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Pygmalion (1935), a German film adaptation by Shaw and others, starring Gustaf Gründgens as Higgins and Jenny Jugo as Eliza. Directed by Erich Engel.

Parodied in Disney's Hercules, when a dateless Herc, inspired by Pygmalion himself, makes a sculpture for Aphrodite to bring to life, which she names Galatea. Unfortunately, like with April he neglects to do much with her personality — she's clingy to say the (very) least — and chaos ensues. Eventually Hercules lets Aphrodite make Galatea her own person, and she immediately dumps him. Comically, Pygmalion had the exact same problem, he's just such a Dirty Old Man that he doesn't care. In some cases it may also stray into Whole-Plot Reference as well, if it's consciously echoing the wider plot of My Fair Lady and Pygmalion.

The Fall of the Sea People provides a completely literal example. The Mentor challenged Aclaí to create someone who was best at something, so he created Éirime. Then, when he fell victim to this trope, he hardly spoke to her again. The novel Galatea 2.2, by Richard Powers, features this plot with an engineer and a linguist as Pygmalion and an artificial intelligence network as Galatea (as the title implies, although the AI's actually named Helen). Doctor Who: The idea behind Nubile Savage Leela becoming the Doctor's companion, though, needless to say, there was no romance involved. And Leela didn't change much either, given that a Action Girl in a leather bikini proved to be quite popular with the audience. In The Andy Griffith Show season 4 episode "My Fair Ernest T. Bass", Andy and Barney attempt to turn the mannerless Ernest T. Bass into a presentable gentleman. References to Pygmalion abound: Bass' manners are tested at a social gathering, where he is assumed by the hostess to be a man from Boston. Several characters comment "if you wrote this into a play nobody'd believe it."

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In Pixel Perfect, Roscoe programs the artificial intelligence Loretta (though she's a hologram, not a robot). He develops feelings for her, but only because he used the personality and looks of his best friend Sam as one of the templates for Loretta, and the latter realizes that Sam is the girl for Roscoe. Pigumarion (in Japanese), Starring Tomohiro Ichikawa as Henry Higgins and Shiho Takano as Eliza Doolittle. Performed in 2011 at the Owlspot Theater in Tokyo. One possible scene even has Galatea shove away the PC's attempts to comfort her after she learns about Pygmalion's suicide and comment bitterly on how people don't see her as real even though nobody carved these emotions into her. However, the game gives you the opportunity to turn this into a reconstruction by helping Galatea come to terms with her new life and humanity, if you wish to do so.

The Makeover, a 2013 Hallmark Hall of Fame modern adaptation of Pygmalion, starring Julia Stiles and David Walton and directed by John Gray. [26] [27] Robinson, Victor, M.D. (1921). The Life of Jacob Henle. New York: Medical Life Co. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list ( link) In Superman: The Animated Series episode "Obsession", the Toyman creates a perfect toy mate for himself named Darci (complete with creepy implications that she's basically a sex slave). However, she rebels against him and runs away, working as a runway model. It doesn't end well. Doolittle is announced; he emerges dressed in splendid wedding attire and is furious with Higgins, who after their previous encounter had been so taken with Doolittle's unorthodox ethics that he had recommended him as the "most original moralist in England" to a rich American, a founder of Moral Reform Societies; the American had subsequently left Doolittle a pension worth three thousand pounds a year, as a consequence of which Doolittle feels intimidated into joining the middle class and marrying his missus. The Modest Shaw Again: Explains in His Shrinking Way Why "Pygmalion" Was First Done in Berlin;- Critics Like It". The New York Times. 23 November 1913. ProQuest 97430789.

In Doctor Who, the character of Leela is loosely based on Eliza Doolittle. She was a regular in the programme from 1977 to 1978, and later reprised in audio dramas from 2003 to present. In Ghost Light, the character of Control is heavily based upon Eliza Doolittle, with Redvers Fenn-Cooper in a similar role as Henry Higgins; the story also features reference to the "Rain in Spain" rhyme and the Doctor referring to companion Ace as "Eliza".

Its first New York production opened on 24 March 1914 at the German-language Irving Place Theatre. [6] It opened in London on 11 April 1914, at Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's His Majesty's Theatre, with Campbell as Eliza and Tree as Higgins, and ran for 118 performances. [7] Shaw directed the actors through tempestuous rehearsals, often punctuated by at least one of the two storming out of the theatre in a rage. [8] Plot [ edit ] Act One [ edit ] The plot of the Star Trek: Voyager episode " Someone to Watch Over Me" is loosely based on Pygmalion, with the ship's holographic doctor playing the role of Higgins to the ex- Borg Seven of Nine. The music video for REO Speedwagon's "Keep on Loving You" opens and ends with Kevin Cronin talking to a psychiatrist about how he wrote a love song about a made-up woman, only to fall in love with her.

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This is related to Wife Husbandry, but differs because it's not (as) intrinsically creepy. Kiss Me, I'm Virtual is also related, as the creation will rarely have a mind of their own; if they do, expect What Measure Is a Non-Human? to ensue.