Joy and Sadness

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EXT. SAN FRANCISCO STREET - LATER

Mom and Riley walk home. Riley looks disappointed.

MOM What kind of a pizza place only serves one kind of pizza? Must be a San Francisco thing, huh?

INT. HEADQUARTERS

Joy glances at the wall of multi-colored memories. She sighs: things are not going well.

EXT. SAN FRANCISCO STREET - CONTINUOUS

MOM Still, it's not as bad as the soup at that diner in Nebraska.

RILEY Oh yeah. The spoon stood up in the soup by itself! That was disgusting.

INT. HEADQUARTERS

Joy looks out the back window. Family Island is going.

JOY Oh good. Family is running.

EXT. SAN FRANCISCO STREET

MOM The drive out was pretty fun, huh? What was your favorite part?

INT. HEADQUARTERS

ANGER Spitting out the car window!

DISGUST Definitely not when Dad was singing.

FEAR Wearing a seat belt!

JOY What about the time with the dinosaur!

Joy pulls up a memory.

SADNESS/FEAR/ANGER/DISGUST Yeah./Yup./That's the one.

ON THE SCREEN: Riley and Mom pose in front of a roadside cement dinosaur in Vernal, Utah.

DAD (ON SCREEN) Say cheese!

Behind Dad, the car rolls down the hill. No brakes!

RILEY (ON SCREEN) Dad! Dad! Look behind you.

MOM (ON SCREEN) Honey. The car! The car!

DAD (ON SCREEN) Hold still. Huh? (runs off after the car) Stoooop! No no no nononono!!

Stegosaurus tail through the back window. The family laughs.

Enjoying the memory, Joy and the others chuckle.

FEAR Nice one, Joy.

EXT. SAN FRANCISCO STREET

RILEY (smiling) I liked that time at the dinosaur. That was pretty funny.

INT. HEADQUARTERS

Joy's cheer is cut short when the dinosaur memory TURNS BLUE.

EXT. SAN FRANCISCO STREET - DAY

Riley's smile fades.

INT. HEADQUARTERS

JOY: Wait. What? What happened?

Joy looks back. Sadness is touching the memory.

FEAR She did something to the memory.

Joy tries to fix the memory.

JOY What did you do?

SADNESS I just touched it.

JOY That shouldn't make it change.

FEAR Change it back, Joy!

Joy rubs it, but the memory stays blue.

JOY: I'm trying.

ANGER: You can't change it back?

JOY: No, I guess I can't!

DISGUST: Good going Sadness. Now when Riley thinks of that moment with Dad, she's gonna feel sad. Bravo.

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