Much Apu About Something/References

Cultural references

 * The title of the episode is a reference to the season 7 episode "Much Apu About Nothing".
 * The episode title is also a pun on the Shakespeare comedy .
 * One of the scratchers is a The Big Bang Theory one, with images of and.
 * Wiggum makes reference to Grand Theft Auto.
 * Homer references.
 * The Lincoln Memorial, the Liberty Bell, the and Mount Rushmore appears.
 * Apu references Gunga Din and Archibald Cutter from the movie .
 * Bart sings a Doxology after he says that without Homer strangling him, his throat is finally healing.
 * A Clockwork Orange: When Bart decides to return to his prankster ways, he puts on spiked eyelashes that resemble Alex's. Homer then laments buying Bart the video for his fifth birthday (he thought it would help Bart learn how to tell time).
 * The cover of the song "" by is played when the Springfield Fire Department is getting away after failing to extinguish the fire from the Quick & Fresh.
 * According to this episode, Apu worked on the movie (referred by Jay as Temple of Doom) for three months, and only his hand appears in one shot.
 * Apu also references Steven Spielberg.
 * During the conversation between Apu and Sanjey in the hospital, they talked about their forgotten brother Tico ; which referes to

Continuity

 * All the volunteers and the truck of the Springfield Fire Department appears. ("Homer the Heretic")
 * A gay parade was done previously. ("Jaws Wired Shut")
 * Bart wears A Clockwork Orange eyelashes again. ("Treehouse of Horror III")
 * Lisa refers to her imaginary friend Rachel. ("Today I Am a Clown")

Goofs

 * In a scene, Sanjay wears a Kwik-E-Mart employee T-Shirt and then his usual clothes.
 * When Manjula was presenting the Quick & Fresh to Apu, the workers push the Kwik-E-Mart picture to Apu's right, but a few seconds later, he jumps to the left to hug the picture.
 * When the Police Tank is first seen, Ralph is in the same hatch as Lou, but in later scenes, Ralph is gone.
 * Sideshow Mel was shown at the Quick & Fresh when the products start going bad, but a few seconds later, he appears as a firefighter on the firetruck dancing and his skin is yellow.
 * When Bart pulls down the switch for Quick & Fresh, the food in the store goes bad immediately, when logically, it would actually take 24 hours for the food to go bad.

Trivia

 * Snake Jailbird's prisoner number is "7F20". Snake made his first appearance in the episode "The War of the Simpsons", which has the production code "7F20".