Red Hot Riding Hood is an animated cartoon short subject, directed by Tex Avery and released with the movie Dr. Gillespie's Criminal Case on May 8, 1943, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

The story begins with a standard, narrated version of Little Red Riding Hood (with the wolf from Dumb-Hounded, the cartoon which saw the debut of Avery's Droopy).

Red performs onstage (a rendition of the 1941 classic hit song "Daddy") and the wolf goes mad with desire.

The Wolf pulls out two guns and commits suicide, but his ghost rises from his dead body and howls and whistles at Red as he did earlier.

The element is the musical scene where Red performs and "Wolfie", as she calls him, reacts in a highly lustful fashion.

Avery claimed that a censor made him edit out footage of the Wolf getting sexually aroused at the sight of Red performing.

However, an army officer at Washington, D.C., then heard about the censored prints and asked Louis B. Mayer for uncut ones.

Blair was instructed to animate a new ending, where the wolf's face is torn off as a mask and he is revealed to be a man.

[8] This ending, deleted for reasons of implied bestiality and how it made light of marriage (something that was considered taboo by the Hays Office's Production Code), was replaced with one (that has also been edited, but only on television) where The Wolf is back at the nightclub and tells the audience he is done chasing women, and if he ever even looks at a woman again, he will kill himself.

Mark Kausler provided a copy of a continuity script that clarified that Wolf married Grandma and not Red.