BBC Television Shakespeare production had a style referred to as "stylized realism"; the environments are suggestive of their real life counterparts, the foregrounds are broadly realistic representations, but the backgrounds tended to be more artificial; "a representational context close to the actors, with a more stylized presentation of distance." Jan Spoczynski won Designer of the Year at the 1985 Royal Television Society Awards for his work on this episode. The "Prefaces to Shakespeare" episode for "Much Ado About Nothing" was presented by Kenneth Haigh who had played Benedick in a 1976 Royal Exchange Theatre production directed by Braham Murray. The "Shakespeare in Perspective"
Much Apu About Nothing Much Apu About Nothing "Much Apu About Nothing" is the 23rd episode of "The Simpsons"<nowiki>'</nowiki> seventh season. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on May 5, 1996. In the episode, a referendum is created that will require all illegal immigrants from Springfield to be deported. After learning that his friend Apu Nahasapeemapetilon will be deported, Homer decides to help Apu prepare for a United States citizenship test so that he can become a legal citizen. The episode was written by David S. Cohen, and directed by Susie Dietter. Joe Mantegna guest stars in the episode