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Yup, tonight is the final ER. NBC will have an hour-long retrospective at 8 PM and then the two-hour season finale of the show at 9 PM (sorry, fans of My Name Is Earl, The Office, and 30 Rock). We've seen several old favorites come back this season in previous episodes, and we know that a couple more are coming back for tonight's last hurrah. Will George Clooney be one of them?

Clooney already made an appearance on the show with Juliana Margulies a few weeks ago, and I liked the episode enough. It's just that there was a slight something missing from the episode, something concerning Doug and Carol and them not knowing that the kidney going to County General was for Carter.

As I said before, I thought that it would have been logical for Neela and Sam to tell Doug that a Dr. Carter was working at the hospital again, but instead the writers just had Doug and Carol know that the "doctor" got the kidney. I thought it would have been good if Doug and Carol knew that it was for Carter instead of ending their appearance with them thinking that hardly anyone they worked with still works at County General and they'll just live their lives in Seattle oblivious to what happened.

Now there are rumblings that Clooney might appear in the series finale after all. An NBC spokesperson "couldn't confirm" Clooney's appearance, which is an odd way of putting it. Could there be another twist where he shows up at County after all? I've noticed that Margulies has been in the promos for this episode, and the scene they show her in isn't a scene from the episode a few weeks ago, so maybe she's in it. And if she's in it ... well, I guess we'll just have to wait until tonight.

It would certainly be a nice twist if he showed up again, even more surprising than his cameo several years back to wrap up his storyline with Margulies.