When You Wish Upon a Well

"When You Wish Upon a Well" is the thirty-third episode from Sofia the First, which aired on July 11, 2014.

Plot
James and Sofia start off the morning with a game of races, but Sofia isn't fast enough. She seeks Roland's help, who agrees. Amber, however, feels he is spending too much time with her just as Sofia felt Miranda was spending too much time with the twins in "Mom's The Word." Then Miranda arrives holding a cat, which makes Roland sneeze. This gives Amber an idea.

Sofia is accidentally turned into a cat when a jealous Amber stumbles upon a wishing well and makes a wish that Roland would become allergic to Sofia. Sofia has just started practicing when she becomes a cat. At first, she doesn't realize it, even as Roland sneezes and doesn't see her. Then, Sofia looks at herself, and runs to Clover.

They head over to Cedric, and try to explain what happened. Unfortunately, Cedric cannot speak animal, and doesn't recognize Sofia. Wormwood, however, does, and tries to take her Amulet. Sofia and Clover are thrown out of Cedric's quarters, and return to Roland and Amber, who are playing Blazing Badminton.

Amber quickly regrets her actions when she sees Sofia, and takes her to the well to fix things. But she ends up turning Sofia pink with her last wish, and Sofia gets chased around the race course by Rex and Wormwood. Sofia takes advantage of her sleek build and shakes them off by maneuvering around them until James and Roland arrive to catch Rex and find out what's going on. Roland uses his wish to turn Sofia back, and reveals he made a bad first wish, though he says it's "a story for another time." After Amber explains her jealousy, Roland's reaction is quite unlike the one Miranda had to Sofia. Roland pities and apologizes to Amber, and decides that they'll have fun together.

Once Sofia wins the race with her new-found talents of maneuvering and goes off with Miranda to deliver the cat to her owner, Amber and Roland go off together to play. But then Clover finds the well and wishes for a lifetime supply of radishes.

Cast

 * Ariel Winter as Sofia
 * Wayne Brady as Clover
 * Darcy Rose Byrnes as Princess Amber
 * Zach Callison as Prince James
 * Jim Cummings as Wormwood and Rex
 * Keith Ferguson as Wishing Well
 * Jess Harnell as Cedric the Sorcerer
 * Sara Ramirez as Queen Miranda
 * Travis Willingham as King Roland II

Songs

 * Make Your Wishes Well

Quotes

 * Princess Amber: Sofia is that you?
 * Princess Sofia: meow

Trivia

 * This is the fourth time Sofia undergoes a magical transformation. In "Cedric's Apprentice," she became a lizard, in "The Amulet and the Anthem," her voice became that of a frog's and in "Sofia the First: The Floating Palace," she became a mermaid.
 * Interestingly, all of Sofia's alternate forms have a purple theme, since purple is her identifying color. Sofia's cat form is the first to have an extra theme from her human form-the white clover motif on the outer hem of her gown appearing on her tail.
 * The episode's title is a reference to the song When You Wish Upon a Star.
 * This is the second time Amber has something magical happen to one of her siblings that she regrets, the first was when she had James turn into a baby in "Two Princesses and a Baby."
 * This is the second time Sofia turns into an animal.
 * This is the third time Amber becomes jealous of Sofia, the first time being in Once Upon A Princess, and the second time being in "Princess Butterfly".
 * This is the third time Wormwood speaks.
 * In this episode it is revealed that Roland is allergic to cats.
 * This episode also reveals that Cedric cannot talk to animals, and that Wormwood seeks the Amulet for himself.
 * This is the third time Amber wears a different tiara.
 * This is the second time a magical object was used to grant wishes, the first was the mirror in "The Baker King".
 * This is the third time Roland has used a magical object to have his wishes granted.
 * The first was years before.
 * The second was in "The Baker King".
 * The third is in this episode.
 * When Amber tries to make a fourth wish, the well, in a monotonous manner, says, "I'm sorry, princess; I'm afraid I can't do that". This is a reference to the movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey, where HAL 9000, a malfunctioning computer AI, tells Dave the same thing, in a similar monotonous manner, when HAL 9000 is asked to open the pod bay doors.
 * This is the third time Sofia wears her sport outfit, and second time she wears it the whole episode instead of her signature dress.
 * This is the third time there is a brief hostility between Sofia and Wormwood. The first was in Once Upon A Princess, and the second time being in "Princess Butterfly".
 * It is also the second time Wormwood tries to steal the Amulet in place of Cedric.
 * Clover and Wormwood have their second face off since the premier.
 * This is the second time an Erlenmeyer flask has been mistakenly called a beaker and used comically, in this case creating a pun with it being on Wormwood's beak. The first time was in "Tea For Too Many."