History Fridge / InsideOut

* Imagine what goes in the head of a [[TheFundamentalist religious fanatic]], A [[KnightTemplar Knight Templar]] from UsefulNotes/TheCrusades, a CorruptPolitician, [[TheMafia crime lords]], [[SerialKiller serial killers]], drug addicts, [[GeneralRipper war crminals]], [[EvilOverlord dictators]], [[ManipulativeBastard manipulators]] and other horrible, vicious people.

* Anger's idea: [[spoiler: He reasons that since the core memories were created in Minnesota, he can create new ones there too. Fear realizes that this would entail running away from home, ''and her family'' in order to be happy. In actuality, the motions of running away destroys Honesty Island and it is only after it starts to destroy Family Island that Anger realizes the idiotic nature of the plan. But think about it, most irrational thoughts are due to us feeling angry about something. Anger is portrayed as a literal hotheaded emotion - '''prone to making rash decisions'''!]]

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* What happens to the Emotions and everybody inside the brain when a Person in all kinds of Fiction loose Consciousness when drinking a Magical potion of any kind like Stella Accidently drink Mackrill's fish potion causing her to faint to unconsciousness before she turn herself into a sea creature from ''WesternAnimation/HelpImAFish'' and Shrek, Donkey and Fiona in ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'' when Shrek drank Fairy Godmother's Happily Ever After Potion causing him and fiona loose senses and turn into Humans and donkey into a Horse?
* Wonder what's going on inside the WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd's Brain?

* Imagine what goes in the head of a [[TheFundamentalist religious fanatic]], a CorruptPolitician, [[TheMafia crime lords]], serial killers, drug addicts, [[GeneralRipper war crminals]], [[EvilOverlord dictators]], [[ManipulativeBastard manipulators]] and other horrible, vicious people.

* Bing Bong is a cute, cheerful pink animal who was loved by a little girl but was eventually left behind by her...doesn't that sound an awful lot like [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory3 a certain villain from a previous Pixar film]]? Someone who watched ''Inside Out'' unspoiled and had already watched ''Toy Story 3'' could easily come to the conclusion that Bing Bong will turn out to be the villain or at the very least get angry and lash out at Riley after learning that she's forgotten him due to these parallels with Lotso -- and let's not forget that his intro in which he's caught trying to steal some of Riley's memories to keep for himself and then seems a little ''too'' eager to help Joy and Sadness by insisting on taking a shortcut that only delays them further comes across as a tad shady -- which would make his HeroicSacrifice even more of a surprise and a TearJerker for those who thought he would be the bad guy. In short, Bing Bong is a BaitAndSwitch {{Expy}} of Lotso who ends up being his [[CounterpartComparison good counterpart]] and an example of what Lotso ''could'' have become had he truly cared more about his girl's happiness more than his own well-being.

[[folder: Fridge Logic]]
!!FridgeLogic

* Why didn't Sadness use a cloud to return to headquarters immediately ?
** The cloud didn't look like it would carry Sadness ''and'' Joy, and Sadness also considered it pretty important to get Joy back as well.
* If memories can be returned to headquarters, like with the gum jingle, why didn't Joy do that with the core memories instead of trying to hand deliver them? It would have saved a lot of stress and destruction of Riley's personality. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZvW-pDDs9U As shown by]] ''WebAnimation/HowItShouldHaveEnded''.
** What if Joy was afraid that the other emotions affect the core memories the same way Sadness has been doing to certain emotions? Joy probably didn't want to risk it.
** Joy is also a pretty intense control freak. Her goal is not just to get the memories back, but to return everything back to 'normal', despite the fact that idea of 'normal' is actually damaging Riley. Normal (as Joy defines it) would be the memories back in place, and her back in charge of the console.
** Even with the core memories in place, Riley still couldn't be happy if Joy wasn't there to operate the console. Lacking Joy's presence to reinforce their impact, the happy core memories might just have been spat out of their receptacle, same as the non-core hockey memories Fear tried to stuff into it.
** According to the directors' commentary, one of the main reasons for the gum commercial (other than a good joke) was to establish that memories can be sent back (Joy does try to use the recall tube eventually), so the directors must have thought it through. The emotions probably just forgot to think of sending the core memories back, and the emotions definitely couldn't get back through those tubes.
* Why didn't Bing Bong's bag [[spoiler:disappear with him when he was left in the memory dump?]]
** Probably because Joy was holding them, and she's an Emotion, not a Memory, so she's much more resistant to the memory dump's effects.
** Bing Bong never specifically says where he ''got'' the bag, only that it's imaginary. It could be that he picked it up in Imagination Land somewhere, rather than having already carried it when Riley dreamed up her imaginary friend.
*** None of the flashbacks of young Riley playing with him show him with the bag, so odds are he did get it elsewhere.
* What kind of bus company allows a kid to travel to another city alone without his/her parents' authorization?
** One with automated ticket-dispensers, probably.
* For that matter, why didn't the teacher/school call the parents/police right after their child didn't show up for class?
** Maybe the teacher assumed she was sick?
** The fact they didn't call home is likely due to the fact she isn't on the attendance sheet yet, it being only her second day. Some schools don't update them until a full week later, so the new kids constantly had to remind the teacher their name wasn't called out.
** Also in the US missing people aren't looked for until they have been gone 24 hours, because most of them come back of their own accord.
*** This is absolutely not true. Missing people in the US are looked for as soon as they're absent from a place where they are expected to be, especially when they're considered a vulnerable person. Like, for example, an 11-year-old girl in a city where she knows nobody. Also, it still doesn't explain why the school wouldn't have called Riley's home to see if her parents knew she wasn't at school.
*** Presumably the Andersens' landline phone number was changed by the move. Could be that one of her parents transposed a couple of the digits while filling out paperwork to register Riley for school, not being used to the new number. The school's query could be waiting in the voice mail of some complete stranger: one with a similar phone number, whose outgoing message to callers doesn't specify their name.
* There is another problem. Between Riley leaving home and the bus leaving, at least ten hours seemed to pass. Where did she spend it with no one suspecting anything?
** The bus station was pretty far from the Andersens' new house, and even assuming Riley has a bicycle it's probably still on its way from Texas in the moving van. She probably spent several hours walking there, maybe with a stop at some fast food place for a snack and potty break, before she got there, and a similar journey to get back around dusk. It only looked very late in the day when she boarded the bus because it was overcast.
*** It depends on what you count as far away. Riley's new house could be three or fewer miles away from the bus station, and anyone can walk that far in one go.
*** Riley's mother had not left for work yet and she told Riley to have a good day at school when Riley was heading out. Both parents were home from work and had the time to consult each other about Riley's whereabouts and call Riley's phone a couple of times by the time she returned. IIRC it was getting dark when Riley received the phone calls and she seemed to get home within a few minutes, or at most an hour or two.
*** It's sunset when Riley crosses the street to reach the station, so it was definitely dusk, not overcast, when she's about to board.
** In the novelization, Fear directs her to stop at a library to do research on the dangers of a cross-country bus trip.
** Depressed people also tend to move more slowly.
** She may have had a long wait at the station that wasn't shown, as there probably aren't many daily departures from San Francisco that head towards Minnesota.
* [[spoiler:Bing Bong]] is never mentioned again [[spoiler:after he fades away]]. Might be a bit of FridgeBrilliance (or FridgeHorror) in that after [[spoiler: he falls into the pit and fades away, Bing Bong is incapable of being remembered not only by Riley, but by the emotions as well.]]
** [[spoiler:Does this mean Joy will forget her promise to Bing Bong to take Riley to the moon?]]
* Although Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, and Anger are each meant to represent one of Riley's emotions, they also have their own emotional ranges. Joy can feel sadness, Fear can feel disgust, Anger can feel fear, and so on and so forth. Does this mean that each emotion has their own mental control center, populated by their own range of emotions? And do ''those'' emotions have their own emotional ranges that are controlled by their own mental control centers? [[RecursiveReality How deep does this go?]]
** It fits the film's theme on emotions being both good and bad. Fear snarking what he considers to be FauxHorrific shows that fear allows people recognize what to be afraid of and what not to be, while Anger being afraid can be taken as a form of regret (someone being angry at themselves for a dumb decision).
*** That, and the emotions don't have to be one-note; that they aren't shows that Riley is healthy. Fear isn't afraid when he's seen enough to know there's nothing to be afraid of, so Riley isn't needlessly anxious, and Anger is capable of reconsidering rash decisions, so that Riley isn't needlessly obstinate and bullheaded.
** Another possibility is that each 'emotion' is a sentient construct who primarily feels and exudes their own assigned emotion, but is also capable of feeling the other emotions. However, these other feelings are created and fueled by the other respective emotions, and feeling them requires interaction and collaboration between emotions. This is why Joy, Disgust, Anger, and Fear seemed to get along well; they regularly collaborated and understood each other, and they also regularly displayed traits of the other emotions. Joy, for instance, displayed frustration and disgust at certain events, and Anger showed joy at certain prospects, such as curse words. Sadness, however, was largely ostracized and misunderstood, and thus they couldn't really feel sadness as well. It was only after a long journey with Sadness that Joy could really feel and understand Sadness. As a result, the emotions, able to understand each other, can collaborate more efficiently, and understand what is best for Riley.
*** It helps to remember that the emotions aren't like three-dimensional human characters. They're most themselves when there's a reason for Riley to feel the emotion concerned. Joy has to be happy, and when she winds up in the memory dump and there is literally nothing that can make her happy ever again, she completely breaks down; when Sadness is sad, she's ''so'' sad that a minor setback has the power to make her fall on her face on the ground, etc. If there's no reason for Riley to feel an emotion, the emotion concerned wanders away from the console; Fear, Anger and Disgust do this more often than Joy or Sadness, and because the emotion itself isn't engaged, the emotion character comes across as uninterested in whatever's going on.[[note]]This is why Fear responds to Riley's dream as if it's bad TV: most of it is just baffling and inconsequential, so there's no reason for him to find it frightening.[[/note]] The reason why Joy almost always stays at the console is that, Riley's life being normally a good one, Joy gets to do most of the work and so considers herself the boss. She is naturally exuberant ''because'' she is what she is, so she's always the one looking to be in control, whereas Sadness is naturally passive and doormat-ish ''because'' she's sad, and as a result she never asserts herself enough to be the one in control. The one thing all the emotions have in common is that they want what's best for Riley, but what Joy painfully learns is not how to be sad, but how to recognise when her particular skills aren't needed.[[note]]This is touchingly played with when Joy and Sadness are gone, and Fear and Disgust attempt to do her job: Riley's Mom asks her if she had a good day at school, and Fear, knowing that Riley is expected to say yes, nudges the control, but because he's Fear, Riley's response is a bewildered "Sure, I guess...". When Disgust tries to be similarly positive, it comes out as Riley being sarcastic.[[/note]] When Sadness, at Joy's urging, finally takes the controls, she doesn't exactly look triumphant. She gives Joy a grateful look, but as she takes control of Riley she just looks quietly confident, because at last she knows she's needed but she also knows it's going to be painful. And when her efforts are successful, in that Riley breaks down and admits how unhappy she is and her parents don't get angry, as Riley feared they would, but give her a hug, then and only then does Sadness look genuinely pleased, like a surgeon who's just pulled off a tricky operation.
* The emotions not knowing about puberty in the final scene. They know everything that Riley knows; surely a twelve-year-old would have heard of puberty.
** FridgeBrilliance -- Riley's heard the word but doesn't really know what it means yet. In any case, twelve isn't an inconceivably late age for a child to only just be learning about puberty (on average most girls enter it around 10-11 and menstruation doesn't usually begin until 12-13), so assuming her parents haven't had The Talk yet and she hasn't yet had sex-ed classes, it's not inconceivable that she wouldn't have full knowledge of what it was yet. Perhaps a bit on the late side, but not unreasonably so. I seem to remember I was probably around that age when I first learned what it was. In any case, RuleOfFunny; it's just a joke.
** Riley doesn't have any younger siblings, and many children first receive TheTalk when there's a little sister or brother on the way. Riley's parents may just not have worked up the nerve to go into details yet.
** There's knowing that there's such a thing as puberty, and there's having had The Talk about it...and then there's the experience of it. Between the second and third, the learning curve suddenly gets ''waaaaaaaay'' steeper. The button presumably turns on Riley's Puberty Mode, giving her hormones full access to her emotions. (Which could presumably be dramatised as the emotions fighting off an attack by robots.)
** The emotions also seem to be blinkered (so to speak) by their own natures/perspectives: Joy didn't recall the sad aspects of the twisty tree memory until her experience of the memory dump, so it seems like the emotions focus on the aspect of an event/memory that's in tune with their own natures, and overlook or forget aspects that aren't. Even though Riley's most likely heard the basic information about puberty, Joy probably couldn't see any joyful aspects of it, so she'd put it aside and forget it. As for Disgust not remembering, that is more of a stretch; so, yes, RuleOfFunny.
* There are actually people named Joy. It probably gets pretty confusing in their Headquarters.
** Or their Joys might simply call themselves Delight for convenience.
* When broccoli rears its ugly head, Disgust says, "That is not brightly-colored or shaped like a dinosaur--" Maybe it's just me, but I would say broccoli is brightly-colored.
** The stems, maybe, but the florets are ''dark'' green. Certainly it's not the sort of brilliant hue that a toddler's Disgust would be screening for.
* Carlos Alazraqui, who voices the Brazilian helicopter pilot in the main movie, also voices Dad's Fear in ''Riley's First Date?''. Evidently, Dad's worst fear is that of losing the two people he loves, as is indeed shown by the short and his emotions reacting badly to the idea of Riley going out with Jordan.
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[[folder: Fridge Horror]]
!!FridgeHorror
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** Best case scenario: Depending on what you believe, they either are move into another newborn or taken to [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistance wherever their person ends up]]. Worst case... [[InferredHolocaust yeah.]]

* Imagine what goes in the head of a [[TheFundementalist religious fanatic]], a CorruptPolitician, crime lords, serial killers, drug addicts, [[GeneralRipper war crminals]], [[TheCaligula dictators]], [[ManipulativeBastard manipulators]] and other horrible, vicious people.

* Noticeably, Sadness isn't as upset as she usually is when she's [[spoiler: finally on the controls at the end of the movie]]. While it doesn't seem that she likes the turn that things have taken, she certainly is happier than usual. As someone on Youtube pointed out, this isn't because Sadness likes making Riley upset; it's because Sadness and the others finally know her purpose. Along with that, one of Sadness' roles is to ignite sympathy and empathy from others, aside from making Riley cry, which was what the other emotions pretty much knew her as before the end of the movie. Therefore, when Riley [[spoiler: ended up crying in her parents' arms]], that means that Sadness not only saved the day, yet she also now has a purpose. That is what Sadness has to be happy about in that scene.

** And it goes even deeper: what got Riley in trouble was that their emotions couldn't work with each other, which was shown to be how it works for adults. Bing Bong it's the spirit of childhood, and Riley needed to dump it.

** Notice that when Dad 'puts the foot down,' Anger gives the order, but Fear and Disgust are the ones that turn the [[TwoKeyedLock Two Keyed Lock]]. The joke of MundaneMadeAwesome aside, it shows he's not just doing it out of anger, it has all the other emotions checking it as the appropriate answer. Fear having one key makes perfect sense, because having to use heavy forms of punishments means there've been mistakes, so it's worried about something being wrong in their relationship, and also Fear is the one in charge of evaluating hazards, so he will literally the last one who will be convinced that's a good decision, and by having him in charge of it means doing it only when they are absolutely sure of it. Disgust might seem a random choice, unless you remember she's also in charge of social interations: she has the key because she's the one considering how it will effect his relationship with his family, and that's not harmful to it.

* Someone on the Headscratchers page brought up what would be happening in HQ if someone burst out into uncontrollable laughter, with someone else responding that a laughter command just gets stuck in the console after Joy inputs it. People have actually died from this; imagine what ''that's'' like inside someone's HQ, with the emotions slowly suffocating(people that die from laughter tend to die from the inability to breathe) and the Mind World growing dark/fading/whatever-happens-when-someone-dies as they try desperately to fix the console. Not to mention [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone what the one who input the command in must be thinking in their last moments.]]

* [[spoiler:Given that Joy is the one who always has Riley's immediate happiness in mind and is definitely the face of the movie, it would appear that she is most evidently TheHero of the story. However, the moral of Inside Out turns out to be the importance of not repressing one's emotions, as this is not a healhty way of navigating through life. Joy's well-intentioned attempts to keep Riley happy cause her to keep Sadness from realizing her purpose and doing her job, causing the majority of conflicts throughout the story (including Riley's depression), thus making Sadness the true protagonist and Joy the antagonist!]]

* Riley's love of cats is a common quirk for girls and children alike, however it's likely this stems from some voice clips used during her childhood sequence which were recycled from Boo (''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc''), after all what was Boo's favorite word? KITTY!