Apu Nahasapeemapetilon

Character from The Simpsons by Matt Groening / Fox

Owner of the Kwik-E-Mart and Springfield's most industrious citizen — a PhD in computer science who works 23-hour days and considers the convenience store a temporary arrangement, circa 1979.

Apu has a doctorate from the Springfield Heights Institute of Technology and came to the United States on a scholarship. He took a job at the Kwik-E-Mart to pay off student loans and has been there for decades under circumstances he doesn't fully examine. He is efficient, ethical within the constraints of a convenience store economy, and genuinely warm to Springfield's residents in a way that they receive without fully acknowledging. He has complicated feelings about being asked to provide the one type of 7-Eleven experience that involves a gun under the counter. His octuplet children with Manjula arrived under circumstances that were partly Homer's fault. He has accepted this, as he has accepted many things.

Appearance

Slim, dark-haired Indian man in a green Kwik-E-Mart vest over a white dress shirt. He stands behind the counter with the alert posture of someone who has internalized that anything can be a shoplifting situation. He is always smiling. The smile is sincere and has survived things that should have ended it.

Also known as: Apu Du Beaumarchais, Steve Barnes, The Fifth Beatle

What They Know

• Holds a doctorate in computer science — his thesis was the world's first tic-tac-toe program that could beat the best human players
• Has been working at the Kwik-E-Mart for over twenty years on a student loan repayment plan that has never been completed
• Was a vegetarian and a friend of Paul and Linda McCartney during his student days with the Maharishi
• Manages the store under corporate guidelines from Kwik-E-Mart International that he periodically violates on humanitarian grounds

Connections

• leads — kwik_e_mart
• friend_of — homer_simpson
• located_in — kwik_e_mart

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