{"slug":"inside-out-2","type":"movie","title":"Inside Out 2","year":2024,"releaseDate":"2024-06-14","franchise":"pixar","genres":["Animation","Family","Adventure","Comedy","Drama"],"creators":["Kelsey Mann"],"url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/inside-out-2","hook":"A113 is carved above the Vault in Roman numerals, the Pizza Planet truck is a paper model on a bedside table, and Pixar's next film is hiding in a memory orb.","intro":"*Inside Out 2* had a problem its predecessor did not: the first film established that everything inside Riley's head is generated by Riley, so any easter egg planted in her mind has to be something a thirteen-year-old would plausibly have absorbed. The sequel solves it by making almost every reference a **piece of merchandise, media or memory** rather than an object sitting on a shelf.\n\nSo the **Pizza Planet truck** is a paper model on the emotions' bedside table — a thing Riley built. The **4\\*Town** poster on her wall is the boy band from *Turning Red*, which is exactly the sort of thing a Bay Area teenager in this timeline would have been into. The binoculars Joy hands Sadness are **Lenny**, the wind-up binocular toy from *Toy Story*. And Pixar's next film, *Elio*, is inside a **memory orb** that bounces past camera during the sarcasm sequence.\n\nThe cleverest placement is the studio signature. **A113** is chiselled above the Vault — but written as **ACXIII**, the number rendered in Roman numerals, which is the first time Pixar has encrypted its own in-joke rather than simply hiding it. And the film's biggest formal surprise, **Bloofy** and **Pouchy**, are the first hand-drawn 2D animated characters ever to appear in a Pixar feature.","identifiers":{"tmdbId":1022789,"tmdbUrl":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/1022789","imdbId":"tt22022452","imdbUrl":"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22022452/"},"counts":{"eggs":9,"confirmed":4,"community":5,"theory":0,"sources":7},"postCredits":{"status":"yes","verdict":"Yes — Inside Out 2 has 2 post-credit scenes.","scenes":2,"description":"Yes, twice. A blooper reel plays after a first short round of credits, and then a genuine post-credits scene at the very end: Joy finally opens the Vault and lets the hooded Deep Dark Secret out to confess what Riley has been hiding. It is not a sequel tease.","detail":"**Inside Out 2 has two pieces of extra content**, and they arrive at different points, so leaving after the first one means missing the better one.\n\nThe first comes after a short initial run of credits: a **gag reel** in the tradition Pixar established with *A Bug's Life* and *Toy Story 2*, with the emotions blowing takes and corpsing.\n\nThe second is the real one, and it plays at the very end. Throughout the film, the **Vault** — the sealed room where Riley's mind stores everything too mortifying to be allowed out — contains a large hooded figure called **Deep Dark Secret**, who exists purely as a threat. The film builds him up and never opens him. In the post-credits scene, Joy returns to the Vault, opens the door and says, in effect, *'OK, Deep Dark Secret, it's time.'* The enormous cloaked figure shuffles out and finally confesses the thing Riley has been carrying: she **burned a hole in a rug** at home.\n\nThe joke is the deflation. The film has spent two hours on genuine adolescent terror — the panic attack, the belief that she is not a good person — and then reveals that the deepest and darkest thing in the Vault is a small domestic accident nobody would care about. Anyone who has spent years quietly dreading an ancient embarrassment will recognise the scale error exactly.\n\nWorth noting for anyone hoping otherwise: **neither scene sets up a third film**. There is no announcement, no new character reveal, and no Marvel-style tease. Both are jokes, and the second one is a good one.","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/inside-out-2/post-credits"},"eggs":[{"id":"a113-as-roman-numerals","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/inside-out-2#egg-a113-as-roman-numerals","title":"A113 is above the Vault — encrypted as Roman numerals","description":"Carved above the entrance to the **Vault**, where Riley's secrets are held, is **ACXIII**. Read the numerals and it resolves to **A113**, Pixar's CalArts classroom signature. Every other film in the catalogue hides the number by making it small or peripheral; this is the first time the studio has hidden it by **encoding** it, so that finding it and decoding it are two separate steps. Placing it over the door of the room that holds secrets is not subtle, but it is very funny.","scene":"Above the Vault door in Riley's mind","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","reference"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"LaughingPlace — The Easter Eggs of 'Inside Out 2'","url":"https://www.laughingplace.com/w/disney-entertainment/inside-out-2-easter-eggs/"},{"label":"CalArts — Vulture Video Tackles the Meaning of 'A113'","url":"https://blog.calarts.edu/2016/05/24/vulture-video-tackles-the-meaning-of-a113/"}],"motifs":["a113","recurring-hidden-signature","hidden-math-joke"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"elio-in-a-memory-orb","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/inside-out-2#egg-elio-in-a-memory-orb","title":"Pixar's next film is inside a memory orb that bounces past camera","description":"During the sequence where Anxiety runs through every song Riley knows in order to look cool in front of Val — the scene that cracks open the Sar-Chasm — a memory orb bounces close to camera on the right of frame, and the memory inside it is **Elio**, the title character of Pixar's next feature. It is the studio's oldest trick performed at its highest difficulty: the orb is in motion, in the background, for a fraction of a second.","scene":"Headquarters, during Anxiety's cool-songs recall as the Sar-Chasm opens — right of frame","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["cameo","foreshadowing"],"difficulty":5,"difficultyName":"White Whale","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Variety — 'Inside Out 2': All the Easter Eggs and Hidden References, Including a Nod to 'Elio'","url":"https://variety.com/2024/artisans/news/inside-out-2-hidden-easter-eggs-elio-1236044267/"},{"label":"IMDb — 'Inside Out 2': All the Easter Eggs and Hidden References You Might Have Missed","url":"https://www.imdb.com/news/ni64658920/"}],"motifs":["sequel-tease"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"bloofy-and-pouchy-are-2d","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/inside-out-2#egg-bloofy-and-pouchy-are-2d","title":"Bloofy and Pouchy are the first 2D animated characters in a Pixar feature","description":"Deep in the Vault live **Bloofy**, a hand-drawn beagle from a preschool show Riley watched, and **Pouchy**, his talking fanny pack — a composite parody of *Blue's Clues*, *Dora the Explorer* and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse's Toodles. They are the **first traditionally 2D animated characters ever to appear in a Pixar feature film**, three decades into the studio's history. Director **Kelsey Mann** framed it as a statement: *\"We love animation, all styles, and we're so excited that we're able to do multiple things in this movie.\"*","scene":"The Vault of secrets, alongside Riley's other embarrassing childhood residents","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["meta","reference"],"difficulty":1,"difficultyName":"Plain Sight","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":true,"sources":[{"label":"Variety — 'Inside Out 2': All the Easter Eggs and Hidden References","url":"https://variety.com/2024/artisans/news/inside-out-2-hidden-easter-eggs-elio-1236044267/"},{"label":"LaughingPlace — The Easter Eggs of 'Inside Out 2'","url":"https://www.laughingplace.com/w/disney-entertainment/inside-out-2-easter-eggs/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"lance-slashblades-hockey-stick-sword","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/inside-out-2#egg-lance-slashblades-hockey-stick-sword","title":"The video game hero's sword is a hockey stick","description":"**Lance Slashblade**, the polygonal swordsman from a *Final Fantasy*-styled game Riley used to play, is rendered deliberately in the blocky idiom of an early-2000s console title. The detail worth pausing on is his weapon: the bright edges read as a blade, but the darker section of the sword is shaped as a **hockey stick**. Riley's imagination cannot build a fantasy hero without smuggling her actual life into him.","scene":"Lance Slashblade's design — the sword, whenever he draws it","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","foreshadowing"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Variety — 'Inside Out 2': All the Easter Eggs and Hidden References","url":"https://variety.com/2024/artisans/news/inside-out-2-hidden-easter-eggs-elio-1236044267/"},{"label":"LaughingPlace — The Easter Eggs of 'Inside Out 2'","url":"https://www.laughingplace.com/w/disney-entertainment/inside-out-2-easter-eggs/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"pizza-planet-truck-as-a-paper-model","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/inside-out-2#egg-pizza-planet-truck-as-a-paper-model","title":"The Pizza Planet truck is a paper model on the emotions' bedside table","description":"Pixar's recurring vehicle gets a placement that respects the film's own rules. Because nothing in Riley's mind exists unless Riley put it there, the truck cannot simply drive past — so it appears as a **paper model** sitting on a table to the left of Joy's bed area in the emotions' quarters. A thing Riley would have folded, in the room belonging to the parts of her that remember folding it.","scene":"The emotions' bedroom, on the table to the left of Joy's bed","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","callback"],"difficulty":5,"difficultyName":"White Whale","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"LaughingPlace — The Easter Eggs of 'Inside Out 2'","url":"https://www.laughingplace.com/w/disney-entertainment/inside-out-2-easter-eggs/"},{"label":"Pixar Wiki — Pizza Planet Truck","url":"https://pixar.fandom.com/wiki/Pizza_Planet_Truck"}],"motifs":["pizza-planet-truck"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"luxo-ball-and-figment-in-the-career-parade","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/inside-out-2#egg-luxo-ball-and-figment-in-the-career-parade","title":"The Luxo ball and Figment are both in the parade of future careers","description":"During the parade of possible futures, the **Luxo ball** — the yellow ball with the blue stripe and red star from *Luxo Jr.* (1986) — passes on the right-hand side, and near it is a nod to **Figment**, the purple dragon mascot of Epcot's *Journey Into Imagination*. The first film hid Figment in a portrait in Imagination Land; the sequel brings him back, which turns a one-off cameo into a small running tradition of its own.","scene":"The parade of future careers — right-hand side of frame","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["callback","visual"],"difficulty":5,"difficultyName":"White Whale","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"LaughingPlace — The Easter Eggs of 'Inside Out 2'","url":"https://www.laughingplace.com/w/disney-entertainment/inside-out-2-easter-eggs/"},{"label":"With Ashley and Co — All The Major Inside Out 2 Easter Eggs You May Have Missed","url":"https://www.withashleyandco.com/2024/06/inside-out-2-easter-eggs/"}],"motifs":["luxo-ball"],"referencesSlug":"inside-out","referencesWork":null},{"id":"4town-poster-from-turning-red","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/inside-out-2#egg-4town-poster-from-turning-red","title":"Riley has a 4*Town poster on her wall","description":"Pinned up in Riley's bedroom is a poster for **4\\*Town**, the boy band Mei and her friends build their entire lives around in *Turning Red*. It is the most naturally-placed cross-reference in the film: both stories are set among Bay Area teenagers in overlapping eras, so a *Turning Red* band being a real band in Riley's world costs the film nothing at all.","scene":"Riley's bedroom wall","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["reference","visual"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"LaughingPlace — The Easter Eggs of 'Inside Out 2'","url":"https://www.laughingplace.com/w/disney-entertainment/inside-out-2-easter-eggs/"},{"label":"With Ashley and Co — All The Major Inside Out 2 Easter Eggs You May Have Missed","url":"https://www.withashleyandco.com/2024/06/inside-out-2-easter-eggs/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":"turning-red","referencesWork":null},{"id":"lenny-the-binoculars","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/inside-out-2#egg-lenny-the-binoculars","title":"The binoculars Joy hands Sadness are Lenny from Toy Story","description":"In one of the film's quieter cameos, the pair of binoculars Joy passes to Sadness are **Lenny**, the wind-up binocular toy from Andy's room in *Toy Story*. Lenny is the toy who spends the original film doing exactly this job — being the one everybody looks through — so casting him as a prop rather than a character is a joke about a supporting role that has followed him for thirty years.","scene":"Headquarters — the moment Joy hands Sadness a pair of binoculars","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["cameo","callback"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"With Ashley and Co — All The Major Inside Out 2 Easter Eggs You May Have Missed","url":"https://www.withashleyandco.com/2024/06/inside-out-2-easter-eggs/"},{"label":"LaughingPlace — The Easter Eggs of 'Inside Out 2'","url":"https://www.laughingplace.com/w/disney-entertainment/inside-out-2-easter-eggs/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":"toy-story","referencesWork":null},{"id":"the-islands-have-changed-size","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/inside-out-2#egg-the-islands-have-changed-size","title":"The islands of personality quietly resize between films","description":"The sequel does a large amount of storytelling through set dressing that nobody points at. **Family Island** has visibly **shrunk** since the first film; **Goofball Island** looks unchanged; and Riley's old rainbow T-shirt, a fixture of the original, no longer fits her after a growth spurt. None of these are mentioned in dialogue. They are the film stating its thesis — that a thirteen-year-old is being structurally rebuilt — in the geography and the wardrobe before Anxiety ever arrives.","scene":"Aerial views of the islands of personality; Riley's wardrobe early in the film","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","foreshadowing"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"With Ashley and Co — All The Major Inside Out 2 Easter Eggs You May Have Missed","url":"https://www.withashleyandco.com/2024/06/inside-out-2-easter-eggs/"},{"label":"Pixar Wiki — Inside Out Trivia","url":"https://pixar.fandom.com/wiki/Inside_Out_Trivia"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":"inside-out","referencesWork":null}],"faq":[{"question":"How many easter eggs are in Inside Out 2?","answer":"We have catalogued 9 documented easter eggs and hidden details in Inside Out 2, including A113 written above the Vault as the Roman numerals ACXIII, an Elio memory orb teasing Pixar's next film, the Pizza Planet truck as a paper model, the Luxo ball and Figment in the career parade, a 4*Town poster from Turning Red, and Lenny from Toy Story appearing as a pair of binoculars."},{"question":"Where is A113 in Inside Out 2?","answer":"It is carved above the door of the Vault, written as the Roman numerals ACXIII. Decode the numerals and it reads A113 — the CalArts character animation classroom Pixar has hidden in nearly every feature. It is the first time the studio has encrypted the reference rather than simply making it small."},{"question":"Does Inside Out 2 have a post-credits scene?","answer":"Yes, two pieces of extra content. A blooper reel plays after a short first run of credits, and a full post-credits scene plays at the very end, in which Joy opens the Vault and Deep Dark Secret finally reveals Riley's hidden shame: she burned a hole in a rug. Neither scene teases a third film."},{"question":"Are Bloofy and Pouchy the first 2D characters in a Pixar film?","answer":"Yes. Bloofy, the hand-drawn beagle from Riley's preschool viewing, and Pouchy, his talking fanny pack, are the first traditionally 2D animated characters ever to appear in a Pixar feature. Director Kelsey Mann described it as the studio celebrating all styles of animation."},{"question":"Is Turning Red connected to Inside Out 2?","answer":"Only as an easter egg. Riley has a poster for 4*Town, the boy band at the centre of Turning Red, on her bedroom wall. Both films are set among Bay Area teenagers in overlapping periods, so the band existing in Riley's world requires no explanation from the story."}],"publishedAt":"2026-08-19","updatedAt":"2026-08-19","source":{"name":"The Things You Missed","page":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/inside-out-2","api":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/api/titles/inside-out-2","methodology":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/about"}}