The term hot seat or hotseat can refer to:
- "Being in the hot seat", an expression for a high-pressure situation in which a great deal of attention and scrutiny is focused on a person or organization
- Hot seat, a slang term for the electric chair
- Hotseat (multiplayer mode), a multiplayer mode in computer games, where players take consecutive turns in a single "seat"
- Hot Seat (talk show), a former syndicated politically oriented talk show in the United States
- Hot Seat (game show), a former ABC game show in the United States
- Hot seat, the term used for the contestant's chair on the game show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
- Millionaire Hot Seat, the 2009 relaunch of the Australian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.
- Hot Seat (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
Famous quotes containing the words hot seat, hot and/or seat:
“The fact that the mental health establishment has equated separation with health, equated women’s morality with soft-heartedness, and placed mothers on the psychological hot seat has taken a toll on modern mothers.”
—Ron Taffel (20th century)
“For do but note a wild and wanton herd
Or race of youthful and unhandled colts
Fetching mad bounds, bellowing and neighing loud,
Which is the hot condition of their blood;
If they but hear perchance a trumpet sound,
Or any air of music touch their ears,
You shall perceive them make a mutual stand,
Their savage eyes turned to a modest gaze
By the sweet power of music.”
—William Shake{peare (1564–1616)
“Unpleasant questions are being raised about Mother’s Day. Is this day necessary? . . . Isn’t it bad public policy? . . . No politician with half his senses, which a majority of politicians have, is likely to vote for its abolition, however. As a class, mothers are tender and loving, but as a voting bloc they would not hesitate for an instant to pull the seat out from under any Congressman who suggests that Mother is not entitled to a box of chocolates each year in the middle of May.”
—Russell Baker (20th century)