This "Inside Out" Detail Just Made "Up" Even Sadder...Or Maybe Less Sad

Yes, it's been three years since Inside Out came out and I JUST noticed this, sue me.

If you've seen the PHENOMENAL 2015 Pixar movie Inside Out, you know all about how the memory orbs in Riley's brain work.

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Each orb contains a particular memory from Riley's life, and they're color-coded based on how Riley feels about the memory: Gold is happy, blue is sad, red is angry, etc.

Well, Redditor HellotoHorse noticed a detail that you might have missed, even if you've seen the movie a bunch of times. While Joy and Sadness are going through Riley's long-term memories...

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...there's a shot that includes memories that happened in Pixar's other emotionally scarring movie, Up! Specifically, there are two sad memory orbs featuring Carl and Ellie's wedding and their house.

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Others in the Reddit thread pointed out that there are a bunch of other memory orbs with Up scenes on the shelf as well, most of them from the movie's early (and very sad) montage.

So in the context of the movie, if Riley has seen all these moments from Carl and Ellie's life, this could really only mean one thing: Up is just a movie in the unified Pixar universe, and it never really happened!

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Riley obviously watched the movie at some point, and of course a lot of her memories of the montage are SAD AS HELL.

Or maybe the team making the movie just needed some already-rendered scenes to put in the memory orbs, so of course they used old Pixar movies, but WHERE'S THE FUN IN THAT, HUH?

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Anyway, this either makes me very sad that Carl and Ellie never existed or very happy that I never have to feel like someone is stabbing me in the heart while I watch the beginning of Up ever again.

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