"The Amulet of Avalor" is the fourteenth episode of the Disney Jr. animated series, Sofia the First. It premiered on July 12, 2013.
Overview[]
When Sofia loses her magical amulet, she loses the power to understand her animal friends. Sofia must now find her amulet – and the animal thief – before Cedric does.
Plot[]
Sofia is getting ready for another royal ball, and her animal pals help her get ready. Roland comes in, saying he has a surprise for her and Amber. He takes them to the Royal Treasure Room where, as a treat, they can each pick out a piece of jewelry for the ball. While looking, Sofia comes across a baby griffin. They love anything shiny and must stay in the jewel room. While everyone is leaving, the baby griffin follows without anyone noticing it follow them out of the jewel room.
In Sofia's room, Amber has an idea to swap jewels for a tryout, despite Sofia warning Amber she must've take the Amulet of Avalor off. She soon gives in, for one minute. The Baby Griffin notices this and swoops down and grabs it, leaving scrape marks. Sofia notices that it is gone and tries to find it. Amber says it might just have fallen on the floor. Amber goes to find someone who can help, while Sofia calls her animal friends. When they try to answer, she can't hear them, discovering that without it, she can no longer talk to them as she can't understand them either. She hears a scream and runs to where it was heard. When there, a maidservant named Violet says that when she went to set the table, the golden goblets she had settled there before leaving for other silverware went missing, leaving scrape marks and mysterious feathers. The constable comes in and when learning of this, says that there is a bandit in the castle and they must find it before the ball.
After Sofia tells James and Amber that they should look too, and they separated. Cedric, who finds out the griffin has the amulet while collecting flowers for his potions, tries to freeze him, but instead freezes Wormwood before unfreezing him. Amber and James, when interacting, come close to finding the baby griffin, but he hides and flies away. Later, Sofia's mother, Miranda, has a tiara that went missing. Amber implies that there have been things disappearing, and after a reply when Miranda asks what else is missing, this has Roland worried because the amulet was a gift from him to Sofia. Amber and Miranda go and greet the guests while Roland explains how he chose the amulet. He was about to choose a ruby necklace when the amulet flashed, glowing faintly, and he remembered the stories that his mother, the previous bearer of the Amulet, told him about how it safeguards the princess who wears it and decides that that sounded like something Sofia would need. Roland comforts Sofia about its loss by saying that though he is furious at whoever took it, he would never be furious at her. They leave and go to the Ball. The King states that it will find its way back. Meanwhile, the trap that Cedric set failed, leaving him in a cage. Cedric makes a flying machine, chasing the griffin around. Cedric is right on his tail as he drops many jewels and they both crash into the ballroom.
Roland and Constable Myles think it was Cedric who stole the jewels, but it is clear that it's not when Sofia finds out feathers and fur. She yells out that the real crook is the griffin, which is hiding under a table. Putting two and two together, all the shiny things that were missing had scrape marks from his claws and feathers from his wings, they find Sofia's amulet and it revives her powers. As for the griffin, he is to be taken back to his parents in the jewel room. Sofia runs pass Cedric and James asks for a ride in Cedric's machine, only it has a few bugs from when it crashed. Sofia chats to her animal friends, inviting them to dinner and ending the episode.
Home Video Release[]
Cast[]
- Ariel Winter as Sofia
- Darcy Rose Byrnes as Princess Amber
- Zach Callison as Prince James
- Travis Willingham as King Roland II
- Sara Ramirez as Queen Miranda
- Jess Harnell as Cedric the Sorcerer
- Jim Cummings as Wormwood
- Tim Gunn as Baileywick
- Clancy Brown as Constable Myles
- Jennifer Hale as Violet
- Wayne Brady as Clover
- Ashley Eckstein as Mia
- Meghan Strange as Robin
- Lyons Luke Mathias as Jasper
Songs[]
Transcript[]
The Amulet of Avalor (episode)/Transcript
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Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Viewership: This episode was watched by 2.678 million viewers on its premiere.[1]
- When they are in the jewel room, Sofia's princess test trophy is shown in the background.
- This is the second episode where Cedric sings and whose song is a villain song, the first was "Cedric the Great" from "Cedric's Apprentice".
- This is the first time Sofia and Cedric sing a duet.
- When Sofia knows Cedric tells the truth, Princess Clio and Prince Frederick from Royal Prep are shown.
- The baby griffin's name is later revealed to be Jasper in "Minimus is Missing".
- Cedric and Wormwood return for the first time since "A Royal Mess".
- Roland almost finds the secret of Sofia's Amulet twice: once after Sofia thanks the griffin, and when Roland tickles the griffin, but Sofia shrugs it off both times.
- Wormwood is the first character in the series to be frozen in ice.
- Grand Mum is mentioned in this episode.
- Moral: You never know how much something means to you until it's missing.
Goofs[]
- When Constable Myles closes the gate to the jewel room, the lock is already closed.
- When Sofia runs to confront the theft, her amulet is shown on her for a moment and then disappears again.
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ Kondolojy, Amanda (July 15, 2013). Friday Cable Ratings: 'Friday Night SmackDown' Wins Night + 'American Pickers', 'Treehouse Master', 'Storage Wars', 'Continuum' & More. TV by the Numbers. Archived from the original on July 17, 2013. Retrieved February 7, 2024.