Opens with the quote, "No longer a dark, gray bird, ugly and disagreeable to look at, but a graceful and beautiful swan", from the fairytale "The Ugly Duckling" by Hans Christian Andersen.
The episode title is a riff on My Fair Lady which is based on George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion. At one point Captain Renard refers to another character as a modern day Pygmalion.
At 34:46 the detectives knock on door 320 which represents season 3 episode 20.
The title is a reference to the musical "My Fair Lady," and Donna O'Hara's first name means "lady" in Italian.
When Hank partially reads Donna's license plate, he uses the phonetic alphabet as police code. The name of the dog that digs up Cammy's body is Delta, which is also used in the phonetic alphabet.