Inside Out Scene 8 Summary

  • Riley and her mom sit in the stands at a hockey rink. Riley's trying out for the local team, and Mom's giving her a pep talk: fun, new friends, all that jazz.
  • Fear, Disgust, and Anger worry that, if Riley tries to play hockey, Hockey Island is going down next since Joy—and Riley's Core Memories—are still AWOL.
  • To try to stave off Hockey Island's destruction—and potential embarrassment for Riley—Fear gathers up all of Riley's hockey memories that he can find. He jams them into the Core Memories holder. The Core Memories holder spits them back out, and Riley does a poor job on the ice, struggling to handle the puck, blowing an easy shot, and falling on her face. Literally.
  • Anger takes the controls. Riley slams her stick down and stomps off the ice. When Mom tells her everything will be okay, Riley snaps at her. Joy can't get back to HQ soon enough, if you ask us.
  • From their vantage point in Preschool World, Joy, Sadness, and Bing Bong see Hockey Island fall into the Memory Dump.
  • Speaking of Preschool World, it's undergoing some major changes. More specifically, the Mind Workers are tearing it all down and throwing it into the Memory Dump.
  • They take Bing Bong's rocket ship, mistaking it for junk, too, and bulldoze it off the cliff into the Memory Dump.
  • Bing Bong is gutted. He and Riley had big plans to fly to the moon, and Bing Bong says that rocket shop was all he had left of her.
  • Sadness listens and empathizes while Bing Bong vents and cries. Then he feels better.
  • Joy's kind of surprised by the whole exchange. She asks Sadness what she did, and Sadness says she doesn't know; he was sad, so she listened. The end.
  • Just then, the Train of Thought arrives. Joy, Sadness, and Bing Bong hop on a flatbed car, and off they go.
  • Riley storms into her bedroom and throws her hockey bag on the ground.
  • Up in HQ, Disgust, Fear, and Anger all agree that they need to do something—but they don't know what. Fear decides he's going to quit and tries getting sucked up the tube to Long-Term Memory. It doesn't work. Disgust informs him that emotions can't quit. Ain't that the truth.
  • Anger hatches a plan. Riley was happy in Minnesota; that's where all her best memories come from—so, she should run away to Minnesota.
  • Fear thinks it's a bad idea. Disgust is on the fence. They decide that they should all sleep on it. Well, Riley will do the sleeping, but—you know what we mean.