Manjula Nahasapeemapetilon is the wife of Apu Nahasapeemapetilon and the mother of the Nahasapeemapetilon Octuplets. She makes her first appearance in "Much Apu About Nothing."
She was voiced by Tress MacNeille and the late Jan Hooks.
History[]
Manjula was arranged to be married to Apu Nahasapeemapetilon when she was three, in which she looked forward to it all her life,[1] but Apu was to set out to the United States for college.[2] She occasionally works at the Kwik-E-Mart alongside Apu, but she is usually seen as a homemaker. She claims that Fried Green Tomatoes is her favorite book, movie and food. When the octuplets are born, she sternly informs Apu that he cannot pass on until they are out of college.
She has excellent culinary skills, demonstrated by her ability to make a wide variety of dishes using only chickpeas, lentils, and rice, or sometimes only chickpeas and lentils. She says when Apu dies, she will sell the store and marry Sanjay Nahasapeemapetilon. She is shown to be very judgmental and nitpicks at nearly everything Apu does,[3][4][5] as well as Marge during their meetings at the Midday Mommies club.[6]
Manjula is also the "Octuplet-Wrangling Super-Breeder" type of mom you meet at the PTA.
Her character was never formally retired after her original voice actress Jan Hooks died in 2014 as Tress MacNeille had already replaced her for twelve years. Nevertheless, her characters most recent speaking apperance White Christmas Blues aired the year before Hooks's death its unknown if Hooks' death made MacNeille no longer willing to voice her nevertheless due to the retirement of her husband due to the Controversy surrounding him its very unlikely she will ever speak again.
Personality[]
Manjula is shown to have a fair-weathered friendship with Marge Simpson, much like the rest of the women Marge hangs out with. Manjula cares for her babies, but sometimes she gets stressed like Apu Nahasapeemapetilon; when he told her of a wonderful dream he had involving his death, she refused to allow him to die before the octuplets left college.
Her relationship with Apu has not always been in good condition. When Manjula discovered that working 18 hours a day including weekends was not how Americans worked, she got mad at Apu, since she thought he didn't want to see her. He compensated for this with seven surprises for Manjula before Valentine's Day, though he nearly suffocated due to being encased in chocolate for one surprise.[7] Apu once had an affair with Annette Taylor. After Homer Simpson discovered this, he and Marge revealed their discovery to Apu, who eventually caved into the guilt and vowed to apologize to Manjula. However, she already knew it from surveillance tapes at the Kwik-E-Mart and kicked Apu out of the house. With some help from the Simpson family, Manjula eventually agreed to give Apu another chance after he completed an often-vengeful list of bizarre grueling tasks fashioned by her, such as performing "My Fair Lady" with the octuplets.[8] Since then, their relationship has been strained, with the couple seen attending marriage counseling, though their relationship may have been improved by the Trappuccino ordeal as they were seen kissing and celebrating their liberation with the octuplets. She happens to get angry whenever Apu talks about Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber.
Friends[]
- Marge Simpson
- Selma Bouvier
- Mrs. Samson
- Noah's Mother
- Edna Krabappel (deceased)
- Helen Lovejoy
- Luann Van Houten
- Bernice Hibbert
- Lindsey Naegle
- Cookie Kwan
Trivia[]
- The name Manjula means "lovely, lovable", "beautiful", "pleasing" and "a spring" in Sanskrit.
Gallery[]
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Appearances[]
Episode – "Much Apu About Nothing" (flashback)
Episode – "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons" - Episode – "Lisa The Skeptic"
- Episode – "The Trouble with Trillions"
- Episode – "I'm with Cupid"
- Episode – "Beyond Blunderdome"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror X"
- Episode – "Eight Misbehavin'"
- Episode – "Take My Wife, Sleaze"
- Episode – "The Mansion Family"
- Episode – "Pygmoelian" (At Moe's bar)
- Episode – "Alone Again, Natura-Diddily"
- Episode – "Last Tap Dance in Springfield"
- Episode – "A Tale of Two Springfields"
- Episode – "Lisa the Tree Hugger"
- Episode – "Skinner's Sense of Snow" (seen with her family)
- Episode – "Hungry, Hungry Homer"
- Episode – "I'm Goin' to Praiseland" seen exiting the park
- Episode – "Children of a Lesser Clod"
- Episode – "Take My Wife, Sleaze"
- Episode – "The Frying Game"
- Episode – "Bye Bye Nerdie"
- Episode – "Gump Roast"
- Episode – "The Sweetest Apu"
- Episode – "The Frying Game"
- Episode – "Large Marge"
- Episode – "Mr. Spritz Goes to Washington" (non-speaking)
- Episode – "Brake My Wife, Please" (non-speaking)
- Episode – "The Bart of War" (seen in crowd)
- Episode – "Moe Baby Blues"
- Episode – "The President Wore Pearls"
- Episode – "'Tis the Fifteenth Season"
- Episode – "Diatribe of a Mad Housewife"
- Episode – "Smart and Smarter"
- Episode – "Milhouse Doesn't Live Here Anymore"
- Episode – "My Big Fat Geek Wedding"
- Episode – "Simple Simpson"
- Episode – "All's Fair in Oven War"
- Episode – "Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass" background
- Episode – "There's Something About Marrying" (background)
- Episode – "The Girl Who Slept Too Little"
- Episode – "Homer's Paternity Coot"
- Episode – "My Fair Laddy"
- Episode – "Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife"
- – The Simpsons Movie
- Episode – "In the Name of the Grandfather"
- Episode – "Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind"
- Episode – "Love, Springfieldian Style"
- Episode – "Papa Don't Leech"
- Episode – "Mona Leaves-a"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XIX" Untitled Robot Parody (seen as player of foosball game)
- Episode – "Take My Life, Please"
- Episode – "The Burns and the Bees"
- Episode – "Wedding for Disaster"
- Episode – "Pranks and Greens"
- Episode – "Rednecks and Broomsticks"
- Episode – "The Squirt and the Whale"
- Episode – "To Surveil With Love" (opening sequence only)
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XX" (as a zombie)
- Episode – "The Bob Next Door" (seen in crowd)
- Episode – "Moe Letter Blues"
- Episode – "The Fool Monty"
- Episode – "Moms I'd Like to Forget"
- Episode – "Homer Scissorhands"
- Episode – "The Falcon and the D'ohman"
- Episode – "The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants"
- Episode – "Moe Goes from Rags to Riches"
- Episode – "At Long Last Leave"
- Episode – "Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart"
- Episode – "Ned 'N Edna's Blend"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXIII"
- Episode – "A Tree Grows in Springfield"
- Episode – "The Day the Earth Stood Cool"
- Episode – "The Longest Daycare"
- Episode – "Gorgeous Grampa"
- Episode – "Pulpit Friction"
- Episode – "The Saga of Carl"
- Episode – "Dangers on a Train"
- Episode – "Homerland"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXIV"
- Episode – "Four Regrettings and a Funeral"
- Episode – "White Christmas Blues"
- Episode – "Steal This Episode"
- Episode – "Covercraft"
- Episode – "Walking Big & Tall"
- Episode – "Bull-E"
- Episode – "Halloween of Horror"
- Episode – "Much Apu About Something"
- Episode – "The Burns Cage" (Seen in the school auditorium)
- Episode – "Simprovised"
- Episode – "Orange is the New Yellow"
- Episode – "Monty Burns' Fleeing Circus"
- THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXVII"
- Episode – "There Will Be Buds"
- Episode – "22 For 30"
- Episode – "Dogtown"
- Episode – "Springfield Splendor"
- Episode – "Frink Gets Testy"
- Episode – "Flanders' Ladder" (picture)
- Episode – "From Russia Without Love"
- Episode – "I'm Dancing As Fat As I Can"
- Episode – "Frinkcoin"
- Episode – "Bart the Bad Guy"
- Episode – "Highway to Well"
- Episode – "Warrin' Priests (Part Two)"
- Episode – "The Incredible Lightness of Being a Baby"
- Episode – "The Hateful Eight-Year-Olds" (seen on cruise)
- Episode – "A Springfield Summer Christmas for Christmas"
- Episode – "Uncut Femmes"
- Episode – "A Serious Flanders: Part One"
- Episode – "Poorhouse Rock"
- Episode – "Top Goon"
- Episode – "The King of Nice"
- Episode – "Pin Gal"
- Episode – "The Tell-Tale Pants" Marge's dream
- Episode – "O C'mon All Ye Faithful"
- Episode – "Parahormonal Activity"
- Video game – The Simpsons Game
- Video game – The Simpsons: Tapped Out
- Book – The Marge Book
