Trivia: When Al and Peg are in the video store looking for a movie to rent, the video store is giving away free copies of the movie "Dutch" which is a comedy that starred Ed O'Neill.
Trivia: When Al asks Marcy why the show "No Pot to Pease In" was cancelled, she responds that a woman in Michigan didn't like it. In Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a woman named Terry Rakolta started a boycott after watching the episode "Her Cups Runneth Over." The intent was to get Married...With Children taken off the air. Her boycott had the reverse effect as many people started tuning into the show to see why she was boycotting it. Because of this, ratings actually soared and got more viewers.
Trivia: Ed O'Neil has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The star was placed right in front of a shoe store, which is now closed.
Trivia: Ed O'Neill is only actor to appear in all 260 episodes of the show.
And Bingo was Her Game-O - S9-E21
Trivia: The old lady at Bingo, Ceil, is played by Jean Spengler Howard, wife of Rance Howard/mother of Ron and Clint Howard. Clint Howard appears in the episode as Mullen. (00:08:00)
Trivia: The little boy who is first to sit on Als lap is the boy who played Al as a young boy in He Thought He Could. Season 3 episode 1.
Trivia: Katey Sagal is wearing the same wig as death and the Indian.
Trivia: The man who comes into the clock store asking if they sold clocks is Irwin Keyes. He's credited as playing "Mr. Hugo." In the show "The Jeffersons", Keyes played "Hugo Mojoloweski," a somewhat dim-witted character.
Trivia: When Fox decided not to renew the show for another season, both Ed O'Neill (Al) and Christina Applegate (Kelly) heard about it from friends of theirs, instead of being informed by Fox.
Trivia: Peggy and Marcy's pregnancies were all a dream. This was due to actress Katey Sagal having a stillbirth. The writers/directors agreed it would be too painful for her.
Shoeless Al - S9-E25
Trivia: The PI, Leslie Baum, is played by Charlie Dell, who played Roy in Season 2 opener Poppies By The Tree who was fascinated with "that little white haired girl."
Trivia: Writers Michael Moye and Ron Leavitt wanted the show to be a refreshing change from other family sitcoms at the time. They felt that too many shows featured "idealized" families who presented a proper, respectable image, and rarely struggled with money. By contrast, the Bundys would be inconsiderate, financially unstable, inappropriate, and lazy.
Trivia: A few spin-off shows were proposed. One involved Steve Rhoades being the dean at Bud Bundy's college. Another would be similar to "Friends", involving people who all knew Kelly Bundy. Christina Applegate also rejected another spin-off about Kelly. Yet another show would have been about members of the "NO MA'AM" organization, but Fox decided it was too risky.
Answer: It was one of the hoses connected to the engine, nothing specific, but to indicate that Al tampered with the vehicle.