A parody of French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve's work was advertised as The Ultimate Social Experiment in a 2012 magazine advert.
 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"). 
