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"Cheers! Come again."
―Apu's catchphrase
"That is of cracking offence to my ancestors and family-just okay."
―Apu
"Okay, any."
―Apu, once in response to one of his octuplets
"Alright."
―The Simpsons Tapped Out
"I can't believe you lot don't shut up!"
―Referring to Homer
"(Referring to Homer) He slept, he stole, he was rude to the customers. Still, at that place goes the all-time-damned employee a convenience store ever had."
―Apu Nahasapeemapetilon[src]

Dr. Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Ph.D. Jr., also known as Apu Du Beaumarchais,[6] Slime Q. Slimedog [seven] and Steve Barnes,[8] is the operator of the Kwik-E-Mart. He is a recurring character in The Simpsons. He is an immigrant from Republic of india, and as such, speaks with a strong Indian accent.

Contents

  • one Biography
    • 1.1 Personality
    • one.ii Heritage
    • 1.iii Immigrant Condition
    • ane.iv Wellness
  • 2 Non-Canon appearances
    • two.i Video Games
    • two.2 Futurama
    • 2.3 The Simpsons Guy
    • ii.iv Treehouse of Horror series
    • two.5 Time to come
  • iii Behind the Laughter
  • 4 Merchandising
  • five Controversy
    • 5.1 Simpsons' response to Apu's controversy
  • 6 Trivia
  • 7 Appearances
  • 8 Gallery
  • ix Citations

Biography

Apu'southward nuptials with Manjula

During the 1960s, while still living in Republic of india, Apu spent some fourth dimension every bit a educatee of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, in which capacity he became a friend of Paul and Linda McCartney. Apu'southward friendship with the McCartneys caused him to be referred to by some (mainly himself) every bit "The 5th Beatle", They visited Apu in Springfield around the time he became a naturalized citizen, He said that he graduated from Calcutta Technical University, where he was the peak of his class of 7,000,000 pupils and got a scholarship in the United States at the Springfield Heights Institute of Technology (S.H.I.T.).[9] Once in the United States, he accomplished a doctorate in Computer Science by designing the world's get-go tic-tac-toe program that only the meridian human being players could trounce (which was broken past Bart years later on). He then took a job working at the Kwik-E-Mart to repay his student loan. He has great remembrance.

During the mid-1980s, Apu was a fellow member of the barbershop quartet called The Exist Sharps, which also consisted of Homer Simpson, Seymour Skinner, and Barney Gumble, who replaced original ring member Chief Wiggum.[10] Upon the advice of Nigel, the ring's manager, Apu took the stage name Apu du Beaumarche (a pun, equally "du young man marché" means "of the cute marketplace" in French) and denied "by the many arms of Vishnu" that he was actually a Hindu.

Apu and Manjula married later two years, despite trying to wriggle out of the situation. He was won over soon afterward meeting Manjula and the pair actually did fall in love. Later, Manjula gave nascence to octuplets after receiving a larger-than-recommended dose of fertility drugs.[11] Apu and Manjula take a mostly happy union, despite understandable marital problems caused by Apu'southward workaholic nature, the stress of caring for 8 children, and two instances of infidelity by Apu. He and his family are devotees of the Hindu gods Shiva, Ganesha, and Vishnu. At Apu's nuptials, Homer, in a misguided try to play on the bride and groom'due south families' fear of the gods, arrived dressed as the Hindu god Ganesh. The impersonation was seen through past one of Apu'south relatives and failed miserably. Before getting married, Apu became known every bit the leading ladies' human being in Springfield, because he holds a Ph.D. and runs his own concern. He also admitted, "I'm not much of a talker, but I love to listen. I also like to design and build furniture and then to have a word nigh where it could be placed in a room," which made the single women of Springfield go crazy for him. Despite his hectic marriage and home life, however, his outset love is withal to work at the Kwik-E-Mart, sometimes taking shifts long enough to send him into sleep-deprived hallucinations in which he thinks he is "...a hummingbird of some kind." As well later on Apu had an affair with Annette, Manjula fabricated him legally modify his proper noun to Slime Q Slimedog. He is revealed to take slept with Selma Bouvier after Homer and Marge's second wedding.

Apu in Yahtzee

He claims to know Pi to 40000 decimal places, noting that the terminal place (40001st digit of pi) is one (nevertheless the truthful 40,001st digit is a half dozen).

Snake aiming a shotgun at Apu while sticking him up.

When he is elderly, he looks like Sanjay.

Personality

Apu is more often than not polite towards his customers, always saying thank you, even afterward less-than-genial interactions with the public, such as armed agree-ups. He is likewise a dutiful worker to the point of being a virtual workaholic, spending so much time awake at one point he began to believe he was a hummingbird. He is ofttimes institute spending more than time at his workplace than even with his ain family, to Manjula's irritation, especially when she finds out that in America, workplaces normally have weekends off, a do that Apu apparently never told her. It is also unsaid in the show, and confirmed in one of the Bongo Comics, that Apu's workaholic nature grew more than severe after his marriage to Manjula and his becoming the male parent of octuplets, viewing his stressful home-life as a reason to continue working extensively at Kwik-East-Mart.

Nonetheless, he has some negative traits, shown throughout the course of the show. His hard work ethic and though loyal attitude all the same, Marge In Bondage shows him ruthlessly prosecuting Marge Simpson over a misplaced and absentmindedly forgotten canteen of bourbon, and to fifty-fifty where he refuses the pleas of Homer for him to drop the unjustified shoplifting charges and the trial for the sake of the reputation of security visitor articulation sponsor of Kwik-East-Mart's, Nordyne Defense force Dynamics. Apu'south antics with the Squishy Woman also highlights his adultery that comes with his workaholic mentality.

In some episodes, Apu is even seen manipulating customers into buying things they don't really need (sometimes into things which may be potentially life-threatening and fifty-fifty fatal), and at exorbitantly jacked up prices. He also sometimes slips some snideness in his polite greetings. He has a bit of a paranoid nature, as evidenced by him once jumping behind a counter and then shouting threats to Bart and Lisa who were walking in to investigate a robbery at the Kwik-E-Mart, and on at least two occasions went upwardly to the roof and started firing a rifle at potential customers. Apu is too not immune to practicing the customary traits of Springfieldians, existence backwardness, myopia, and even to outright stupidity, having been seen flocking to various questionable trends and to even participate in various mobbings.

It is implied in a few episodes that Apu may have some nudist inclinations, as, aside from a brief publicity stunt where he made the Kwik-E-Mart have a clothing-optional policy, he at one point while extremely drunkard from the Saint Patrick's Day Parade alleged in a bullhorn for everyone to "become naked" and tried to entice the crowd past stating to not exist "stuck upward" as it volition exist great,[12] and when entering international waters, he was briefly seen dancing naked on Mr. Burns' yacht.[13]

Apu's 1978 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am

Apu Drives a Red 1978 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am with T Top roof

Heritage

In addition to existence Brahmins, Apu and Manjula appear to be South Indian, because of their concluding names and darker complexions. The name Apu means "loving kid" in the Tamil language. Notwithstanding, Apu has likewise been shown to be Bengali, although Apu got his proper name from The Apu Trilogy, which is in Bengali.[fourteen] Nevertheless, Manjula speaks Hindi, the national language of Bharat (interpreted as "babe talk" by Marge), to Maggie, as opposed to Tamil or Bengali, further complicating the debate. Still, Apu'due south parents very strongly announced to be Tamil.[xv] [16] Apu has a cousin named Kavi, who lives in Bangalore, which is part of Karnataka, South India; which would imply that they are actually Kannadigas.[17]

Immigrant Status

All American Apu

Apu is a naturalized U.S. citizen and holds a Ph.D. in Information science. He graduated first in his class of vii,000,000 at the Calcutta Institute of Technology, going on to earn his doctorate at the Springfield Heights Institute of Technology. His doctoral dissertation was the world's first computer program to play perfect tic-tac-toe; which Bart Simpson ruined years afterwards by plucking a random dial card out of the box along with several others. Apu began working at the Kwik-East-Mart whilst at academy to aid repay his pupil loans.

Sanjay, Apu'south brother, helps him run the Kwik-E-Mart. Sanjay'southward daughter (and Apu's niece) is Pahusacheta. Sanjay's son is Jamshed. They all share the Nahasapeemapetilon surname. Apu has another younger brother, who is only mentioned in the episode of his wedding. This younger may exist Kiku who Apu mentions in a reference to Life of Pi in the episode "Much Apu near zilch", whose retentivity Apu repressed which would explain why he is never mentioned. When Apu'due south and Manjula'south parents were outset arranging their marriage, Apu was shown as the oldest of three on a chart. Apu as well has a cousin living in India named Kavi, who helped Homer when he visited India. He works for many American companies taking service calls and can speak with American, Western, and Jamaican accents.[18] This episode, seeing that it takes place in Bangalore, strengthens the theory that Apu was built-in in South India.

Wellness

Due to his task at the Kwik-E-Mart and it often being a target for robbery, he has frequently ended upward being shot and having to go to the hospital. He had been shot enough times that when Springfield held a town meeting for what to do with $3mil they got from a lawsuit from Mr Burns after the latter was defenseless dumping nuclear waste in a park, Apu suggested using information technology to railroad train more competent cops and adding security to the Kwik-E-Mart, citing his being shot on the job multiple times as a reason. Despite non liking being shot, however, he did at least have some zipper to it, as subsequently taking a bullet for James Woods afterward a robber tried to shoot him, he expressed nostalgia for being shot earlier telling Woods he might be dying. Ironically, his by instances of being shot actually saved him from that shooting, as one lodged-in bullet managed to block that particular bullet from doing fatal impairment to his heart.

Not-Canon appearances

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Video Games

Apu has been a playable character in several Simpsons games. He is the just non-Simpson family playable graphic symbol in the video game The Simpsons: Hit and Run, and his standard vehicle is a yellow version of his Pontiac Firebird called "Longhorn". He is in the 5th level which is downtown Springfield at night, where he tries to find the source of Fizz Cola and, with Bart Simpson, uncovers the conflicting reality Television show that has fueled many of the game's events.

He is also a driver and passenger in The Simpsons Route Rage and is a fighter unlocked from the beginning in The Simpsons Wrestling.

In The Simpsons Game when Jimbo, Dolph, and Kearney are assigned past Skinner to rob from the museum. They stop by the Kwik Due east Mart and Apu witnesses them accept Milhouse'due south pants by force. Later when Bart and Homer salvage and destroy part of the museum Apu tells them that thanks to them his children will one twenty-four hours know the boredom of the museum. Apu later tells Bart that Springfields Fattest Pigs are signing up for the Duff Eating Contest. After the Contest Apu tells Bart manner to give Homer an unfair advantage in the Eating Contest. Later when Mr. Burns is planning to cutting downwardly the forest he goes to the Kwik E Mart and buys a Magazine chosen GEO and leaves without buying it. After the foil of Mr. Burns's programme, Apu says to Bart saving a forest volition assure he will be at least a pigeon in his adjacent life. Apu later joins Marge to ban the Itchy and Scratchy Game and succeeds. When the Aliens invade Springfield, Apu sees the Mall being attacked by Aliens. Apu after heard on the Radio that Dolphins are attacking Springfield and wishes that his Donuts do not join the Lard Lad Reign of terror. Apu tells Bart that in honor of his victory he is serving Dolphin Flavored Squishies. He tells Bart that he really showed Lard Lad who's boss. He then thanks Bart for putting a small dent in the aliens' plan.

Futurama

Although he did non appear fully in person in The Simpsons' sister evidence, Futurama, his head could be seen in the head museum in "Space Pilot 3000" and "Bender'due south Big Score".

The Simpsons Guy

In The Simpsons/Family unit Guy crossover Apu meets the Griffins and welcomes them to the Kwik-E-Mart. Later, Apu is seen being tortured by Stewie Griffin, despite but non existence Bart's enemy Stewie just wanted to say he took "a poo".

Treehouse of Horror serial

In the "Treehouse of Horror 8" segment, The HΩmega Man Apu becomes a mutant subsequently the French bomb Springfield for making an offensive joke.

In "Treehouse of Horror IX" segment Hell Toupée Snake Jailbird murders Apu equally revenge for Snake being executed past shoving him into his own Squishee machine.

In second segment "Treehouse of Horror 20", Apu rescues the Simpsons who is uninfected due to his vegetarianism and the fact that, as a store clerk, he has weapons stocked, while his wife is seen as a muncher, and his octuplets might be munchers, to arrives in an armored SUV, driving the family out of Springfield. While driving their way to the "safe zone", Helen Lovejoy attacks the car and, though initially reluctant because Helen is Lisa's godmother, Marge relents and shoots her off of the car afterward Apu tells Helen to "Apologize in Hell!" Notwithstanding, the SUV gets stuck in a pile of junk at the urban center dump. Apu sends the vehicle on its way by pushing information technology downwards the pile, unintentionally staying behind as he gets devoured (because Marge thinks that he gave his life for them).

In the first segment "Treehouse of Horror XXIV", when Bart, Lisa, and Maggie complain about wanting candy Fat in the Chapeau holds Apu at gunpoint, while the children have all the processed. Fat so forces Apu to spend more than time with his family.

Future

In "Futurity-Drama", he gives Bart a job at the Kwik-E-Mart and instructs Bart to make a delivery to Mr. Burns.

In "Holidays of Future Passed", Apu and The Nahasapeemapetilon Octuplets end Snake Jailbird from robbing a Kwik-E-Mart. Later on, Marge visits him, Manjula Nahasapeemapetilon visits him The Nahasapeemapetilon Octuplets' Octuplets after the children all start crying. Subsequently Marge shuts the door Apu then tends to a dead moo-cow which keeps telling its non (Sanjay) him, he has mistaken as the reincarnation of his brother Sanjay Nahasapeemapetilon.

Backside the Laughter

Apu was voiced by Hank Azaria, who, attributable to the grapheme'south Indian origins, voiced him with a Hindi accent. Apu's surname, Nahasapeemapetilon, is an anagram of the proper noun Pahasanee Mapetilon, which are the offset and final names of a schoolmate of Simpsons writer Jeff Martin.

Merchandising

Apu has had 4 activeness figures in the World of Springfield line. There is too an Apu figure in the Kidrobot figure line.

In May 2014, LEGO released a Minifigure Serial based on The Simpsons. It included 16 characters from the series, Apu was 1 of them.

In 2015, as part of LEGO The Simpsons theme, a set based on the Kwik-E-Mart was released. It included a variant of Apu wearing his Kwik-E-Mart uniform.

Controversy

It has been argued that the portrayal of Apu is a racist extravaganza.[nineteen] [20] During the 7-Xi promotion in 2007, some members of the Indian-American customs voiced concerns that Apu is a caricature that plays on too many negative stereotypes. Despite this, 7-Xi reported that many of its Indian employees reacted positively to the idea, but noted that information technology was "not a 100 per centum endorsement".[21]

According to comedian Hari Kondabolu, in a Totally Biased with West. Kamau Bell web sectional segment, there is a negative reaction to Apu in the Indian American community, besides as the greater South Asian diaspora community.[22] Pakistani-American comedian and actor Kumail Nanjiani has too criticized the character,[23] and has related that early in his career, he was asked to practice the "Apu emphasis" every bit a stereotypical version of the "Indian emphasis".[24] In a 2007 interview, Azaria (who is of Sephardic Jewish descent) acknowledged some of this criticism when he recalled a chat with the writers of the show during the inception of the character: "Correct away they were similar 'Can you do an Indian accent and how offensive tin you make information technology?' basically. I was similar, 'It's not tremendously accurate. It'southward a picayune, uh, stereotype,' and they were similar, 'Eh, that's all right.'"[25] [26] In a 2013 interview with the Huffington Post, Azaria said information technology should non be expected that the character's accent would "suddenly change now" or that the graphic symbol would be written out, proverb, "I'd exist surprised if [the show'south writers] write him whatsoever less frequently because he's offensive."

In 2016, Kondabolu announced his intention to produce a documentary about "how this controversial caricature was created, burrowed its way into the hearts and minds of Americans and continues to exist – intact – twenty-6 years later."[27] In 2017, Kondabolu released the hour-long documentary The Trouble with Apu. In the film, Kondabolu interviews other actors and comics of South Asian heritage virtually the impact that the character of Apu has had on their lives and the perception of South Asians in American culture.[28]

On The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Azaria said that he would exist "perfectly willing to step aside" from the function of voicing Apu, saying that he was increasingly worried virtually the character causing harm past reinforcing stereotypes and that "the nearly important thing is to heed to Indian people and their feel with information technology ... I really want to see Indian, South Asian writers in the writers' room, genuinely informing whichever direction this character takes."[29] Kondabolu had a positive reaction to Azaria's comments.[30]

Simpsons' response to Apu's controversy

The Simpsons episode "No Good Read Goes Unpunished", offset aired on April eight, 2018, was widely received as a response to Kondabolu's movie.

In it, Marge finds that a book she loved equally a child contains elements that would now exist considered offensive, and edits the book herself to remove these elements. In doing this she finds the book loses its "emotional journey". She and Lisa then look to a motion picture of Apu, and Lisa comments that "something that started decades ago and was applauded and inoffensive, is now politically incorrect. What can you do?" Kondabolu wrote on Twitter that he was disappointed that the message of his film had been reduced to the concept of "politically incorrect".[31]

In an interview with USA Today, creator Matt Groening dismissed the criticism of the Apu graphic symbol, saying, "I think it'south a time in our culture where people love to pretend they're offended".[32] [33] Dana Walden, the CEO of the 20th Century Fox Television, said in an Baronial 2018 interview in regards to the Apu controversy that the network trusts the showrunners "to handle information technology in the way that'southward all-time for the show".[34]

On October 26th, 2018, it was rumored that the show'south producers', following the heated controversy surrounding the character's stereotyping, would remove Apu from the bear witness entirely. Hank Azaria had been previously been quoted as saying that he was fine with stepping away from the graphic symbol. [35]

Al Jean later on dismissed the rumor as being not true.[36] [37]

In early 2020, Azaria announced that he was stepping abroad from the Apu grapheme, primarily because of the stereotypes and bias information technology perpetuated.[38]

In March 2021 Matt Groening is planning to bring dorsum Apu with unlike stories of Apu, just it's unknown if Apu is recasted.

In April 2021, Hank Azaria apologized to every Indian for voicing Apu.

Trivia

  • Apu is a vegan.
  • The ethnic groundwork of Apu is debated; as i episode implies that he is Bengali, in another episode he is said to be Hindu, in another he is Kannadiga and he is Tamil in some other i.
  • In "Treehouse of Horror 9", in the segment "Hell Toupée," Primary Wiggum was unable to pronounce Apu's surname, then he blames Homer only for Moe's murder.
  • Apu owns a Halloween store chosen Official Halloween Headquarters.

Appearances

Gallery

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The full image gallery for Apu Nahasapeemapetilon may exist viewed at Apu Nahasapeemapetilon/Gallery.

Citations

  1. ↑ Abraham Simpson Ii
  2. ↑ Homer Simpson
  3. ↑ The Sweetest Apu
  4. ↑ The Simpsons Guy
  5. ↑ Homer'southward Barbershop Quartet
  6. ↑ Homer'southward Barbershop Quartet
  7. ↑ The Sweetest Apu
  8. ↑ All'southward Fair in Oven War
  9. ↑ Much Apu About Nothing
  10. ↑ Homer's Barbershop Quartet
  11. ↑ Viii Misbehavin'
  12. ↑ Homer vs. the Eighteenth Subpoena
  13. ↑ The Mansion Family
  14. ↑ 22 Short Films Virtually Springfield
  15. ↑ Much Apu Nigh Zero
  16. ↑ The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons
  17. ↑ Kiss Osculation Bang Bangalore
  18. ↑ Kiss Kiss Bang Bangalore
  19. ↑ Vij, Manish. "The Apu travesty",.
  20. ↑ Let'southward Talk About the Apu Accent.
  21. ↑ Biswas, Soutik (ix May 2018). Non all Indians recall Apu is a racist stereotype.
  22. ↑ YouTube. YouTube.com. Archived from the original on 21 September 2012. Retrieved on 2013-03-28.
  23. ↑ Kumail Nanjiani on Twitter.
  24. ↑ Why Is Apu Still On Television? (2013-09-20).
  25. ↑ paltalkscene (2007-12-06). Apu from the Simpsons on Paltalk and DailyComedy. Retrieved on 2016-05-23.
  26. ↑ A visitor takes a long expect at Apu on a funny, thoughtful Simpsons (2016-01-18).
  27. ↑ Rao, Sameer (2016-05-11). TruTV Greenlights Characteristic-Length Documentary and Airplane pilot From Hari Kondabolu.
  28. ↑ "You Love 'The Simpsons'? Then Let's Talk Near Apu", The New York Times,. Retrieved on 11 November 2017.
  29. ↑ Hank Azaria prepare to 'footstep bated' from Simpsons Apu role. Retrieved on 25 April 2018.
  30. ↑ Apu actor 'willing to pace aside' from role (25 April 2018).
  31. ↑ "'Don't accept a cow': The Simpsons response to Apu racism row criticised as 'toothless'", The Guardian,. Retrieved on Apr 12, 2018.
  32. ↑ Keveney, Bill (April 27, 2018). 'The Simpsons' sectional: Matt Groening (generally) remembers the testify's tape 636 episodes. USA Today. Retrieved on May ii, 2018.
  33. ↑ Iqbal, Nosheen (five May 2018). No laughing thing: how can The Simpsons solve its trouble with Apu?.
  34. ↑ de Moraes, Lisa (August 2, 2018). 'The Simpsons: Fob TV Grouping Chairs Trust Artistic Team To Deal With Apu Controversy – TCA. Borderline Hollywood. Retrieved on August three, 2018.
  35. ↑ https://www.indiewire.com/2018/10/simpsons-drib-apu-character-adi-shankar-1202015372/
  36. ↑ https://twitter.com/AlJean/condition/1056684110867918848
  37. ↑ https://twitter.com/AlJean/condition/1057322654347055104
  38. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/25/arts/hank-azaria-simpsons-apu.html

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