: Though he left the show in Season 5, Clooney and Margulies still sign their personal emails to each other as "Doug" and "Carol" to this day. Why It Still Matters
While "24 Hours" is often cited as Clooney’s big break, it actually wasn’t his first time playing a doctor on a show called ER . A decade earlier, he starred in a short-lived CBS sitcom titled E/R . However, it was the 1994 NBC drama that truly stuck. [S1E1] George Clooney
: To avoid "screwing up" complex medical lines, Clooney reportedly wrote his dialogue on patient pillowcases so he could read them while looking intensely into his co-stars' eyes. : Though he left the show in Season
: Clooney was the set's resident prankster from day one. In one famous S1 mishap, he accidentally shocked himself with a defibrillator while messing around, much to the amusement of castmates like Noah Wyle and Julianna Margulies. However, it was the 1994 NBC drama that truly stuck