Character names are a rip-off from My Fair Lady

I'm sorry, but, as someone else pointed out...

It's HILARIOUS that you are hating on this show for being a rip-off of My Fair Lady when My Fair Lady is a rip-off of Pygmalion.

You're griping that this show isn't 'original' even though My Fair Lady rips off Pygmalion to a T. My Fair Lady = Pygmalion minus the singing. Even the dialogue was nearly 100% ripped from Pygmalion.

If anything, this is much more original because this is a completely re-imagined version of Pygmalion with a modern twist, different dialogue, different setting, etc. SO much looks different here from the original story.

With My Fair Lady, they pretty much took the same exact dialogue from Pygmalion and added songs to it. But, that's what My Fair Lady was -- it was SUPPOSED to be Pygmalion + singing. This, on the other hand, strays from being a carbon copy of Pygmalion.

So, if you're going to gripe about something being 'unoriginal', go to the My Fair Lady boards and complain, because, My Fair Lady was the most un-original re-imagining of a story EVER simply because the dialogue didn't change at all and all they did was basically just add singing and music.

Please note: (before people chew me out) I am not hating on My Fair Lady. Me saying that it's an un-original version of Pygmalion isn't a biased opinion. I am not hating on the musical AT ALL by calling it un-original. It was intended to be un-original. And by un-original, I just mean that the dialogue and everything else was pretty much almost to a T a carbon copy of Pygmalion with some songs added into the mix. I am not insulting the movie, I am merely making an observation and am saying it how it is. Thus, the OP's argument about this show being un-original is actually quite false when My Fair Lady, if anything else, is far more un-original simply because it was made to be so similar to Pygmalion.

Aside from the fact that MFL was itself an adaptation of Pygmalian, you do make an interesting point.

Last season, ABC made a show about Julie Andrews's step-daughter-in-law's life called "Trophy Wife." It didn't work, so they decided to make one about a play that she was in, where she was the only lead not to win a Tony and subsequently left out of the movie. Disney also made a dud movie in 2013, "Saving Mr. Banks", about the real-life inspiration for the character that she played when she couldn't get the role in "My Fair Lady". Apparently, if it's tangentially related to Julie Andrews, ABC will produce it.

Yes, I'm another poster who thinks you are dumb for thinking you had to point out the connection between Selfie and My Fair Lady. In the promotionals for this show, this was mentioned every few minutes. As if the names and basic plot weren't obvious enough.

And yes, My Fair Lady was based on Shaw's Pygmalion, which in turn was loosely based on an old Greek myth.

In other words, there's nothing new under the sun. Just new ways of viewing the old ideas.

Actually, after thinking about it, the OP has a point. What I hated most about Lord of the Rings (there are so many) was it used names and characters from the book, also the plot and settings. Just because you call it a homage doesn't mean it's original! Be original! Instead of a show about humans with problems how about a show about hot dogs sitting in the fruit drawer of a refrigerator. That's so original it's awesome!

DUMB ASS ITS NOT RIPPING IT OFF< ITS AN HOMAGE.

FAIL

And the Sun rises in the East!! BTW, the GBS play is Pygmalion, not My Fair Lady. And it does sound as if it doesn't have legs. Other than Karen Gillan's, that is.

Did Trading Places get your undies in a bunch, too?

*insert person laughing while eating salad pic here*

Ya blew it. Kapeesh?