

The group reluctantly wake up Jangles and run quickly with the mad clown in hot pursuit, leading him back to Dream Productions which causes Riley to wake up in shock. Joy frees him without waking the fear up, however they realize that Jangles is the only way to get Riley awake. Joy and Sadness enter the Subconscious to rescue him and find him detained inside a balloon cage on top of the sleeping Jangles the Clown, one of Riley's worst fears. Bing Bong shows himself to try to remind Riley of him, but he is arrested and thrown into the Subconscious. Bing Bong, Joy and Sadness go to Dream Productions to wake up Riley through a dream, but instead inadvertently create chaos in it. However, the train stops as Riley is asleep. When Sadness talks to him, she empathizes with him, and by getting him to express his sadness, she comforts him and inspires Bing Bong to bring them to the Train of Thought. Joy tries to get him to stop being sad by making silly faces and doing childish things, but they don't work. But when Bing Bong witnesses the demolition of the childish aspects in Imagination Land with his precious wagon thrown into the Memory Dump in the process, Bing Bong falls into deep melancholy. In fact, he leads them into danger in Abstract Thought. Unfortunately, since he was created when Riley was a toddler, his naive nature impedes the duo from getting anywhere close to Headquarters. Bing Bong was Riley's imaginary friend created during her early childhood, approximately when she was three.
