History Fridge / InsideOut

* If you look in the background during Riley's hockey tournament, you'll see a sign that says "[[http://whatculture.com/film/inside-out-22-easter-eggs-in-jokes-and-references-you-need-to-see.php/17 Tri-County Youth Hockey]]". Yep, this film not only was set in the same setting as WesternAnimation/ToyStory but also ''confirms'' that Toy Story took place in San Francisco.

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* The ''very first appearance'' of Sadness foreshadows the ending. She shows up moments after Riley's birth and makes her cry, cuing irritation from Joy, who has been enjoying the happiness she created in Riley previously and doesn't understand what Sadness' job is other than to be a huge buzzkill. She doesn't realize the purpose of a baby's cry: to alert her parents to her needs and to make sure she's fed. If Joy had understood the role of Sadness from the beginning, much of the film's disaster might have been avoided!

* All of the emotions have a single color scheme, except for Joy. Instead of hair in the bright yellow color normally associated with that emotion, she inexplicably shares Sadness's blue hair. [[spoiler: This is foreshadows the climactic reveal that many of Riley's most joyful memories still have a touch of sadness to them. Sadness was a part of joy from the very beginning.]]

** Plus, she ''is'' from Minnesota.

** Unlike many heroic sacrifices in film, Bing Bong's sacrifice is never brought up or mentioned for the remainder of the film, nor used as some kind of moral. It's because he's been [i]forgotten[/i].

* A bit of AdultFear: imagine if Joy and Sadness hadn't gotten back when they did and Riley had gotten further in running away. An eleven-year-old girl, having led a rather sheltered life, out alone on the streets...

* Imagine what kind of demented relationship the emotions must have in [[TheSociopath the head of a sociopath]], like [[WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles Syndrome]]?

* Whenever memories are viewed in Headquarters or on their own, they seem to have a slightly hazy overlay, or *filter* over them. Sadness turning the happy memories into sad ones reflects how since the move, Riley has been viewing these memories with a sense of nostalgia. Memories that used to bring her joy now instead make her sorrowful and long for her old home in Minnesota, which is the exact definition of nostalgia.

** Bing Bong also embodies imagination, and the wish-fulfilment fantasies of a young child for the ideal playmate. What is Riley's urge to return to Minnesota, if not a wish-fulfilment fantasy: the obsessive notion that hopping on a bus will offer a quick-fix solution to her pain? She needs to give up on imaginary ways of dodging her distress and confront it, by telling her parents how bad she feels in reality.

*** WordOfGod confirms both of these. In addition: Anger is based on a fire brick, Fear is based on a raw nerve, and Joy is based on a star. All of these are appropriate to their domains and temperments.

** Actually, it's Mom's Disgust who complains about Dad "making that stupid face again", to which Mom's Anger growls "I could just strangle him!"

** As explained above, Riley's parents emotions are far more balanced and subdued. While Riley's anger literally goes up in flames and screams in outrage, Dad's anger does get louder and even begins to cook a bit, but never goes past this and is easily satisfied when feeling he accomplished something. Mom's anger is even more calm, the most she does is complain about "that stupid face". Dad needs Disgust and Fear to allow some kind of angry action, Mom seems to not act on anger at all and instead Anger always uses the "call memory of Helicopter Guy" button when she would have to take charge.

* When reviewing the new house ideas, Disgust is the one who says Riley cannot live in a cookie. She's the one who would care about the obvious problem of bad teeth.

* Of course, Disgust's character model is based on broccoli. The first time Riley ever felt disgust was when she was being fed broccoli. Broccoli is the thing that made disgust exist.

* Aside from Riley's overall need to experience Sadness in order to snap out of her numbed depression, it also makes sense that Sadness was the only one who could deactivate the Idea-Bulb for running away from home. As being stuck in San Francisco was making her both outraged and repelled - feelings that ''reinforced'' her desire to leave - neither Anger nor Disgust could dislodge the Bulb, only screw it in deeper. Fear couldn't help either, as Riley's more long-standing fear of losing everything she'd loved in her old town was stronger than her immediate fear of taking a bus that far alone. Even Joy, had she been available to try, would likely only have tightened the Bulb instead of loosening it, because Riley doesn't yet have any happy feelings about San Francisco for Joy to make her gravitate towards. But the one thing that ''could'' derail the idea of running away was the one which she'd been too blanked-out to realize: the simple, albeit heartbreaking recognition that it ''wouldn't work'' to go back. Their old house has been sold, her old friend has already found another buddy, she'd have no place to stay there, and she'd be even lonelier in Minnesota because she'd left her parents behind. Riley had to acknowledge that running away was futile before she could get off the bus and rush back to where real help was waiting, and ''only'' Sadness could provide the painful, yet crucial moment of insightful despair that would make her forfeit such a doomed course of action, thus detaching the Idea-Bulb from the console.

* 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. 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.

** In most cases? Not very. Anger and Sadness have a little more input during the pre-menstrual phase, is all.
*** And possibly Disgust spending most of the actual period complaining.