"The trainers won't let me bond with it," he told Entertainment Weekly. "They're really, really possessive. It's like, 'Land on your marks, do your job, don't touch or bond with the monkey. ' It's a bummer." That unhappy feeling spread among the cast and led them to insist: Marcel had to go.

What happened to Marcel friends?

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.

Who hated the monkey on Friends?

Marcel's trainer calls David Schwimmer 'jealous' and 'despicable' for complaining about the monkey on 'Friends: The Reunion' Marcel's trainer, Mike Morris, spoke out to defend the monkey for the first time. Marcel the monkey appeared in eight episodes in the first season of "Friends."