Tri-Kingdom Picnic

"Tri-Kingdom Picnic" is the tenth episode of the Disney Junior series Sofia the First, which aired on May 17, 2013.

Plot
The Kingdoms of Enchancia, Kaldune, and the Wei-Ling Empire have once again gotten together for the annual Tri-Kingdom Picnic. Sofia is playing catch with Jun and Maya when James comes over and drags her away to go look at something. Meanwhile, King Roland announces to the other adults that for the first time, they will be playing picnic games, just as their children do. The thing James wanted to show Sofia is the golden chalice that is awarded to the kingdom that wins the most picnic games. Unfortunately, he has never won it since he has always been stuck with Amber – who dislikes outdoor sports – as his teammate. But now Sofia can be his teammate instead, and she agrees. 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, so Enchancia wins. While Sofia is congratulated for winning, James begins to brag and acts a little obnoxious, which upsets everyone else especially Sofia. Baileywick leads the group to the second game, the golden-egg-on-a-spoon race.

Roland explains that the adults' games will be just for fun, with no prize. The first game they play is musical thrones. After he sits down, Emperor Quon's throne falls over and he quickly excuses himself, seemingly embarrassed, while his wife Lin-Lin assures Roland and Miranda he will be fine; he's just a bit clumsy. Elsewhere, Amber tells Leena that the first step of decorating a parasol is to glue on the jewels. Leena struggles to get the glue out of her bottle and accidentally gets it all over Amber.

Maya wins the golden-egg-on-a-spoon race and while everyone else congratulates her, James gets mad and goes on to make up a bunch of excuses about why he didn't win. He also demands a do-over of the race, but Baileywick says Maya won fair and square so there's no need for that. James leaves in a huff and angrily brushes Sofia off when she tries to follow him. After apologizing for James's behavior, Sofia leaves to go find him. Amber and Leena are now putting glitter on their parasols, but Leena drops her glitter and once again gets it all over Amber.

Lin-Lin is trying to get her husband to participate in the Blazing Badminton game, but Quon refuses. Roland gets an idea and begins playing the game poorly on purpose, though he laughs at his mistakes, to show Quon that even if you're clumsy you can still have fun playing. Quon, who now feels somewhat better, decides to give it a try.

Sofia finds James and asks him to be nicer to the others, but James doesn't think he's doing anything wrong. The tri-kingdom volleyball game begins and Sofia and James lose a point because they bump into each other and miss the ball. James gets mad again and tells Sofia to stop fooling around because he wants to win. The Enchancia team does end up winning this game and while everyone heads over to the enchanted discus game, James rudely rubs his team's victory in everyone else's faces, even when Sofia pleads for him to stop. The other kids, who have had enough of his spoilsport attitude, decide they don't want to play any more games and leave. Sofia, equally fed up, explains to James – who still doesn't get it – that because of him no one is having any fun, including her, and she no longer wants to be his teammate, so she also leaves.

Sofia goes over to where Amber and Leena are finishing up their parasols and they show them off to her. Amber asks what Sofia is doing wandering around since the games shouldn't be over yet and Sofia tells her about James being a bad sport. Amber suggests that maybe she needs to show James the right way to act. Sofia isn't sure how to do this, until she sees the adults playing Bewitching Bowling and gets 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. James finally seems to understand that he ruined the games for everyone and goes with Sofia to apologize.

James apologizes for being such a jerk, though the other kids seem hesitant to accept it. While he momentarily leaves to go get something, Khalid explains to Sofia that an apology won't change what's already happened. James returns with the enchanted discus and promises to be a good sport if they want to play, and in the end everyone agrees to. Jun and Jin win the discus game and this time James congratulates them. Maya and Kalid win Capture The Crown and he is a good sport about that as well. Since that was the final game, it's now time to announce the winner of the golden chalice, and the kingdom of Kaldune wins. While everyone else is celebrating, James takes the chalice and although he hesitates at first, he presents it to Maya and Khalid, saying they deserve it, then cheers them on with the others. Sofia praises his kindness and tells him there's always next year for the two of them to try and win.

Home Video Release

 * Sofia the First: The Floating Palace DVD

Songs

 * Picnic of the Year

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
 * Travis Willingham as King Roland II
 * 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
 * James Sie as Emperor Quon

Trivia

 * 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".
 * We learn that Princess Amber has always been her brother's teamate at the Tri-Kingdom picnic games for years.
 * This episode is the first time that James shows he has a nasty side to his personality.
 * This is also the first time James shows this nasty side by being overcompetitive.