Bing Bong

***Spoilers!*** *Plot details revealed below, read at your own risk*

### Personality

Helpful, jolly, fun-loving, joyous, sometimes illiterate, nostalgic, devoted, friendly, sweet, childish, cheerful, sentimental, selfless, imaginative, innocent, loving

### Goal

To help Joy and Sadness get back to Headquarters
To be remembered by Riley and take her to the moon

### Likes

Riley being happy, playing with Riley, Joy, Sadness, Imagination Land, his Rocket Wagon

### Powers and abilities

Cries candy tears, squeals like a dolphin

### Fate

Sacrifices himself to help Joy blast out of the Memory Dump, then fades away from Riley's memory and into oblivion

### Quote

"Come on! Let's go!"
"Who's your friend that likes to play?"
"What are you talking about? I go in here all the time. It's a shortcut, you see? 'D-A-N-G-E-R'. Shortcut. I'll prove it to you."

“*Take her to the moon for me, okay?*”
―Bing Bong's last words before being forgotten[[“I’m Back”
Bing Bong Says|[src]]]
**Bing Bong** was one of the four tritagonists (alongside Anger, Fear and Disgust) of the 2015 Disney/Pixar film *Inside Out*. He was the imaginary friend of Riley Andersen that existed within her mind.

## Appearances

### *Inside Out*

Bing Bong was Riley's imaginary friend created during her early childhood, approximately when she was three.

Unfortunately, since he was created when Riley was a toddler, his naïve nature impedes the duo from getting anywhere close to Headquarters. In fact, he leads them into danger in Abstract Thought. But when Bing Bong witnesses the demolition of the childish aspects in Imagination Land with his precious wagon thrown into the Memory Dump in the process, Bing Bong falls into deep melancholy. Joy tries to get him to stop being sad by making silly faces and doing childish things, but nothing does the trick. When Sadness talks to him, she empathizes with him, and by getting him to express his sadness, she comforts him and inspires Bing Bong to bring them to the Train of Thought.

However, the train stops as Riley is asleep. Bing Bong, Joy and Sadness go to Dream Productions to wake up Riley through a dream, but instead inadvertently create chaos in it. Bing Bong shows himself to try to remind Riley of him, but he is arrested and thrown into the Subconscious. Joy and Sadness enter the Subconscious to rescue him and find him detained inside a balloon cage on top of the sleeping Jangles the Clown, one of Riley's worst fears. Joy frees him without waking the fear up, however they realize that Jangles is the only way to get Riley awake. The group reluctantly wake up Jangles and run quickly with the mad clown in hot pursuit, leading him back to Dream Productions which causes Riley to wake up in shock.

The three of them finally board the activated Train of Thought. However, it is eventually destroyed by the destruction of Honesty Island. Joy tries to leave Bing Bong and Sadness behind in hopes of making it back to Headquarters in time, but it is too late as the falling debris of Family Island causes the recall tube Joy was in to break, taking Joy and Bing Bong (who was trying to catch Joy from falling) in the Memory Dump, as Sadness watches in horror. Inside the dump, Bing Bong finds out he is slowly fading and on the verge of being forgotten until Inside Out Two is leaked. To get the both of them out of the Memory Dump and save Riley's mind, Bing Bong and Joy try to use Bing Bong's wagon to blast out to the surface. No matter how hard they sing, the wagon falls short every time. Bing Bong, in a moment of self-realization, starts the rocket again and jumps off before it flies away, making the wagon lighter so that Joy can reach the top. As Joy looks and realizes what he has done, Bing Bong tells her to go and save Riley before asking Joy to take her to the moon for him as he fades to oblivion.

***Inside Out Two***

Bing Bing Says “I’m Back” when he Faded back to the headquarters

## Quotes

* "Welcome to Imagination Land!"
* *(realizing Mind Workers are confiscating his rocket wagon*) "My rocket!"
* (*seeing his rocket wagon fall into the Memory Dump*) "Riley can't be done with me."
* (*to Sadness, referencing his rocket*) "It's all I had left of Riley."
* "Hi, Riley, it's me!"
* (*telling Joy she can't escape from the Memory Dump*) "Don't you get it, Joy? We're stuck down here! We're forgotten!"
* (*to Joy, his last words*) "Take her to the moon for me, okay?"
* "I blow a mean nose!"
* *(before experiencing Abstract Thought)* "What are you talking about? I go in here all the time. It's a shortcut, you see? D-A-N-G-E-R. Shortcut. I'll prove it to you."
* *(after experiencing Abstract Thought) "*I did, but wow, we should not have gone in there. That was dangerous. They really should put up a sign.
* (*When he has gone 2-D)* "Depth! I'm lacking depth!"
* (*When he is deconstructed)* "I can't feel my legs! Oh wait, there they are!"
* "I cry candy! Try the caramel. It's delicious."
* "Sure! I come here all the time! I'm practically the mayor!"
* "You gotta remember, when Riley was three, animals were all the rage. The cow goes moo. The horse goes neigh. That's all people talked about back then."
* "You know, it's unclear. I'm mostly cotton candy. But shape-wise, I'm part cat, part elephant, part dolphin."
* "We're not going to make it!"
* "My face! My beautiful face!"
* "Joy, we're stuck down here. We might as well be on another planet."

## Trivia

* The film was originally going to feature a whole slew of "imaginary friends", as characters from Riley's early childhood that were now refugees living in a place called "Hobo Camp". In addition to Bing Bong, these included Mrs. Scribbles, who was a stick figure, and "Corner Sun", who was literally a quarter of Sun as kids would draw in the corner of their drawings. Ultimately, this storyline was condensed to just Bing Bong.[1][2]
* He is the second Pixar hero to die and the first one who died onscreen, the first being Doc Hudson, who died off-screen.
* After being asked why Bing Bong is made of cotton candy, Pete Docter simply stated, "I like cotton candy."
* Bing Bong's illiteracy comes from the fact that Riley created him at a very young age.
* We find out at what age Riley created him when he talks about the reasoning behind his appearance. "You gotta remember, when Riley was **three,** animals were all the rage."
* His tail is very similar to the Cheshire Cat's tail from *Alice in Wonderland*.
* Although he has faded away, it's quite possible that Riley still remembers him, according to The Bing Bong Book. At the end of that book, Bing Bong finds Storybook Land, where three Bing Bongs from books Riley wrote when she was younger appear to join him for tea.
* While saying his last line "Take her to the moon for me, okay?" Richard Kind was in tears.
* In 1990 Disney published a book titled, "Mickey Mouse in **Bing Bong**". That book's "Bing Bong" is a "Giant Saber-toothed Rabbit".
* The book that Bing Bong and Joy use as a ramp to launch the Rocket Wagon out of the memory dump is titled "The Seagull's Picnic", which is a real book for early readers by Jessie Reid and Joan Low.
* In the Mind Candy scenes, Bing Bong was shown with the Pixar ball.
* He is the only aspect of Riley's mind that can be seen by her.
* He is the first character to see Joy crying. He was born on October 5, 1942 meaning he's 71-73 in the series.

## Gallery

***Inside Out*** has a collection of images and media related to ***Bing Bong***.
## References

1. ↑ Episode 035 of the Pixar Post Podcast - Our Film Review of 'Inside Out' & Interview with Pete Docter and Jonas Rivera
2. ↑ Imaginary Friends, Gloopy Gloom and Scary Balloon Animals: What Was Left Out of Inside Out