Tea for Too Many

Tea for Too Many
Season 1, Episode 18
Air date	September 27, 2013
Production Code	118
Written by	Doug Cooney Craig Gerber
Storyboards by	Eugene Salandra Jill Colbert Mike Kunkel Stark Howell Sharon Forward
Directed by	Jamie Mitchell Larry Leichliter Sam Riegel
Songs in this Episode	Bigger is Better
Episode Guide
Previous Episode "The Amulet and the Anthem"	Next Episode "Princess Butterfly"

"Tea for Too Many" is the eighteenth episode of the Disney Junior animated series, Sofia the First. It premiered on September 27, 2013.

Overview

Sofia hosts a Royal Prep tea party, but when Amber thinks her party should be as big as hers was, things turn more complicated. Sofia decides to have her party done her own way to which everyone thinks is charming, proving to Amber that adapting to different things isn't a bad thing.

Plot

Today is the day a princess gets chosen to host the Royal Prep Tea Party. Sofia tells everyone that before she was a princess, she and her friends would spread blankets on the ground and borrow tea cups from their mothers. But Amber, Hildegard, and Clio tell her that the Tea Party is a big deal because the whole class goes including the Fairies, and they hosted bigger parties. When Sofia is chosen to host the next Royal Prep Tea Party, Hildegard and Clio tell her that she needs to do better than borrowed tea cups.

At the castle, Sofia shows Amber and James that she wants to host one of the tea parties she used to have with Ruby and Jade, only this time, they get to use the castle tea cups and get to paint them. While James likes this idea, Amber doesn't because she thinks it's too small. She tells Sofia that she's her secret weapon for throwing a fabulous party, and she convinces her that bigger is better. Baileywick gives Sofia a planer to plan her party. Sofia decides on a swan themed tea party with swan-shaped cookies and cakes. Ruby and Jade come over to have tea with her. She takes them to her hideaway: a secret garden. While the three of them have tea and biscuits, Sofia tells Ruby and Jade about the tea party for Royal Prep and wishing she could throw a party like the one she's having with them but feels she has to be considerate of her guests and Amber says her guests want a big and fancy party.

Sofia is selecting the plates and wants the plain white plates, but Amber takes over and picks the shiny gold ones. When Sofia is picking the goblets, Amber takes over again and picks the biggest ones. Sofia is starting to feel overwhelmed and says this is starting to look more like a feast instead of a tea party, but Amber says you can never have too much of a good thing. When Amber finds out the size of the cookie samples after James ate them all, she insists that they be as big as possible, which Sofia, out of consideration for her guests, reluctantly agrees to despite James's protests. Cedric agrees to make the tables float. Sofia asks the swans to help with her party and they agree. Amber decides to add an ice swan to the mix. Sofia is dismayed by how big Amber made her plan her party and James is annoyed that Amber didn't let Sofia make her own decisions. Sofia finishes by getting a new dress prepared for the party.

The next day, Miranda comes out to see the party and notices how overwhelmed Sofia is. Suddenly, disaster strikes: The ice swan is accidentally sent into the swans' pond. The spooked swans crash into Cedric, causing him to lose control of the floating tables, causing a mess and making them fly away. Sofia is upset because the party is ruined and she doesn't have time to plan another big party. Miranda asks her if she even wanted to throw a big party and Sofia says she didn't, but only did so because she wanted to be considerate of her guests. Miranda tells Sofia that she's the host and it's what she wants that matters. Sofia decides to throw the party she wants in her hideaway and the guests declare it the best tea party they ever attended.

Cast

• Ariel Winter as Princess Sofia
• Darcy Rose Byrnes as Princess Amber
• Zach Callison as Prince James
• Coco Grayson as Princess Hildegard
• Harley Graham as Princess Clio
• Sara Ramirez as Queen Miranda
• Tim Gunn as Baileywick
• Jess Harnell as Cedric the Sorcerer
• Jim Cummings as Wormwood
• Diamond White as Ruby Hanshaw
• Isabella Acres as Jade
• Barbara Dirickson as Flora
• Carlos Alazraqui as Ralph
• Jennifer Hale as Portia

Songs

• Bigger is Better

Transcript

Tea for Too Many/Transcript

Videos

Joshua Orro's Sofia The First- Tea For Too Many Blog

Sofia The First - Bigger Is Better - Song - Disney Junior UK

Trivia

• Viewership: This episode was watched by 1.506 million viewers on its premiere.
• This is the first episode where Cedric doesn't mention the amulet or tries to steal it.
• Amber speaks directly to Cedric for the first time.
• Wormwood's laugh is the same one from "A Royal Mess".
• This episode is the first time the Three Good Fairies, Jun, and Penelope meet Cedric.
• This episode is the second time Princesses Clio and Hildegard meet Cedric. ("The Big Sleepover")
• The third time Cedric makes an error in magic, the first time in Once Upon a Princess, the second time in "Cedric's Apprentice". In this episode, he casts an Erlenmeyer flask to float.
• During Amber's song, there was a brief appearance of her wearing her dress from Sofia's debut ball.
• This is the second time Amber wears different tiaras, following "Just One of the Princes".
• Morals:
  • Don't be aggressive.
  • When someone is throwing a party, let them do it their way. It's their party, not yours.

Goofs

• When Sofia takes a biscuit while on a break with Ruby and Jade, she takes one then reveals she took two. But there were only four on the plate, to begin with, and there are three left.
• They reuse a clip where they put bowls on plates twice.
• At the end of the episode, Hildegard and Clio can be seen sitting on the picnic blankets with everyone else, but seconds before the episode closes, their legs are visible in a standing up position even though they are still sitting.
• At the end of the song, "Bigger is Better", you can see the rear castle guard's right hand is out of place while carrying the pallet Amber is standing on.
• Cedric calls his Erlenmeyer flask a beaker.

References

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