Much Ado About Nothing times, particularly concerning "seeming," "fashion," and outward impressions. "Nothing" is a double entendre; "an O-thing" (or "n othing" or "no thing") was Elizabethan slang for "vagina", evidently derived from the pun of a woman having "nothing" between her legs. Examples of noting as noticing occur in the following instances: (1.1.131–132) and (4.1.154–157). At (3.3.102–104), Borachio indicates that a man's clothing doesn't indicate his character: A triple play on words in which noting signifies noticing, musical notes and nothing occurs at (2.3.47–52): Don Pedro's last line can be understood to mean, "Pay attention to your music and nothing else!" The complex
Much Apu About Nothing succeeds as a savage satire on the scapegoating of immigrants. Homer has never been so frighteningly dumb, although he does come through with a rousing liberal speech." The episode is "The Simpsons" creator Matt Groening's third favorite episode of the show. The episode received a negative review from Dave Foster of DVD Times. 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". Foster commented that the episode deals with a political