- Monica befriends the woman who stole her credit card. Ross is forced to give away Marcel. Joey tries to come up with a less ethnic-sounding stage name.
- Monica's credit card has been stolen, and she feels that the thief is living the life she ought to have. She tracks her down to a tap-dance class, and ends up liking her and spending lots of time with her. Ross's monkey is humping everything, so he has to give him away, but finding an appropriate zoo is a difficult task.—Pruneau
- When Joey decides he needs a more manly stage name, he accepts Chandlers suggestion: Joseph Stalin. When Monica gets the bill for her stolen credit card, she's jealous of that person's vibrant lifestyle and so takes he girls to the tap dance class the 'fake Monica' registered for, and meets her pretending to be Monana, a Pennsylvania Dutch girl. When the vet tells Ross that Marcel's jumping his leg and anything else is incurable sexual maturity, the boys desperately start looking for a good zoo that will take the capucin monkey.—KGF Vissers
- Monica finds out that someone has stolen her credit card and has been using it. When she receives the credit card statement she realizes that the thief is doing all the things in life that she wishes she could do, for example, take tap dancing lessons or tickets to plays that Monica wants to see or $300 on art supplies, or shopping at stores where Monica is intimidated by the sales people, horseback riding at the park. She, Rachel and Phoebe decide to find the thief (Claudia Shear) at the tap dance class (Monica calls the class and gets the address) and end up becoming her friends. In order to prevent suspicion, real Monica introduces herself as "Monana". The four become good friends and Monica lives her life as recklessly as she wished she did (she gets thrown out of a hotel for a prank with the Bolton Celtics, auditions for a Broadway show Cats). The fake Monica shares her philosophy of living life to the fullest and not regret wasting even a single moment on stuff that she doesn't want to do. Rachel gets worries when the real Monica turns up drunk and late after crashing an embassy party with the fake Monica. The real Monica has been missing work as well.
However, Fake Monica eventually gets caught (the credit card people inform the real Monica) and the real Monica visits her in jail and tells her that it was her credit card that was stolen. Monica admits that she did not turn her in and thanks her for inspiring her. She also decides to use this experience as a lesson to not just wish she did things, but actually do them. Monica continues with the tap dancing classes.
Ross's Capuchin monkey, Marcel, reaches sexual maturity and will not stop trying to mate with objects (The lamp in Monica's living room, or Rachel's curious George doll) and his leg. Ross decides that he can no longer take care of Marcel (as the vet tells him that Marcel will get more aggressive and violent as time goes on) and so he looks for a zoo for him. Ross looks for state zoos like San Diego or Miami (its a total party zoo being 2 blocks from the beach). But Marcel is rejected from Scranton (which is like their safety zoo) After some frustrating attempts including an offer where Marcel would be pitted against other animals in combat (in exchange for 20% of the take), Marcel is eventually accepted into the San Diego Zoo and Ross, Chandler, Joey, Rachel and Phoebe say goodbye to him at the airport. Ross says a tearful goodbye, but is happy to see him go when he again starts humping his leg.
Joey's agent, Estelle, suggests that he create a stage name because "Joey Tribbiani" is too ethnic. Chandler tricks him into using the name "Joseph Stalin", only for him to be rejected at the audition upon finding out and being appalled about the dictator's actions. Later, at the audition, Joey uses the name "Holden McGroin", presumably having been tricked again.
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