Inside Out Parodies

Inside Out Parodies are parodies that use the 2015 Disney/Pixar animated feature Inside Out as their primary source. Their main location is the mind of Riley Andersen, a 11 (12 by the end of the movie) year old girl, which, like everyone else's minds (including cats and dogs) in the Inside Out universe, is a metaphysical location primarily containing her five emotions, Joy, Sadness, Anger, Fear and Disgust, who command all her emotional reactions and most of her actions via the console on a building named Headquarters.

Terminology
As Inside Out was a fairly popular subject on the Internet during its heyday in 2015, there are many parodies of it in forms unrelated to the Hitler Parodies in any way, such as OUTSIDE IN (Inside Out Parody) by Movieunleashers, which currently has over 12 million views, more than any Hitler Parody. However, for the purposes of this article, an Inside Out Parody must feature subtitled clips from the original film to qualify, in the spirit of other parody themes.

Footage Used
As Inside Out was originally released in English, the original is usually unsuitable for making parodies. Therefore, foreign dubs of the movie are primarily used. The dub with the most uses so far is the Russian dub, as it was the one originally acquired and primarily used by ASBusinessMagnet, as well as the one whose footage was first released for parodist use. Another notable dub is the German dub, whose use is in line with Hitler Parodies being in German and which therefore can be used in crossovers with other originally German material, such as Hitler Parodies, the Angry German Kid video and Drachenlord videos.

The sole exception to using foreign dubs is the Theresa May's new Parliament series, which parodies British politics (using the Inside Out characters as stand-ins for British public figures) and therefore has the characters speak English, even if that means subtitling English with wrong English. The first video even has "What? You expected British politicians to speak Russian?" in its description, mocking the notion.

While Inside Out Parodies can use any clip from any part of Inside Out or its home media-only companion short Riley's First Date?, in line with Hitler Parodies, several Inside Out scenes have been singled out and used extensively in episodic parodies. These are named, according to the beginning of the title of parodies based on each scene, ordered by their appearance in Inside Out:


 * Riley Informed Scene
 * Joy Planning Scene
 * Riley Andersen Versus Scene
 * Anger Planning Scene

Differences between versions
As foreign affiliates of Disney all worked independently and aim to produce a correctly lipsynced, flowing and culturally accurate translation of Inside Out, significant changes to meaning have happened. This is usually seen in what beginner piano songs from Riley's old piano lessons the Mind Workers choose to keep, but occasionally, there are other differences. For example, the Lithuanian version replaced the presidents of the United States with various actors, and in the Anger Planning Scene, between the English and Russian versions, there are differences regarding whether Fear agrees with Anger's plan.

Release names in other languages

 * German: Alles steht Kopf (literally "Everything's on its head", figuratively "Topsy-Turvy")
 * Lithuanian: Išvirkščias pasaulis ("Inside-Out World")
 * Russian: Головоломка Golovolomka ("Puzzle" or "Brain Breaker")

For a more complete list, see Inside Out#Trivia on the Disney Wiki.

People who have made Inside Out Parodies
In this list, the person's name is listed together with the version which they have been using, ordered by the substantiality of its use.


 * ASBusinessMagnet (Russian, English, German, Lithuanian)
 * JJ All-star (German)

Before the home media release
Before the home media release of Inside Out, there were obviously no Inside Out Parodies made. However, there were two Hitler Parodies featuring the premise of Inside Out, but applied to the residents of the Führerbunker instead: Inside Out - Führer Edition by CanaDolfy98 (reuploaded by Delphox), which only looks at Adolf Hitler's mind, and Downfall Parodies: Hitler's Inside Out by eagc7, which looks at the minds of, in order, Alfred Jodl, Hermann Göring, Hans Krebs, Wilhelm Burgdorf, Otto Günsche, Hitler and Hermann Fegelein. Notably, both of those were originally uploaded on the same day, June 25, 2015. Both of them use the clips of the character whose mind is being featured for their emotions.

Andersen's Mind
The first Inside Out Parody by ASBusinessMagnet was released on November 7, 2015, just four days after the home media release of Inside Out. While the very first parody was considerably lackluster compared to other established parody themes, the series (named Andersen's Mind, as the second and third parodies were deliberately made to advertise the main series of the same name and since then, the name stuck for both series) has since grown and established itself with distinct scenes and characters not unlike those of Downfall. In addition, it has spawned various other series by ASBusinessMagnet which often are spiritually connected, such as Andersen's Mind OST, a connected series of musical pieces, and "Theresa May's new Parliament", a mini-series based on British politics.

Theresa May's new Parliament
The "Theresa May's new Parliament" series is a major departure from other Andersen's Mind videos in that it uses the English version of Inside Out and uses the characters as stand-ins for British public figures, namely Joy for Prime Minister Theresa May, Sadness for Queen Elizabeth II, Fear for Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, Disgust for Brexit Secretary David Davis and Anger for the Scottish representative David Mundell. It comments on both Theresa May's new cabinet (formed immediately as David Cameron resigned as Prime Minister following the referendum previously covered in a parody using the Riley Informed Scene) and the activation of Article 50, setting Brexit in motion.

Other creators
Pertaining to the drama in the Unterganger community around the time when the Inside Out Parodies were first conceived, some Untergangers, such as CanaDolfy98, had expressed interest in making Inside Out Parodies as well, solely to distance themselves from the community. However, so far only JJ All-star has followed through (and even then, only in 2017) with two parodies, both using the German dub. The first one, "Riley Andersen vs Drachenlord" (the channel it was uploaded on, Drachenlord Rants Parodies, has been deleted), used the Riley Andersen Versus Scene to have her converse with Drachenlord, and the second, Hitler watches Burgdorf concert, uses brief clips from the same scene to have her watch a Singing Burgdorf performance alongside the residents of the Führerbunker. Both of them are featured by ASBusinessMagnet in a playlist called Parodies featuring Riley that I didn't make.

Hitler Parody Concepts with No Inside Out Parody Counterpart
The two most significant concepts of Hitler Parodies, ranting and antics, have no direct Inside Out Parody counterparts. While ranting capability is dependent on scenes available and there are simply no suitable Inside Out scenes featuring extensive ranting (despite occasional anger fits exhibited by versions of Anger and people where he is in control), antics were purely created by Untergangers and therefore have only lacked significant appearances due to ASBusinessMagnet's views on Inside Out Parodies, especially since they have figured significantly in all her Hitler Parody series.

Like with ranting, there are no significant scenes featuring either map pointing or alcohol drinking, meaning no direct Krebs or Burgdorf equivalent. The latter, in particular, is due to the PG rating of Inside Out.

While there are some Inside Out characters with no lines, their VAs do not appear in BTS features, and therefore do not get significant parody appearances, like Göring does.

Earworms
Earworms, which are songs that get stuck in the viewer's head, have significant differences in their features between the Hitler Parodies and the Inside Out Parodies. In Hitler Parodies, a song considered an earworm is usually inflicted as part of an antic and only reversible by a Master of Antics. On the other hand, Inside Out suggests a possible explanation for earworms using its own rules: namely, that they are memories that Mind Workers send up to Headquarters for no particular reason, and which can be ignored by the emotions. Therefore, earworms are never as much of a problem for Riley and the characters in her mind as they are for the residents of the Führerbunker.

Cursewords and their censorship
As Inside Out is rated PG, it features no cursing (though, Anger threatens to curse three times throughout the movie). However, due to the propensity of cursing in most Hitler Parodies and related phenomena, use of it in Inside Out Parodies varies: while ASBusinessMagnet's parody characters do not curse and are censored if they do, in other parodies, they may curse.

Modern technology
As Inside Out is a considerably new source of parodies compared to everything else and has a modern setting, it involves a lot of modern technology: namely, Riley and her parents all have smartphones, while Riley has a laptop. This can potentially be used for parodies necessitating such modern technology without resorting to editing video to add a smartphone/laptop in.

Idea lightbulbs
In Inside Out, ideas that a character has are represented by lightbulbs in their mind, and when the lightbulb is put in the console, the host acts upon the idea. While in the original, there are only two ideas activated, both pertaining to something Riley should do (namely, play hockey with her parents using a crumpled up piece of paper as a ball and attempt returning to Minnesota), in parodies, they can have a wide variety of implications to the parody universe in general, ranging from activating Article 50 and initiating Brexit to not letting Joy use the console.

Comparisons to Other Parody Series
Both Hitler Parodies and AGK Parodies have served as inspiration to Inside Out Parodies. ASBusinessMagnet's livestream ident reflects this by depicting Hitler, Riley and Leopold together.