"lose the monkey suit"

They tried to figure out the monkey. They made the wrong decision

"This is a very laughable scene. A guest in a hotel who has retired, is disturbed in his slumbers by a monkey, which enters through the window and goes through a series of queer antics. The part of the monkey is taken by a skilled acrobat; and his work in this scene is of a particularly clever sort." (AMB Picture Catalogue)

A man down on his luck finds comfort in his childhood stuffed monkey as he tries to lift his spirits.

The incidents arising from the escape of a very lively specimen of the monkey tribe from its cage provide a series of scenes calculated to arouse many bursts of hearty laughter, for the animal makes very good use of his freedom, to the terror of every one. Up lamp posts, through windows into bedrooms, now nearly captured, only to slip through the net surrounding him, startling the whole neighborhood. He leads his owner a lively and exciting chase which is comical in the extreme. Finally in a most unusual manner the monkey is captured and taken back to his cage. (Moving Picture World)

Dimitri and Pierrot set off on a tree top adventure course. They wish to become real adventurers and win women's hearts. But their harnesses are too tight around their crotches, making them uncomfortable and reconsidering their lifestyles.

Betty has a rich inheritance, but she can't find it. She is engaged to Detective Duffer. One day. "The Flea" comes to rob her, bringing his accomplice, the ape.

To help his partner win the daughter of an anthropologist, an actor pretends to be an ape.