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Differing versions

Different printed versions of the play omit or add certain lines, much like Shakespeare's First Folio and First Quarto editions of his plays. The Project Gutenberg version published online, for instance, omits Higgins famous declaration to Eliza, "Yes, you squashed cabbage-leaf, you disgrace to the noble architecture of these columns, you incarnate insult to the English language! I could pass you off as the Queen of Sheba!" - a line so famous that it is now retained in nearly all productions of the play, including the 1938 film version of Pygmalion as well as in the stage and film versions of My Fair Lady.^[4]

Inexplicably, the Embassy Ball scene was not included in the original play, but was added by Shaw for the 1938 film version. It has been used ever since in productions of the play, as well as in the musical adaptation, My Fair Lady. Though Nepommuck was spoken about in the play, he was not seen until the 1938 film, where his name was changed to Arstid Karpathy. In My Fair Lady he became Zoltan Karpathy.

Television episodes

• The Man from U.N.C.L.E. 3rd season episode "The Galatea Affair" from 1966 is a spoof of My Fair Lady. A crude barroom entertainer (Joan Collins) is taught to behave like a lady. Noel Harrison, son of Rex Harrison, star of the My Fair Lady film, is the guest star.
• In the The Beverly Hillbillies episode "Pygmalion and Elly" Sonny resumes his high-class courtship of Elly May, by playing Julius Caesar and Pygmalion.
• In the Magnum P.I. episode "Professor Jonathan Higgins" of season 5 Jonathan Higgins tries to turn his punk rocker cousin into a high society socialite. Higgins even references Pygmalion in the episode.
• Family Guy episode, One If By Clam, Two If By Sea involves a subplot with Stewie trying to refine Eliza Pinchley, his new Cockney-accented neighbor, into a proper young lady. He makes a bet with Brian that he can improve Eliza's vocabulary and get her to speak without her accent before her birthday party.
• The plot of the Star Trek: Voyager episode Someone To Watch Over Me is loosely based on Pygmalion.
• Pygmalion is the inspiration for The Simpsons episode entitled Pygmoelian in which infamously ugly character Moe, of Moe's Tavern fame, has a facelift. It was also parodied to a much heavier extent in the episode My Fair Laddy, where the character being changed is uncouth Scotsman Groundskeeper Willie.
• The high school musical performed in the movie Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen was a rock musical version of Pygmalion entitled "Eliza Rocks" and starred Lindsay Lohan.