These parodies never fail to get laughing! Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the top 10 funniest parodies of the 2015, coming-of-age, modern Pixar classic, “Inside Out”.
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00:00Now, go on another journey with all your favorite emotions, and some new ones as Riley enters adulthood.
00:06Wait, what?
00:06Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we're counting down our picks for the top 10 funniest parodies of the 2015 coming-of-age modern Pixar classic, Inside Out.
00:15Aha!
00:16Ho ho ho.
00:17What is it?
00:18Huh? Oh, nothing. Just the best idea ever.
00:20Number 10, character trailer reactions.
00:23Alright, what are we watching?
00:24It's the trailer.
00:25Isn't that great?
00:26Oh, shut up.
00:27I'm sorry.
00:27Okay, so, although we're opening with not exactly a parody, and more a fun marketing campaign,
00:32there's just something about watching the emotions, watching trailers, that works.
00:37Now, we all know how the Disney machine went real hard on Star Wars and the MCU,
00:41and that the results, perhaps, weren't always for the best.
00:44I will finish.
00:45What the heck is that?
00:47What you started.
00:49But, when Pixar rolled out these clips, first for Age of Ultron, and then for The Force Awakens,
00:53they did manage to seriously latch on to all that pre-blockbuster hype.
00:57Fear and disgust probably get the best one-liners here,
01:00but really, the entire team turned something as simple as a trailer watch into a properly exciting event.
01:06That's what I'm talking about.
01:08Let's watch it again.
01:09I'm so jumpy, my nerves are shot.
01:14Number 9, everything wrong with.
01:1645 seconds of two freaking logos, as usual.
01:19Darkness instantly tells me there's gonna be some narration in this.
01:21Given that this movie is generally considered to be one of Pixar's best in a generation,
01:25it might have been difficult for CinemaSins to rip into it and get away with it.
01:29But, they get the tone just right, even dropping a couple of reminders during the video that,
01:33actually, they love the film.
01:35This movie is genuinely clever, and we love it, so take our sins as a function of us just being dumb gorillas.
01:39Aspects of their take we can get behind include,
01:41could sadness ever really ruin everything?
01:44Should Bing Bong stealing memories be more heavily questioned?
01:47And is broccoli ever really that bad?
01:49The most replayed part of the entire clip, though,
01:51the wholesome laughter at the mind of a boy.
02:02Number 8, Ken Brockman's integrity.
02:04The Simpsons is no stranger to visualizing the thoughts of its characters,
02:08and it's usually Homer's slower thoughts that get the laughs.
02:20But post Inside Out, and the look inside their minds scene gets done in a totally different way.
02:25In the season 28 episode, Trust but Clarify,
02:28it's the ever irritated newsreader, Kent Brockman, who's at the heart of the story.
02:32After being caught relaying fake stories to his fans,
02:35Kent loses his job and hits rock bottom.
02:37But then, a new story emerges, and he has a chance at retribution.
02:50Good to see you, buddy.
02:51I'm in!
02:52Meanwhile, Homer has his own battles,
02:54particularly when ambition rears its head,
02:57only to quickly fall out of his ear.
02:59Homer, I have a 12-step plan for your success.
03:01Step number one, get in a 12-step plan.
03:09Number 7, Honest Trailers.
03:11From Pixar, get ready for the movie that made grown-ups say,
03:15phew, Pixar is good again,
03:17and made kids everywhere say,
03:21When Inside Out got the Honest Trailers treatment,
03:23it was the perfect blend of affectionate tribute and hilarious redo.
03:27Casting an alternative eye over all Riley's trials and tribulations,
03:31it highlights, among other things,
03:33how the city of San Francisco is dealt a pretty bad hand by the movie,
03:36just in case you hadn't noticed it before.
03:38Journey to San Francisco,
03:40apparently the worst place in the world.
03:42San Fran State Town.
03:44Maybe it's nice on the inside.
03:46Congratulations, San Francisco, you've ruined pizza.
03:49But easily, the funniest moment is the narrator's breakdown
03:52at the mention of Bing Bong.
03:54Because we all get it.
03:55How can something so made up make you feel something so real?
03:58In Bing Bong, the imaginary friend we have to leave behind
04:02so we can grow up to be healthy, durable adults.
04:06I'm sorry, Mr. Squizzleworth.
04:08I'll never forget you as long as I live.
04:10Number 6, The Nostalgia Critic.
04:12Besides, even if this idea's been done before,
04:15no pinhead's ever done it in the way that we've done it before.
04:18Oh, yeah.
04:20Nobody's ever done it like this before.
04:22Cast your minds back to 2001,
04:24and you might just about remember the box office flop Osmosis Jones.
04:28Not many people actually saw it in theaters,
04:30but it has garnered something of a reputation in the years since.
04:33Anyway, back in 2015, shortly after the release of Inside Out,
04:37The Nostalgia Critic brought to the attention of everyone
04:39just how similar Pixar's latest prized product was
04:42to the Chris Rock-slash-Bill Murray live-action-slash-animated comedy.
04:46In his typically cutting yet insightful way,
04:48The Critic saves all his best put-downs for Osmosis Jones,
04:51but he makes his points via a series of spoof sketches featuring the Inside Out gang,
04:55plus an extra and eloquently named Six character.
04:58Uh, what emotion are you?
05:00I'm pissed off! That's what I am!
05:02Perhaps there are some likenesses between the two pictures,
05:04but one clearly won out above the other.
05:06Hey, look, just because they use a control panel to shift his thoughts...
05:11...while looking through a circular screen of vision...
05:13...doesn't mean we stole anything!
05:15Number 5. Family Guy.
05:17For better or worse, getting featured in a Family Guy cutscene is not to be sniffed at.
05:21And bizarrely, Inside Out gets its nod during an episode otherwise built around
05:26Peter and the guys getting caught up in a mid-air hijacking.
05:29As the situation escalates and panic sets in,
05:31Peter's mind goes straight to Pixar.
05:33Man, coming on this trip was a terrible idea!
05:36I know! Now I wish I just stayed home and finished my remake of Inside Out!
05:40The Griffin family roll call sees Chris, Meg, Stewie, and Lois
05:44all align themselves with a conventional emotion,
05:46but Rapier has the final say.
05:48And Riley rushes to the bathroom.
05:50I'm joy!
05:51I'm sadness.
05:52I'm anger.
05:53I'm disgust.
05:55I'm poo.
05:58I need to use the bathroom!
06:01Yay, I win!
06:02Number 4. Outside In.
06:04Hey guys, remember this is the same Riley we grew up with.
06:07Here, let me pull out some positive memories and show you.
06:10No need to, because I quit!
06:14Oh my god, same.
06:15While the human mind can certainly be a complex place,
06:18Outside In really takes us to the very darkest corners.
06:21A YouTube parody series created by Dane Powrosnik and Movie Unleashers,
06:25the first video is the biggest hit,
06:27setting the scene for Riley's spiral into insanity.
06:30Here, perhaps more than in any other parody,
06:32you truly understand the pressure that Joy is under.
06:35I guess I'll be the monitor.
06:37Sadness, get back in your circle.
06:40Yes, master.
06:41With so many potentially destabilizing emotions around her,
06:44she does one heck of a job in keeping everything together.
06:47That is until, in this version of events, she eventually cracks.
06:50As the story starts with Riley mindlessly scrolling through her phone,
06:53there's a wider social commentary as well.
06:56But overall, it's simply what Pixar would be
06:58if Pixar were seriously disturbing.
07:04Riley, you're gonna be happy and nothing else.
07:08And there's only one thing that makes me happy.
07:12You'll get what's coming to you.
07:14Number three, How It Should Have Ended.
07:16Hey guys, we all good up here? Great!
07:17I think we learned a valuable lesson today.
07:19That we really need some safety mechanisms
07:21to get back to headquarters quickly so this never happens again?
07:24I mean seriously!
07:26With How It Should Have Ended being another internet rite of passage
07:29for any blockbuster movie worth its salt,
07:31it wasn't long after the release of the first Inside Out
07:34before we got their alternative take.
07:36And actually, this one also centers on Riley suffering
07:39a pretty concerning mental breakdown.
07:41In amongst all the expected plot hole picking,
07:43we get a childishly pleasing visualization of a brain fart
07:46and a very good helping of bing bong,
07:48which is usually never a bad thing.
07:50Although here, it's actually the reason for Riley's eventual problems.
07:53What? You didn't know you had little people living in your head?
07:56Oh yeah, they're great. And it's not as creepy as it sounds.
07:59Hello in there, guys!
08:01With mind blown and their character in emotional tatters,
08:04How It Should Have Ended provides the kind of finale that Pixar never could.
08:07Number two, Robot Chicken.
08:09This summer experience the movie critics are calling
08:12uncomfortable and not fun.
08:14Anthropomorphic emotions and stop motion sketch comedy
08:17are essentially a match made in funny spoof heaven.
08:19And Robot Chicken takes two memorable bites of the franchise.
08:22First, the writers send Riley into adulthood
08:24with a couple of new emotions to boot,
08:26and immediate chaos unfolds.
08:28You know what? Joy is going away now.
08:30Call me when she figures out, Pot.
08:31And then, in a later episode, we see Riley at a slumber party.
08:34When her youthful naivete gets challenged by friends,
08:37fear runs amok, with the clip at one stage
08:39zooming in on the emotions of an emotion,
08:41an infinite regress of overthinking comedy.
08:44And it's all pretty hilarious, until someone gets hurt.
08:46It's her decision!
08:48It's your decision.
08:51This is my decision!
08:53Let us remember Riley as a good girl,
08:55not someone who decided to ask her friend
08:57to stab her in the ear and then bled to death.
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09:16Number one, Homer's Poker Face.
09:19Again, funny insights into exactly what goes on
09:22inside the mind of Homer J.
09:24are kind of a staple of The Simpsons.
09:26Ah, come on, serious Homer!
09:28Let me out!
09:29We'll get a monkey drunk and push him down the stairs.
09:33But in the season 27 episode,
09:35Lisa with an S,
09:36we get the full inside-out version of his inner monologue.
09:39Perfectly matching the Pixar characters to their own,
09:42The Simpsons uses Ned, Milhouse,
09:44Willy, Hans Molman, and Comic Book Guy
09:46to express precisely the rollercoaster of feeling
09:49that a good hand in cards can lead you on.
09:51We're gonna win!
09:52That means Lisa goes to band camp!
09:54As long as Homer doesn't let them know how good his hand is.
09:58Then I'll blow the whole damn thing to hell!
10:01That would be terrible.
10:03Worst jammed-in movie parody ever.
10:05And contrary to what Comic Book Guy says,
10:07it's the greatest.
10:08Finally, my sucky life pays off.
10:10Do you agree with our list?
10:11Which inside-out parody had you laughing hardest?
10:14Be sure to let us know in the comments.
10:17We're out.
10:19That's what I'm talking about!
10:20Woo!
10:21Another perfect day!
10:22Nice job, everybody!