The episode begins with Clover about to get lunch, when a flying coach flies by much to the surprise of the bunny.
Sofia comes by and explains that it's a coach for the Summer Flylight Pageant. She explains to her bunny pal, how her and friends, Jade and Ruby used to watch it, while eating gooseberry pie and drinking cherry cider
And now that's she a princess, she won't be able to watch the pageant with her friends. That's when Clover suggests that Sofia invite Jade and Ruby to ride in the pageant with her and Amber. Sofia thinks that that's this is a great idea. Sofia decides to take a flying coach to the village to invite her friends to the palace to help decorate the coach and ride in the the pageant. They are excited about this idea but Amber isn't sure, and over cookies and milk, they come up with ideas, at first with Sofia suggesting a cloud but another one of the princesses is doing this already.
But then Jade and Ruby suggest that they decorate it as a tree and Sofia suggests they dress up as birds and wear feathered tiaras. And then when they start decorating, we get the song of the episode, Royal Fun, which was released early on the soundtrack, Songs From Enchancia, which there it was two minutes but in the episode proper, they only sang the last 43 seconds of the song. WTH!!!!!!!! That's really the only issue and I guess, I can get why they cut it down as they only had the standard 22 minute run-time for this episode because unlike Floating Palace, this was a regular episode. Ah, well. And this is where the main conflict of the episode comes in, Jade and Ruby start to have fun with Amber and Amber starts to enjoy the company of Sofia's friends and Sofia starts to feel left out and I felt bad for Sofia. And afterwards, Sofia goes to tell Clover of his friends, Stew and Cheeks. And how after he introduced Stew and Cheeks to one another, they became best friends and left Clover out. Sofia decides to try everything to hang out with her friends but is all to no avail, they are so wrapped up in Amber. After getting their costumes made, Sofia comes across her mom, who is cleaning up a mess, the girls left, and Sofia asks, if she can invite Jade and Ruby over super early for breakfast because she knows that her big sis will still be asleep. Sofia's mom, tries to teach her young daughter, the saying, "the more, the merrier". This doesn't sink in and just washes over Sofia. The next morning, Jade and Ruby show up and surprise, surprise, who should be awake but Amber. Jade and Ruby teach Amber, a special hand clap, that Sofia, Jade, and Ruby shared. This understandably upset Sofia and she complains about this to Clover and he tells her that Jade and Ruby were her friends first and to not lose them. Sofia decides to make gooseberry pie and cherry cider to remind her friends of the good times, they had. After she makes the edibles, she loads them up on a cart and loses control of the cart and it crashes into the coach causing the it to ruin the coach's design. Sofia explains why she had been acting, the way because she was jealous of the time that Jade and Ruby were spending with Amber. Amber explains that she understands because when Sofia first moved in, Amber was jealous of all the attention that Sofia was getting. And Sofia sums it up perfectly with this line.
And also, Clover decides to find Stew and Cheeks to see, if they can make up and be friends again. All in all, this was a fun episode. The jealously conflict was done well and hey, Amulet and The Anthem, this is how you do a Sofia conflict episode. This episode is miles better then that dreck and this felt more real. And I think the best thing about this episode is that unlike Amulet and The Anthem, it didn't punish Sofia for feeling jealous because that is a normal feeling that children experience.Clover was a good support for Sofia. Though, he probably didn't give her the best advice but I think that came from Clover getting wrapped up in the drama of his 7 year old friend. So, that is understandable because he's a good listener.
