#inside job part 1

[tenpixelsusie]

hey so i [projectile sobbing]

[Inside Job Part 1 Episode 10 - Inside Reagan]

[madnesslovelymy]

[aburri-do]

In the Inside Job series, at the beginning of each chapter (just after "an original Netflix series" comes out) there is a small glitch that hides an image related to the chapter we are going to see.

Here I leave the hidden images in the first season

I had to take a picture of my phone because netflix doesn't allow you to do ss, if the images are in poor quality it's because of that

[notwhatiam]

OKAY.

So.

I was on a call with my parents today.

We were talking about the Inside Job cancellation, because I’ve been really upset about it and they were actually the ones who got me into the show in the first place. I was saying how weird and unfair it was that it just got pulled out of the blue, when my dad chimed in with something along the lines of, “yeah, but it’s not as though this kind of thing hasn’t happened to the show before. Remember that episode from the end of Part 1 that Netflix ended up taking down?”

And I was immediately like

And my mom and dad were like, “yeah, you don’t remember? That episode at the end of the first part of Season 1. The one with Reagan’s childhood friend that Rand erased from her memory.”

I said, yeah, the part where Reagan goes into her own mind and discovers that she had a friend named Orrin that Rand made her forget. At the end of the episode, she goes back to the present and uses his name as the password to shut down Bear-O and save her friends. That episode is still on Netflix. It didn’t go anywhere.

They were like, “no, but then there’s another episode AFTER that. The one where we find out what actually HAPPENED to Orrin.”

According to them, there was a lost eleventh episode after Inside Reagan. This episode revealed that Rand had trapped Orrin in a cartoon-inspired play land where he had been stuck for the last twenty years. Everyone in the real world thought he had died, and his dad had turned into a broken-down shell of a man over the loss of his son. Reagan and Rand ended up going into the cartoon world to try to save him, and they found out that Orrin had been surviving the whole time by breeding with the cartoon creatures and eating their offspring. They said that they were really confused when they went back to rewatch the first season and the episode wasn’t there, but they could also understand why it had been taken down, because it was honestly one of the most disturbing pieces of television that they had ever seen.

At this point in the conversation, I just assumed that they were messing with me. It’s not like they don’t have a history of pulling twisted shit like this (for context: my dad told me to start watching Inside Job in the first place because he relates to Rand and thought I’d relate to Reagan, and he was 100% right), so I asked them straight-up if they were trying to play some kind of prank. A “ha-ha, you made your own Mandela-effect-style conspiracy” type of prank. They swore up and down that they weren’t lying, and that they both distinctly remembered watching this episode together. They were shocked that I had never seen it, and the entire time over the past year and a half that we’ve been talking about the show, they had thought that this was a part of our shared experience.

So commenced the weirdest Googling spree that I have ever been a part of. I looked for “Inside Job lost episode”, “Inside Job episode 11”, and then a lot of stuff like, “kid gets trapped in cartoon world and mates with creatures to eat their offspring” (which provided a LOT of results, but nothing useful for any purpose except probably for sending the FBI to my house). My parents kept searching for stuff based on details that they could recall from the episode (for example: they remembered a specific moment where Reagan jumped off a cliff and discovered that the ground was bouncy), but they couldn’t find anything on their end. I asked them if they were absolutely sure that this was part of Inside Job, and they weren’t just mixing it up with another show. They were both completely certain that it had been Inside Job, and my parents don’t watch that much animation, so it would have been pretty hard for them to draw on anything else. I went through the Tumblr tag for Orrin Carthwait again, and it was all speculation about what COULD have happened to him, which meant that nobody else had seen this mystery episode, either. Besides, I love this show, and I practically live on Inside Job Tumblr, so if a lost episode existed somewhere, I have a really hard time believing that I wouldn’t have come across it. We’ve been on the phone for an hour at this point. My parents are going through their Netflix history trying to figure out what the fuck they watched. Meanwhile, I’m just lying face-down on the floor having a meltdown because I’m convinced that my parents and I live in different realities. The thing was, it wasn’t a totally impossible scenario? The story did seem to fit together fairly well with the parts of the show that I knew. Also, there’s an episode of Gravity Falls (which was made by a lot of the same people who made Inside Job, and contains a lot of similar themes) where Mabel gets trapped in a cartoonish fantasy land that sounds fairly similar:

So, maybe it was possible that Inside Job contained the more adult version? There’s also the fact that Alex Hirsch did that thing where he basically long-form gaslit the GF fandom back in the day by releasing fake footage of a nonexistent spoiler to throw people off the trail when theories started getting too accurate (I’m too lazy to find a post to link; just look it up if you don’t know about this). Maybe the creators were trying to mess with people by releasing an episode to only a handful of viewers and then yanking it, thus creating a conspiracy about the show in itself? Still, it wouldn’t make sense that EVERY trace of the episode would be wiped from existence. You’d think somebody would be talking about it somewhere. I started wondering if maybe it was possible that I HAD actually seen it, and just didn’t remember it. The thing was, it did actually sound really familiar, and some of the details my parents were describing felt way too clear in my mind. Did I just block it out? Where was it, then? I was absolutely losing my fucking mind at this point, so I started a last-ditch effort to just go through any adult animation shows I could think of and read the synopses of every single episode to see if one matched the description. And finally, FINALLY,

I found the bitch.

It’s Rick and Morty, Season 3, Episode 9: “The ABCs of Beth.”

It’s been a long time since I’ve seen it, so I guess I forgot most of the details. Rewatching it back, though, it’s undoubtedly the same story that my parents were describing. The episode is about Beth discovering that Rick trapped her childhood friend, Tommy, in a fantasy play land of his own design called “Froopyland”. She goes back to try to save him, and discovers that he’s been surviving there the whole time by mating with the Froopyland creatures and then eating their kids. The story is basically about Beth coming to terms with the fact that, while her dad is a really fucked-up person, she isn’t entirely unlike him (for better or worse). Honestly, I can understand why my parents’ minds conflated this episode with the ending of Inside Job. The design of Tommy:

Could conceivably be an adult Orrin:

And a lot of the themes about dysfunctional family and fucked-up childhoods (including missing childhood friends) are actually incredibly similar.

Still, I can’t believe that I was actually briefly led to think that there was a lost episode of my favorite show that I had never seen, which was either purged from the collective consciousness or deleted from my own personal memory. This is the worst thing that my parents have ever done. If I ever go to a therapist, they’ll be hearing about this first.

[cartoonloserr]

i’d never realise how funny alpha beta/ robotus is

[lakesparkles]

Old art! Old art!!

This is from the beginning of 2022. I'm still feeling nostalgic about Inside Job - even that the time I was into the show was one of the worst of my life, I was so sad all the time,,

But, if I don't look too close, I still like this comic!

[silverhalla]

alright single digit days so it’s time for last-minute baseless + unfounded veilguard theories!!!!!!! I’ll go first: the reason spite can’t take over lucanis’ body is because that body is ALREADY being possessed by lucanis, who was in fact dead and buried in the wake and rebound to a new form in the ossuary

[cuntela]

no comment needed

[lemoncarddboard]

you can tell that most fanfic authors who write with restaurant/diner/cafe/fast food settings are either:

a.) children

and/or

b.) have never worked a food service job a day in their LIVES.

this is because none of them (that ive seen) have ever gone into the REAL, mundane, soul sucking aspects of a day-to-day life in food service. there is nothing to be glorified, nothing, fuck whats the word... etishized is the wrong word. whatever they do to farm life and college and shit. the tiktok aesthetic thing they do.

they dont know the horrors of the triple sink. they have never had to think about how the soda machines work, about just how janky it is. they've never had to urgently prep a bunch of meat in the back while their coworker stalls the customer for as long as they can until you have just enough for one sandwich, because the morning shift didnt finish the prep work before they clocked off.

they dont know just how awkward it is trying to politely decline "going out after work" with a customer, gritting your teeth to bare the blatant and unwanted flirting, because all you want to do after handling customers and bullshit alteration requests for 5-8 hours is collapse into bed regardless of what time of day your shift ended.

they've never had to wash their hands and dunk them in dish sanitizer over and over and over and over again until their hands start peeling and cracking and bleeding from constant wet-to-dry-to-wet-to-dry-to-covered-in-chemicals. the horrors of the triple sink... istg things start to live in the drains when theyre not cleaned out. and lazy coworkers b lazy.

[alloarocharactershowdown]

Alloaro Character Showdown!

Round 1 Part 3

[ID: A graphic with Reagan Ridley on one side and Mina Ashido on the other. They are separated by a diagonal yellow line with the word "VS" over it. End ID]

[nostalgiapocalypse]

does anyone else... NOT want alpha beta to get repaired? idk if that makes sense but like. he seems content with rolling around i think??

[tenpixelsusie]

"Wait, I got it!"

[Inside Job Part 1 Episode 10 - Inside Reagan]

[madnesslovelymy]

[toontownportraits]

HEEHEE :]

[beebeewoop]

‼️LOOK CLOSELY‼️

REAGAN IS THERE SOMETHING YOU WANNA TELL US?

[berkcastteam]

We're back join HC, Wolf, @kingofthewilderwest, and @jayalaw as they talk season 1 part 2 of Inside Job. As always we hope you enjoy, and let us know what you think.

-Wolf