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Apu Nahasapeemapetilon, Ph.D., formerly Slime Q Slimedog, is the proprietor of the Kwik-E-Mart, the local convenience store and good friends with Homer Simpson.

During the 1960s, while still living in India, Apu spent some time as a student of the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, in which capacity he became a friend of Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney. Apu's friendship with the McCartneys caused him to be referred to by some (mainly himself) as "The Fifth Beatle". They visited Apu in Springfield around the time he became naturalized. He says that he graduated from Calcutta Technical University, where he was the top of his class of 7 million and got a scholarship in the United States. In the United States he got a doctorate in computer science by designing the world's first tic-tac-toe program that only the top human players could beat (which Bart Simpson promptly broke). He then took a job at the Kwik-E-Mart to pay back his student loans.

During the early 1980s Apu was a member of the barbershop quartet called The Be Sharps, which also consisted of Homer Simpson, Barney Gumble, and Seymour Skinner. Upon the advice of Nigel, the band's manager, Apu took the stage name "Apu du Beaumarche" (a pun, as "du beau marché" means "of the beautiful market" in French) and denied that he was actually Hindu.

Prior to his marriage to Manjula, Apu was a bachelor, and was bought at a bachelor auction by Luann Van Houten, Miss Hoover, Selma, Ruth Powers and Lois Pennycandy, he dated all five at the same time. Apu and Manjula were wed through an arranged marriage. Despite trying to wriggle out of the arrangement at first, Apu was won over soon after meeting Manjula and the two actually did fall in love. Before his marriage, Apu became known as the leading ladies' man in Springfield, because he holds a Ph.D. and runs his own business...