"Cool Hand Fluke" is the fifty-third episode of the Disney Jr. animated series, Sofia the First. It premiered on August 5, 2015, and is the first episode of the third season.
Overview
The Royal Family is relaxing in Merroway Cove and Sofia gets the idea to throw a party for the merpeople. A merboy named Fluke becomes jealous of Sofia for receiving so much attention because of her heroics during her last visit.
Plot
In the underwater kingdom of Merroway Cove, Oona is playing with the other merkids: Fluke, Shelly, and Flip. Suddenly, the Floating Palace appears at the surface, to Oona's thrill since this means that Sofia's back with her family, which Sven is happy to hear. At the surface, the Royal Family of Enchancia is relaxing on the island in the cove, when Sofia gets the opinion to throw a party for the merpeople and runs off to a hidden spot so that nobody, not even her family, can see her turn into a mermaid with the Amulet of Avalor, once again being ecstatic at seeing her mermaid tail again after so long since her last transformation while in Merroway Cove when she helped restore relations between humans and merpeople, before jumping happily into the water. After doing so, Sofia happily reunites with Oona and Sven and tells them about the party. Sven sends his family back to the colony with the news to let Queen Emmaline, Cora, Plank, and the rest of the merpeople know of the party so they can prepare for it. Oona takes Sofia to meet all her friends, who are delighted to meet her because of her heroics during her last visit, which makes the egotistical Fluke jealous as a result.
Oona comes up with the idea to sing a song for Sofia's family as a gift, which Fluke rudely dismisses as a poor gift. He spots a giant clam and tries to get a pearl inside it as a gift instead, but gets himself stuck in its shell, prompting his pufferfish friend, Slim, to get help. Meanwhile, the merkids are playing their song for Sofia, when Slim arrives and tells them what happened. Sofia gets Fluke out, for which he is ungrateful due to his ongoing jealousy of Sofia, and is uncaring that Flip's mantacorn horn was broken during the attempt, meaning they won't be able to perform the song for Sofia's family. When Sofia asks what that is, Oona and Sven tell her a mantacorn is a manta ray that has a sharp horn growing out of its forehead, which it sheds every year and stores in a cave. Fluke decides to get one of the mantacorn's horns to replace Flip's, despite everyone telling him that's a bad idea since mantacorns are dangerous. Sofia, Oona, Slim, and a reluctant Sven, since mantacorns eat sea horses, go with him. Fluke's recklessness gets them stuck in the cave, which makes Oona very angry at him, prompting a guilt-ridden and ashamed Fluke to confess that he was jealous of Sofia because the others were paying more attention to her than him because of when she saved Oona and allowed merpeople and humans to be friends again through Sofia's family and Queen Emmaline, hence his jealousy when he saw her family's ship, the Floating Palace, return to Merroway Cove.
Fluke makes up for his behavior and jealousy by getting the horn they came for and trapping the mantacorn in the seaweed patch. Sofia explains to the mantacorn why they needed one of his old horns and gets him unstuck. The mantacorn tells them they can just ask for his old horns because he is a music lover and reveals that his kind eats pufferfish, not seahorses. Later, the merpeople arrive at the surface where the merband plays their song, joined by the mantacorn as he plays along with his horn.
Cast
- Ariel Winter as Princess Sofia
- Sara Ramirez as Queen Miranda
- Travis Willingham as King Roland II
- Tim Gunn as Baileywick
- Darcy Rose Byrnes as Princess Amber
- Tyler Merna as Prince James
- Kiernan Shipka as Oona
- John Ross Bowie as Sven
- Gabe Eggerling as Fluke
- Jenna Lea Rosen as Shelly
- Jonathan Adams as Mantacorn
- Connor Wise as Flip
- Sean Schemmel as Slim
- Cedric is mentioned, but does not appear.
Song
Videos
Trivia
- Viewership: This episode was watched by 1.552 million viewers on its premiere.[1]
- Oona, Cora, Queen Emmaline, Plank, and Sven make their second appearance in the series since their debut in the special The Floating Palace.
- When the episode premiered on the Disney Jr. channel, the aforementioned special was the lead-in.
- The episode's title is a reference to Cool Hand Luke, the 1965 Donn Pearce novel and its 1967 movie adaptation of Warner Bros. with the late famous legend Paul Newman.
- Sofia uses her ability to transform into a mermaid for the second time.
- Sofia visits Merroway Cove for the second time.
- This is the second time someone other than Amber gets jealous of Sofia. The first person was Jane.
- Miranda, unknowingly, refers to the time Cedric turned himself into a sea monster and tried to steal the Mermaid Comb of Merroway Cove from Oona when she tells Sofia that his reason for not coming with them was because he said he couldn't think of "a more monstrous vacation."
- Miranda and Amber get new hairstyles toward the end of the episode: Miranda has a side-parted hair and Amber has a wavy ponytail.
- This is the fourth episode that doesn't take place in Enchancia; the first three were "Two to Tangu", The Floating Palace, and "Princesses to the Rescue!"
- The scene where Sofia transforms and dives into the water is a reused sequence from The Floating Palace.
- This is the first time Jenna Lea Rosen has provided both the speaking and singing voices of a character on the show. In previous episodes, she just provided the singing voice for Hildegard and Clio.
- This episode is a bonus episode of the DVD release of Dear Sofia: A Royal Collection in some countries.
- At the end of the episode, James is wearing the same suit he wore to Sofia's debut ball.
- One of the mermaids has a green tail and a purple seashell bra, just like Ariel.
- Moral: Don't be a glory hog.
Goofs
- When Sofia removes her blue dress to reveal her pink one, her shoes and tiara suddenly change.
Gallery
International premieres
- August 9, 2015 (Canada)
- November 2, 2015 (Brazil)
Transcript
The transcript for Cool Hand Fluke may be viewed here.
References
- ↑ Metcalf, Mitch (August 6, 2015). Showbuzz Daily's Top 100 Wednesday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 8.5.2015. Showbuzz Daily. Archived from the original on August 8, 2015. Retrieved March 14, 2024.