Friends

[Pre-intro scene: Monica and Rachel's. Everyone is looking at papers]

Joey: How could someone get a hold of your credit card number?

Monica: I have no idea. But look how much they spent!

Rachel: Monica, would you calm down? The credit card people said that
you only have to pay for the stuff that you bought.

Monica: I know. It's just such reckless spending.

Ross: I think when someone steals your credit card, they've kind of
already thrown caution to the wind.

Chandler: Wow, what a geek. They spent $69.95 on a Wonder Mop.

Monica: That's me.

Phoebe: Oh! The yuk! Ross, he's doing it again! [Points to a lamp
which is shaking behind the sofa]

Ross: Marcel, stop humping the lamp! Stop humping! Now Marcel, come
back- [Marcel runs toward Rachel's room] come here, Marcel-

Rachel: Oh no, not in my room! I'll get him.

Monica: Ross, you've got to do something about the humping.

Ross: What? It's, it's just a phase.

Chandler: Well, that's what we said about Joey...

Ross: Would you all relax? It's not that big a deal.

Rachel: [Out of shot] Stop it! Marcel! Bad monkey!

Ross: What?

Rachel: Let's just say my Curious George doll is no longer curious.

[Intro]

[Scene 1: Monica and Rachel's, late at night. Mon is still up
examining her bill. Rachel emerges from her room]

Rachel: Oh, Monica. You are not still going over that thing.

Monica: This woman's living my life.

Rachel: What?

Monica: She's living my life, and she's doing it better than me! Look
at this, look. She buys tickets for plays that I wanna see.
She, she buys clothes from stores that I'm intimidated by the
sales people. She spent three hundred dollars on art supplies.

Rachel: You're not an artist.

Monica: Yeah, well I might be if I had the supplies! I mean, I could
do all this stuff. Only I don't.

Rachel: Oh, Monica, c'mon, you do cool things.

Monica: Oh really? Okay, let's compare, shall we.

Rachel: [Yawning] Oh, it's so late for 'Shall we'...

Monica: Do I go horseback riding in the park? Do I take classes at the
New School?

Rachel: [Yawning] Nooo...

Monica: This is so unfair! She's got everything I want, and she
doesn't have my mother.

[Scene 2: Central Perk. Joey and Chandler are discussing stage names]

Chandler: How about Joey... Pepponi?

Joey: No, still too ethnic. My agent thinks I should have a name
that's more neutral.

Chandler: Joey... Switzerland?

[The waitress brings their coffee]

Joey: Plus, y'know, I think it should be Joe. Y'know, Joey makes me
sound like I'm, I dunno, this big. [Waitress looks at him
funny] Which I'm not.

Chandler: Joe...Joe...Joe...Stalin?

Joey: Stalin...Stalin...do I know that name? It sounds familiar.

Chandler: Well, it does not ring a bell with me...

Joey: [Writes it down] Joe Stalin. Y'know, that's pretty good.

Chandler: Might wanna try Joseph.

[Joey visibly thinks 'Of course!' and writes it down]

Joey: Joseph Stalin. I think you'd remember that!

Chandler: Oh yes! Bye Bye Birdie, starring Joseph Stalin. Joseph
Stalin is the Fiddler on the Roof.

[Scene 3: Mon+Rach's. Mon is there, enter Phoebe and Rachel]

Rachel: Hey.

Phoebe: Hey.

Monica: Hi. [On the phone] Hi, uh, yes, this is Monica Geller. Um, I
believe I'm taking some classes with you and I was wondering
what they were.

Phoebe: What are you doing?

Monica: [Hushes her] Alright, great. Thanks a lot. [Hangs up] I'm
going to tap class.

Rachel: What, what, so that you can dance with the woman that stole
your credit card?

Monica: This woman's got my life, I should get to see who she is.

Rachel: Go to the post office! I'm sure her picture's up! ...Okay,
Monica, y'know what, honey, you're kinda losing it here! I
mean, this is really becoming like a weird obsession thing.

Phoebe: This is madness. It's madness, I tell you, FOR THE LOVE OF
GOD, MONICA, DON'T DO IT!! ...Thank you.

[Scene 4: Tap class. The girls are standing at the door]

Monica: What d'you think?

Phoebe: Lotsa things.

[They go in and sit down]

Rachel: Which one do you think she is?

[The teacher comes up to them]

Teacher: May I help you?

Monica: Oh, no thanks, we're just here to observe.

Teacher: You don't observe a dance class. You dance a dance class.
Spare shoes are over there.

Rachel: What does she mean?

Phoebe: I think she means [Imitates] 'You dance a dance class'. Oh,
c'mon, c'mon. [They put on some spare shoes]

Monica: Okay, d'y'see anybody you think could be me?

Teacher: [To the class] People! Last time there were some empty
yoghurt containers lying around after class. Let's not have
that happen again!

Rachel: She could be you.

[Music starts]

Teacher: Let's get started. Five, six, a-five six seven eight...

[Everyone starts to dance in unison. Monica flounders]

Monica: Okay, I'm not getting this!

Phoebe: [Dancing in a swirly, Phoebe kind of way] I'm totally getting
it!

Monica: Did you ever feel like sometimes you are just so unbelievably
uncoordinated?

[Rachel taps into view; she is in perfect sync with the rest of the
class]

Rachel: What? You just click when they click.

Teacher: Alright people, now everyone grab a partner.

[The girls are unsure how to pair off. Phoebe settles it]

Phoebe: Okay. And, my, dead, mother, says, you, are, it. I'm with
Rachel.

Monica: Great. It's gym class all over again.

Phoebe and Rachel: Aww.

Teacher: Well that's all right, you can come up to the front and
dance with me.

Monica: Why don't I just take off my clothes and have a nightmare.

[She starts to walk very slowly toward the front of the room. The
teacher grabs her hand and pulls her. Suddenly a woman bursts in]

Woman: It's okay, it's okay, I'm here, I'm here. Sorry I'm late, okay,
here I am. Who's the new tense girl?

Teacher: She's your partner.

Woman: Hi. I'm Monica.

Monica: Oh. Monica! ...Hi. I'm Mo- ...nana.

Woman [Fake Monica]: Monana?

Monica: Yeah. It's Dutch.

Fake Monica: You're kidding! I-I spent three years in Amsterdam.
[Asks her something in Dutch]

Monica: Um, Pennsylvania Dutch.

Teacher: And we're dancing. A-five, six, seven, eight...

[Cut to Central Perk. Ross has just arrived]

Ross: [Mortified] Hi.

Chandler and Joey: Hey.

Joey: Where've you been?

Ross: At the vet.

Chandler: She's not gonna make you wear one of those big plastic
cones, is she?

Ross: She says Marcel's humping thing's not a phase. Apparently he's
reached sexual maturity.

Joey: [To Chandler] Hey! He beat ya.

Ross: She says as time goes on, he's gonna start getting agressive and
violent.

Chandler: So what does this mean?

Ross: I'm gonna have to give him up.

[Commercial]

[Scene 5: Central Perk- time lapse. The guys are sitting like the
Three Wise Monkeys]

Joey: I can't believe it, Ross. This sucks!

Chandler: I don't get it, I mean, you just got him. How can he be an
adult already?

Ross: I know. I know. I mean, one day, he's this little thing, and
before you know it, he's this little thing I can't get off my
leg.

Joey: Isn't there any way you can keep him?

Ross: No, no. The vet says unless he's in a place where he has regular
access to some... monkey lovin', he's just gonna get vicious.
I've just gotta get him into a zoo.

Joey: How do you get a monkey into a zoo?

Chandler: I know that one! ...No, that's Popes into a Volkswagen.

Ross: Well, we're applying to a lot of them. Naturally our first
choice would be one of the bigger state zoos, y'know, like,
uh, San Diego... right? But that might just be a pipe dream,
because, y'know, he's out of state. Uh, my vet, uh, knows
someone at Miami, so that's a possibility.

Chandler: Yeah, but that's like two blocks away from the beach. I
mean, it's a total party zoo.

[Enter Phoebe, Monica and Rachel]

Phoebe: Hey. We found her, we found the girl.

Chandler: What?

Joey: Did you call the cops?

Rachel: Nope. We took her to lunch.

Chandler: Ah. Your own brand of vigilante justice.

Ross: What?! Are you insane? This woman stole from you. She stole.
She's a stealer.

Monica: Y'know what? After you're with this woman for like ten
minutes, you forget all that. I mean, she is this astounding
person, with this- with this amazing spirit.

Ross: Yeah, which she probably stole from some cheerleader.

Chandler: ...Take off their hats!

Phoebe: Popes in a Volkswagen! ...I love that joke.

[Scene 6: Monica and Rachel's. Mon, Rach and Fake Monica are there]

Rachel: No way. No way did you do this.

Fake Monica: Monana was very brave.

Monica: It was so wild. We told them we were the Gunnersens in room
six fifteen. Only to find out the Boston Celtics had taken
over the entire sixth floor!

Fake Monica: So once they caught on to the fact that we're, y'know,
short and have breasts...

Monica: ...They threw us out! I was thrown out of a hotel! Me!

Rachel: Go Monana! Well, you ladies are not the only ones living the
dream. I get to go pour coffee for people I don't know. Don't
wait up. [Exits]

Fake Monica: Oh, by the way, tomorrow we're auditioning for a Broadway
show.

Monica: 'Scuse me?

Fake Monica: There's an open call for Cats. I'm thinking we go down
there, sing Memories and make complete fools of ourselves.
Whaddya say?

Monica: Nononononono. Think who you're dealing with here. I mean, I'm
not like you. I-I can't even stand in front of a tap class.

Fake Monica: Well, that's just probably 'cause of your Amish
background.

Monica: What?

Fake Monica: Well, you're Pennsylvania Dutch, right?

Monica: Right. Till I bought a blow dryer, then I was shunned.

Fake Monica: I-I used to be just like you. And then one day I saw a
movie that changed my life. Did you ever see Dead Poets'
Society?

Monica: Uh-huh.

Fake Monica: I thought that movie was so incredibly... boring. I
mean, that thing at the end where the kid kills himself
because he can't be in the play? What was that?! It's
like, kid, wait a year, leave home, do some community
theatre. I walked out of there and I thought, 'Now,
that's two hours of my life that I'm never getting back'.
And that thought scared me more than all the other crap I
was afraid to do.

Monica: Wow. Then I would definitely not recommend Mrs. Doubtfire.

[Scene 7: Mon+Rach's, later. Everyone but Joey and Monica is there]

Ross: [Reading letters] Oh God. [To Marcel] We didn't get into
Scranton. [To the others] That was like our safety zoo. They
take like dogs and cows. See? I don't know who this is harder
on, me or him.

Phoebe: I'd say that chair's taking the brunt.

Ross: Marcel! Marcel! Marcel, no! Good boy. See, how can nobody want
him?

Rachel: Oh, somebody will.

[Enter Joey]

Joey: You know there already is a Joseph Stalin?

Chandler: You're kidding.

Joey: Apparently he was this Russian dictator who slaughtered all
these people. You'd think you would've known that!

Chandler: Y'know, you'd think I would've.

Joey: Phoebe. Whaddyou think a good stage name for me would be?

Phoebe: ...Flame Boy.

[Scene 8: Central Perk. Ross is talking to Dr. Baldhara, a zookeeper]

Ross: Where exactly is your zoo?

Dr. Baldhara: Well, it's technically not a zoo per se, it's more of an
interactive wildlife experience. Let me ask you some questions
about, is it, uh, Marcel?

Ross: Yes.

Dr. Baldhara: Does he, uh, fight with other animals?

Ross: Nono, he's, he's very docile.

Dr. Baldhara: Even if he were... cornered?

Ross: Well I, I don't know. Why?

Dr. Baldhara: Uh, how is he at handling small objects?

Ross: He can hold a banana, if that's whatcha mean...

Dr. Baldhara: How about a hammer, or a small blade?

Ross: Why- why- why would he need a blade?

Dr. Baldhara: Well, if he's up against a jungle cat or an animal with
horns, you've got to give the little guy something.
Otherwise it's just cruel.

[Chandler and Joey burst in, with Marcel]

Chandler and Joey: He- he- he got in, he- he got in to San Diego.

Joey: We, we come back from our walk and the- the phone was ringing-

Chandler: -He's in.

Ross: He's in! Oh, did you hear that, Marcel? San Diego. San Diego!

Dr. Baldhara: You're making a big mistake here. I mean, San Diego's
all well and good, but if you give him to me, I'll start
him off against a blind rabbit and give you twenty
percent of the gains.

[Scene 9: Monica and Rachel's. Rachel is dusting. She comes to the
table, lifts all the magazines and wipes under them, then just puts
them down again. Monica bursts in, obviously drunk]

Monica: Yo- hooo!

Rachel: Where the hell've you been?

Monica: Monica and I just crashed an embassy party.

Rachel: Are you drunk?!

Monica: Noooo! [Comes closer and whispers] I'm lying. I am so drunk.

Rachel: Oh God, oh. Great, Monica, y'know what, you could've called, I
have been up here, I've been worried...

[Monica is drinking from the tap]

Rachel: Monica? Monica!

Monica: Water rules!

Rachel: Yes, yes, it does. Okay, look, the restaurant called, they
wanna know if you're gonna be showing up for work?

Monica: Nope. Going to the Big Apple Circus today.

Rachel: Okay Monica, what are you doing? You're gonna lose your job!
This is not you!

Monica: No, it is me! Y'know, I'm not just the person who needs to
fluff the pillows and pay the bills as soon as they come in!
Y'know, when I'm with her, I am so much more than that. I'm-
I'm Monana!

[The phone rings and Rachel answers]

Rachel: Hello? Yes, she is, hold on a second, please. Monana, it's for
you, the credit card people.

Monica: Helloooo? Yeah. Oh my God. Thanks.

Rachel: What?

Monica: They've arrested Monica.

[Scene 10: NYC Department of Correction. Monica is visiting Fake
Monica]

Monica: Hi.

Fake Monica: Hey.

Monica: How are you?

Fake Monica: I'm not too bad. Fortunately, blue's my colour. How- how
did you know I was here?

Monica: Because... I'm Monica Geller. It was my credit card you were
using.

Fake Monica: That I was not expecting.

Monica: I want you to know, it wasn't me who turned you in.

Fake Monica: Oh. Thanks.

Monica: No, thank you! You have given me so much! I mean, if it
wasn't for you, I would never have gotten to sing Memories on
the stage at the Wintergarden Theatre!

Fake Monica: Well, actually, you only got to sing 'Memo-'.

Monica: I just can't believe you're in here. I mean, what am I gonna
do without you? Who's gonna crash the embassy parties with me?
Who's gonna take me to the Big Apple Circus?

Fake Monica: Monica, I started my day by peeing in front of twenty-five
other women, and you're worried about who's gonna take
you to the Big Apple Circus?

Monica: Well, not... worried, just... wondering.

Fake Monica: There's nothing to wonder about, Monica. You're gonna go
back to being exactly who you were, because that's who
you are.

Monica: Not necessarily...

Fake Monica: Yes necessarily! I mean, I dunno what it is, maybe it's
the Amish thing.

Monica: Um, I'm not actually Amish.

Fake Monica: Really? Then why are you like that?

[Scene 11: Tap class. Monica is standing by the door]

Teacher: You by the door. In or out?

Monica: In. [She joins in the dancing. She still flounders]

Teacher: You in the back, you're getting it all wrong!

Monica: Yeah, but at least I'm doing it!

[Scene 12: The airport. Everyone but Monica is there to see off
Marcel]

PA: This is the final boarding call for flight 67 to San Diego,
boarding at gate 42A.

Phoebe: Okay. Goodbye, little monkey guy. Alright, I wrote you this
poem. Okay, but don't eat it 'till you get on the 'plane.

Ross: Aww. Thank you, Aunt Phoebe.

Phoebe: Oh!

Chandler: Okay, bye, champ. Now, I know there's gonna be a lot of
babes in San Diego, but remember, there's also a lot to
learn.

Joey: I dunno what to say, Ross. Uh, it's a monkey.

Ross: Just, just say what you feel.

Joey: Marcel, I'm hungry.

Ross: That was good.

Rachel: [Brings Marcel a teddy bear] Marcel, this is for you. It's,
uh, just, y'know, something to, um, do on the 'plane.

Ross: Uh, if you guys don't mind, I'd like to take a moment, just me
and him.

All: Oh, sure. Sure, absolutely. [They just stand there, then realise
what he means and go to the other end of the room]

Ross: Marcel, c'mere, c'mere. [He sits down and Marcel jumps down and
sits beside him] Well buddy, this is it. There's just a coupla
things I want to say. I'm really gonna miss you, and I'm never
gonna forget about you. You've been more than just a pet to me,
you've been more like a be- [Marcel climbs down and starts
humping his leg] Okay, Marcel, please, could you leave my leg
alone? Could you just stop humping me for two seconds?! Marcel,
would- okay, just take him away. Just take him.

[Marcel is put in a cage and taken away. Closing credits]

[Credits scene: A casting session somewhere]

Actor: [Very melodramatically, and very badly] Oh, that I were a glove
upon that hand, that I might... touch thy cheek...

Casting Director #1: That's fine, thank you.

Casting Director #2: Next. [Joey walks onstage]

Joey: Hi, uh, I'll be reading for the role of Mercutio.

Casting Director #2: Name?

Joey: Holden McGroin.

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