The Nahasapeemapetilon Octuplets

"Waa-a-a!"

―The Nahasapeemapetilon Octuplets

"You have octuplets. It rolls off of your tongue, and into your heart. (Dreamily) Octuplets."

―Marge Simpson

"Oh, they're a ravenous swarm of locusts. Just eating and screaming and grabbing and poking and pulling and drooling and two have cradle rash. How do you get cradle rash when you sleep in a suitcase!?"

―Apu, after the first night.

"You know, if he can handle that, maybe we can handle this bunch (indicates their children)."

―Manjula

"Ah, aren't they sweet. Any medical things I should know about?"

―Homer Simpson

The Nahasapeemapetilon Octuplets (from top-left to bottom-right): Sashi, Pria, Anoop, Gheet, Poonam, Uma, Sandeep, and Nabendu

The Nahasapeemapetilon Octuplets are the children of Apu Nahasapeemapetilon and Manjula Nahasapeemapetilon.

History

The eight octuplets consist of four girls and four boys, who were born as a result of fertility drugs that Manjula took as well as from Apu, who planted them in her breakfast Squishee, and from Marge, Homer and Bart after she and Apu decided that they wanted a baby and then told the Simpson family.

One season after their initial introduction, the octuplets have been redesigned to look as if they were approximately two years old (though they do only know one word each as of "The Sweetest Apu"). In addition to this, they are now able to walk on their own and have been given matching clothes based on their genders, specifically the girls wear light pink blouses with matching socks, darker pink pinafore dresses with pockets at the front, and black Mary Janes, while the boys wear powder blue T-shirts, purple shorts, and red and white sneakers.

Throughout the rest of the series, the octuplets are generally shown to be a handful, much to the stress and chagrin of Apu and Manjula. Because of this, Apu has to hold on to them with child harnesses whenever he takes them out in public. The octuplets can often be seen making messes at the Kwik-E-Mart.

According to Apu, they act as a ravenous swarm of locusts that always eat, scream, grab, poke, pull, and drool.

Physical Appearances

Because of their identical nature and limited amount of character focus, people often get the identities of each octuplet confused. However, the main differences that distinguish one octuplet from the other are their hairstyles and facial appearances.

• Females:
  • Poonam: Has very fluffy hair.
  • Sashi: Has slanted eyes, a ponytail in the shape of a paintbrush's tip and a widow's peak.
  • Pria: Has a ponytail in the shape of a palm treetop.
  • Uma: Has short curly hair.
• Males:
  • Anoop: Has an overbite, a pointed lock of hair hanging down over his forehead, and a small tuft of hair sticking out the back of his head.
  • Sandeep: Has curly hair.
  • Nabendu: Has shaggy hair and originally has his eyes shut in later episodes before Season 13.
  • Gheet: Has an overbite and smooth hair.

List of Octuplets

• Poonam Nahasapeemapetilon
• Sashi Nahasapeemapetilon
• Pria Nahasapeemapetilon
• Uma Nahasapeemapetilon
• Anoop Nahasapeemapetilon
• Sandeep Nahasapeemapetilon
• Nabendu Nahasapeemapetilon
• Gheet Nahasapeemapetilon

Non-Canon Appearances

The contents of this article or section are considered to be non-canon and therefore may not have actually happened/existed.

Future

At eight years old, they manage the Kwik-E-Mart with their father and wear jetpacks so they can torment their employees more easily.

By the time they are thirty, each of them has octuplets of their own. They are still working with their father at the Kwik-E-Mart and try to stop Snake Jailbird, now a cyborg, from once again robbing the Kwik-E-Mart.

Treehouse of Horror

In the "Treehouse of Horror XXIV" segment the "Oh, the Places You'll D'oh!" The Fat in the Hat" forces Apu to spend more time with his family.

Behind the laughter

Dr. Hibbert implied when learning of the fertility drugs that Manjula gave herself and Apu gave to her that without the fertility drugs, Manjula was due to naturally produce triplets.

List of Appearances

Brief Mentions

• Episode – "Eight Misbehavin'"
• Episode – "Gump Roast"
• Episode – "The Sweetest Apu"
• Episode – "The Book Job"
• Episode – "The Blue and the Gray"
• Episode – "Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart"
• Episode – "Penny-Wiseguys"
• THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXIV"
• Episode – "Covercraft"
• Episode – "Bart's Brain" (parodies opening sequence)
• Video game – The Simpsons: Hit and Run
• Video game – The Simpsons Tapped Out

Comic Appearances

• Comic book – Bart Simpson 9 "Hill of Beans"
• Comic book – Simspons Comics #69 - In Burn$ We Tru$t (At the Kwik-E-Mart)
• Comic book – Simspons Comics #85 - Simpsons Family Circus (Dressed as Maggie)
• Comic book – Simspons Comics #121 - The Town that Time Forgot (At the Kwik-E-Mart)
• Comic book – Simspons Comics #146 - A Skate With Destiny! (Marge jumps over the octuplets, during a roller skating chase)
• Comic book – Simspons Comics #164 - Pardon My Clunker (In the car at the Krusty Burger drive-thru)
• Comic book – Simspons Comics #184 - Karmageddon
• Comic book – Simspons Comics #191 - Breaking Bart
• Comic book – Simspons Comics #198 - Donut Disturb (In the competition)
• Comic book – The Simpsons Winter Wingding #1 - Springfield's Letters to Santa (While Apu writes to Santa)
• Comic book – The Simpsons Winter Wingding #2 - The Christmas That Lasted Forever! (At Dr. Hibbert's)
• Comic book – Maggie - Goodnight Buffoon (Sleeping in the drawer)

Gallery

The newborn Octuplets

The Octuplets in the newspaper.

The Octuplets wrestle each other.

The Octuplets sleeping at the Springfield City Zoo.

The Octuplets escape from the zoo.

The Octuplets screaming at Maude Flanders' funeral.

The Octuplets go water skiing.

Octuplets Water Skiing (Official Sketch)

Apu and Manjula play in the snow with the Octuplets.

The Octuplets hug Homer Simpson.

The Octuplets hiss at Apu.

The cast of My Fair Lady.

Apu and the Octuplets as opossums in THOH XIII.

Design sketch for this scene

The Octuplets in line for per-nursery school.

The Octuplets' brief cameo in the Simpsons Movie.

Octuplets crying after listening to Apu's music.

Bart locks the Octuplets in a jail cell.

They then break free and attack him.

The Octuplets run frightened from the Sitting with Dinosaurs exhibit.

Sashi, Pria, and Uma in the "Gifted Area".

The Octuplets watch Music Cletus and the Song Players

The Octuplets at Hope Tree

The Octuplets in the Simpsons Comics #121

Apu and the octuplets at Krusty Burger

The Octuplets in the Simpsons Winter Wingding #1

The toy of the Octuplets

The Octuplets as adults in "Holidays of Future Passed"

The many babies of the octuplets.

Apu and the octuplets in the HD intro.

Octuplets with their father Apu in White Christmas Blues

Trivia

• In the Simpsons Comics #85 - "Simpsons Family Circus", the Octuplets who dress like Maggie Simpson have generic character designs .
• Based on the mathematical subtraction of all the times Homer, Marge, and Bart gave Manjula fertility drugs, the Nahasapeemapetilons would have only had quintuplets. However, if Apu didn't slip fertility drugs into her breakfast squishee, she would've possibly had a minimum of quadruplets, based on her own usage of fertility drugs.
• The 30-year-old versions of the Octuplets in "Holidays of Future Passed" do not bear any resemblance to any of the current Octuplets. It's also hinted that they too had gotten married, due to the sindoor on women, and have octuplets of their own.