Apu Nahasapeemapetilon

**Dr. Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Ph.D. Jr.**, also known as **Apu Du Beaumarchais**[2], **Slime Q Slimedog**[3] and **Steve Barnes**[4], is the operator of the Kwik-E-Mart. He is a recurring character in The Simpsons. He hails from India, and as such, speaks with a thick Hindi accent.

## Biography

During the 1960s, while still living in India, Apu spent some time as a student of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, in which capacity he became a friend of Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney. Apu's friendship with the McCartneys caused him to be referred to by some (mainly himself) as "The Fifth Beatle", They visited Apu in Springfield around the time he became naturalized, He says that he graduated from Calcutta Technical University, where he was the top of his class of 7 million and got a scholarship in the United States at the Springfield Heights Institute of Technology (S.H.I.T.).[5] In the United States he got a doctorate in computer science by designing the world's first tic-tac-toe program that only the top human players could beat (and which was broken by Bart years later), He then took a job at the Kwik-E-Mart to pay back his student loans. He has great remembrance.

During the mid-1980s, Apu was a member of the barbershop quartet called The Be Sharps*,*which also consisted of Homer Simpson, Seymour Skinner, and Barney Gumble, who replaced original band member Chief Wiggum.[6] Upon the advice of Nigel, the band's manager, Apu took the stage name Apu du Beaumarche (a pun, as "du beau marché" means "of the beautiful market" in French) and denied "by the many arms of Vishnu" that he was actually a Hindu.

Apu and Manjula married after two years, Despite trying to wriggle out of the situation, Apu was won over soon after meeting Manjula and the two actually did fall in love. Later, Manjula gave birth to eight children after receiving a larger-than-recommended dose of fertility drugs.[7] Apu and Manjula have a mostly happy marriage, despite understandable marital problems caused by Apu's workaholic nature, the strain of caring for eight 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 wedding, Homer, in a misguided attempt to play on the bride and groom's families' fear of the gods, arrived dressed as the Hindu god Ganesh. The impersonation was seen through by one of Apu's relatives and failed miserably. Before his marriage, Apu became known as the leading ladies' man in Springfield, because he holds a Ph.D. and runs his own business. 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 discussion about 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 first love is still to work in 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." Also after Apu had an affair with the Annette, Manjula made him legally change his name to Slime Q Slimedog. He is revealed to have slept with Selma Bouvierafter Homer and Marge's second wedding.

He claims to know pi to 40000 decimal places, noting that the last place (40001 first digit of pi) is one.

When he becomes old, he looks like Sanjay.

### Personality

Apu is generally polite towards his customers, always saying thank you, even after less-than-genial interactions with the public, such as armed hold-ups. He is also 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 often found spending more time at his workplace than even with his own family, to Manjula's irritation, especially when she finds out that in America, workplaces normally have weekends off, a practice that Apu evidently never told her.

However, he has some negative traits, shown throughout the course of the show. His hard work ethic and though loyal attitude notwithstanding, *Marge In Chains* shows him ruthlessly prosecute Marge Simpson over a misplaced and absentmindedly forgotten bottle of bourbon, and to even 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 company joint sponsor of Kwik-E-Mart's, Nordyne Defense Dynamics. Apu's antics with the Squishy Woman also highlights his infidelity 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 even fatal), and at exorbitantly marked up prices. He also sometimes lets slip some snideness in his polite greetings. He has a bit of a paranoid nature, as evidenced by his 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 at least twice went up to the roof and started shooting his rifle at potential customers. Apu is also not immune to practicing the customary traits of Springfieldians, being backwardness, myopia, and even to outright stupidity, having been seen flocking to various questionable trends and to even participate in various mobbings.

### Heritage

In addition to being Brahmins, Apu and Manjula appear to be South Indian, because of their last names and especially dark complexions. The name Apu means loving child in Tamil. However, Apu has also been shown to be Bengali.[8] However, Manjula speaks Hindi (interpreted as "baby talk" by Marge), to Maggie, as opposed to Tamil or Bengali, further complicating the matter. Still, Apu's parents very strongly appear to be Tamil.[9][10] Apu has a cousin named Kavi, who lives in Bangalore, which is part of Karnataka, South India; this would suggest that they are actually Kannadigas.[11]

### Immigrant Status

Apu is a naturalized U.S. citizen and holds a Ph.D. in computer science. He graduated first in his class of seven million 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 (Bart Simpson ruined it years later by plucking a random punch card out of the box along with several others). Apu began working at the Kwik-E-Mart during his college years to help pay off his student loans.

Sanjay, Apu's brother, helps him run the Kwik-E-Mart. Sanjay's 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 marriage. When Apu's and Manjula's parents were first arranging their marriage, Apu was shown as the oldest of three on a chart. Apu also has a cousin living in India named Kavi, who helped Homer while he was in India. He works for many American companies taking service calls and can speak with American, Western, and Jamaican accents.[12] This episode, seeing that it takes place in Bangalore, strengthens the theory that Apu was born in South India.

### Health

Due to his working at the Kwik-e-Mart and it frequently being robbed, he has frequently ended up shot and having to go to the emergency room. He had been shot enough times that when Springfield held a Town Meeting for what to do with $2 billion they got from a lawsuit from Mr. Burns after the latter was caught dumping nuclear waste in a park, Apu suggested using it to 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 not liking being shot, however, he did at least have some attachment to it, as after taking a bullet for James Woods after a robber tried to shoot him, he expressed nostalgia for being shot before telling Woods he might be dying. Ironically, his past instances of being shot actually saved him from that shooting, as one lodged-in bullet managed to block that particular bullet from doing fatal damage to his heart.

## Appearances

* *Episode* – "The Telltale Head"
* *Episode* – "Homer's Night Out"
* *Episode* – "Krusty Gets Busted"
* *Episode* – "Bart Gets an "F""
* *Episode* – "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment"
* *Episode* – "Principal Charming"
* *Episode* – "Bart's Dog Gets an F"
* *Episode* – "Old Money"
* *Episode* – "Brush with Greatness"
* *Episode* – "Three Men and a Comic Book"
* *Episode* – "Stark Raving Dad"
* *Episode* – "When Flanders Failed"  (cameo)
* *Episode* – "Homer Defined"
* *Episode* – "Like Father, Like Clown"
* *THOH* – "Treehouse of Horror II"
* *Episode* – "Lisa's Pony"
* *Episode* – "Radio Bart"
* *Episode* – "Bart the Lover"
* *Episode* – "Homer at the Bat"
* *Episode* – "Separate Vocations"
* *Episode* – "Dog of Death"
* *Episode* – "Black Widower"
* *Episode* – "The Otto Show"
* *Episode* – "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?"
* *Episode* – "A Streetcar Named Marge"
* *Episode* – "Homer the Heretic"
* *Episode* – "Lisa the Beauty Queen"
* *Episode* – "New Kid on the Block"
* *Episode* – "Mr. Plow"
* *Episode* – "Homer's Triple Bypass"
* *Episode* – "Marge vs. the Monorail"
* *Episode* – "I Love Lisa"
* *Episode* – "Whacking Day"
* *Episode* – "Marge in Chains"
* *Episode* – "Krusty Gets Kancelled"
* *Episode* – "Homer's Barbershop Quartet"
* *Episode* – "Rosebud"
* *Episode* – "Marge on the Lam"
* *Episode* – "$pringfield (Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)"
* *Episode* – "Bart's Inner Child"
* *Episode* – "Boy-Scoutz 'n the Hood"
* *Episode* – "Homer the Vigilante"
* *Episode* – "Bart Gets Famous"
* *Episode* – "Homer and Apu"
* *Episode* – "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song"
* *Episode* – "The Boy Who Knew Too Much"
* *Episode* – "Secrets of a Successful Marriage"
* *Episode* – "Lisa on Ice"
* *Episode* – "Homer Badman" (non-speaking)
* *Episode* – "A Star is Burns"
* *Episode* – "The Springfield Connection"
* *Episode* – "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)"
* *Episode* – "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)"
* *Episode* – "Lisa the Vegetarian"
* *Episode* – "Team Homer"
* *Episode* – "Two Bad Neighbors"
* *Episode* – "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield"
* *Episode* – "Lisa the Iconoclast"
* *Episode* – "22 Short Films About Springfield"
* *Episode* – "Much Apu About Nothing"
* *Episode* – "Hurricane Neddy"
* *Episode* – "The Principal and the Pauper"
* *Episode* – "Lisa's Sax"
* *THOH* – "Treehouse of Horror VIII"
* *Episode* – "Bart Star"
* *Episode* – "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons"
* *Episode* – "Lisa the Skeptic"
* *Episode* – "All Singing, All Dancing" (flashback)
* *Episode* – "The Joy of Sect"
* *Episode* – "Bart the Mother"
* *THOH* – "Treehouse of Horror IX"
* *Episode* – "The Last Temptation of Krust"
* *Episode* – "Lisa the Simpson"
* *Episode* – "Simpson Tide"
* *Episode* – "The Trouble with Trillions"
* *Episode* – "When You Dish Upon a Star"
* *Episode* – "I'm with Cupid"
* *Episode* – "Eight Misbehavin'"
* *Episode* – "The Mansion Family"
* *Episode* – "The Sweetest Apu"
* *Episode* – "The Frying Game"
* *Episode* – "Helter Shelter"
* *Episode* – "Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington" (non-speaking)
* *Episode* – "Midnight Rx"
* *Episode* – "Future-Drama"
* *Episode* – "Kiss Kiss Bang Bangalore"
* *Episode* – "Crook and Ladder"
* *Episode* – "Wedding for Disaster"
* *Episode* – "The Good, the Sad and the Drugly"
* *Episode* – "Coming to Homerica"
* *THOH* – "Treehouse of Horror XX"
* *Episode* – "Moe Letter Blues"
* *Episode* – "The Bob Next Door"  (cameo)
* *Episode* – "The Fool Monty"
* *Episode* – "Homer the Father"
* *Episode* – "The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants"
* *Episode* – "Gorgeous Grampa"
* *Episode* – "Black-eyed Please"
* *Episode* – "Dark Knight Court"
* *Episode* – "Pulpit Friction"
* *Episode* – "The Fabulous Faker Boy"
* *Episode* – "The Saga of Carl"
* *Episode* – "Dangers on a Train"
* *Episode* – "Homerland"
* *THOH* – "Treehouse of Horror XXIV"
* *Episode* – "Four Regrettings and a Funeral"
* *Episode* – "Brick Like Me"
* *Episode* – "The Simpsons Guy"
* *Episode* – "The Wreck of the Relationship"
* *Episode* – "Covercraft"
* *Episode* – "I Won't Be Home for Christmas"
* *Episode* – "The Man Who Came to Be Dinner"
* *Episode* – "Walking Big & Tall"
* *Episode* – "The Princess Guide"
* *Episode* – "Sky Police"
* *Episode* – "Waiting for Duffman"
* *Episode* – "Peeping Mom"
* *Episode* – "The Kids Are All Fight" (Flashback)
* *Episode* – "Let's Go Fly a Coot"
* *Episode* – "Bull-E"
* *Episode* – "Halloween of Horror"
* *Episode* – "Friend with Benefit"
* *Episode* – "Teenage Mutant Milk-caused Hurdles"
* *Episode* – "Much Apu About Something"
* *Episode* – "Gal of Constant Sorrow"
* *Episode* – "Lisa the Veterinarian"
* *Episode* – "The Marge-ian Chronicles"
* *Episode* – "Gal of Constant Sorrow"
* *Episode* – "Simprovised"
* *Episode* – "Orange is the New Yellow"
* *Episode* – "The Nightmare After Krustmas"
* *Episode* – "The Cad and the Hat"
* *Episode* – "Looking for Mr. Goodbart"
* *Episode* – "Dogtown"
* *Episode* – "The Serfsons"
* *Episode* – "Springfield Splendor"
* *Episode* – "Whistler's Father"
* *Episode* – "Grampy Can Ya Hear Me" (couch gag)
* *Episode* – "The Old Blue Mayor She Ain't What She Used To Be"
* *Episode* – "Singin' In The Lane" (mentioned)
* *Episode* – "Gone Boy"
* *Mov* – "[[{{{1}}}]]"
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* *Video game* – *Apoom*
* *Video game* – *The Simpsons: Hit and Run*
* *Video game* – *The Simpsons Game*
* *Video game* – *The Simpsons Road Rage*
* *Video game* – *The Simpsons Wrestling*
* *Video game* – *The Simpsons: Tapped Out*
* *Video game* – *LEGO Dimensions*
* *Video game* – *The Simpsons Ride* (Pre-Show)