a Van Damme movie.. Ross goes to meet him and sings the Lion King song to attract Marcel's attention. Marcel comes running to Ross.
Joeys gets his first fan mail. The mail had no stamp and it was addressed to Joey's apartment (not to the show).. Joey has a stalker. She shows up at Joey's apartment and Joey is ready to hit her with a frying pan until he opens the door and finds that Erika is super hot. Meanwhile, Joey has to contend with a mentally ill stalker Erika (Brooke Shields) who is delusional in thinking that Joey is actually Dr. Drake Ramoray, the character he plays on Days of Our Lives. Despite this, Joey goes on a date with her (She laughs maniacally and even licks Joey's hand) (When a man in the restaurant chokes on his food, Joey is unable to help, and explains to Erika that that's because he is a neurosurgeon and that was a case of "Foodal Chokage"). She later confronts him when she suspects "Drake" is cheating on her with another woman (actually another character in the soap opera). He tells her he is just an actor, but when she does not believe him, the gang claim that Joey is "Drake"'s evil twin "Hans", in order to get her to leave him alone (Rachel throws a glass of water at Joey, saying that he pretended to be Drake to sleep with her) (Monica follows saying that he promised to run away with her and didn't) (Chandler throws water at Joey for keeping the toilet seat up). Erika believes the Hans story and leaves.
Phoebe dates Rob Donnan (Chris Isaak) who hires her to perform at children's concerts at a local library. However, the songs she sings to the children are disturbing to the attending parents because they tell truths that the children have never heard before. When Rob's attempts to convince Phoebe to tone down her material for her next performances fail, he is forced to fire her, but the children then come to Central Perk to listen to more of Phoebe's songs. Phoebe teaches Smelly Cat to Rob.
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