Inside Out Page #8

INSIDE OUT 56.

Shelves jut out over the cliff edge, making Friendship Island

inaccessible.

SADNESS:

We’ll never make it, hoh... nooo...

JOY:

No, no, no, don’t obsess over the

weight of life’s problems, remember

the funny movie where the dog

dies?!

Sadness face plants.

JOY (CONT’D)

Uhhh, Sadness, we don’t have time

for this.

She looks to her side. Memory shelves wind into the distance.

Joy heads off into the maze.

JOY (CONT’D)

We’ll just have to go around! Take

the scenic route.

SADNESS:

Wait! Joy, you could get lost in

there!

JOY:

Think positive!

SADNESS:

Okay. I’m positive you will get

lost in there. That’s Long-Term

Memory. An endless warren of

corridors and shelves. I read about

it in the manuals.

Joy stops. Sadness is right. But wait!

JOY:

The manuals? The manuals! You read

the manuals!

SADNESS:

Yeah...

JOY:

So you know the way back to

headquarters!

SADNESS:

I, guess...

INSIDE OUT 57.

JOY:

You are my map! Let’s go! Lead on,

Mind Map! Show me where we’re

going!

SADNESS:

Okay! Only, I’m too sad to walk.

Just give me a few... hours.

Joy grabs Sadness’ leg and DRAGS her into the shelves.

JOY:

Which way? Left?

SADNESS:

Right.

(Joy turns right)

No. I mean, go left. I said left

was right, like “correct.”

JOY:

Okay.

SADNESS:

This actually feels kind of nice.

Joy heads off into the COMPLICATED LABYRINTH ahead of them.

JOY:

Okay! Here we go. We’ll be back to

Headquarters before morning. We can

do it. This’ll be easy. This is

working!

DISSOLVE TO:

EXT. LONG-TERM MEMORY - LATER

Joy, exhausted, drags Sadness through the maze of shelves.

JOY:

This is not working. Are we getting

close?

SADNESS:

Yeah. Just another right. And a

left. Then another left, and a

right...

JOY:

Are you sure you know where we’re

going? Because we seem to be

walking AWAY from Headquarters-

INSIDE OUT 58.

The SKY BRIGHTENS. Day. And they’re still lost.

JOY (CONT’D)

Riley’s awake.

Joy drops a core memory. Sadness reaches to grab it.

JOY (CONT’D)

Ah ah ah, don’t touch, remember? If

you touch them, they stay sad!

SADNESS:

Oh. Sorry. I won’t...

Joy looks behind her. The bottom row of memories are BLUE.

SADNESS (CONT’D)

...starting now.

JOY:

I can’t take much more of this.

MALE FORGETTER (O.S.)

Forget ‘em!

JOY:

Mind Workers!

Joy runs off toward the voice.

SADNESS:

But Joy we’re almost... ohhhh.

EXT. LONG-TERM MEMORY - LATER

Joy finds two workers vacuuming up memories from the shelves.

FEMALE FORGETTER

Phone numbers. We don’t need all of

these. They’re in her phone.

MALE FORGETTER:

Just forget all of that. Please.

Forget it!

JOY:

Excuse me. Hi. I need to find

Friendship Island...

FEMALE FORGETTER

(pointing to memories)

Look at this. Four years of piano

lessons.

INSIDE OUT 59.

MALE FORGETTER:

Yeah, looks pretty faded.

FEMALE FORGETTER

You know what? Save "Chopsticks”

and “Heart and Soul,” get rid of

the rest.

Zoop! The memories get vacuumed up.

JOY:

Are you-

FEMALE FORGETTER

U.S. Presidents. What do you think?

MALE FORGETTER:

Eh, just keep Washington, Lincoln

and the fat one.

FEMALE FORGETTER

Forget ‘em!

JOY:

Hey! You can’t throw those away!

Those are perfectly good memories.

MALE FORGETTER:

The names of every “Cutie Pie

Princess” doll?

JOY:

Yes! That is critical information!

Glitterstorm, Honeypants, Officer

Justice...

FEMALE FORGETTER

Forget ‘em!

He vacuums up the memories behind Joy.

EXT. CLIFFSIDE - CONTINUOUS

The memories shoot out a sewer pipe and fall into the

darkness of the Memory Dump.

EXT. LONG-TERM MEMORY - CONTINUOUS

JOY:

Hey! Bring those back.

INSIDE OUT 60.

FEMALE FORGETTER

They’re in the dump. Nothing comes

back from the dump.

MALE FORGETTER:

Yeah. Look lady, this is our job,

OK?

FEMALE FORGETTER

When Riley doesn’t care about a

memory, it fades.

JOY:

Fades?

FEMALE FORGETTER

Happens to the best of ‘em.

MALE FORGETTER:

(pulls memory from a cart)

Except for this bad boy! This one

will NEVER fade.

JOY:

(recognizing it)

The song from the gum commercial?

MALE FORGETTER:

(conspiratorial)

Sometimes we send that one up to

headquarters for no reason.

FEMALE FORGETTER

It just plays in Riley’s head over

and over again. Like a million

times! Ha! Let’s watch it again!

She rewinds it and plays it again. They sing along.

MALE FORGETTER:

Tripledent gum will make you smile!

Tripledent gum! It lasts a while!

Tripledent gum will help you,

mister, to punch bad breath right

in the kisser.

JOY:

We all know the song. Okay. Yup.

Real catchy.

MALE FORGETTER:

(to Female Forgetter)

What do ya think? Should we do it?

INSIDE OUT 61.

FEMALE FORGETTER

Yeah! Ha ha!

MALE FORGETTER:

OK, here we go! Ha ha ha!

He tips the gum memory into the inner workings of the shelf.

FWOOM! It shoots up towards Headquarters.

INT. HEADQUARTERS - CONTINUOUS

Fear, Anger and Disgust are having a peaceful morning. The

memory drops into Headquarters, playing at full volume.

GUM MEMORY:

Tripledent gum will make you smile!

Tripledent gum! It lasts a while-

ANGER:

Wha-- this again!?!

INT. LONG-TERM MEMORY

The Forgetters walk away, laughing and singing.

JOY:

(following them)

Wait! Do you know how to get to

Friendship Island?!

INT. RILEY’S ROOM - DAY

Riley, laptop on her stomach, hums the Tripledent gum song.

MEG (O.S.)

(on the computer)

Do you like it there? Did you feel

any earthquakes? Is the bridge

cool?

RILEY:

Yeah, it’s good. What happened with

the playoffs?

MEG:

We won the first game. Coach says

we might actually go to the finals

this year. Oh, and we’ve got this

new girl on the team. She’s so

cool.

INSIDE OUT 62.

INT. HEADQUARTERS

DISGUST:

Oh, she did NOT just say that.

FEAR:

A NEW GIRL? Meg has a new friend

already?!

Anger GROWLS.

DISGUST:

Hey hey, stay happy! We do NOT want

to lose any more islands here guys!

INT. RILEY’S ROOM

MEG:

We can pass the puck to each other

without even looking. It’s like

mind reading!

INT. HEADQUARTERS

ANGER:

You like to read minds, Meg? I got

something for you to read right here!

(grabbing the controls)

DISGUST:

No no no, what are you doing?!

FEAR:

Wait, wait-- let’s just be calm for

one second-

Anger snaps Fear’s nose like a rubber band. Anger slams the

controls forward like a lunatic.

ANGER:

GAAAAAA!!!!

INT. RILEY’S ROOM

MEG (O.S.)

I heard they have parrots living in-

RILEY:

I gotta go.

INSIDE OUT 63.

MEG:

What?

RILEY:

I GOTTA GO.

Riley slams down the computer and SCOWLS.

EXT. LONG-TERM MEMORY

Joy follows the Forgetters, trying to get directions. They

ignore her, singing the gum-commercial jingle.

A horrible mechanical GROANING sound. Joy reacts.

JOY:

What...?

EXT. LONG-TERM MEMORY

Joy rounds a corner and sees Friendship Island crumbling.

JOY:

Friendship Island?

The FRIENDSHIP CORE MEMORY Joy holds fades. She runs forward.

JOY (CONT’D)

Wh-- ?

She looks on in horror as Friendship Island falls.

JOY (CONT’D)

Ohh, not Friendship.

Joy hugs the core memories. One of them is memory of young

Riley and Meg walking together.

SADNESS:

Oh, Riley loved that one. And now

it's GONE. Goodbye friendship,

hello loneliness.

Joy sees Hockey Island in the distance.

JOY:

(trying to stay positive)

We’ll just have to go the long way.

They turn to look back into the deep memory shelves.

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