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[Vera2007]

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

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

1.What's the connection between getting a monkey into a zoo and Popes into a Volkswagen?
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Monica: Hey, hold on there, tiger. How's it going? How you holding up?

2.To hold up here means to endure or to maintain the present situation ?
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Joey: Well, it's like, last night, I couldn't do the thing that usually makes me great. So I had to do all this other stuff. And the response I got... man, oh man, it was like a ticker tape parade!

3.It was like a ticker tape parade means that he was highly praised by the girl or what?
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Ross: I don't get it. What do you see in this guy, anyway?

4."What do you see in this guy " means " what do you think of this guy" ?

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[bud]

1. Nothing. He means that Joey's question sounds like an old riddle. So he pretends he's going to answer it, but then realizes that he was thinking of a different riddle.

2. Yes.

3. She treated him as a hero, which would include highly praising him.

4. Why do you like him (implying that I see nothing to like about him)?