Tea for Too Many

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

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, 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 the tea parties she had 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 completely disapproves because it's too small. She tells Sofia that she's her secret weapon for throwing a fabulous party, and, through a song, she convinces her that bigger is better. While Sofia plans her tea party, Amber takes over her plans and doesn't let her make her own decisions much to Sofia's dismay and James' annoyance. Sofia thinks it's too much because it looks more like a feast than a tea party, but Amber says that there's no such thing as too much of a good thing. To make the party even bigger, she insists that Sofia should have an ice swan sculpture.

On the day of Sofia's tea party, Sofia is terribly overwhelmed with how Amber made her plan the party while Amber enjoys how big it is. When Sofia sees the swans perform, she's almost convinced that bigger is better when Cedric offers to make the tables and chairs float as part of her party, but the ice swan crashes into the swans' pond. The swans and chairs then fly away, and all of this completely ruins Sofia's tea party. Sofia doesn't have time to plan another fancy tea party, but Miranda reminds her that she didn't even want her tea party to be big and fancy.

Sofia hosts the tea party she wants, and the princesses love it. Amber learns that bigger isn't always better and that everybody likes different kinds of parties. Amber likes big parties while Sofia likes small parties.

Cast

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

Home Video Release

 * Sofia the First: The Enchanted Feast DVD

Songs

 * Bigger Is Better

Trivia

 * 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 second time Cedric makes an error in magic, the first time in Once Upon a Princess. In this episode, he casts a 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 fourth time Sofia wears different gowns.
 * This is the second time Sofia wears different tiaras.

Goofs

 * 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.
 * While Sofia meets and greets Ralph and the swans after asking Cedric for the floating tables, the shiny effects from her tiara were out of place.