Inside Out: The Sitcom (Season 1)

Star-Struck

Description: A new mind worker is getting the ultimate tour to decide on a job. Somehow, he lands in Headquarters and gets to meet the five emotions he thought he never would have. Unfortunately, now the emotions need to figure out how to keep this star-struck being from interrupting their day-to-day lives, not to mention he somehow accidentally escalates it.

Episode Inspiration: "The Young Fans"

The first thing he'd heard was "Welcome to Riley's mind!"

Justin quickly got the rundown within the first six days: mind beings either manifested or had children; there was no in between and clearly logic didn't apply so you didn't know how in the heck you were arriving in a mind. He was also clearly here because Riley needed him for some type of mental task and now he was busy touring the mind in order to decide what said task would be.

Of course, the topic that was most often talked about? Five emotions that lived up in Headquarters and were basically the leaders/celebrities of the mind. From what he knew, there was Joy (the happy one), Sadness (the nerdy one), Disgust (the stylish one), Fear (the easily scared one), and Anger (the brutally honest one), and everyone seemed to have different thoughts on who exactly they were, which only piqued Justin's interest in meeting them personally.

From Sheldon: "I remember when Joy and Sadness were running around Long Term Memory. No, I didn't meet them up close but I did see them in Imagination Land. I think Joy was one of the ones who caused property damage issues in Cloud Town, though."

From Andy: "Had to go up for some maintenance thing once and they're all okay. They have an... interesting dynamic, for sure, but I don't think they're entirely crazy."

From Laura: "They're entirely crazy. That's all you need to know. I went up once to try and interview them and learned the hard way that they'll do whatever it takes to keep their private life private."

From Sandra: "They're nice enough, I know that. Whenever we have our mind anniversary, though, I will say that Joy and Anger are definitely the two who know how to have a wild time. Not in a bad way, but... and you didn't hear this from me, but it's been three years and we still talk about how he convinced her to dress in a shark costume and dance to 'California Girls.' As far as we know, she loved every second of it."

From Dave: "For me, the one I like the most is Sadness, but it's probably just because she's the most reserved. And even then, all five collectively are just varying degrees of unhinged."

From Anderson: "I may only be a kid but I know I like Joy. She seems nice."

From Krista: "Disgust most likely has the best sense of style. Then again, she also would most likely be the Regina George of Riley's mind. Except Disgust isn't that mean. She's just... painfully honest."

From Kyren: "There's no way all five of them are still single. They don't know it, and you're forbidden to tell them, but there's two potential couples between them in this mind and we're betting on which one gets together first."

From Stacy: "We actually don't know much about what they do on the daily. We get glimpses whenever us in the mind do things in the middle of the night when Riley's asleep, but other than that, they're pretty much a mystery."

From what Justin could tell, these emotions were clearly the talk of Riley's mind at times, and it only made him more curious to see what they were like in real life.

Little did he know that, during a tour to figure out which job he'd want to take up, he'd get that chance very soon.

"Sometimes I wonder if teachers even know what the word 'project' means," Anger groaned as Riley stared at the giant packet of problems she'd been given. "Because if this is a project grade, I don't understand how."