[3] Grgic was recruited for the NFB by producers Robert Verrall and Wolf Koenig after they saw his film Scabies.
Much of Hot Stuff's humour had been initially improvised; Gerald Budner, who was himself an animator, ad-libbed voices for two of the characters, a snake and a cat.
Arioli had been annoyed with Budner's banter, but Koenig insisted on retaining these asides.
It aired on ABC in the fall of 1971 as part of the children's television show Curiosity Shop, executive produced by Chuck Jones.
[5] It also aired (minus the opening & closing credits) on The Great Space Coaster in the 1980s.