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my boyfriend and i have a theory that the reason why sadness couldn't stop touching everything was because she is having a breakdown for being too contained for a long time. like when you keep your feelings inside for too much and they start to overflow.

I love that this movie doesn't simplify things by just saying "You need sadness in order to appreciate joy" - it's actually more complex than that. Instead, the movie says, "Sadness is important on its own, because it allows us to process trauma and loss, gives us a way to signal to others that we need help, AND gives us the capacity to feel bad for other people and express empathy."

I think that the reason her moms main emotion is sadness is not bc she’s sad but bc her sadness has evolved into a more complex emotion: empathy. We see how Riley’s sadness helps bing bong feel better by being empathetic to him.

One thing I love about this movie is that it differentiates between Sadness and Depression, and it shows it perfectly.

As someone with a history of depression, this movie is hands down the best representation of what it feels like. Being sad is at least an emotion that you can understand and react to, depression is just....nothing. It takes over every other aspect of your personality until you're just kind of a hollow shell shuffling through life. Great job Pixar.

I can understand the scene where Bing Bong disappears being many peoples saddest moment in the movie. But the scene that really makes me cry is when Riley comes home and breaks down in tears about being homesick

It definitely took me a bit to realize what Sadness was trying to do at the start when she started touching memories and turned them sad. It's the child natural instincts trying to process emotions and memories and recalling the good times, which naturally would turn into melancholy/sadness of wanting to go back to that time.

This movie actually helped my own younger cousins understand more what I was going through when my own depression was at it's worse. There were times where I couldn't get off the couch and one of my youngest cousins who was around 5 or 6 at the time came over to m and whispered "Are you all greyed up?" and when I nodded she got me all her stuffed animals, favorite snacks, and had my aunt put on a movie and she got up on the couch and cuddled with me all afternoon. Later that day when she saw me smiling said "Good, being yellow and blue is better than grey" and I have thought about that ever since.

I really like how the minds of everyone looks different, Riley's was sort of a spaceship, the dad's was more a control center and the moms looked like a theater or a stage

aaron immediately crying at wholesome dad moment tm is a vibe

Calvin: kill sadness Also Calvin: *emotionally destroyed at sad things in other reactions*

Cinema Therapy said it best, there is a type of love that is only experienced through sadness & a type of joy that is only experienced through grief. Rewatching this movie now hits different. A really close friend of mine passed 2 years ago of cancer & every happy memory I have of her is coloured in blue. But that's what makes them beautiful.

Something I noticed was that every emotion was designed with just their exclusive color but Joy's hair is blue. So I took that as you need a little sadness to really appreciate and understand joy.

As someone who grew up with severe depression as a child, I really appreciate the movie not demonizing sadness. I feel like especially when you're younger, you're told that being sad isn’t valid emotion because you're ‘ too young to have anything to be sad about’. that kind of stuff can make you bottle up a lot of emotions which can be really unhealthy. When you're a kid and you get depression, it can feel really confusing because you don't know why you're having such big emotions. With Riley, she ended up being numb to all of her emotions which is kind of how I was before I finally went to therapy

"Does a memory ever fade forever?" I had a very happy surprise from my daughter; as I watched her walking across bricks, but changing her feet direction so she didn't step on the cracks. It brought back a memory of me at a restaurant in town doing the same thing she was doing, my mom told me to slow down so I don't .... Right as she was saying fall I tripped and smacked my head real hard against a table. I started crying, and my grandpa said, "Check to see if his brains are falling out!" My grandmother shot him a look, and said "Don't tell him that" because that made me cry harder. Both of them past away just a few months apart when I was three. I asked family members if my memory checks out. Everything checks out, I was even told that grandpa was a kidder, and would lightly tease the grandchildren. I love that I got this memory back, and while it made three year old me cry, 40 year old me is chuckling right along with my grandpa.

I love that core memories can "change color" years after they originally happened based on whatever is currently happening in your life. Or from finding out new information that you didn't know at the time. Memories of a loved one are tinged blue when that loved one dies because, joyful as the memories may be, they're tainted by the fact that the person is now gone. However, despite the fact that they're tinged blue, the yellow in them is all the brighter because hindsight makes you recognize how wonderful that time really was.

I'm a psychology teacher, and I use this movie in class every year as we learn about how memories and emotions work! It's actually based (mostly) upon actual theory (although simplified a lot). Emotional maturation and learning how to cope with emotions is something a lot of my kids struggle with. Loved your reaction as always :D

Cinema Therapy did an episode on this movie. Apparently a lot of it, while simplified for children's understanding, is actually how our minds work.

18:18 Im glad Aaron got why sadnes was important right away. It’s not just about speciations joy, empathy, sympathy are important. Also sadness it’s a good way to share pain and let it out not just bottle it up. It was obvious that Riley was deeply hurting due to all the changes. She clearly wants to cry and express that she doesn’t feel okay with all those changes. Sadness felt the impulse to do something. So she started touching things. If Riley had cried from the beginning in front of her parents they could have sorted things out sooner.

35:31 BLIND WAVE HOW COULD YOU??? Joy’s revelation about the importance of sadness is one of the best parts of the movie!

Words can't express how good this film is. Imagine there being a big-budget kid's film whose central message is that growing up is an inherently melancholic experience and that in order to be mentally healthy you need to learn to process all of your emotions.

The happy/sad combo memories really make sense with loss. All of the happy memories get a touch of sadness when you remember. The definition of bittersweet.

I just love how sadness starts touching everything and wants to start driving. Riley needs to express unhappiness about the move, she's not doing well and the more joy and the rest keep her from making Riley feel sad or upset, the more she loses control and makes more things sad. Pushing down an emotion doesn't make it go away

That has to be the happiest newborn I’ve ever seen. My sister’s fourth child came out raging against the world and even almost a year later, he’s still howling with fury at an unfair world.

The fact that her happy memories become sad..Not cause Sadness touched the ball..cause that's what happens...Happy memories become sad cause you can never relive that memory

Fun fact : the song that plays when Joy is crying in the memory dump is called "Tears of Joy".

If you guys get a chance, check out the short that comes after this, Riley's First Date, which has the dad's perspective when a BOY comes to the house to see Riley.

It's interesting to see how each emotion has what's called a crippling overspecialization : each is an expert for the emotion they embody (obviously) but they utterly suck at making Riley feel anything else. During the dinner argument, Disgust only manages to trigger a sarcastic answer when pretending to be Joy ; Fear triggers insecurity and anxiety ; and Anger triggers agressivity and irritation.

The idea that 3/4s of the crew hasn't seen this blows my mind, but I absolutely love watching people see this for the first time and just sobbing from how prominent the messaging is so I'm not complaining (got a feeling this'll happen to most if not all of them by the end and with how long this vid is I'm super excited for the discussion afterwards). My favorite little detail that I don't see anyone talking about is how some of the emotions have one main color, but Joy has blue hair and eyes to show her connection to sadness as a feeling and Disgust has a purple ascot cause that feeling comes from fear. I've seen this movie so many times, and I only realized the Disgust one recently so props to the Pixar character designers for coming up with that

Everyone cries over bing bong but the scene that gets me is when she just breaks down in front of her parents

I absolutely love how it depicts depression, but also how joy could represent people not understanding depressed people like sadness and trying to diminish it or make it go away when it sometimes just can't.

While Ratatouille is my favourite Pixar film, I'd argue this is their best one. A masterpiece visualising such a complex topic, yet simple story. Hits me every time. 4:38 Fascinating how Eric starts us off with "Oh I don't want sadness to be more prominent" and hitting exactly what this film is about :D

I really like the idea of sadness touching a memory and changing its color. I think it's just cool to show the idea of how you can feel something in the moment of a memory, and then later on in your life, you may have a different perspective, and now when you think of that memory, it brings out a different emotion. Like how in the movie there is a happy memory that gets turned sad because Riley misses those times. Or maybe someone has a good memory with a previous lover, and now when they look back on it, it might make them angry, upset, or disgusted instead. Or maybe somebody had a moment where they were grossed out or upset by something, but their friend thought their reaction was funny, so maybe now they find that moment funny. I think it's just a really cool concept that they added in the movie

The ending scene where Sadness takes over always makes me cry.

Fun fact: The writer/director's daughter (who inspired Riley/the whole movie) was the voice of Ellie in the first ten minutes of Up. Which actually makes a lot of sense with what we know about Riley before her pre-teen years.

"I'm glad she got to 11, and most of her memories were joyful" - Rick Weird to think that for most of us, it wasn't like that. But hey, a movie is a movie for a reason

This is a nice surprise. Saddest part is Bing Bong. Every kid had a perfect friend but eventually they just get forgotten with life's junk. We're always chasing that feeling as adults

Love that none of the other students bullied Riley for crying.

i saw this movie with a friend who had lost her father recently and hadn’t processed it. her family weren’t talking openly with their emotions etc and she had closed off from us and it could t have come at a more perfect time

Riley's brain is still very young and developing. These are the very basic aspects of emotion. In a technically more mature and wiser brain, Joy would develop into Appreciation, Sadness into Empathy, Disgust into Judgement, Anger into Discipline, and Fear into Insight and they all work together for the betterment of the human. But also emotions can work together like Joy and Sadness to express a feeling of comfort or love. Disgust and Anger can work together to express disappointment or loathing. Also Joy and Anger can work together to express revenge or justice, in terms of passion. Real human brains are of course not perfect and carry a whole lot more Core Memories and Islands of Personality that change color and break all the time. The idea of an emotion pressing a button but then it doesn't correlate to the same emotion would result in a mixed brain signal. For example: If Riley had Synesthesia, it may look like when Fear and Joy work together in an atypical way. Fear would be frantically asking for more information about broccoli and Joy decides to combine colors and taste in order to make Fear happy. Fear in his panic accepts the color and adds it to the knowledge bank, now the color purple is connected to broccoli. Fear and Joy are then both satisfied with the solution they found and that brain signal of taste and sound are interconnected. Riley would then be positively sure that she hates the color purple because seeing purple to her would in no doubt taste like broccoli and broccoli is gross. This movie is obviously very simplified, however, it is a great starting point for better appreciating your own and other's mental health.

Not being able to feel sadness of joy, tunnel vision, the train of thought derailing, losing your identity, feeling nothing. Such great depiction!

As someone with depression that had a traumatic experience bc of moving as a child- this movie is so important and hits so hard. I'm so glad kids get to watch it and even if they don't understand it all- they're going to be able to talk about it and understand it more as they grow up.

28:42 Another good example of Joy being egotistical 😂 It makes sense all main emotions have their good sides and bad sides.

On a rewatch I realized how perfectly this movie depicts depression. "We can't make Riley feel... anything.."

4:40 “aww I don’t want sadness to become more prominent” uh oh… you’re in for a rough one, Eric

I’ve seen this movies at least a dozen times and I still tear up every time Bing Bing fades away. Bing Bing, you noble bastard, rest in peace.

The Bing Bing rocket scene had me crying in the theater when this movie came out. I had a stuffed animal that I took everywhere and somewhere along the way I lost it and forgot. That scene and, "Take her to the moon for me," acted like closure for the pure joy/imagination I had as a child but forgot all about.

Will say this...soundtrack is perfection for this movie ! The notes and timing are so on point, so amazing !

first time i saw this movie, i was CERTAIN Bing Bong would be the twist villain, cuz every movie had one at this time. i had never been more wrong.

37:46 Richard Kind, the voice of Bing Bong actually cried each time he tried to say the line "Take her to the moon for me, ok?".

I feel like Amy Poehler is perfect as Joy, because she is pretty much just reprising her role as Leslie in Parks and Rec. In Parks she is super enthusiastic and wants to help everyone but she is also a complete steamroller who tries to make decisions for everyone else. Honestly, I feel like you could probably get the whole Parks cast to rehash their roles for this movie 😂 Leslie as Joy, April as Disgust, Ron as Anger and Tom as Fear. I’m not sure who could play sadness though.

The casting for this movie was amazing. The actor’s voice Sadness and Joy are perfect knowing how they are in Office and Parks and Rec

I’m glad you guys can now say you know about Bing Bong and what people feel when they say a show ‘Bing Bonged’ them. No matter how many times I see this movie, it always makes me cry. It’s just so beautifully done.

fun fact: the scene where baby riley first tries broccoli and digust appears, in some localizations the broccoli is green pepper! in many countries it is more detested by children

I love this movie so much. It really shows how important are all the emotions for us and even though “sadness, anger or fear” are the emotions people use to avoid. There’s nothing wrong on see some situations on the bright side, but also it is healthy and natural to let you feel other emotions and not just ignore them and force yourself to be happy. In this case Joy is avoiding Riley to start grieving (yes, moving out is a process of grief) about moving to another city, away of the place she called home her whole life and all her friends. As a child’s therapist this movie is perfect to teach children about the importance of the emotions and how to recognize them but not let them to take over of all your life. I’m so happy you reacted to it!!!

I love how the moment they saw the clown, both Eric and Calvin "reacted" the same way XD Even when we're older we still hate it.

I love how the movie portrays the fact that Riley avoids his problems and all the changes in his life. She wanted to continue being the sweet and cheerful Riley before her parents, so sadness was bottled up and she felt that she had to do something about it. She was fighting internally edited: I clarify for all those who stayed with the evil version of sadness

A sequel following someone living with autism would be interesting. Coupling alexithymia* with sensory problems would present a mind that functions very differently to Riley's, and would be a good start in showing how much variation there is in the way people's minds work. * Alexithymia is essentially having emotions but not being able to recognise them within yourself, and having reduced/no change in behavior in response to them. It is the 'emptiness' many describe when they have depression, as they lose sight of their emotions so they seem to be missing. Depending why you have it though, alexithymia can be a long-term/permanent feature that is simply the norm. I prefer to describe it as 'blank' since that implies there's nothing much there, but not that anything is missing. In other words, alexithymia isn't itself a problem, it's just different.

Aaron had such a unique experience to this move with being a father, i couldn't help but only watch him because he was having such a heart warming experience to this. it made my heart melt, and when he was crying i was right there with him. THIS is why I love blind wave.

“You know that pain and guilt can’t be taken away with the wave of a magic wand! They’re the things we carry with us, the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don’t want my pain taken away, I need my pain!” - Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

Sometimes I'm surprised at the movies you haven't seen but I don't mind, now I can just relive the movie and learn new perspectives on it.

I was just thinking about this movie! My therapist was telling me about "touchstone" memories, which are the first experience a person has that creates a dysfunctional thinking pattern (such as "I am not good enough" or "I am unsafe in this specific situation"). They usually happen during childhood and the brain gets stuck until that memory is fully processed. I thought "core" memories in this movie were very similar! I love how the creators tried to make this as psychologically accurate as possible.

I love Inside Out! I always laugh so hard when I hear the TRIPLE DENT GUM jingle, and the FOOT scene is just pure comedy gold. Plus the music in this movie is SO BEAUTIFUL!!!!

I love the idea of yes looking back at happy childhood memories can feel sad. Because yeah. We all want to go back to that but can. But it doesn't change that it was a good day/events.

This is been my comfort movie for eight years now, and one of the things I love about this movie is that the more I watch it the deeper it gets, which I think is pretty cool. My connection to this movie that when I was 14 I had moved from the only home I’ve ever loved to some shoddy townhouse that I didn’t want to be at in a town I grew to dislike. When Inside Out came out, I was only 16, so it only been two years since we moved and when I watched it, it just brought up so many emotions that I didn’t realize were still buried so deep. I was crying so hard in the movie theater that day, and I knew I was in for it at the beginning when the emotions were screaming as the family was getting all of their stuff packed up. That really sucked so yeah so I can’t watch the part before Riley cries in front of her parents without sobbing like a baby. It gets me every time. I’ve lived in my new town for 10 years now and this place still doesn’t feel like home.

Fun Fact: There are actually seven base emotions (according to the creators of the movie) but they reduced it to five to make story-telling easier. The two others that they kind of blended into the other characters were surprise and contempt.

1. I love Aaron breaking at the Bing-bong scene before it even started...cause I was too. 2. Sweet A Goofy Movie shirt, Aaron.

Inside Out 2 is currently scheduled for a June 2024 release and should cover Riley going through puberty and experiencing new emotions. The only actors that is so far confirmed (to my knowledge) is Amy Poehler as Joy, Phyllis Smith as Sadness, Lewis Black as Anger and Diane Lane as Riley's mom.

“Take her to the moon for me” And there’s the pixar tears

I love the way this move lays the groundwork for expressing a wide variety of emotional experiences: being able to express that fear is driving you, or that you don't have access to some of your emotions (either temporarily in response to trauma, or as a more long-standing thing), or that you express everything through a certain lens (like the bus driver), or that you feel like your emotions are at war with each other...it's very useful as a framework for making sense of some very esoteric concepts.

When Rick watches Brooklyn 99, Joy is pressing that button like nuts

I haven't seen this movie again since it premiered and goddamn I still love this movie and it really made me "emotional" again. Haha

I always thought the emotions were like a family themselves (Joy, Sadness, Fear, Disgust, Anger) They can’t live with each other, can’t live without each other either

This movie was not what I expected when I first saw it. I laughed a lot and cried 3 times. Great movie.

Her emotions as a kid to me seems like primary colors, they can be mixed with other colors and create something else. Sarcasm was produced in an attempt for Disgust pretending to be joy. For the parents, their emotions have evolved and I think it's a good representation that we have that dominant emotion in all of us and even if it's not sadness, it not that all negative. For the mother, sadness being in charge doesn't mean she's always sad. It's more on sadness already evolved to become empathy just like how its shown during that argument. She was the one who was trying to be more understanding or acknowledging of Riley's feeling. The father on the other hand with Anger being in charge, well that emotion actually evolved to Authority. He's not always mad but since Anger is usually considered as a strong feeling, and of conviction and with how it was portrayed in the film, Authority was in charge to show how to discipline Riley. Anyway, it's my first time watching your reactions. Looking forward to more :)

I know some processes in neurodivergent brains are different, but at least for autism and adhd the idea of the core emotions stands. Certainly what is different is how memories/experiences get processed, for example routines don't get reinforced as well through repetitions. Negative input also has more staying power, leading to things like rejection sensitivity. The way the emotions are expressed can also be different, like stimming for happiness.

What nobody seems to realize at the beginning, when they react to this, is that sadness MUST be there for a reason. Even against their best efforts, she's doing what she is there to do.

I am seeing the new "INDSIDE OUT 2" tonight and I chose you guys because yalls was the longest and most in depth watching then any of the other videos!!! Plus, I wanted an all-male perspective on the movie. I can tell the guy wearing the "Nope" shirt was really into it and the guy with the red shirt finally broke when Bing-Bong sacrificed his life to save Riley. I know yall are older and mature men, but what this movie taught me was that it was about growing up and losing your childhood. Memory dump. Your imaginary friend. Everything that Riley grew up with and misses from home make her have a mental breakdown to the point she wants to run away, and that's where the islands start to collapse. I finally broke at the end when it showed Sadness replaying alll the memories of what Riley missed as a child and that's something everyone misses. That's the point of this movie is about remembering how happy you were as a child and then you grow up!!! People move on. Just think of how many people youve lost in 9-years and how sad it was losing them. That's why I think the first one was an absolute brilliant and genius movie. I hope yall do one for the second one when it comes out. Cant wait!!!!💛❤💚💜💙

Sadness leading the mom: she has dealt with her traumatic/sad experiences and accepted them so now the team is led by it. Anger leading the dad: yeah well 😅😆

"Go save Riley" never fails to make me cry

Man I’m so happy you reacted to this, Rick’s conversation gave me an interesting idea of a sequel about the mind of someone on the autistic spectrum, I don’t know that would be interesting. I like how the movie shows how brains become more complex over time. Also, while I’m guessing you’ve already seen it, you should react to Mitchell’s vs the Machines if you haven’t yet.

complex emotions are definitely a thing. Even if my therapist hadn't had a long talk with me about it, that's one thing I already knew. I think of specific events in my life and it's easy to get overwhelmed by several different emotions at once. Learning how to regulate that is the part of the key to growing up.

I remember seeing this movie in theatres but I was way too young and lacking life experience that I didn't understand it on a deeper level. I can't help myself from tearing up from watching it now as an adult since it's much more relatable and I really appreciate the complex topics portrayed in it having experienced severe depression myself, everything was handled very well. By far my favorite Pixar movie, such a masterpiece.

I remember watching this movie for the first time in theatres with my mom. I was crying so hard I had to take a few minutes to calm down before leaving the theatre. It hit way too close to home.

This is a masterpiece of showing emotion. There are just times when i feel like some emotions are gone and the other ones are trying to fill in and it just makes things worse

This is the type of movie that as a kid I thought it was solid, pretty good even As an adult I realize just how masterful this movie really is

I agree with Rick, I would love for a sequel to go harder, but I don't think Disney would go into certain areas as they try to stay "family friendly"

the inside out theme/soundtrack is so simple yet so hit you in the feels

love how this movie show's that you cannot have happiness without sadness. You need to learn to balance the 2 or 1 will overtake and ruin your mindset on life. this is one of the few perfect films. where everytime I watch it I learn more about myself, and others. It's smart, witty, very very very sad, but it balances it out perfectly with some of the best humor and laughter. 10/10

I remember this movie being a core moment in our psychology class and I've made entire classes based on this movie alone. eckmans theory is being represented so thorough here and it involves a great deal of theory and psychological studies, even though there's a short film who did this earlier.

Rick's Joy definitely has no lag when watching B99.

The musical theme throughout the entire movie is amazing.

I watched it when I was way younger when it came out, and I definitely felt the turnaround in terms of what I feel about sadness. it's a nice trick the story plays, it's like you're seeing her through joy's perspective.

The sequel has been confirmed by Disney and it has also been confirmed that we will see new emotions.

This movie, and it's messages, were so well crafted. There are so many layers and deep messages. My favorite one is with Bing Bong. As a kid, we create an imaginary friend so we will have an ideal companion. Someone who will like everything we like, support us unconditionally, and always be there for us. At the end, in the memory dump, Bing Bong realized that he was, literally, holding Riley back by insisting on being real to her. So he supported her by letting go, allowing her to remember how to be happy. Personally, I don't think that means Riley will never remember him, as there will still be memories of him, for awhile anyways. But I think that he will no longer feel real to her. She will remember her him as a figment of her imagination. A pleasant set of memories, and nothing more. And for me, that feels even sadder than forgetting him. Another subtle one was when Disgust gets Anger to burn open the window. I interpreted that as Riley, subconsciously, being disgusted at how useless her anger was, and used that disgust to channel her anger into making a, literal, breakthrough to allow her to let joy and sadness back into her life.

I LOVE the fact that you write things down while watching. 😊

I haven't rewatched Inside Out since it first came out. Having been through a bit more of my life, I realize how much I underappreciated how this movie was executed. Awesome stuff.

Why you hated sadness in the beginning?? I was 14 when I first saw this movie in Church and I understood immediately that the problem was the arrogance of JOY!! 😂😂

"Maybe he will come back and be more powerful than you can ever imagine"". That cracked me up so much! Lol! 😂