Andersen's Mind (longitudinal series)

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## Andersen's Mind

The official vector logo for Andersen's Mind, shared by the longitudinal and main series.

### Main cast

* Riley Andersen
* Riley's emotions:
	+ Joy
	+ Sadness
	+ Anger
	+ Fear
	+ Disgust

### Source material(s)

* The Russian dub of *Inside Out* (primarily)
* Various others

*“Generally, the idea of Inside Out parodies is to transform the characters of Inside Out into easily memorable stereotypes, the way Hitler parodies did to Der Untergang. However, this is still a work in progress that, while it already has established its own mood, is yet to establish the characters as separate from their Inside Out counterparts.”*
―Description of the playlist for the longitudinal series
***Andersen's Mind*** (Russian: **В голове у Андерсон *V golovye u Anderson***) is a loosely connected series of *Inside Out* parodies by CreativityTheEmotion. It includes all CreativityTheEmotion's parodies that feature the Russian dub of *Inside Out* in some way, and therefore excludes parodies like the *Theresa May's new Parliament* series. While the main series of the same name is the central focus of the longitudinal series, with some of the earliest videos being advertisements for the main series without an intent to produce parodies unrelated to it, the longitudinal series features far more and more popular videos, and therefore, it can be inferred that, assuming no additional context, "*Andersen's Mind*" refers to the longitudinal series.

## History

### 2015

Following the home media release of *Inside Out* on November 3, 2015 and CreativityTheEmotion's acquisition of the Russian dub on the same day, the first *Inside Out* parody, Russian Inside Out series - Pilot: GGGGGGGGGGGGGG (originally released as "GGGGGGGGGGGGGG - Pilot (Russian Inside Out series)"), was released four days later on November 7. The parody features a transition card which humorously uses the box art of the DVD release, repeating the Cyrillic letter Г *G* 14 times and editing the Disney and Pixar logos to read in Russian-looking gibberish. The parody itself is mostly a compilation of short clips, all roughly occurring in the middle of *Inside Out*, and first attempts to establish the parodies' style. It also establishes that Riley Andersen, the main character of *Inside Out* parodies, originates in Siberia, as opposed to Minnesota in canon, but does not state where she moved to.

The name "*Andersen's Mind*" is first used in Andersen's Mind - Trailer: Joy and the Memory Factory. The name has been derived from "*Freeman's Mind*", the name of a series by Ross Scott of Accursed Farms featuring the game *Half-Life*, as narrated by the game's silent protagonist Gordon Freeman. As such, the ending title card features a silhouette similar to the ones used in *Freeman's Mind*, but using official *Inside Out* art and imitation lettering by CreativityTheEmotion instead. "Joy and the Memory Factory" is also the first parody to use a scene which would later be used serially, namely "Joy plans", with Joy planning a Headquarters adaptation of *Charlie and the Chocolate Factory*.

Andersen's Mind - Trailer 2: Behind the Scenes features the voice actors behind the Russian dub of *Inside Out*, originally appearing in Головоломка - Интервью с актёрами озвучания *Golovolomka - Interv'yu s aktyorami ozvuchaniya*, namely the ones voicing the emotions and Bing Bong. Each of them comments on the intended characterization of each *Andersen's Mind* character, as well as giving general compliments towards *Andersen's Mind* and CreativityTheEmotion (marking the first use of this name on a parody, though referring to a closely related fictional character instead), its supposed creator and boss of all the VAs. The VAs, as well as *Downfall* parody characters and Leopold Slikk, then sign off, asking to subscribe to the channel, and reveal that the main *Andersen's Mind* series is coming on January 2016 (a deadline that was not met).

Riley Andersen vs. the Angry German Kid is, so far, the most watched *Inside Out* parody, as well as the most watched CreativityTheEmotion video, trumping the first episode of *Hitler Space Program* by a large margin. It first uses the "Riley Andersen vs." scene, in which Riley is talking on her laptop with Meg, replacing Meg with Leopold. Leopold, knowing World War II history, sees little value in someone from a formerly hostile country, and Riley, unable to take Leopold seriously, cuts him off. Anger, one of Riley's emotions, then asserts that Leopold is even more worked up than he is.

### 2016

The Emotions play Minecraft: Java Edition is the first video game-based *Inside Out* parody, owing to CreativityTheEmotion's origins as a video game-focused *Downfall* parody creator. It is also the first parody to confirm where Riley moved to: Saint Petersburg, called "Saint Petershole" by Anger, similar to how he called San Francisco "San Fran Stinktown" in the original. It is also the first parody in which CreativityTheEmotion's "parody avatar" speaks, using a repurposed clip of Riley's Joy.

The Emotions react to the results of Eurovision Song Contest 2016, priginally only posted on Tumblr and not YouTube due to a copyright claim from the European Broadcasting Union, is the first reaction-based *Inside Out* parody, which has Riley's emotions comment on another video. In it, Anger rightfully assumes that the Eurovision Song Contest has been heavily politicized, and therefore, resolves for Riley to go to Ukraine herself to help pro-Russian activists there.

Joy plans to open a theme park in Riley's mind is the first parody to use "Joy plans" in its title. It is an extensive parody of the Hitler Rants Parodies aesthetic in both (outdated as of this parody) intro and outro. It is also the first parody to use the animated CreativityTheEmotion ident, though set against a backdrop of various Inside Out clips, as per the aforementioned HRP outro parody. It is also the first parody since the pilot to not feature the name "*Andersen's Mind*" anywhere, suggesting a true beginning for the longitudinal series separate from the main series.

Riley is informed about the aftermath of the 2016 UK EU referendum is the first parody using the "Riley is informed" scene. It comments on Brexit, a process that was provoked by a UK-wide referendum in 2016. Therefore, as it comments on politics, it is in line with various *Downfall* parodies, especially those by Hitler Rants Parodies. It also features the CreativityTheEmotion ident, but this time against a black background.

Andersen's Mind OST - Creative Snowflake (Piano Refrain) is the first in the "*Andersen's Mind OST*" series. However, unlike the musical parodies of *Downfall*, which take various forms but almost never involve proper remixing or composition, "Creative Snowflake" is a piano piece loosely based on Bundle of Joy by Michael Giacchino, featured as part of the *Inside Out* OST. Despite this, *Andersen's Mind OST* songs don't replace *Inside Out* OST songs, and "Creative Snowflake", in its variants, has only seen use as part of CreativityTheEmotion's outro and the channel trailer.

The Emotions play Kerbal Space Program derives from CreativityTheEmotion's origins even more, given her other series prominently featuring *Kerbal Space Program*, named *Hitler Space Program*. It also features some *Hitler Space Program* references. This is also the first parody to feature a resurrection of Bing Bong, a character who dies during the course of *Inside Out*. However, with Hitler and his generals long dead before *Downfall* even existed, this is far from a new concept for subtitle parodies. It is also the first parody to use the first part of the "Anger plans" scene to the fullest.

### 2017

Inside Hitler, purported to be CreativityTheEmotion's "last Hitler parody" in a Russian title card, is much like the parodies by other parodists in that it features Hitler's mind. However, rather than using Bruno Ganz to portray Hitler's emotions, it uses the German version of *Inside Out* and how Bill Andersen's emotions are depicted there, assuming that they are Hitler's emotions instead. It also features a new deadline for the main series, the summer of 2017, that was met by the first two episodes.

Following the success of "Riley Andersen vs. the Angry German Kid", What AGK fans expected when they clicked on "Riley Andersen vs. the Angry German Kid" parodies AGK videos in general. It purports to be part of what is inconsistently referred to as the "Inside Out Kid Series" and the "Riley Andersen Show", in which Riley, known as "the Inside Out Kid", first meets Leopold, the Angry German Kid, as his family moves to Saint Petersburg and he transfers to the same school as Riley.

Andersen's Mind - #1: What do you Mean, We're a Princess? is the first episode of the main series. However, rather than start working from the beginning of *Inside Out* (which is what Andersen's Mind - #2: From the Beginning and the first episode of *Der Untergang: The Parody* do), it features an "in medias res" segment, establishing the setting: Riley is the purported descendant of Princess Anastasia of the Romanov dynasty, who escaped the Russian royal family's assassination and became known as Anna Andersen, before being exiled to Siberia. Riley's emotions thus debate on whether or not she could be a princess herself. It is also the first parody (based on the Russian version) to use the second part of the "Anger plans" scene to the fullest.

Anger plans to overthrow Joy is the first parody to use both parts of the "Anger plans" scene in quick succession. Continuing from the previous parody, Joy plans to get rid of Sadness, as well as the supposed plot of the main *Andersen's Mind* series, Anger is dissatisfied with Joy's leadership, and therefore plans to deactivate her and, given her powerless state, replace her as the leader of Riley's emotions. While he succeeds with the first part (confirmed by the companion fanfic, *Locked Out*, showing Joy attempting to use the console and getting shocked), whether or not he succeeds with the second part is yet to be seen.

Joy plans to release Inside Out parody resources is the first parody to introduce downloads for the Russian *Inside Out* scenes, as used by CreativityTheEmotion, and alludes to *Inside Out* parodies being listed on "that parody series-listing wiki". However, other than that, it is not a significant departure from other parodies using the "Joy plans" scene.

### 2018

Riley is informed about lordhaxsupreme's Inside Out Discord is another direct parody of the Unterganger community's tendencies. Namely, it advertises a Discord server, currently known as Pizza Planet, in the way that Untergangers advertise servers dedicated to their own YouTube channels, but this time, the focus of the server was *Inside Out* itself at first, and then expanded to include the rest of Pixar's filmography. This would persist in parodies of other Unterganger community hubs with their own twist, such as the replacement of Patreon with Ko-fi, both websites allowing people to donate to content creators. However, eventually, CreativityTheEmotion would quit endorsing Pizza Planet due to influence from a rivaling server, beginning a complicated relationship with various Discord servers, exemplified by various Discord server-related parodies.

CreativityTheEmotion Channel Trailer - January 2018 cements what has been established up to this point, with the main series and episodic "Riley is informed" and "Joy plans" parodies being released together on the same channel, in addition to other content parodying *Inside Out* and its characters. In addition, it showcases the now fully established parody style, as well as some common parody topics, including those both from the *Inside Out* parody side (such as Disney) and from the *Downfall* parody side (such as politics).

Jill reacts to being told Riley has emotions guiding her is a significant inversion of the "Riley is informed" videos that came up to this point. Whereas "Riley is informed" videos usually have Jill Andersen as the informer and have Riley react, this video is primarily about Jill's reaction to Riley's offscreen informing. In addition, it features the possibility of *Inside Out* characters being aware of their minds, which, so far, has been most thoroughly explored by the fanfic *Intercom*.

What Untergangers expected when they clicked on "Riley Andersen vs. Adolf Hitler" takes another stab at parodying *Downfall* parodies and the Unterganger community. This time, Hitler Rants Parodies once again is in the spotlight with his Hitler Vs series, which features soundbites from two different characters and has them supposedly battle using said soundbites. As per the title, the contestants are Hitler with "Fegelein!" and Riley with a translated "Just shut up!", and Hitler wins, due to extensive experience in similar battles.

"Joy plans" but it's a silent film is the first in a new trend. Capitalizing on the general format of "X but it's Y" memes that usually revolve around videos such as Steamed Hams and Lazy Town songs, it takes the "Joy plans" scene and its parodies, and in particular "Joy plans to open a theme park in Riley's mind", and reinterprets it as a silent film in an appropriately named series, "Rachel Andersen's Mental Companions", which uses period-appropriate language in its entirety.

### 2019-2020

Riley is informed about the European Parliament voting on VOSS A8-0245/2018 implies a dark future for *Andersen's Mind* and *Inside Out* parodies as a whole. As the directive, including the infamous "Article 13", also known as the "meme ban", has passed, upload of copyrighted content, even on terms (such as parody) which were previously deemed okay, is to be restricted, and this parody shows what various forms of subtitle parodies would look: a completely black and silent screen with subtitles. Furthermore, CreativityTheEmotion has announced that, if the directive were to be approved by the Council of the European Union and committed into law, her entire channel would be taken down. However, after that, CreativityTheEmotion opened her own parody website, in which all previously uploaded parodies live, in addition to new content released throughout 2019 and 2020.

## Episodes

*Main article: Andersen's Mind (longitudinal series)/Episodes*
## Foreign titles

Owing to the subtitles existing on parodies also having translation, these foreign titles of *Andersen's Mind* (other than English and Russian) are known:

* Esperanto: ***La menso de Andersen*** ("Andersen's Mind")
* Lithuanian: ***Anderson galvoje*** ("inside Andersen's head"; literal translation from Russian)

### Joke languages

* Newspeak: ***Andersen Intrahead***
* *Cars*: ***Vandersen's System***
* Yesn't: ***Fredricksen't's Bodyn't***
* VLKK: ***Andraitytės galvoje***

## Style

*“Andersen's Mind replaces the characters, replaces the plot, replaces the motivations and most importantly, replaces the mood... of Inside Out.”*
―Maksim Vitorgan on the relation between *Andersen's Mind* and *Inside Out*
### Parody types

Concordant with the *Downfall* parody styles, CreativityTheEmotion's *Inside Out* parodies fall under these categories:

* **Traditional** (*Inside Out* scenes virtually unaltered): series like "Riley is informed" and "Joy plans"
* **Modified traditional** (cutting different parts of scenes together): "Russian Inside Out series - Pilot: GGGGGGGGGGGGGG", "Andersen's Mind - Moments: Disgust", the "The Emotions react" series
* **Gaming:** the "The Emotions play" series
* **FX:** appears whenever a Consciousness Screen's content is edited, such as in "Inside Hitler"; also used in Joy plans for ASBusinessMagnet's 1,000 subscribers
* **Story-focused:** the main series, the Inside Out Kid Series
* **Musical:** the *Andersen's Mind OST* series

### Subtitling

All CreativityTheEmotion's *Inside Out* parodies on her website feature both English and Lithuanian subtitles, facilitated by the closed captioning feature of the website. In addition, select videos (most often, "Russian Inside Out series - Pilot: GGGGGGGGGGGGGG" and "Riley Andersen vs. the Angry German Kid") are subtitled in various joke languages.

In addition, there are two types of on-screen subtitles: the English ones, subtitling non-English languages and set in Lucida Sans, and the Russian ones, subtitling English and set in Bookman Old Style. The latter type of subtitles is intended to be as accurate as possible, and only exists as aesthetic, not part of the parody plot; the only language required to understand the parodies is English (or whichever language the subtitles are available in).

On-screen subtitles may also be occasionally colored. Usually, this is done as an indication as to which character is speaking when the characters themselves are not seen: gold for Joy, light blue for Sadness, light purple for Fear, light red for Anger, light green for Disgust and pink for Bing Bong.

### Mondegreens

Owing to CreativityTheEmotion being an aspiring polyglot with some knowledge of all languages featured in *Inside Out* parodies so far (except for Japanese), they lack significant mondegreens. Rather, they seem to take the same approach as parodies by German Untergangers and, to a lesser extent, other Untergangers: attempting to use significant words (such as character names) whenever the word is actually used, even if it means shoehorning the character referred to in (such as the mention of Bing Bong in the second part of the "Anger plans" scene).

### Cursewords and their censorship

Owing to *Inside Out* being a PG-rated movie with no cursing involved (despite it being mentioned), *Andersen's Mind* features no cursing either, and when a character known for cursing, such as Leopold Slikk, appears, their curses are censored. This is not in line with either *Downfall* or AGK parodies, which feature cursing extensively with it almost never being censored, and the censor used by CreativityTheEmotion (standard 1 kilohertz sine wave, used commonly for censorship in television) has been criticized for being annoying, as it is not what fans of either type of parody are used to.

### iWhatever

As Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, was also one of the founders and the biggest shareholder of Pixar, who produced *Inside Out*, the modern technology used in *Inside Out* is more likely than not Apple technology, and is named using the format "iWord". This includes what is not actual modern technology like laptops and smartphones: for example, objects named using this scheme include the iPaper, Anger's newspaper (called "The Mind Reader" in *Inside Out*) which changes headlines dependent on Riley's current experience, and the iBulb, which is just an idea lightbulb. The notable exception to all of this is Joy's deactivation sound, which is the Windows XP shutdown sound.

### Catchphrases

#### Everything [blank] is and everything it isn't

First appearing in "Andersen's Mind - Trailer 2: Behind the Scenes" as a supposed quote from Dmitriy Nagiyev to describe CreativityTheEmotion as this, compared to Riley's Joy, the phrasing has been used a couple of times since, such as in "Joy plans to code a language learning website" in order to describe OpenLang in relation to Duolingo, and on the front page of the Inside Out Parody Wiki to describe it in relation to Hitler Parody Wiki.

## Parallels

Due to CreativityTheEmotion's origins in Unterganging, there may be some similarities between *Andersen's Mind* and certain *Downfall* parodies. For example, the entire idea of establishing a distinct parody universe with its own timeline and feature-length series, as a whole, was largely inspired by Hitler Rants Parodies and his version of the "parody universe" and its timeline.

CreativityTheEmotion has created a tongue-in-cheek playlist comparing every single video on the *Andersen's Mind* longitudinal series playlist so far to a *Downfall* parody, appropriately called Andersen's Mind but it's retold using Hitler parodies.

### Notes

1. ↑ While CreativityTheEmotion's playlist excludes any parody that does not include the Russian dub of *Inside Out*, like the *Theresa May's new Parliament* series, Hitler Rants Parodies' playlist includes all his uploads, including Shocking Interview parodies, which generally have nothing to do with Hitler.
2. ↑ While many parodies use *Downfall* characters as stand-ins for politicians, Harris's parody, featuring SNP leader Alex Salmond as Hitler, is notable for making him step down from his role as social media advisor for the Labour Party and comparable for featuring British politics.
3. ↑ In that it features a character otherwise thought to be a protagonist as an antagonist.

## References

1. ↑ Andersen's Mind - Trailer 2: Behind the Scenes at 0:15