[1] It starred Pat Thornton, Sandy Jobin-Bevans, Levi MacDougall, Jeff McEnery, Vivieno Caldinelli and Tal Zimerman, and was a spinoff of the online sitcom The Owl and the Man.

[1][2] Some notable guest appearances on the show included comics Jon Dore, Colin Mochrie and Seán Cullen.

[3] The title "Hot Box" relates to the show's frame story, which starts in each episode's opening sequence, which depicts a box which falls from space, and is discovered by scientists.

[2] Throughout the episode, the scientists then perform disastrous experiments involving the box, which contains screens displaying the show's sketches.

These sketches include cartoons, commercial parodies, puppets,[4] and fake movie trailers.