Top 10 Deleted Things from Inside Out Franchise We Never Got to See

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Some ideas must remain in the Pixar Vault. Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re looking at characters and storylines that the “Inside Out” films left in the Memory Dump.

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00:00Welcome to Ms. Mojo, and today we're looking at characters and storylines that the Inside

00:10Out films left in the memory dump.

00:17Number 10.

00:18Idea Farmer

00:19On their journey back to headquarters in the first film, Joy and Sadness come across a

00:23collection of colorful characters.

00:25In an early draft, this would have included the Idea Farmer.

00:29Along with Bing Bong, Joy and Sadness become stranded in idea fields where the Farmer Man

00:33pulls over.

00:47He takes them on a wild ride down a narrow one-way road obscured by fog.

00:52Although Joy begins to second-guess if hitchhiking was the best idea, they make it to the other

00:56side in one piece.

01:07The filmmakers thought the Idea Farmer could be a solid source of humor, but the character

01:11didn't turn out as funny as they hoped.

01:14Not finding him necessary to the story, they cut the Farmer and Idea Fields.

01:23Number 9.

01:24Riley's Thanksgiving Pageant

01:26Inside Out was this close to being a Thanksgiving movie.

01:30The plot initially wasn't going to revolve around Riley moving from Minnesota to San

01:33Francisco.

01:34Riley already would have been growing up in San Francisco, where she has one thing on

01:38her mind – playing the prized turkey in her school's Thanksgiving pageant.

01:42And we've all been there.

01:50Reflecting on this version, director Pete Docter said it was, quote, bizarre and didn't

01:54really work.

01:55They opted for a more relatable conflict.

01:58Although Pixar nearly did something similar in the sequel.

02:05In the first test screening for Inside Out 2, a talent show would have taken place.

02:09While that would have been one way to introduce anxiety, director Kelsey Mann's team felt

02:13Riley's love of hockey should be at the center.

02:23Number 8.

02:24An antagonistic Joy

02:26Joy has her flaws, but like Woody in the scrapped version of Toy Story, she was almost far more

02:31antagonistic.

02:32In several deleted scenes, Joy fights against the reality that Riley's getting older,

02:37finding more boring responsibilities and less time to goof around.

02:53In this version, the emotions also would have had less authority over what Riley does, serving

02:57more as voices in her head.

02:59Joy's voice goes unheard as Riley loses interest in the monkey bars and other childish things.

03:05This incarnation of Joy was more entitled, resistant

03:16to growth, and kind of mean-spirited, even suggesting that Riley spit on a girl who invites

03:21her to a party.

03:22The filmmakers wanted Joy to have an edge, but they thankfully dialed it back.

03:32Number 7.

03:33Music Cognition

03:41Even after two films, there's still much uncharted territory in Riley's mind.

03:45Among the places we didn't get to see is Music Cognition.

03:48This land would have visualized music, exploring how it triggers thoughts and can function

03:52as a language.

03:54While venturing through Music Cognition, Joy's voice would have turned musical, taking on

03:58shapes.

04:03This proposed setting was ultimately left out of the first film because it shared too

04:06much in common with abstract thought, another location that morphs the intangible into something

04:11more literal.

04:12If Inside Out has ever adapted into a stage musical, though, Music Cognition sounds like

04:16a prime locale to revisit.

04:18Can we get Julie Taymor to develop this, please?

04:30Number 6.

04:32Procrastination Land

04:33It's never easy for a director to admit that one of their favorite moments isn't working.

04:37For Inside Out 2, Kelsey Mann conceded that Procrastination Land didn't fit into the narrative

04:42as much as he loved the idea.

04:59The emotions would have come across this location with a perpetual coming soon sign.

05:03Anger questions when they're going to start building this place as the crew looks at their

05:07phones, delaying construction until tomorrow, and the day after that, and the day after

05:11that.

05:12While 13-year-olds like Riley are known to procrastinate, the team couldn't find a way

05:16to organically work it into the story.

05:19The filmmakers may resurrect the idea if slash when they make Inside Out 3.

05:23They'll be putting it off until then, however.

05:26Number 5.

05:28Other Imaginary Friends

05:29He's part cat, elephant, dolphin, and cotton candy, but did you realize Bing Bong also

05:43dresses like a traveling tramp?

05:44There's a reason for this.

05:46Originally, Joy and Sadness were going to meet Bing Bong at Hobo Camp, which provided

05:51a home for out-of-work imaginary friends.

05:53The place would have been populated with doodles and other things Riley dreamed up when she

05:57was three.

05:58In addition to Bing Bong, the camp featured a stick figure named Ms. Scribbles and Mr.

06:08Sun, who is essentially an arc drawn in the corner of a paper.

06:11While this might have amounted to some fun visuals and jokes, the filmmakers limited

06:15the imaginary friends to one.

06:17This made Bing Bong more special and his sacrifice more poignant.

06:30Number 4.

06:31Bing Bong the Anarchist

06:33Like Joy, Bing Bong was originally going to be more reluctant to accept Riley's maturity.

06:37In a deleted scene, we see Bing Bong protest the expansion of Riley's mind as the construction

06:42comes at the expense of Imagination Park.

06:55That locale evolved into Imagination Land in the finished film.

06:59A few other ideas from this scene were also revived in the sequel.

07:02The sarcasm generator, for example, became the sarcasm.

07:15As for Bing Bong being a radical, this character trait was discarded.

07:19This Bing Bong put his self-preservation and desires above Riley's development.

07:24While the Bing Bong we know and love wishes that Riley still needed an imaginary friend

07:27to play with, he understands that she must move on without him.

07:41Number 3.

07:42Joy Alone

07:43As satisfied as Pete Docter was with how Inside Out turned out, he looks back at one deleted

07:48scene wondering if they missed something special.

08:02The sequence, entitled Joy Alone, sees the character dive into an ocean of subconsciousness.

08:08Joy essentially encounters an imaginary Riley who will never grow up.

08:12Although this isn't the real Riley, Joy is tempted to remain in this fantasy world where

08:16nothing changes.

08:17Joy has come to realize, though, that change is necessary and she has to be there for Riley.

08:38As the story developed, Inside Out became less about accepting adulthood and more about

08:42the importance of sadness.

08:44This moment, therefore, no longer fit into the narrative, although Joy has a similar

08:48epiphany in the memory dump.

09:02Number 2.

09:03Joy and Fear's Adventure

09:09The script more or less always revolved around Joy getting lost in Riley's mind.

09:13In its earliest incarnation, though, Joy's traveling partner was fear rather than sadness.

09:18Fear was also more aggressive in this version, trying to prevent Joy from returning to headquarters

09:23in one sequence.

09:33It was on Father's Day 2013 that Pete Docter began to reconsider this premise, wondering

09:38what Joy could learn from fear.

09:40Fear found that the people he's closest to not only shared in the good times, but also

09:44the sad times.

09:46He wasn't sure how his crew would respond to the idea of rewriting and re-storyboarding

09:50a film already deep into development.

09:52Fortunately, his colleagues agreed with this new direction, making sadness an essential

09:57part of the story.

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10:23Number 1.

10:24Cut Emotions

10:25While the filmmakers narrowed it down to five emotions, they initially envisioned twenty-seven.

10:30The emotions were also going to have human names, fear being Freddy and anger being Ira.

10:49In an alternate opening, we would have met Hope, Pride, and Schadenfreude.

10:52Ennui even appeared, although she had to wait until the sequel.

10:56As did Envy, Embarrassment, Nostalgia, and Anxiety.

11:00Before the sequel introduced five new emotions, there could have been nine.

11:10Schadenfreude was again given the axe, along with Jealousy, Awe, Suspicion, and Guilt.

11:16Shame was considered as well, although some debated if shame was an emotion.

11:20In any case, shame wasn't pleasant.

11:22Love, Gloom, Irritation, and Greed are just some of the other cut emotions, but Riley's

11:28mind is bound to grow more crowded over time.

11:36Would you like to see any of these deleted things resurface in the next Inside Out?

11:39Let us know in the comments.

11:58Thanks for watching.

11:59See you next time.

12:00Bye!

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