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Pixar and Disney's Inside Out


Looking strangely familiar.

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yes, as a friend of mine thinks, they should have cast William Ragsdale to be the kids father.

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I just saw the preview for that on TV and was wondering who would be here.

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That would have been a BRILLIANT idea!

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I thought exactly the same thing  I had forgotten about this show until I saw the promotion for In and out. I always liked the concept and I watched the show every week.

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I thought the same thing. The advertising keeps saying how original the idea is. I guess they never saw this show.

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disney's concept of the show started in October 19, 1989. with disney attraction at epcot Cranium Command in what is now the closed wonders of life pavellion that tells the sotry of a day in the life of a boy and and how the workers in his body make him do stuff... pixar took this idea and had it planned out for a very long while.

hermans head also used the similar concept in 1991 basically 2 years later.

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Certainly my idea. Had the same thought.

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"Herman's Head rip-off," is the first thing I thought on seeing an ad for Inside Out. To be fair I haven't seen the movie, but the premise sure seems similar.




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Cracked.com made the same observation, but I think someone on the thread pointed out that Pixar claims to have borrowed the plot from an old Epcot ride. Either way I think Hollywood doesn't give a sh**. They gave Woody Allen an Oscar nod for best screenplay for basically rewriting Crimes and Misdemeanors. When this was nominated for an Oscar for original screenplay I had to chuckle.

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http://splitsider.com/2016/05/25-years-later-was-hermans-head-any-good/

Before 1989 there were three big television networks and none of them were Fox. Then came The Simpsons and by gum, that put them on the map. Then came Cops, America’s Most Wanted, Beverly Hills 90210, and then suddenly people talked about the Big Four television networks. But with every successful show they made, there were a number of programs that didn’t make it. Shows like Woops! about the survivors of an atomic bomb, The Ben Stiller Show, and the subject of today’s article, 1991’s Herman’s Head.

Today Herman’s Head’s legacy may be the multiple references made to the show on The Simpsons, which shared the cast members of Yeardly Smith (Lisa Simpson) and Hank Azaria (Moe, Wiggum, and hundreds more). Despite being the butt of a few jokes and kind of being associated with the idea of a long-gone show, Herman’s Head ran for three seasons (which is just as long as Arrested Development lasted on the same network). The premise of the show was simultaneously high concept and simple. Herman Brooks works as a magazine fact-checker. We see his day-to-day life at the workplace and at home, and in many ways, the show is a very traditional sitcom. However, this is not all the audience sees. We are also privy to a view inside of the titular Herman’s head where four elements of his personality, Angel, Animal, Genius, and Wimp, are in control. (And no, I would not be the first to mention here that the Pixar film Inside Out totally made this into a movie.) Like many sitcoms of the 90s, the opening credits do a great job of laying out the whole premise:

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