Hot Seat

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 and/or seat:

    “They was givin’ me ten thousand watts a day, you know, and I’m hot to trot. Next woman takes me on gonna light up like a pinball machine and pay off in silver dollars.”
    —Laurence Hauben, U.S. screenwriter, Bo Goldman, and Milos Forman. Randall McMurphy (Jack Nicholson)

    “I now leave Charleston, the seat of Satan, dissipation, and folly.”
    —Administration in the State of Sout, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)