"Cedric Be Good" is the fifty-fifth episode of the Disney Jr. animated series, Sofia the First. It premiered on September 18, 2015, and is the third episode of the third season.
Overview[]
Cedric succeeds at last in stealing Sofia's amulet, by switching it with a fake. But whenever Cedric tries to use its power to take over the kingdom, it curses him in a variety of ways. He seeks Sofia's help in becoming a good person when he learns the curses can only be broken by doing good deeds, all while trying to keep her from finding out she's not really wearing her amulet.
Plot[]
Sofia and James are picking apples in the Royal Orchard to give to the villagers. Suddenly, Cedric flies in on a flying machine. Sofia and James ask him if they can ride it, but he refuses. Cedric heads to his workshop with a flower from the Charmacy called the Alabaster Rose, a rare flower that blooms every one hundred years, to make a Power Plucking Potion which he plans to use to make Sofia's amulet give him any power he wants after he steals it with a fake replica he made. Then, Cedric will have plenty of time to use the potion on the real amulet and give himself a power so great he will take over the kingdom.
Back in the orchard, while Sofia and James are still picking apples, Wormwood distracts Sofia by stealing an apple, and Cedric uses a Switching Spell to switch the unaware Sofia's amulet with the fake one. He tells his mother, who tells Cedric the different abilities the Amulet can provide. Cedric wants the power of supreme strength so he can be the mightiest in the land. He then tries to get the potion out of the flask, only to discover he has sticky hands. Because of this, the potion falls on the floor and gets destroyed when Winifred tries to free the hands. Cedric's hands get stuck on the floor. When Winifred sees that he put the Amulet on, she recites its rule and tells him that the Amulet put a curse on him when he stole it from Sofia. To break it, he needs to do a good deed, like give something to Sofia. Winifred becomes his chaperone on the way out.
Cedric hisses at the real amulet, which he hides, and refuses to give Sofia his flying machine, but after being told to do so by Winifred, he decides to think about it. Meanwhile, Wormwood spots Clover, Robin, and Mia and decides to play with them. Wormwood bathes on a fountain, but Clover, Robin, and Mia leave. However, when Wormwood states that it gets lonely in Cedric's workshop, Clover, Robin, and Mia decide to keep him company. Wormwood decides to show them the way to the castle's food pantry.
As Sofia and James gather all the apples, Cedric returns with his flying machine, which he would like to give to them. As Sofia hugs Cedric, the Sticky Hands Curse is broken. Sofia and James then ride the machine before Winifred tells Cedric to do very good things and kind acts to Sofia to gain powers. Cedric gives James another ride and asks to come with Sofia to the village to hand out the apples. Meanwhile, Wormwood, Clover, Robin, and Mia are playing baseball in the food pantry, with Wormwood catching the ball, allowing him and Clover to win. Wormwood decides on a game of waffle hockey with him as the goalie.
In the village, Sofia gives the apples to the villagers, while Winifred tells Cedric to do something nicer. Cedric enlarges an orange tree so that it's full of fruits. This causes all the villagers to head there and get its fruits. As a result, Cedric has the power to turn big. But when he squashes a hay wagon, he shrinks. Cedric turns it back to normal, but he doesn't turn big. Winifred tells Cedric to stop doing bad things and do another good deed quick by following Sofia's lead.
Through a song, Cedric then does more nice things with help from Sofia, like helping a little girl score a goal (which makes him bounce really high, but loses it when he tells birds to get away from him and his nose turns into a beak), cleaning up a villager's mess (which turns his beak back to a nose), and replacing another girl's ice cream with a larger one, attracting the villagers (which makes Cedric turn anything into ice, but loses it when he freezes the ocean, causing a boat to crash into a pier). After Cedric fixes the pier and puts the boat back in the ocean, Sofia tells him to head back home, but after Cedric rejects the idea, Sofia decides for them to do another good deed.
They spot a man struggling to build a house for his family, and Cedric uses his magic to finish the house, and the man thanks them. Afterwards, Cedric finally gains the power he's longed for: Supreme Strength. Afterwards, he and Sofia head back to the castle. Meanwhile, one of the kitchen maids shoos Wormwood, Clover, Robin, and Mia out of the castle just as Sofia arrives. She is shocked when she can't hear what the animals are saying, and she does not shrink; it is that moment Sofia discovers that her Amulet isn't working and can't use her powers anymore, not knowing the full truth, and heads to find Cedric with Wormwood also looking for him.
Meanwhile, Cedric uses his Supreme Strength to lift the King's throne and declares himself the king of Enchancia while ruling with an iron fist. As a result, Cedric's Supreme Strength gets taken away and he gets cursed with metal hands, which destroy the staircase. Wormwood finds Cedric, who heads back to his workshop. There, Winifred tells Cedric to do the noblest kind-hearted thing he can think of. Sofia then arrives, seeing the workshop in a mess and telling Cedric about her powerless Amulet and asking if she can fix it. Having had enough, Cedric asks Sofia the spell works if she closes her eyes, so she doesn't find out the truth; he returns the Amulet to Sofia, breaking his curse and she thanks him.
Sofia is happy about it and leaves. Winifred concludes that returning Sofia's Amulet was the right thing to do for Cedric. The Amulet's powers work again as Sofia can talk to her animal friends again. She then goes for a ride with James in Cedric's flying machine. During the ride, Sofia calls Cedric the best, and Cedric assumes that it's something he supposes.
Cast[]
- Ariel Winter as Princess Sofia
- Tyler Merna as Prince James
- Jess Harnell as Cedric the Sorcerer
- Wayne Brady as Clover
- Jim Cummings as Wormwood
- Ashley Eckstein as Mia
- Meghan Strange as Robin
- Russi Taylor as Winifred the Wise
- Lyons Luke Mathias as Village Boy
- King Roland II is mentioned but does not appear.
Song[]
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Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Viewership: This episode was watched by 1.096 million viewers on its premiere.[1]
- The title is a reference to Chuck Berry's hit song "Johnny B Goode".
- This is the first time Cedric gains possession of the Amulet of Avalor, aside from briefly possessing the second amulet in "Sofia the Second" which was fake.
- This is the third time that Cedric's name appears in the title, the first was "Cedric's Apprentice" and the second was "Substitute Cedric".
- This is the first appearance of Cedric, Wormwood, Clover, Robin, Mia, and Winifred the Wise in the third season.
- This is the fourth time the amulet's curse unleashing ability is activated. The first time was in "The Amulet and the Anthem", the second time was in The Curse of Princess Ivy, and the third time was in "The Littlest Princess".
- This is the first time the amulet's curse unleashing ability gets activated more than once.
- Cedric is the second person other than Sofia the amulet curses. The first was Princess Amber. Like Sofia's curses, Cedric's curses were very minor ones.
- Because Cedric stole the amulet, its safeguard was activated, which repeatedly cursed the thief until it got returned to its rightful owner.
- This is the fourth time the Amulet of Avalor is removed from Sofia's person and gets stolen. The first time was in "The Amulet of Avalor", the second time was in "Princess Butterfly", and the third time was in The Curse of Princess Ivy.
- This is also the fourth time the amulet's power granting ability is activated. The first time was in Once Upon a Princess, the second time was in The Floating Palace, and the third was in "The Littlest Princess".
- This is also the first time the amulet's power granting ability was activated more than once.
- It's revealed in this episode that people who are fully-trained in the magical arts like Cedric can unlock the amulet's powers and break its curses more easily than those who are not fully-trained like Sofia.
- It's also shown that when the amulet's powers get unlocked by magical means they will get taken away the second the wearer does something bad because the one who used the magic that unlocked the power did not truly earn the power by doing a good deed.
- Cedric becomes the second person in the show to have received a power from the amulet. The first is Sofia.
- Cedric finally gives up trying to take over Enchancia with Sofia's amulet.
- However, his goal resurfaces again in "Hexley Hall" where he learns about the amulet's new powers.
- This is the second episode where the game of Dazzleball is being played, the first being "A Tale of Two Teams".
- This is the first time Winifred the Wise appears without her husband, Goodwyn the Great.
- Winifred reveals she knows about Sofia's powers and how she got them.
- This is the third episode whose song is a duet that Sofia and an antagonist both sing. The first was "The Amulet of Avalor" whose song was I'll Get My/That Amulet, and the second was "Baileywhoops" whose song was Helping Hand.
- This is also the second time Sofia and Cedric sing a duet, the first being in "The Amulet of Avalor".
- First episode where James appears without Amber.
- Although Sofia and James were the only members of the royal family to appear, Roland was mentioned.
- This is the fourth time Cedric almost reveals his evil ways to Sofia, following "The Enchanted Feast", "Mystic Meadows", and The Curse of Princess Ivy.
- This episode aired on the same day PJ Masks premiered.
- Sofia almost found out Cedric's evil side in this episode.
- Moral: It is better to give than to receive.
Goofs[]
- While Cedric is trying to switch the amulets, his wand changes color.
- After Cedric becomes a giant, his voice is so loud the whole village can hear, but for some reason Sofia doesn't notice.
International premieres[]
- November 9, 2015 (Brazil)
Transcript[]
The transcript for Cedric Be Good may be viewed here.
References[]
- ↑ Metcalf, Mitch (September 21, 2015). Showbuzz Daily's Top 100 Friday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 9.18.2015. Showbuzz Daily. Archived from the original on September 22, 2015. Retrieved March 19, 2024.