Bill Andersen's mind



Bill Andersen's mind is one of the more significant minds, excluding Riley's, in Inside Out. Like Riley's mind, five emotions reside in Bill's Headquarters. Unlike Riley's mind, however, Bill's mind is lead by Anger, as opposed to Joy.

In Inside Out
Bill's emotions appear in three distinct scenes. The first is the Dinner Table Scene, in which their attention to a memory of a hockey game (soccer game in international versions of Inside Out) is brought away by Jill clearing her throat. They thus, like Jill's emotions, ask Riley how her first day at school went, which Riley responds with in a harsh manner, due to her Anger. Bill's emotions are thus not complacent, and engage in elaborate warfare against Riley, ending with Bill putting down "the Foot" and escorting Riley to her room. However, in the next scene, Bill quickly has a change of heart and enters Riley's room, trying to make up for it.

Nearing the end, in the scene Parent/Daughter Bonding, Bill's emotions cheer on one another for the decision for both him and Jill to go to Riley's hockey match with painted faces. Anger and Fear thus high-five each other.

Lastly, the short Riley's First Date? gives a significant appearance to Bill's emotions. Bill is the first to greet Jordan at his door, and therefore, the first to freak out over how Riley already has a boyfriend despite being so young. At first, they are clearly distrusting of Jordan, ready to give him "the Boot", but as Jordan reveals that he was in a band once, they recall memories of Bill also being in a band, and eventually, the two bond over their mutual love for AC/DC. Finally, once Riley and Jordan leave the house and Jill and Bill are alone, both of their emotion teams initiate a kiss, which Jill is the first to break.

Design
The common design details for Bill's mind are suits and moustaches. His Joy, Sadness and Disgust are thus automatically coded male, and therefore have shorter hair than Riley's counterparts. In addition, Bill's Disgust is not wearing lipstick, unlike Riley's or Jill's Disgusts, and has a shorter moustache than the rest, which, in addition to Disgust's distinctive hair style, leads to the obvious comparison between him and Adolf Hitler.

Bill's Headquarters are designed after a nuclear bunker, with keys to be unlocked by two people simultaneously akin to a launch code system, as well as various monitors.

In parodies
While Bill's emotions do not appear to portray themselves, a clip depicting them, in German, is extensively used for Hitler's emotions. Much like Bill, Hitler is depicted as short-tempered, in particular towards Otto Günsche and his informing, and while Hitler himself, as well as his emotions, think that they did a good job with the ranting, Günsche, after walking away, reports "Well, that was a disaster.", much like Jill's emotions do in Inside Out.