The Amulet and the Anthem

"The Amulet and the Anthem" is the seventeenth episode of Sofia the First.

Plot
Sofia is chosen to sing the Enchancian Anthem at the annual Harvest Festival by Lutiano. Before she knows it, she gets interviewed, her portrait painted, and showered with gifts, and she ends up boasting about it to Ruby and Jade. Suddenly, during rehearsal, Sofia starts croaking like a frog! Clover is convinced that Sofia has been cursed, so she decides to go and see Cedric.

First they go to Cedric and ask him for help. After Cedric corrects Sofia on the proper way to say his name (AGAIN) he jumps for joy at Sofia being cursed. As he's predicted for quite some time now. It all turns out that her magical amulet has bestowed the curse on her.When he tells her that her amulet cursed her for doing a bad deed, Sofia is surprised and doesn't recall doing anything bad, but she must've done something or she wouldn't be croaking. Cedric couldn't care less for what she did, so he attempts to persuade her into giving him her amulet so he can take a look at it. Sofia declines due to the promise she made to Roland and hopes Cedric has a spell in one of his books. As expected he tells her he doesn't and makes another request. Sofia declines again. Cedric decides to leave it at that, but shows Sofia an image of her as a frog at the Harvest Festival and getting all croaked up when trying to sing. Sofia becomes dismayed, yet still fights removing the amulet. She takes her leave and returns to Clover. Meanwhile Cedric waits for Sofia to grow desperate enough to give him the amulet.

After getting a good night's sleep, Clover proposes that he and Sofia go over what she did in hopes of figuring out why she suddenly had a frog in her throat. Sofia went over everything. From being chosen to when the painter-azzi. She couldn't figure out what she did wrong. Then they find Amber boasting about the time she herself sang the anthem. This makes Sofia realize that she'd been boasting about this opportunity to Ruby and Jade.

Before the festival, Sofia apologizes to Ruby and Jade for her mistake. The three made up and became friends again. Feeling better, Sofia rushes off for the stage only to run into Cedric who wished to make another play for the Amulet. Sofai happily tells him that she figured out what happened and fixed the curse only to croak again. This pleases Cedric. Seeing as the festival was going to start soon. He agrees to fix the curse if she hands over the amulet. Sofia turns him down once more. Cedric backs off and says he'll wait by the stage. He warns her to hurry. Time was running out. Sofia is in trouble now, especially since it's almost time for her to sing.

Before Sofia knows it, her amulet summons Belle, who tells Sofia that she should make things right. So Sofia offers to let her friends sing the anthem. When the curse is taken away, Jade and Ruby invite Sofia to sing with them, which she declines, yet Jade and Ruby refuse to take no for an answer and drag Sofia onstage to sing with them.

Songs

 * Enchancia Anthem
 * Make It Right

Trivia

 * This is the first episode where Sofia wears a dress of a different color. This dress has the same pattern and design as her original lilac dress.
 * This is the first episode Cedric displays his true evil side rather than his bumbling silliness.
 * This is the second episode to feature two songs, the first being the seventh episode "Blue Ribbon Bunny".
 * This is the first episode where Sofia is cursed by her magical amulet.
 * Belle is the third Disney Princess that assists Sofia.
 * The first was Cinderella in Sofia the First: Once Upon a Princess
 * The second was Jasmine in "Two to Tangu"
 * This is the first episode where Ruby and Jade sing (aside from their rap in "The Big Sleepover").
 * The Enchancia Anthem bears a similarity to "America the Beautiful", "Amhrán na bhFiann/The Soldiers' Song", "Wilhelmus van Nassouwe" and "Hail to Bermuda".
 * This is the first episode where Sofia is shown being vain (which is very unlike her), the result being the croaking curse.
 * This is the first episode to show a clip from a Disney film.
 * The appearance of the Beast marks the first appearance of a Disney Prince on the show.
 * This is the third episode where Jade and Ruby are curtsying. The first was "The Big Sleepover", and the second was "Baileywick's Day Off")
 * Clover mentions The Princess and the Frog and The Swan Princess (originally called Swan Lake.)
 * This the first time Amber and the other princesses who attend Royal Prep enter the Enchancian village.
 * The vision that Belle shows in the water is a scene from the song Human Again, which was originally a deleted song but restored for the 2002 Special Edition of Beauty and the Beast.

Cast

 * Ariel Winter as Sofia
 * Sara Ramirez as Queen Miranda
 * Wayne Brady as Clover
 * Tim Gunn as Baileywick
 * Darcy Rose Byrnes as Princess Amber
 * Zach Callison as Prince James
 * Travis Willingham as King Roland II
 * Jess Harnell as Cedric the Sorcerer
 * Jim Cummings as Wormwood
 * Diamond White as Ruby
 * Isabella Acres as Jade
 * Julie Nathanson as Belle