Riley Andersen's mind

*Not to be confused with the video series Andersen's Mind*.

**Riley Andersen's mind** is the principal location of *Inside Out* parodies. It is an expansive realm, with Headquarters at its heart, though with many more locations to fully facilitate Riley's thought processes. Other characters also have their own minds, but those are never seen as extensively as Riley's, as their appearances are limited to the Headquarters counterparts and the other emotions.

## In *Inside Out*

*Main article: Riley's Mind on the Pixar Wiki*
Riley's mind is the primary location of the plot of *Inside Out*, with the outside world being relegated to a sub-plot. As physical locations are more difficult to alter than characters are, the locations in Riley's mind are mostly shared between *Inside Out* and its parodies.

The leader of Riley's emotions is Joy, with Anger taking over as deputy leader while Joy and Sadness are absent throughout the plot of *Inside Out*. Collectively, Riley's emotions are known as "Team Happy".

Notably, Riley's mind, as well as other minds, is a metaphysical location, meaning that the emotions and the like do not literally exist anywhere in the physical world.

## In parodies

Riley's mind is seen extensively in parodies, and is the parodies' primary location, similar to the Third Reich in *Downfall* parodies. In fact, many *Inside Out* parodies, with the notable exception of the main *Andersen's Mind* series, choose to exclude Riley entirely, in turn implicitly rejecting the reality that her emotions are controlling someone, instead assuming that they are simply living their own lives in a vaguely described, almost childlike country. This, in turn, is played with in the *Theresa May's new Parliament* series, in which emotion-like characters are shown to be running their own country, the United Kingdom.

### Emotions

*Main article: Emotions*
In the *Inside Out* universe, each character's mind is controlled by five emotions: Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust. They treat controlling the character whose mind they are in as work, and are usually very serious about it. However, in parodies, the emotions have a much more relaxed work ethic, often going on holidays and adventures unrelated to taking care of their host.

As Riley's mind is the principal location of *Inside Out* and her emotions are its principal characters, they preserve these roles in parodies, to the exclusion of other characters in Riley's mind. Therefore, their dynamic is distinct and separate from any other mind, and becomes even more distinguished in parodies.

### Other inhabitants

In addition to the emotions, there is also another type of employees in Riley's mind, named the Mind Workers, who usually have the resemblance to brightly colored potatoes. Their jobs vary; for example, the very first parody introduces the Forgetters, whose job (erasing old and unreliable memories) is compared to the work of Recdep in George Orwell's *Nineteen Eighty-Four*, and Dream Productions, whose employees have the job of staging and then broadcasting dreams that Riley has.

Some other examples of citizens of Riley's mind include the likes of Bing Bong, the Imaginary Boyfriend and Cloud Town residents (the latter two of which are yet to appear in parodies), as well as many more professions taken on by the Mind Workers, such as manning the Train of Thought and activating/deactivating Abstract Thought.

### Sub-locations

The principal location of Riley's mind, as well as the living place of all her emotions, is Headquarters. In this respect, Headquarters is the equivalent of the Führerbunker in Hitler Parodies, with characters rarely, if ever, leaving it. However, as a major arc of *Inside Out* is about Joy and Sadness leaving Headquarters and exploring the rest of Riley's mind, this is preserved in parodies, with them frequently going "on vacation".

Locations deep within Riley's mind include the Islands of Personality, Long-Term Memory, Abstract Thought, Imagination Land, Dream Productions, the Subconscious and the Memory Dump. The most reliable and quickest ways of transportation in Riley's mind are the Train of Thought, designed for various cargo, and the Recall Tubes, designed for memories. Both of them, however, can be repurposed to transport characters such as the emotions.

## Trivia

* Riley's mind, and frequently other minds, is often erroneusly referred to as a "Mind World". This term does not appear anywhere in the movie proper, but rather was used in the screenplay once, as well as behind-the-scenes interviews, and popularized by the fanfic *Intercom*.

## Appearances

* *Inside Out*:
	+ Riley, Age Zero
	+ Joy and her Coworkers
	+ Riley's Memories and Islands of Personality
	+ Riley's Life Montage
	+ The Big Move
	+ The New House
	+ The Time Outside
	+ Joy vs. Sadness
	+ Before Riley is informed
	+ Riley is informed
	+ Joy vs. Dream Productions
	+ Joy Dancing Scene
	+ Joy plans
	+ The Walk to School
	+ Breakdown at Class
	+ The Journey to Long-Term Memory
	+ Assessing the Damage
	+ Dinner Table Scene
	+ Back to the Quarters
	+ Hiking through the Maze
	+ The Forgetters
	+ Riley Andersen vs. Meg (intro)
	+ The Forgetters (outro)
	+ Riley Andersen vs. Meg
	+ Friendship Island Post-Mortem
	+ Meeting Bing Bong
	+ Reminiscing Riley and Bing Bong
	+ The Journey
	+ Abstract Thought Activation
	+ A Mayoral Tour
	+ Hockey Tryouts
	+ Sometimes, Loss is Important
	+ Anger plans (part 1)
	+ A Studio in the Mind
	+ Riley's Nightmare
	+ A Sudden Interruption
	+ Following the Guards
	+ Riley's Darkest Fears
	+ Freeing Bing Bong and Jangles
	+ Waking Up in Cold Sweat
	+ Anger plans (part 2)
	+ Discussion on the Train
	+ Joy Gets the News
	+ Preparing for the Trip
	+ An Act of Desperation
	+ All Hope Lost
	+ Memories Long Lost
	+ The Purpose of Sadness
	+ Making it Upwards
	+ Onset of Depression for Sadness
	+ Onset of Depression for Riley
	+ Joy's Absolutely Crazy Retrieval
	+ Breaking the Window
	+ Undoing the Damage
	+ Revealing What You've Done
	+ Upgrades
	+ Parent/Daughter Bonding
	+ Playing for the Foghorns
* Deleted scenes:
	+ Riley Grows Up
	+ Joy's Decline
	+ Misdirection
	+ Construction
* DVD extras:
	+ *Riley's First Date?*
	+ *Mind Candy*
	+ *Quick Thinking*
	+ *We Should Cry*
	+ *Shoes of Doom*
	+ *My Bad*
	+ *Five Second Rule*
	+ *Meet Joy*
	+ *Meet Sadness*
	+ *Meet Fear*
	+ *Meet Anger*
	+ *Meet Disgust*
* Supplementary books:
	+ *The Bing Bong Book*
	+ *Inside Out: Driven by Emotions*
* Video games:
	+ *Inside Out: Thought Bubbles*
	+ *Disney Infinity: 3.0 Edition*