Riley's First Date?

Riley's First Date? is a 2015 Pixar computer animated short directed by Josh Cooley. It was attached to the Digital HD, DVD and Blu-ray release of Inside Out. The short involves Riley's parents and their emotions suspecting that Riley is going on a date with a boy named Jordan.

Plot

Riley, now 12, is relaxing with her parents at home when a school friend, a boy named Jordan, shows up to take her skating. Riley's parents suspect their daughter is going out on a date, and their emotions react badly. While Riley's mother attempts to get the information out of her by using slang, Riley's father tries to intimidate Jordan. When Jordan mentions he plays in a band, Riley's father recalls his own memories of being in a band, and the two begin to bond, playing air guitar to AC/DC's "Back in Black", much to Riley's chagrin. Later, Riley and Jordan leave for the skate park, leaving her parents satisfied that Jordan is a good kid before sharing a kiss.

Voice cast

• Amy Poehler as Joy
• Phyllis Smith as Sadness
• Bill Hader as Fear and Jordan's Joy
• Lewis Black as Anger
• Mindy Kaling as Disgust
• Kaitlyn Dias as Riley Andersen
• Diane Lane as Riley's Mother
• Kyle MacLachlan as Riley's Father
• Ben Cox as Jordan
• Sherry Lynn as Mother's Joy and Mother's Disgust
• Lori Alan as Mother's Sadness
• Laraine Newman as Mother's Fear
• Paula Pell as Mother's Anger
• Patrick Seitz as Father's Joy
• Josh Cooley as Father's Sadness
• Pete Docter as Father's Anger
• Carlos Alazraqui as Father's Fear
• Flea as Jordan's Fear
• Mona Marshall as Jordan's Disgust
• Gregg Berger as Jordan's Anger
• Keith Ferguson as Jordan's Sadness and Father's Disgust

Production

During the final year of Inside Out's production, Pixar got together to discuss a short based on the film.^[2] Josh Cooley pitched using the kid Riley meets at the end of the movie "because we only see him for a split second.” Given most of Pixar's crew are fathers with daughters, and editor Jason Brodkey stated at the meeting that "Just wait until the first boy shows up", the plot was then developed into how Riley’s parents would react to the boy, now baptized Jordan.^[1] Cooley started off from a personal anecdote, as the first time he met his father-in-law, "he was a little standoffish" until Cooley told he was in a band, and both started to connect as the father-in-law played drums.^[3] Jordan's emotional immaturity was played for comedy and also in how “boys are behind. It felt right to have him be catching up, to have his mind act like a kid does.” Riley's First Date? was done in about 10 months, employing the same character models and scenery from the feature, to the point the same camera shot is used in the take where Mother's head is visited.^[1] While exploring various song choices, the producers eventually settled on AC/DC,^[4] which Cooley considered a band that connected generations: "I went to their concert and there was a 7-year-old in front of me and an 80-year-old behind me".^[3]

References

External links

• Riley's First Date? at the Internet Movie Database