Dinner Table Scene

The Dinner Table Scene is a scene of Inside Out. As it is used in various trailers, it is one of the best-known scenes of Inside Out and is frequently seen in material parodying it, though less so in Inside Out parodies as a form of subtitle parodies.

In Inside Out
The scene opens with the Andersen family, consisting of Jill (left), Riley (center) and Bill (right), eating Chinese takeaway food. At the time, Jill is talking about her new discovery in San Francisco, which is color-coded garbage bins. Meanwhile, in Riley's mind, Anger, Fear and Disgust are pondering the absence of Joy, noting how Riley's behavior has changed due to the Core Memories that power Riley's Islands of Personality being sent away, and how Joy could potentially lead them out of the situation. Fear then suggests imitating Joy's behavior, to which Disgust responds, claiming that there is no way in which the emotions could come anywhere even close to imitating Joy.

At this point, Jill switches the topic, telling Riley about the hockey tryouts to occur for the next day. Fear thus places Disgust by Riley's console, telling her to pretend to be Joy, and when Disgust pushes buttons on Riley's console, Riley's response comes out as sarcastic. Fear promptly freaks out.

At this point, Jill's mind is observed. Her lead emotion, Sadness, notes that Riley's behavior has changed, and suggests probing her, though trying to keep it subtle. However, Jill's question about Riley's first day at school is still regarded as probing by Riley's Anger, and in Riley's mind, Disgust pushes Fear to pretend to be Joy, making Riley's response rather nervous. Jill's emotions continue remarking that something is wrong, and Sadness suggests getting Bill's help.

Jill thus clears her throat. Then, Bill's mind is shown, in which his emotions are watching a memory of a hockey game (soccer game in international versions of Inside Out). Jill clears her throat again, slightly louder, and Bill's Anger, his lead emotion, finally realizes that Jill wants his attention, shutting off the memory. Bill's Anger then asks his Fear about what Jill asked for, but Fear is unable to respond.

Jill's emotions are on the verge of being fed up with Bill, but nevertheless, her Sadness suggests to "signal him again", and Jill hints at Riley with her eyes. Bill thus finally "catches on", and asks Riley about her first day at school. Jill's emotions thus become completely infuriated, and her Anger comments: "For this, we gave up that Brazilian helicopter pilot?"

In Riley's mind, Anger takes hold. She and Bill thus engage in psychological warfare, emphasized by both Angers losing temper. Whereas Riley's Anger is more rash, knocking Fear out of his way, Bill's Anger, Fear and Disgust all work together in unlocking a nuclear bunker-like system to deploy "the Foot". Finally, as Riley's Anger hits on the console, flaming up, Riley slams the table while shouting "Just shut up!", and Bill's emotions deploy the Foot, making him tell Riley to go to her room. Riley then hits the table again and stomps up, and Bill's Anger declares that the emotions potentially avoided a disaster.

However, Jill's emotions tend to disagree. Her Sadness claims that it was, indeed, a disaster, and her Anger recalls the memory of the Brazilian helicopter pilot, which all the emotions dreamily sigh at. Finally, Riley comes to the door to her room and slams it.

As a trailer
This scene has been shown in one of the earliest trailers of Inside Out, which was uploaded to Pixar's official YouTube channel on December 11, 2014, with international versions of the same trailer appearing around this time too. This trailer cut of the Dinner Table Scene is significantly shortened, starting at the point where Jill probes Riley and eliminating virtually all of the dialogue and most of the footage of Riley's emotions (but adding Joy's "Do you ever look at someone and wonder what is going on inside their head?" from Riley, Age Zero), but nevertheless keeping the same plot in the outside world, as well as Jill and Bill's minds. It also adds two lines by Fear that are left out of the final version of Inside Out, both of which are replaced with mentions of Joy (and were likely deliberate edits for the trailer so as to not imply Joy's absence from Headquarters throughout Inside Out, which could be a potential spoiler). In addition, the cutting implies that the line "School was great, alright?" was hinted to Riley by Disgust, not Anger.

In parodies
As the trailer of Inside Out, this scene has gained the most parody traction on the Internet in general, including the meme surrounding "Do you ever look at someone and wonder what is going on inside their head?" (which cuts to another viral video just as the trailer is about to zoom into Jill's mind), as well as MLG parodies. However, its use in subtitle parodies is much more limited.

Disgust's sarcastic remark about how she, Fear and Anger cannot possibly substitute for Joy is one of the clips used in Andersen's Mind - Moments: Disgust.

The clips of Bill's emotions from the German version of the trailer were used in Inside Hitler to depict Adolf Hitler's mind, juxtaposed with scenes from Downfall. This includes Otto Günsche saying the line said by Jill's Sadness in the original, further solidifying the connection between Jill and Günsche, the parodies' informers. Notably, Hitler's Fear addresses his Anger as "my Führer", rather than "Sir" as in Bill's mind.

The scene is also used in AGK fans expected when they clicked on "Riley Andersen vs. the Angry German Kid" to depict Jill and Bill together with Harold Slikk, Leopold Slikk's father. Jill, Bill and Harold thus discuss how Riley and Leopold are going to be of great company to each other, even if Leopold is still raging whenever Riley beats him at Rocket League.

As well as that, Riley slamming the table has been parodied in What Untergangers expected when they clicked on "Riley Andersen vs. Adolf Hitler". Once again, it is juxtaposed with the scene from Downfall where Hitler slams the table while shouting "FEGELEIN!", and Hitler and Riley thus engage in a battle of slamming the table and shouting at each other.

Stage directions
Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20151207171801/http://waltdisneystudiosawards.com/downloads/inside-out-screenplay.pdf (official release by Disney, but now removed from the original website)

Capitalization and punctuation is preserved from the original source.