The title is based on the play "Pygmalion" opened on Broadway at the Park Theater opening October 12, 1914 and ran for 72 performances. The play premiered in a German translation at the Hofburg Theatre in Vienna on October 16, 1913 and in English at His Majesty's Theatre in London on April 11, 1914 and starred 'Mrs Patrick Campbell'.
Blackboard: "Dodgeball stops at the gym door".
Couch: The Simpsons sit down as normal. Marge notices the name "Matt Groening" written on the carpet, gets up, and wipes the name off. Matt Groening then comes in and rewrites his name on the floor.
Apu, Skinner, and Milhouse's dad are designated drivers at Duff Days.
The term "pink elephant", meaning gay (homosexual) Republican is on Urban Dictionary.