“It Seemed Like the Lowest-Hanging Fruit”: ‘The Pitt’s Noah Wyle Recalls His ’Friends’ Cameo With ‘ER’ Co-Star George Clooney

Noah Wyle has dished on a major ER moment that didn’t even take place on the show. The first season of Friends aired in 1994 and ran until May 18, 1995, but the show featured a couple of ground-shattering cameos in one episode that had everyone talking. In the second part of the only two-part outing in Season 1, titled “The One With Two Parts, Part 2,” Wyle shows up with his ER co-star George Clooney to visit Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) and Monica (Courteney Cox) in the hospital. During a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Wyle spoke about this cameo with his ER co-star – mind you, they technically don’t play the same characters in Friends as they do in ER – and how they decided it was the right decision for them to show up: