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Red Hot Riding Hood is an animated cartoon short subject, directed by Tex Avery and released in 1943 by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

The story begins with the standard version of Red Riding Hood until the characters suddenly rebel at this cliched staging and demand a fresh approach.

The annoyed narrator cedes to their demands and starts the story again in a dramatically different arrangement. Now, the story is set in a contemporary urban setting where Red is a sexy adult nightclub entertainer, the Wolf is a debonair, horny skirt chaser and Grandma is an oversexed man chaser.

The most famous element is the musical scene where Red performs and the Wolf reacts in highly lustful wild takes. Those reactions were considered so energetic that the censors demanded cuts in this scene and others. The film's original conclusion, deleted for reasons of implied bestiality, had Grandma marrying the wolf at a shotgun wedding, and having the unhappy couple and their half-human half-wolf children attend Red's show. However, a military officer arranged for an uncut version for military audiences overseas.

The actual released ending is almost as scandalous by today's standards, and is usually edited on television rebroadcast today. It features the wolf getting away from Grandma and returning to the nightclub. There, he proclaims that he will kill himself before he looks at another babe. Sure enough, when Red came back out, he blew his brains out, his ghost getting back up with the same catcalling he did when he first saw Red.

Avery made several sequels to the film, including Swing Shift Cinderella
(1945), The Shooting of Dan McGrew and Wild & Woolfy (both 1945 and both featuring Droopy), Uncle Tom's Cabana (1947), and Little Rural Riding Hood (1949).

In addition to the female character Red, she makes a comeback in the hit Saturday Morning Cartoon series Tom and Jerry Kids, appearring in the Droopy
& Dripple and Calaboose Cat cartoon shorts including the spin-off series Droopy, Master Detective after being given the name Miss VaVoom and in the Calaboose Cat shorts under the name, Mystery Lady. As with the MGM cartoon shorts she plays the Damsel in Distress where McWolf & Droopy
compete for her affection or in the case of McWolf, her posession.

It has been noted that the character Miss VaVoom was based on the character Red who appeared in six different MGM cartoon segments from Tex Avery. However unlike the character Red from the MGM cartoon segments, Miss VaVoom is featured constantly and wearing different outfits, hairstyles & hair colors (Mostly red) and even changes her first name.

Trivia

The scene where Grandma chases The Wolf was the inspiration for the scene in Who Framed Roger Rabbit
where the hag chases Eddie Valliant.

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