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Graphic symbol from The Simpsons

Apu Nahasapeemapetilon
The Simpsons character
Apu Nahasapeemapetilon (The Simpsons).png
First appearance "The Telltale Head" (1990)
Created by Matt Groening
Designed by Matt Groening
Voiced past Hank Azaria (1990–2020)
In-universe information
Gender Male
Occupation Owner/operator of the Kwik-E-Mart
Chief of Springfield Volunteer Burn Section
Computer scientist
Family Sanjay (brother)
Tikku (brother, deceased)
Vijay (cousin)
Spouse Manjula
Children Sons: Anoop, Nabendu, Sandeep and Gheet
Daughters: Uma, Poonam, Priya and Sashi
Relatives Pahusacheta (niece)
Jamshed (nephew)
Religion Hinduism

Apu Nahasapeemapetilon is a recurring graphic symbol in the American animated television series The Simpsons. He is an Indian immigrant proprietor who runs the Kwik-Eastward-Mart, a popular convenience store in Springfield, and is known for his catchphrase, "Thank you, come over again."[1] He was formerly voiced by Hank Azaria and starting time appeared in the episode "The Telltale Head".

A 2017 documentary, The Problem with Apu, written by and starring comedian Hari Kondabolu, criticized the character as a Southward Asian stereotype. Azaria reacted to this by announcing that he and the production crew of the series agreed for him to step down as the vocalisation of the character. Simpsons creator Matt Groening first stated in August 2019 that Apu would remain on the show.

Role in The Simpsons [edit]

Biography [edit]

In the episode "Homer and Apu", Apu says he is from Rahmatpur, West Bengal. Apu is a naturalized U.South. citizen, and he holds a Ph.D. in computer science. He graduated first in his class of 7 1000000 at 'Caltech' – Calcutta Technical Establish – going on to earn his doctorate at the Springfield Heights Institute of Technology (S.H.I.T.).[2]

Apu began working at the Kwik-East-Mart during graduate schoolhouse to pay off his student loan; he stayed afterwards as he enjoyed his job and the friends he had made. He remained an illegal immigrant until Mayor Quimby proposed a municipal police force to expel all undocumented aliens. Apu responded by purchasing a forged birth certificate from the Springfield Mafia that listed his parents as American citizens Herb and Judy Nahasapeemapetilon from Green Bay, Wisconsin. When, nonetheless, he realized he was forsaking his origins, he abased this plan and instead successfully managed to pass his citizenship test with help from Lisa and Homer Simpson. Thus, he refers to himself every bit a "semi-legal conflicting".[3]

In 1985, Apu was a member of the barbershop quartet The Be Sharps, along with Homer Simpson, Barney Gumble, and Main Seymour Skinner. Upon the communication of the band manager, Nigel, Apu took the stage proper noun "Apu de Beaumarchais" (a reference to Pierre Beaumarchais, author of The Hairdresser of Seville).[four] Apu is a vegan, and manifestly friends with Paul McCartney as revealed in the season 7 episode "Lisa the Vegetarian".

Family [edit]

In the episode "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons", Apu enjoys a brief catamenia every bit Springfield's leading ladies' man later on beingness spontaneously fatigued into a bachelor auction. He spends the days post-obit the auction on a whirlwind of dates, which suddenly end when his female parent announces his bundled marriage to a adult female named Manjula, whom he had not seen since childhood. Apu tries to get out of the arrangement at first, with Marge Simpson pretending to be his wife, until Apu's mother finds her with Homer. Nevertheless, he is won over when he meets Manjula at the wedding, and the ii decide to requite the marriage a endeavor, with Manjula noting nonchalantly that they can ever get a divorce. Later, the ii actually autumn in dearest.

In the episode "8 Misbehavin'", Manjula receives too many doses of fertility drugs, leading to her giving nascence to octuplets: Anoop, Uma, Nabendu, Poonam, Priya, Sandeep, Sashi, and Gheet. This causes difficulties for the family but finally they decide to become on with their life. During the episode "Bart-Mangled Banner", when the town changes its name to Libertyville to be patriotic afterwards it is claimed Springfield hates America, Apu temporarily changes his children'due south names to Lincoln, Freedom, Condoleezza, Coke, Pepsi, Manifest Destiny, Apple Pie, and Superman.

Apu and Manjula have a mostly happy marriage, despite understandable marital problems caused by Apu'due south workaholic nature and long hours, and the strain of caring for eight children. A farther strain came upwards when Apu was unfaithful to Manjula, causing him to briefly movement out and even making him contemplate suicide.[5] He and his family are devout Hindus, and he especially venerates Ganesha.[6]

Sanjay (voiced by Harry Shearer), Apu'south brother, helps run the Kwik-E-Mart. Sanjay has a daughter named Pahasatira, and a son named Jamshed, all of whom share the Nahasapeemapetilon surname. Apu has another younger brother, who is only mentioned in "The 2 Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons", where Apu was shown on a chart as the oldest of iii. Apu besides has a cousin living in Republic of india named Kavi, likewise voiced by Azaria, who helped Homer while he was in Republic of india. Kavi works for several American companies taking service calls using General American, cowboy, and Jamaican accents.[vii]

Other appearances [edit]

Apu is a playable graphic symbol in The Simpsons: Hit & Run video game. His quest in the game is to redeem himself for unknowingly selling the tainted Buzz Cola that has made the residents of Springfield insane. Apu also makes an appearance in The Simpsons: Road Rage as a rider and unlockable playable character. He also is a character players learn fairly early on in the open up-ended online game The Simpsons: Tapped Out.

Character [edit]

Hank Azaria voiced Apu from the start of the evidence until 2020, when he stepped downwards.

Apu first appeared in the season one episode "The Telltale Head". Al Jean and Mike Reiss claim that while creating the character, the writers decided they would non make him indigenous, equally they felt it would be as well offensive and stereotypical and did non want to offend viewers,[8] [9] but that the concept stayed because Hank Azaria'southward reading of the line "Hello, Mr. Homer" received a huge laugh from the writers.[10] Azaria, however, has disputed this account, claiming instead that the writers asked him to create a stereotypical Indian accent for the character.[11] [12] Azaria has said that he based Apu's voice on Indian convenience store workers in Los Angeles with whom he had interacted when he first moved to the area. He also loosely based it on Peter Sellers' character Hrundi V. Bakshi from the film The Party, who Azaria thinks has a similar personality to Apu.[thirteen]

Apu's commencement proper noun is an homage to the main character in The Apu Trilogy directed by Satyajit Ray.[10] His surname is Nahasapeemapetilon, and it was first used in the episode "A Streetcar Named Marge". It is a morphophonological alloy of the name "Pahasadee Napetilon", the full name of a schoolmate of Simpsons writer Jeff Martin.[14] [9]

In the ninth season of the bear witness, Apu marries Manjula in the episode "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons". Rich Appel showtime constructed the idea for Apu'due south marriage.[xv] Andrea Martin provided the voice of Apu's mother in the episode, recording her role in New York. She wanted to get the voice perfect, so in betwixt takes she listened to tapes of Azaria reading lines for Apu, to make certain her voice could realistically be Apu's female parent's.[16]

Reception and criticism [edit]

Popularity [edit]

Apu is one of the nigh prominent South Asian characters on primetime television in the The states.[17] Hank Azaria has won iii Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Vocalization-Over Performance, winning in 1998 for his operation as Apu, once again in 2001 for "Worst Episode Ever", and a third time in 2003 for "Moe Babe Dejection" for voicing several characters, including Apu.[eighteen]

Apu's epitome has been widely licensed, on items ranging from board games to car air fresheners. In July 2007, convenience store chain 7-Eleven converted 11 of its stores in the Usa and ane in Canada into Kwik-E-Marts to celebrate the release of The Simpsons Motion-picture show.[19] [20]

Accusations of racial stereotyping [edit]

Apu's portrayal has been accused by some of being a racist extravaganza of Indians and South Asians in general and was criticized of the bias along racial/ethnic lines, "Brownvoice", similar to "Greasepaint".[21] [22] [23] During the 2007 seven-Eleven promotion, some members of the Indian-American customs voiced concerns that Apu is a extravaganza that plays on as well many negative stereotypes. Despite this, seven-Eleven reported that many of its Indian employees reacted positively to the idea, but noted that it was "not a 100 percent endorsement".[19] [20] [24]

According to Hari Kondabolu, in a Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bong web-exclusive segment, at that place is a negative reaction to Apu in the Indian-American community, also as the greater Desi community.[25] Pakistani-American comedian and histrion Kumail Nanjiani has also criticized the graphic symbol and has related that early in his career,[26] he was asked to do the "Apu accent" as a stereotypical version of the "Indian accent".[22] [27] In a 2007 interview, Azaria acknowledged some of this criticism when he recalled a conversation with the writers of the bear witness during the inception of the character: "Correct abroad they were like 'Can y'all practice an Indian emphasis and how offensive tin you make it?' basically. I was like, 'It'due south not tremendously accurate. Information technology'south a little, uh, stereotype,' and they were like, 'Eh, that'south all right.'"[11] [12] In a 2013 interview with The Huffington Post, Azaria said it should non be expected that the character'due south accent would "of a sudden change now" or that the character would be written out, proverb, "I'd exist surprised if [the show's writers] write him any less frequently because he'south offensive."[27]

In 2016, Kondabolu announced his intention to produce a documentary about "how this controversial extravaganza was created, burrowed its fashion into the hearts and minds of Americans and continues to exist – intact – twenty-half dozen years later".[28] In 2017, Kondabolu released the hour-long documentary The Problem with Apu; in the film, Kondabolu interviews other actors and comics of Due south Asian heritage about the impact that the character of Apu has had on their lives and the perception of South Asians in American culture.[29]

In April 2018, The Simpsons reacted to the controversy surrounding Apu in the episode "No Adept Read Goes Unpunished". Marge introduces Lisa to her favorite babyhood volume, but is shocked by its racist stereotypes and attempts to rewrite it to suit modernistic sensitivities. Lisa is bored by this revised version, and Marge asks what she should practice; Lisa replies "Information technology'southward difficult to say. Something that started decades agone and was applauded and inoffensive is now politically incorrect. What can yous do?" She and so looks at a moving picture of Apu with "Don't take a cow, human" written on it, and the 2 characters say that the issue will be dealt with subsequently, if at all. Kondabolu said that he was saddened past the show's dismissive take on the controversy.[30] Mike Reiss, The Simpsons' longtime writer and producer, best-selling the problem, and pointed out that Apu had not had a line in the show for the concluding 3 years.[31]

During an appearance that same month on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Azaria said that he would exist "perfectly willing to step bated" from the role of voicing Apu, saying that he was increasingly worried near the character causing impairment past reinforcing stereotypes and that "the almost important affair is to listen to Indian people and their feel with it ... I really want to see Indian, South Asian writers in the writers' room, genuinely informing whichever management this graphic symbol takes."[32] Kondabolu had a positive reaction to Azaria's comments.[33]

In an interview with USA Today, creator Matt Groening dismissed the criticism of the Apu graphic symbol, saying, "I think it's a fourth dimension in our culture where people honey to pretend they're offended".[34] [35] Dana Walden, the CEO of 20th Century Fob Television set, said in an August 2018 interview in regard to the Apu controversy that the network trusts the showrunners "to handle it in the way that's best for the evidence".[36] In October 2018, in the South Park episode "The Problem with a Poo", Mr. Hankey is expelled and sent to a land where "people don't care about discrimination and detest" – Springfield. The episode ended with a title carte du jour, #cancelthesimpsons, similar to the promo for South Park which chosen for the counterfoil of itself.[37] Nonetheless, on the DVD commentary Due south Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone stated that the people on The Simpsons are their friends and that joke was not a jab at The Simpsons but at the documentary and that they found it amusing how many misinterpreted the joke as an attack on The Simpsons. Al Jean also tweeted nearly the episode "It's actually in favor of usa proverb people are too critical."[39]

In the UK, Hugo Rifkind criticized in The Times what he characterized as the prevalent attitude concerning potentially offensive material: that the possibility that somebody might exist offended is enough for material to be considered offensive. He likewise stated that Apu is portrayed very positively, smarter than every other graphic symbol except for Lisa, and that the prove was much ruder about other characters like Ned Flanders, Krusty and Groundskeeper Willie.[40]

On Oct 26, Adi Shankar stated in an interview with IndieWire that Apu would be leaving The Simpsons.[41] On October 29, 2018, executive producer Al Jean responded to the speculation and stated that "Adi Shankar is not a producer on the Simpsons. I wish him the best but he does not speak for our show".[42] On August 27, 2019, several sources reported that Groening had confirmed Apu'southward connected position on the prove during the Simpsons console at Disney'due south D23 Expo, telling a fan who asked whether or not Apu would remain, "Yes. Nosotros love Apu. We're proud of Apu."[43] [44] [45] [46]

Azaria announced on January 17, 2020, that he and the production team agreed to allow him to stride away from voicing Apu, "unless there's some style to transition it or something".[45] [47] Azaria had followed the debate over the previous years since Kondabolu's essay and documentary, read up on and attended seminars on racism and social consciousness, and spoken to Indian-American colleagues including fellow histrion Utkarsh Ambudkar (who had performed equally Apu's nephew in "Much Apu Almost Something") almost the state of affairs. He came to understand the issues around the character of Apu compared to the other stereotypical characters on The Simpsons was the idea of permissible use, which led to his determination to quit voicing Apu. Azaria said, "There hasn't been an outcry over these [other] characters [which play on non-Southward Asian stereotypes] because people feel they're represented. They don't accept it so personally, nor do they feel oppressed or insulted by it."[48]

While Azaria retired from voicing the character, Groening confirmed that Apu would remain on The Simpsons.[46]

In the April 12, 2021 episode of Dax Shepard's podcast Armchair Expert, Azaria apologized for "racism, my participation in racism, or at least in a racist do or in structural racism, as it relates to showbusiness or...all the above." 1 reaction to Azaria's amends came from actress/writer Mellini Kantayya, who, in a Washington Mail opinion piece, wrote that hearing Azaria's concession "and for him to say then not in a carefully crafted PR statement, just in a conversation long later the news bicycle had moved on, caught me off baby-sit. Azaria reached his conclusions later years of learning and reflection. He recognized how his work had hurt Indian Americans and wanted to start making amends. That'south why I cried. His apology was cold comfort, given my by, simply the validation and acknowledgment still mattered."[49] [50]

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  • Turner, Chris (2004). Planet Simpson: How a Drawing Masterpiece Defined a Generation. Foreword past Douglas Coupland. Cambridge: Da Capo Press. ISBN978-0-306-81341-2. OCLC 670978714.

External links [edit]

  • Apu Nahasapeemapetilon on IMDb

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