Pixar film:
FIRE IN THE HOOOOOLE!!!
- Riley scoring her first hockey goal!
- All the emotions working together to make sure Riley's first meal was a happy one.
- Sadness using a pragmatic method of getting in the Subconscious area. Just go to the door, get caught by the guards... and get thrown in by the guards.
- Bing Bong sacrificing himself to help Joy get out of the memory dump, telling her to sing louder as he jumps off. Then he cheers her getting out, and asks her to take Riley to the moon. Doubles as a Tear Jerker.
- The entire "race against time" sequence, with Riley running away from home interchangeably with the emotions trying to stop her before it's too late, all with tense music
playing. - Joy using the Imaginary Boyfriend Generator to create a makeshift ladder big enough to launch herself from the Family Island trampoline towards Headquarters and grab Sadness in the process. She even gets a Meaningful Echo to Sadness saying, "I'm positive you'll get lost in there" when saying, "I'm positive this is crazy!" Doubles as a Funny Moment when the boyfriends shout, "FOR RILEY!"
- Disgust provoking Anger to burn up, so she can break the glass to pull Joy and Sadness to safety.
- When Sadness is finally allowed control, she lets the blue touch her previous Core Memories, providing Riley the deep, cleansing cry she truly needed.
- All props to Kaitlyn Dias for making Riley's painfully realistic-sounding crying one of, (if not the) most memorable scenes in the entire film.
- Doubles as this and a Tear Jerker. In interviews, Kaitlyn has said to have used the thought of her cat dying to get the emotions across.
- The final scene, ("Let's play some hockey!!!") shows that all the emotions are involved in Riley's enjoyment of her favorite sport. Even Sadness has a determined Bring It look on her face!
- Riley recovering the puck during that same scene makes it very clear that Riley really is back in her element.
Sadness: (As the opponent with the puck approaches the goal) Oh, Mom and Dad are watching us fail...Anger: (As Riley smacks the opponent's stick aside and takes the puck) Not for long! - Bing Bong's entire character arc is this. He starts out annoying, self-centered, not really very helpful, and in fact detrimental to the quest at more than one point. Then he sees that Riley really has outgrown him, and given the pattern that both Disney and Pixar movies were showing at the time, it would have surprised very few viewers if he were to become Inside Out's "Hidden Bad Guy." Then he defies all expectations with a surprising and very moving Heroic Sacrifice. Way to go, Bing Bong. Way to go.
- Fear is a walking moment of awesome. The emotion lives up to his name, being scared all the time and cautious while predicting dangers. But he never gives up, most of the time at least. Fear tries to find solutions to fix the missing core memories, even working to hold tentative new ones in place with his body. Even in the climax, he is doing all he can to rescue Riley from her depression and knocks himself silly when banging things against the control panel and the glass. You have to admire someone who is scared all the time but isn't afraid to try anyway.
