When all other efforts to stop Riley from running away from her parents have failed, Joy (Amy Poehler) allows Sadness (Phyllis Smith) to have a go, and she succeeds. Riley returns home and Sadness interacts with her memories of her old home in Minnesota, turning them from happy memories into sad ones, in a touching montage. Riley tearfully tells her parents that she misses her old home, and as they comfort her, the Family Island part of her brain starts working again. This marks the onset of Riley developing a more complex set of emotions that aren't simply one feeling or another, and so the layout of her emotional HQ is massively expanded with more buttons and functions to accommodate her growing maturity. It's one of the best scenes that Pixar has ever made in one of their best-ever movies: it has an important message for children and, like their very best movies, also works on a whole other level for grown-ups too. Admit it, you cried.
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