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'''''Red Hot Riding Hood''''' is an animated cartoon short subject, directed by [[Tex Avery]] and released on May 8, [[The Golden Age of Animation|1943]] by [[Metro Goldwyn Mayer]]. In 1994 it was voted #7 of [[The 50 Greatest Cartoons]] of all time by members of the animation field. It is one of Avery's [[Magnum Opus|most popular cartoons]], inspiring several of his own "sequel" shorts (which really were just shorts with a similar plot and the same characters, though notably Droopy was involved with many of the other shorts Wolfie and Red appear in) as well as influencing other cartoons and feature films for years afterward.
The story begins as a typical [[Tastes Like Diabetes|cutesy]] [[Disneyfication|retelling]] of "[[
The cartoon then takes us to Hollywood, where the Big Bad Wolf is now a womanizer who frequents night clubs, Red is now an [[Ms. Fanservice|incredibly attractive]] singer and dancer, and her Granny is a hotel/implied brothel owner and an (apparently) oversexed [[Abhorrent Admirer]] of Wolfie once she sees him. [[Hilarity Ensues|Hilarity does indeed ensue from there.]]
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* "The Shooting of Dan McGoo" (1945) -- A cartoon version of Edgar Guest's poem "The Shooting of Dan McGrew", which features Droopy.
* "Wild and Woolfy" (1945) -- A Western-themed short, also featuring Droopy.
* "Uncle Tom's Cabaña" (1947) -- An adaptation of ''[[Uncle
* "Little Rural Riding Hood" (1949) -- Essentially had a [[City Mouse]] / [[Country Mouse]] plot, with a hillbilly wolf and a sophisticated urban wolf. It occupies the 23rd place on the list of [[The 50 Greatest Cartoons]], though it incorporates [[Stock Footage]] of Red singing from "Swing Shift Cinderella."
Red also makes a cameo at the end of the Tex Avery short, "Big Heel-Watha" (1944). Red is a prominent character in the 2010 direct-to-video film ''[[
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* [[Lost Forever]]: Although [[Executive Meddling|the censors demanded the original ending to be changed]] it was said that the uncut version of the short was made but only send off for the troops at War. Tex collected uncut versions of his cartoons, so it is clearly unknown if it would ever turn up.
* [[Magic Skirt]]: [[Foregone Conclusion|Averted]] after Red's [[Big No]], though her leg blocks the view.
* [[Medium Awareness]]: At the beginning Red Riding Hood complains that every cartoon studio in Hollywood has re-enacted "[[
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: Red
* [[No Guy Wants to Be Chased]]: Once the tables are turned on Wolfie and Granny is lusting after ''him'', he is terrified and does his best to run away, to no avail.
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* [[She's Got Legs]]: Also Red
* [[Shout-Out]]:
** ''[[The Mask (
** [[Andre Norton]] had a line in one of her books where a character reacts to an unexpected discovery by quoting the second title card.
* [[Slapstick Knows No Gender]]: Grandma gets no special treatment and it's just as funny.
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