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Apu Nahasapeemapetilon
The Simpsons character
Apu Nahasapeemapetilon (The Simpsons).png
Kickoff appearance "The Telltale Head" (1990)
Created by Matt Groening
Designed by Matt Groening
Voiced by Hank Azaria (1990–2018)
In-universe data
Gender Male
Occupation Owner/operator of the Kwik-E-Mart
Chief of Springfield Volunteer Burn Department
Reckoner 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)
Organized religion Hinduism

Apu Nahasapeemapetilon is a recurring character in the American animated television series The Simpsons. He is an Indian immigrant proprietor who runs the Kwik-E-Mart, a pop convenience store in Springfield, and is known for his catchphrase, "Thank you, come again".[1] He was formerly voiced by Hank Azaria and first 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 South Asian stereotype. Azaria reacted to this past announcing that he and the product crew of the series agreed for him to step down as the vox of the graphic symbol. Simpsons creator Matt Groening stated in Baronial 2019 that Apu would remain on the show.

Part 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.S. citizen, and he holds a Ph.D. in computer science. He graduated beginning in his form of seven million at 'Caltech' – Calcutta Technical Institute – going on to earn his doctorate at the Springfield Heights Found of Technology (S.H.I.T.).[2]

Apu began working at the Kwik-E-Mart during graduate school 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 law to expel all undocumented aliens. Apu responded by purchasing a forged nativity certificate from the Springfield Mafia that listed his parents as American citizens Herb and Judy Nahasapeemapetilon from Green Bay, Wisconsin. When, however, he realized he was forsaking his origins, he abandoned this plan and instead successfully managed to pass his citizenship test with help from Lisa and Homer Simpson. Thus, he refers to himself equally a "semi-legal alien".[3]

In 1985, Apu was a member of the barbershop quartet The Be Sharps, forth with Homer Simpson, Barney Gumble, and Principal Seymour Skinner. Upon the communication of the band manager, Nigel, Apu took the stage name "Apu de Beaumarchais" (a reference to Pierre Beaumarchais, writer of The Barber of Seville).[iv] Apu is a vegan, and apparently friends with Paul McCartney every bit revealed in the season vii episode "Lisa the Vegetarian".

Family [edit]

In the episode "The 2 Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons", Apu enjoys a cursory menstruum as Springfield's leading ladies' man afterwards being spontaneously drawn into a bachelor auction. He spends the days following the auction on a whirlwind of dates, which all of a sudden end when his female parent announces his arranged marriage to a woman named Manjula, whom he had non seen since babyhood. Apu tries to get out of the arrangement at commencement, with Marge Simpson pretending to be his wife, until Apu's female parent finds her with Homer. Nonetheless, he is won over when he meets Manjula at the wedding, and the two make up one's mind to give the marriage a attempt, with Manjula noting nonchalantly that they can e'er get a divorce. Later, the two really fall in love.

In the episode "Eight Misbehavin'", Manjula receives likewise many doses of fertility drugs, leading to her giving birth to octuplets: Anoop, Uma, Nabendu, Poonam, Priya, Sandeep, Sashi, and Gheet. This causes difficulties for the family but finally they make up one's mind to get on with their life. During the episode "Bart-Mangled Imprint", when the town changes its proper noun to Libertyville to be patriotic after information technology is claimed Springfield hates America, Apu temporarily changes his children's names to Lincoln, Freedom, Condoleezza, Coke, Pepsi, Manifest Destiny, Apple tree Pie, and Superman.

Apu and Manjula have a mostly happy marriage, despite understandable marital problems acquired by Apu'south workaholic nature and long hours, and the strain of caring for 8 children. A further strain came upwards when Apu was unfaithful to Manjula, causing him to briefly move out and even making him contemplate suicide.[5] He and his family are devout Hindus, and he particularly venerates Ganesha.[vi]

Sanjay (voiced by Harry Shearer), Apu'due 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 simply mentioned in "The Ii Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons", where Apu was shown on a nautical chart as the oldest of iii. Apu also has a cousin living in India named Kavi, also voiced by Azaria, who helped Homer while he was in India. Kavi works for several American companies taking service calls using General American, cowboy, and Jamaican accents.[7]

Other appearances [edit]

Apu is a playable grapheme 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 as well makes an appearance in The Simpsons: Road Rage as a passenger and unlockable playable grapheme. He also is a grapheme players acquire adequately early in the open-ended online game The Simpsons: Tapped Out.

Graphic symbol [edit]

Hank Azaria voiced Apu from the start of the prove until 2018, when he stepped down.

Apu first appeared in the season one episode "The Telltale Caput". Al Jean and Mike Reiss claim that while creating the character, the writers decided they would non make him ethnic, as they felt it would exist besides offensive and stereotypical and did non desire to offend viewers,[8] [nine] only that the concept stayed because Hank Azaria's reading of the line "Hello, Mr. Homer" received a huge express joy from the writers.[10] Azaria, however, has disputed this business relationship, claiming instead that the writers asked him to create a stereotypical Indian accent for the grapheme.[11] [12] Azaria has said that he based Apu's vocalisation on Indian convenience store workers in Los Angeles with whom he had interacted when he first moved to the area. He likewise loosely based information technology on Peter Sellers' character Hrundi V. Bakshi from the film The Party, who Azaria thinks has a similar personality to Apu.[13]

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

In the ninth flavor of the testify, Apu marries Manjula in the episode "The 2 Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons". Rich Appel commencement constructed the thought for Apu's wedlock.[15] Andrea Martin provided the voice of Apu's mother in the episode, recording her function in New York. She wanted to get the voice perfect, then in between takes she listened to tapes of Azaria reading lines for Apu, to brand sure her vocalization could realistically be Apu'south female parent's.[16]

Reception and criticism [edit]

Popularity [edit]

Apu is i of the most prominent Southward Asian characters on primetime television in the United states.[17] Hank Azaria has won three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance, winning in 1998 for his operation as Apu, again in 2001 for "Worst Episode Ever", and a third time in 2003 for "Moe Baby Dejection" for voicing several characters, including Apu.[18]

Apu's epitome has been widely licensed, on items ranging from board games to auto air fresheners. In July 2007, convenience store chain vii-Xi converted eleven of its stores in the United states and one in Canada into Kwik-East-Marts to gloat the release of The Simpsons Movie.[19] [20]

Accusations of racial stereotyping [edit]

Apu'due south portrayal has been defendant by some of being a racist caricature 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 7-Eleven promotion, some members of the Indian-American community voiced concerns that Apu is a caricature that plays on too many negative stereotypes. Despite this, vii-Eleven reported that many of its Indian employees reacted positively to the thought, only noted that it was "not a 100 percent endorsement".[19] [xx] [24]

According to Hari Kondabolu, in a Totally Biased with West. Kamau Bell web-exclusive segment, there is a negative reaction to Apu in the Indian-American community, also every bit the greater Desi community.[25] Pakistani-American comedian and histrion Kumail Nanjiani has too criticized the character and has related that early in his career,[26] he was asked to practise the "Apu emphasis" as a stereotypical version of the "Indian accent".[22] [27] In a 2007 interview, Azaria best-selling some of this criticism when he recalled a conversation with the writers of the prove during the inception of the character: "Right away they were similar 'Tin can you practise an Indian emphasis and how offensive tin can you make it?' basically. I was like, 'It'due south not tremendously accurate. It'south a footling, uh, stereotype,' and they were like, 'Eh, that's all correct.'"[11] [12] In a 2013 interview with The Huffington Post, Azaria said it should not be expected that the graphic symbol'south accent would "suddenly change now" or that the character would be written out, maxim, "I'd be surprised if [the show'south writers] write him any less frequently because he's offensive."[27]

In 2016, Kondabolu announced his intention to produce a documentary about "how this controversial caricature was created, burrowed its mode into the hearts and minds of Americans and continues to exist – intact – twenty-half-dozen years subsequently".[28] In 2017, Kondabolu released the hour-long documentary The Problem with Apu; in the motion-picture show, Kondabolu interviews other actors and comics of S Asian heritage near 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 Practiced Read Goes Unpunished". Marge introduces Lisa to her favorite childhood book, but is shocked by its racist stereotypes and attempts to rewrite it to suit modern sensitivities. Lisa is bored by this revised version, and Marge asks what she should do; Lisa replies "It's hard to say. Something that started decades ago and was applauded and inoffensive is now politically incorrect. What can you lot do?" She so looks at a picture of Apu with "Don't accept a cow, man" written on it, and the ii characters say that the issue will exist dealt with later, if at all. Kondabolu said that he was saddened by the show'south dismissive take on the controversy.[xxx] Mike Reiss, The Simpsons' longtime author and producer, best-selling the problem, and pointed out that Apu had not had a line in the show for the last iii years.[31]

During an appearance that same calendar month on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Azaria said that he would be "perfectly willing to step aside" from the role of voicing Apu, saying that he was increasingly worried nearly the grapheme causing damage by reinforcing stereotypes and that "the most important thing is to listen to Indian people and their experience with it ... I really desire to see Indian, South Asian writers in the writers' room, genuinely informing whichever direction this character 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 character, maxim, "I think it's a time in our culture where people beloved to pretend they're offended".[34] [35] Dana Walden, the CEO of 20th Century Fox Television, 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 all-time for the show".[36] In October 2018, in the Southward Park episode "The Problem with a Poo", Mr. Hankey is expelled and sent to a land where "people don't care about bigotry and hate" – Springfield. The episode concluded with a title card, #cancelthesimpsons, like to the promo for South Park that called for the cancellation of itself.[37] However, on the DVD commentary Southward 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 agreeable how many misinterpreted the joke equally an attack on The Simpsons. Al Jean likewise tweeted about the episode "It's actually in favor of us proverb people are too disquisitional."[39]

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

On October 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 merely he does non speak for our show".[42] On August 27, 2019, several sources reported that Groening had confirmed Apu'due south continued position on the show during the Simpsons panel at Disney's D23 Expo, telling a fan who asked whether or not Apu would remain, "Yes. Nosotros love Apu. Nosotros're proud of Apu."[43] [44] [45] [46]

Azaria announced on January 17, 2020, that he and the product team agreed to allow him to step away from voicing Apu, "unless there's some manner 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 role player Utkarsh Ambudkar (who had performed as Apu's nephew in "Much Apu About Something") about the situation. He came to understand the issues effectually the grapheme of Apu compared to the other stereotypical characters on The Simpsons was the idea of permissible use, which led to his decision to quit voicing Apu. Azaria said, "There hasn't been an outcry over these [other] characters [that play on not-South Asian stereotypes] considering people feel they're represented. They don't take information technology so personally, nor do they experience oppressed or insulted by information technology."[48]

In the April 12, 2021 episode of Dax Shepard'south podcast Armchair Expert, Azaria apologized for "racism, my participation in racism, or at least in a racist practice or in structural racism, equally information technology relates to showbusiness or...all the higher up." One reaction to Azaria's apology came from extra/writer Mellini Kantayya, who, in a Washington Postal service opinion piece, wrote that hearing Azaria's concession "and for him to say and then non in a carefully crafted PR statement, but in a chat long after the news cycle had moved on, caught me off baby-sit. Azaria reached his conclusions subsequently years of learning and reflection. He recognized how his work had hurt Indian Americans and wanted to offset making amends. That'southward why I cried. His amends was cold condolement, given my past, but the validation and acknowledgment even so mattered."[49] [fifty]

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

External links [edit]

  • Apu Nahasapeemapetilon on IMDb

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