Inside Out 2 Trivia

Cameos, in-jokes, re-used animation, and other trivia from Inside Out 2.

References to Inside Out

• Riley's sleep shirt bears the logo for Brang, her father's then-new company from the first film.
• In a flashback scene, Riley tries on her rainbow shirt she wore in the first film when she moved to San Francisco and she's disappointed that she grew out of it.
• Joy asks Sadness, "Have I ever steered you wrong before?" to which Sadness replies, "Yes, many times," referring to the plot of the first movie; Joy repeatedly showed Sadness there was no reason for Riley to be sad.
• Joy has a figurine of Bing Bong and his rocket next to her bed.
• Mind Security Guards Frank and Dave reappear in the Vault. After they get captured, the tag inside one of their hats reads "My Hat."
• Joy reminds Sadness of how well she knows the Mind Manuals. Sadness read most of them in the first film.
• The TripleDent Gum jingle is prominently among the music-related memories Anxiety recalls.
• Envy discovers a memory of Riley's father in a rock band. Mr. Andersen recalled the same memory in Riley's First Date?
• A shot of Riley stealing her mother's credit card appears within a purple memory orb.
• A shot of Riley tripping during her first hockey tryouts appears in a blue and red memory orb.
• Jordan is among the heads on "Mount Crushmore."

Cameos

• Sox is depicted within a milk carton logo.
• Riley has a 4*Town poster and a red Luxo, Sr. lamp in her bedroom.
  • Grey Luxo, Sr. lamps appear at the hockey camp. One is most notably on Coach Roberts' desk.
• To show Sadness the now-tiny Family Island, Joy hands her a non-anthropomorphic version of Lenny the Binoculars.
• An origami Pizza Planet Truck appears inside the emotions' bedroom.
• A113 (denoted in Roman Numerals as "ACXIII") is where the five main emotions are stored within the Vault.
• One of the music-related memories contains a shot of the boy from Float.
• When Sadness comes crashing back into headquarters, one of the yellow memory spheres that came along with her shows Elio as a reference to Elio.
• The Luxo Ball is visible during the Parade of Future Careers.
  • In the same scene, Figment from Walt Disney World's EPCOT appears on a board game entitled "Journey Into Imagination."
• One of Anxiety's final projections shows a skeleton similar to the Coco ones dressed in Riley's clothes.
  • The same projection shows Riley feeding some squirrels, whose design was recycled from the Squirrel from Dug Days.
• The Stork from For the Birds, Woody's boots and a cup of Dole Whip (featuring a Mickey Mouse insignia on the cup) are among the crayon drawings within the end credits.
• The Eggman Movers logo can be seen in the hockey rink's wall.
• Riley is seen playing Chicharrón's guitar at the near end of the film.

Other trivia

• Mindy Kaling and Bill Hader did not return to voice their respective characters (Disgust and Fear), following a reported contract dispute. Kaling and Hader were subsequently replaced by Liza Lapira and Tony Hale.
• Riley and her friends eat pizza from Spinney's Pizza, named for Sesame Street performer Caroll Spinney, who portrayed Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch. This was a personal tribute from director Kelsey Mann, who described himself as "a huge fan" of Sesame Street growing up.
• One of Anxiety's projections (specifically, #65) shows Riley reacting in disgust to a teen boy ogling Val, a nod to the "Distracted Boyfriend" internet meme.
• Riley's jersey number is 28 to represent the film being Pixar's 28th animated film and her other jersey number is 15 to represent the first Inside Out film being Pixar's 15th animated film.
• After Joy disrupts Anxiety's projection team, one of the mind workers chucks a stool at the main jumbotron. This is a nod to Apple's 1984 Macintosh commercial, wherein an athlete throws a Javelin at a dystopic, mind-controlling monitor.
• This is the first Inside Out film to be produced in the 2.39:1 aspect ratio, unlike the first film (which was produced in the 16:9 ratio).
• Inside Out 2 grossed a total of $1,673,622,699 at the global box office, making it the fifth Pixar film to earn more than $1 billion at the global box office. The previous films to achieve this feat are Toy Story 3, Finding Dory, Incredibles 2 and Toy Story 4. Inside Out 2 also surpassed Incredibles 2 as the highest grossing Pixar film. Additionally, the film surpassed the 2019 remake of The Lion King as the highest grossing American animated film of all time. It was previously the highest grossing animated film of all time worldwide until it was surpassed by the 2025 Chinese film Ne Zha 2, which earned more than $2 billion.