A parody of French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve's work was advertised as The Ultimate Social Experiment.
 It has been advertised as "The Ultimate Social Experiment" and is produced by Ashton Kutcher, Jason Goldberg and Nick Santora. 
 The show's title is a parody of the titled film (and TV series) "Beauty and the Beast". 
Beauty and the Beast (French: La Belle et la Bte ) is a traditional fairy tale written by French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published in 1740 in "La Jeune Amricaine et les contes marins" ("The Young American and Marine Tales"). 
