In the episode " Much Apu About Nothing ", he is seen taking a citizenship test, implying that prior to this he was not a citizen of the United States ( Although unconfirmed, much evidence supports this-not only is he likely of Latino descent, he is specifically given an Argentine accent in Spanish language dubs ).

Ironically, in " Much Apu About Nothing ," Nelson picks on foreign exchange student Üter for being German during Springfield's anti-immigration mania.

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Political topics addressed on The Simpsons include homophobia and gay marriage ( in the episodes " Homer's Phobia " and " There's Something About Marrying "), immigration and border control (“ Much Apu About Nothing ,” “ Midnight Rx ”, “ Coming to Homerica ”), drug and alcohol abuse (" Brother's Little Helper ", " Weekend at Burnsie's ", " Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment ", " Duffless ", " E-I-E-I -( Annoyed Grunt )", and " Days of Wine and D ' oh ' ses "), gun rights (" The Cartridge Family "), environmental issues (" The Old Man and the Lisa ", " Trash of the Titans ", " Lisa the Tree Hugger ", " The Wife Aquatic ", " The Squirt and the Whale ", in addition to being an important plot device in the feature-length film ), election campaigns (" Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish ", " Sideshow Bob Roberts ", " Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington ", " See Homer Run ", " E Pluribus Wiggum ", " Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson "), and corruption (" Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington ").

" Much Apu About Nothing " is the 23rd episode of The Simpsons < nowiki >'</ nowiki > seventh season.

" Much Apu About Nothing " was written by David S. Cohen and directed by Susie Dietter.

In its original American broadcast, " Much Apu About Nothing " finished 49th in the ratings for the week of April 29 to May 5, 1996, with a Nielsen rating of 8. 2.

He considered " Much Apu About Nothing " to be one of the season's most " tiring " episodes, " mostly because Apu is not a strong enough character to focus an episode on no matter how much writer David Cohen develops him ".

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Shakespeare had a word for everything, even for the rain that disrupted Wednesday night's `` Much Ado About Nothing '' opening the season of free theatre in Central Park.

* Benedick, from William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, says " But that I will have a recheat winded in my forehead or hang my bugle in an invisible baldric all women shall pardon me.

There is a reference to Diana in Much Ado About Nothing where Hero is said to seem like ' Dian in her orb ', in terms of her chastity.

Four Klingon translations of works of world literature have been published: < cite > ghIlghameS </ cite > (< cite > Gilgamesh </ cite >), Hamlet (< cite > Hamlet </ cite >), < cite > paghmo ' tIn mIS </ cite > (< cite > Much Ado About Nothing </ cite >) and pIn ' a ' qan paQDI ' norgh ( Tao Te Ching ).

Oxfordians see Oxford's marriage to Anne Cecil, Lord Burghley's daughter, paralleled in such plays as Hamlet, Othello, Cymbeline, The Merry Wives of Windsor, All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, Much Ado About Nothing, and The Winter's Tale.

Many elements of the screwball genre can be traced back to such stage plays as Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It and A Midsummer Night's Dream and Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest.

The editors of the Oxford and Norton Shakespeare believe the name of Imogen is a misspelling of Innogen — they draw several comparisons between Cymbeline and Much Ado About Nothing, in early editions of which a ghost character named Innogen was supposed to be Leonato's wife ( Posthumus being also known as " Leonatus ", the Latin form of the Italian name in the other play ).

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* Essex is said by editor David L. Stevenson to be alluded to in Much Ado About Nothing at 3. 1. 10-11.

In his last opera, the comic opera Béatrice et Bénédict, Berlioz prepared a libretto based loosely on Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.

Sir William Davenant inserted Benedick and Beatrice from Much Ado About Nothing into his adaptation, called The Law Against Lovers.

The original template for this kind of comedy is Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.

* The story has also been briefly alluded to in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, both when Benedick states that Leander was " never so truly turned over and over as my poor self in love " and in the name of the character Hero, who, despite accusations to the contrary, remains chaste before her marriage.

He is also the main character of Shakespare's Much Ado About Nothing.

For example, Shakespeare's play Much Ado About Nothing used this ploy to present a surface level description of the play as well as a pun on the Elizabethan use of " nothing " as slang for vagina.

Later that year, Smith joined Christchurch's Court Theatre and performed on stage for the next three years in a variety of roles including Don Pedro in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams ' A Streetcar Named Desire.

In Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, Benedick spots the sharp-tongued Beatrice approaching and exclaims to the Prince, Don Pedro, that he would do an assortment of arduous tasks for him " rather than hold three words conference with this harpy!

Shakespeare also mentions her in the play Much Ado About Nothing, when Benedick says, referring to Beatrice,

* Referenced by Shakespeare in Much Ado About Nothing when Don Pedro courts Hero for Claudio ( 2. 1. 95 ), and also in As You Like It by Jaques ( 3. 3. 7-8 ).

He was a major theatre star, noted for his performances on the British stage in Shaw's The Devil's Disciple ( 1938 ) and Heartbreak House ( 1942 ), Much Ado About Nothing ( 1946 ) and especially as Thomas Becket in T. S.

In the Stratford 1976 season, and then at the Aldwych in 1977, she gave two comedy performances, first in Trevor Nunn's musical staging of The Comedy of Errors as Adriana, then partnered with Donald Sinden as Beatrice and Benedick in John Barton's " British Raj " revival of Much Ado About Nothing.

Dench's contribution was a staging of Much Ado About Nothing, set in the Napoleonic era, which starred Kenneth Branagh and Samantha Bond as Benedick and Beatrice.

This form of comedy has a long ancestry, dating back at least as far as Much Ado about Nothing by William Shakespeare.

He is also mentioned in Virgil's Aeneid and in five plays by William Shakespeare: Hamlet, The Tempest, Much Ado about Nothing, Titus Andronicus, and As You Like It, where he joins the couples at the end —

Jones, whose work had been nominated eight times over his career for an Oscar ( winning thrice: For Scent-imental Reasons, So Much for So Little, and The Dot and the Line ), received an Honorary Academy Award in 1996 by the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, for " the creation of classic cartoons and cartoon characters whose animated lives have brought joy to our real ones for more than half a century.

* Two Much ( 1996 )

Barrymore was also portrayed by Christopher Plummer ( who was a friend of Diana Barrymore ) in the 1996 two-man show Barrymore, later filmed in 2012 and by Errol Flynn in the 1958 biographical film about Diana entitled Too Much, Too Soon.

He is best known for directing and / or starring in several film adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays including Henry V ( 1989 ) ( for which he was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Director ), Much Ado About Nothing ( 1993 ), Othello ( 1995 ), Hamlet ( 1996 ) ( for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay ), Love's Labour's Lost ( 2000 ), and As You Like It ( 2006 ).

Much of the 2001 movie Bandits was filmed in and around Tomales, as were the opening shots of Mumford ( 1999 ), and parts of Scream ( 1996 ), and Village of the Damned ( 1995 ).

The Insider was adapted from " The Man Who Knew Too Much ", an influential article on tobacco industry whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand, written by journalist Marie Brenner for the May 1996 issue of Vanity Fair.

Much of this research has drawn on the work done by Leckie, Pettigrew ( now Fisher ) and Sylvain, who in 1996 conducted an extensive review of the LIS literature ( as well as the literature of other academic fields ) on professionals ' information seeking.

Briers has also appeared in nine of Kenneth Branagh's films, such as Henry V ( as Bardolph, 1989 ), Much Ado About Nothing ( as Signor Leonato, 1993 ) and as Polonius in Hamlet ( 1996 ).

* " The Man Who Knew Too Much " ( article ), a 1996 Vanity Fair article by Marie Brenner about Jeffrey Wigand

Much of the album anticipates the directions taken by Dio in his eponymous solo band's next two records, Strange Highways ( 1994 ) and Angry Machines ( 1996 ).

In 1996, journalist Marie Brenner wrote an exposé on the tobacco industry entitled " The Man Who Knew Too Much ".

Much later, in a related effort, the club played an overtly prominent role in the song " Punk Lolita " by The Heads, a 1996 collaboration of three former Talking Heads members with various guest vocalists.

Much of that code was adapted for use on the Internet to create the MapQuest web service in 1996.

He was rediscovered in the post-modernist era: his autobiography Too Much is Never Enough, 1996, takes a shot at modernist guru Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's dictum ' Less is more.

She worked continuously throughout the 1990s, starring in many films including The Bonfire of the Vanities ( 1990 ), A Stranger Among Us ( 1992 ), Born Yesterday ( 1993 ), Milk Money ( 1994 ), Now and Then ( 1995 ), and Two Much ( 1996 ), where she co-starred with future husband Antonio Banderas.

He has appeared in a number of Shakespearean roles on both stage and screen, including four of the five Shakespeare films directed by Kenneth Branagh: as The Duke of Exeter in Henry V ( 1989 ), Antonio in Much Ado About Nothing ( 1993 ), The Ghost of Hamlet's Father in Hamlet ( 1996 ) and the dual role of Duke Frederick and Duke Senior in As You Like It ( 2006 ).

Prior to the January 5, 1996 reopening, the 9: 30 owners organized a media / friends " Christening " show featuring The Fleshtones and Too Much Joy.

Much improved telescopes and imaging techniques allowed the hourglass shape of the nebula to be discovered by Raghvendra Sahai and John Trauger of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on January 18, 1996.

Much as in City of Cleburne, though, the Court's decision in Romer v. Evans ( 1996 ), on which O ' Connor also relied in her Lawrence opinion, and which struck down a Colorado constitutional amendment aimed at denying homosexuals " minority status, quota preferences, protected status or claim of discrimination ," seemed to employ a markedly higher level of scrutiny than the nominally applied rational-basis test.

In January 1996 she debated at the Oxford Union, opposing the motion ' This House Believes the National Lottery Gives Too Much Money to the Elitist Arts '.

White has charted seventeen singles on the Billboard country charts, of which four reached Number One: " Someone Else's Star " in 1995, " Rebecca Lynn " and " So Much for Pretending " in 1996, and " Sittin ' on Go " in 1997.

* Fearless Friends ( April 9, 1996 ) ( Much Abu About Something, The Day the Bird Stood Still )

Much of the script was written while Roth was working as a production assistant in 1996 for Howard Stern's movie Private Parts.

( 1987 ) and Too Much Humbug ( 1996 ).