Mary Ellen Litchfield, an old childhood friend of Al's, appears in the Season 8 opening episode of Married... with Children titled "Hood 'n The Boyz". The part of Mary Ellen is played by actress Debra Engle, who is perhaps best known to TV sitcom viewers as Rebecca Devereaux, Blanche Devereaux's daughter, in the long-running NBC-TV sitcom series The Golden Girls.