Mrs. Andersen's Emotions are five emotions who appear in the 2015 Disney/Pixar animated feature film Inside Out and its 2024 sequel. Led by Sadness, they operate the mind of Jill Andersen.
Role in the film[]
Inside Out[]
They are first seen at the dinner scene. After Riley responds negatively to her mother, it zooms into Mrs. Andersen's brain, and we meet her emotions, and are determined to know why Riley is feeling blue. After her second response, they signal Mr. Andersen for help. But he only daydreams, and when she does get his attention, he only asks Riley how her day was, and Mrs. Andersen's emotions are annoyed with him, wishing they had married a Brazilian Helicopter pilot instead. After Riley is dismissed from the dinner table, Anger puts on a memory orb of the Brazilian Helicopter pilot, and they all sigh dreamily at him.
They aren't seen again until the end of the film, when Riley is at her hockey game. The emotions decide that they are happy with their decision of marrying Mr. Andersen. Anger throws back the memory of the Brazilian Helicopter Pilot, but Fear catches it, just in case they do want the Brazilian pilot.
Riley's First Date?[]
When Jordan shows up at the Andersen house, Mrs. Andersen's emotions began to panic, as Fear insists that Riley can't go on a date at just age 12. Sadness declared they'll have to probe Riley with "cool words" the kids use so it wasn't obvious, but Mrs. Andersen's attempts only made Riley uncomfortable.
After Riley left with Jordan, Mrs. Andersen's Disgust observe their husband looking at his wife with a knowing look. Joy insisted that their husband was adorable before initiating a kiss. The emotions watch lovingly while listening to "Take My Breath Away" before breaking off the kiss.
Inside Out 2[]
After Riley enters her teenage years and start to act out, Mrs. Andersen's emotions realize what is happening with her and try to handle it by remembering the script they have prepare for that eventuality. However, that fails to comfort Riley.
When Riley returns from her three days at the hockey camp, she hides what happened there when Mrs. Andersen asks her about it. This causes her emotions to get suspicious, as Mrs. Andersen's Anxiety appears freaking out about Riley's response, only to be welcomed back and tranquilized by Sadness (Mrs. Andersen had Anxiety when she was 13 and had puberty just like her daugther, Riley).
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Trivia[]
- Compared to Riley's Sadness and Anger, Mrs. Andersen's Sadness and Anger have better emotional security and temperament; Sadness is much less melancholy and rather sensible, and Anger, while gruff, doesn't have outbursts when dealing with Riley and Mr. Andersen's behavior. This is most likely due to being both adult and a mother.
- Although Sadness seems to be Mrs. Andersen's main emotion, it's technically Joy who commands the console. Whenever there's something for them to do, Sadness gives the order to Joy, who does as told (i.e. Signaling Mr. Andersen for attention).
- Mrs. Andersen's emotions are the only ones where more than one of the emotions are voiced by the same actress.
- In Inside Out 2, Mrs. Andersen is the first adult to show having the emotion Anxiety, who appears in the end credits when the other emotions realize Riley is hiding something. Neither her or her husband's Envy, Embarrassment, Ennui, or Nostalgia emotions appear in the film.
- Additionally, similar to her husband's headquarters, Mrs. Anderson's headquarters does not appear to have seats at the console for these other emotions, which implies that they are not needed as much.
- The way Sadness welcomed Anxiety and immediately went to try to calm her down shows that the latter had already appeared on Mrs. Andersen's HQ other times, but the other emotions (just like Riley's) learned how to deal with her, in this way preventing her from worrying too much.
