"Tri-Kingdom Picnic" is the tenth episode of the Disney Jr. animated series, Sofia the First. It premiered on May 17, 2013.
Overview[]
It's the Tri-Kingdom Picnic for the kingdoms of Enchancia, Wei-Ling, and Khaldoun – and James really wants to win the Golden Chalice given to whichever of the teams from each kingdom wins the most games. Unfortunately, James' bad sportsmanship makes it hard for everyone to have fun.
Plot[]
The Wei-Ling Empire and the Kingdoms of Khaldoun and Enchancia get together for the Tri-Kingdom Picnic and, through a song, everyone tells Sofia how great it is. While playing catch with Jun and Maya, James comes over and drags Sofia away to show her something. Meanwhile, King Roland announces that for the first time, the grown-ups will be playing Picnic Games, just like their children do. The thing James wanted to show Sofia is the Golden Chalice, which is awarded to the Kingdom that wins the most Picnic Games. Unfortunately, he's never won it before since he's always been partnered with Amber, who's not too good with outdoor sports. Since Sofia likes Flying Derby, James asks her if she'd like to be his teammate, which she agrees to. Amber, in the meantime, plans to teach Princess Leena how to decorate a parasol. After changing into their team jerseys, Sofia and James join the other kids. The first game is the Flying Horseshoe Toss. Sofia makes the best toss by getting a ringer, so Enchancia wins. While Sofia is congratulated for winning, James starts to brag and act obnoxious, which upsets everyone, especially Sofia. Baileywick leads the group to the second game: The Golden Egg on a Spoon Race.
Roland explains to the other adults that their games will be just for fun, with no prize. The first game they play is Musical Thrones. As everyone quickly sits down, Emperor Quon falls over and quickly excuses himself, embarrassed. Elsewhere, Amber and Leena are putting glue and glitter on their parasols, but Leena struggles at it and gets hers all over Amber. Maya wins the Golden Egg on a Spoon race. While everyone else congratulates her, James throws a temper tantrum and goes on to make up a bunch of excuses about why he didn't win. He also demands a do-over. Baileywick tells him that the Khaldoun team won fair and square, so there will be no need for that. James leaves in a huff and angrily brushes Sofia off when she tries to follow him. Sofia apologizes for her brother's behavior and leaves to go talk to him. Empress Lin-Lin is trying to get her husband to participate in Blazing Badminton, but Quon refuses. Roland begins to play poorly to show Quon he can still have a good time. This cheers up Quon, who decides to give it a try.
Meanwhile, Sofia finds James and asks him to be nicer to the other kids but he doesn't think he's doing anything wrong. The Tri-Kingdom Volleyball game begins and James and Sofia lose a point when they bump into each other and miss the ball. James gets mad again and tells her to stop fooling around because he wants to win. Team Enchancia does end up winning this game. While everyone heads over to the great lawn for the Enchanted discus game, James makes things worse when he rubs his team's victory in the other kids' faces. Sofia pleads for James to stop taunting them, but he doesn't listen and continues to do so. Having had enough of his behavior and attitude, the other kids decide they don't want to play any more games and storm off. James, who doesn't get it, asks Sofia why everyone's quitting and Sofia tells him that, because of how he's acting, their friends aren't having any fun and neither is she. James still doesn't get it and Sofia, who is fed up with him and his nonstop obnoxious behavior, storms off. James tries to call her back, but she just ignores him.
Sofia goes over to where Amber and Leena have finished their parasols and they show them off to her. Amber asks Sofia what she's doing wandering around since the games shouldn't be over yet. Sofia tells her about James being a bad sport and how nobody wants to play anymore. Amber suggests that Sofia show James the right way to act. Sofia isn't sure how to do that until she sees the grown-ups playing Bewitching Bowling, which gives her an idea. She brings James over to watch the game and points out that even though their father isn't winning, he's still having fun, which is what really matters. Realizing that he really messed up, James finally understands that he ruined the games for everyone and goes with Sofia to apologize. James apologizes for how he acted and offers to continue the games, promising to be a good sport this time. While hesitated at first, the other kids agree and the games resume. True to his word, James is being a good sport this time. When the Games are over, The Kingdom of Khaldoun is declared the winner of the Golden Chalice. Although hesitant at first, James takes the Chalice and presents it to Khalid and Maya, congratulating them for winning, and James isn't even bothered over not winning. Sofia tells him that there's always next year for them to try and win the Golden Chalice.
Home Video Release[]
Cast[]
- Ariel Winter as Sofia
- Darcy Rose Byrnes as Princess Amber
- Zach Callison as Prince James
- Sara Ramirez as Queen Miranda
- Travis Willingham as King Roland II, Announcer (credited as additional voices)
- Tim Gunn as Baileywick
- Michaela Zee as Princess Jun
- Sarah Mitchell as Princess Leena
- Olivia Grace as Princess Maya
- Khamani Griffin as Prince Khalid
- Brian Lee as Prince Jin
- G.K. Bowes as Empress Lin-Lin, Queen Anya (credited as additional voices)
- James Sie as Emperor Quon
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Trivia[]
- Viewership: This episode was watched by 1.688 million viewers on its premiere.[1]
- this episode is similar to Nick Jr's American Chinese language anime influenced series Ni hao Kai-Lan, where the one episode Sports day takes place where rintoo brag about winning in front of tolee and hoho
- This episode aired as part of Disney Jr.'s "Sofia the First Fun & Games With Sofia and James" event; leading up to this episode's premiere, Disney Channel and Disney Jr. aired five back-to-back episodes featuring activities with Sofia and James. Those were Sofia the First: Once Upon a Princess, "Baileywick's Day Off", "Let the Good Times Troll", "Just One of the Princes", and "A Royal Mess".
- This is the first episode to have three plots.
- This is the third time Amber's dress gets ruined, this also happened in Sofia the First: Once Upon a Princess and "The Big Sleepover".
- This episode reveals that Amber has been James' teammate in the Tri-Kingdom games for years.
- This is the first episode where James shows he has a nasty side to his personality.
- Moral: A true champion is always a good sport.
- Winning and Losing doesn't matter, as long as you have fun playing
References[]
- ↑ Bibel, Sara (May 20, 2013). Friday Cable Ratings: 'WWE Smackdown' & 'Sons of Guns' Win Night, 'Merlin', 'Good Luck Charlie', NHL Playoffs & More. TV by the Numbers. Archived from the original on June 7, 2013. Retrieved Febraury 7, 2024.