High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "Much Apu About Nothing" is the 23rd episode of The Simpsons` 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 will be deported, Homer decides to help Apu prepare for a United States citizenship test so that he can become a legal citizen.