* AccidentalAesop: This episode makes it clear that sexual harassment isn't any more fun for men than it is for women. It's also a case of ValuesResonance, since it averts DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale in a ''1940s'' cartoon.
* BestKnownForTheFanservice: It's a very funny cartoon for sure, but we all know the ''real'' reason why it's such a popular short.
* FanNickname: Red for the eponymous showgirl, both for her hairstyle and her red dress in this short. Many years later, the WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry direct to video films that she stars in [[AscendedFanon officially named her Red]] (though she was named "Miss [=VaVoom=]" on ''The Tom and Jerry Kids Show'').
* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments:
** Red yelling "NOOO!" after pretending to be flattered by the Wolf's promises.
** The Wolf, listening to the SickeninglySweet narrator in the initially straight fairy tale, gives an AsideGlance of pure, fed-up disgust.
* GeniusBonus: Among the promised gifts that the Wolf uses to entice Red are a set of new whitewall tires. This was a nod to commentary on the rubber shortage during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, as it was originally a WartimeCartoon.
* HarsherInHindsight: At the end of the cartoon, the Wolf, after being through with women, commits suicide upon seeing Red again. Coincidentally, his voice actor, Frank Graham, ended his life years after the cartoon's release following his girlfriend breaking up with him.
* MemeticMutation:
** The Wolf's exaggerated reaction to seeing Red Hot Riding Hood has been referenced constantly, from ''Film/TheMask'' to ''WesternAnimation/TheCritic''.
** Since 2020, the video has also become a meme on social media as a way of mocking "simps" and neckbeards (i.e. "(x group) when they see a gamer girl"). It eventually mutated into the [[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/booba Booba]] meme after crossing over with Pepe frogposting on Website/FourChan. The "Booba" meme is, however, used as an unironical appreciation of sex appeal (most often the [[ShamelessFanserviceGirl intentional kind]]) in contrast to the more ironic original.
* ValuesResonance: Red, while obviously drawn to be a sex symbol, is shown to be capable of holding her own and gets away from the wolf on her own, and the wolf, while relatable to the kind of horndog men who enjoyed these cartoons in the 40s, ends up being [[LaserGuidedKarma the butt of the overall joke]]. Even the wolf's takeaway, that women are nothing but trouble, is presented as him being in the wrong and his blowing his brains out over seeing Red again is clearly meant to make him seem like an idiot. Grandma knows when to call it quits, but she is not spared by slapstick karma for her own harassment of the Wolf.
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