would pop out of a window to talk to Batman and Robin in the 1966 Batman TV show. This allows Disney to cross-promote their established princesses as surprise guest stars like when Sammy Davis, Jr. When Sofia’s mother, Miranda, marries King Roland, he tells Sofia to call him Dad and gives her the Amulet of Avalor, a necklace and charm that has magical powers, allowing her to talk to animals and call other princesses when she’s in trouble (and even transform into a mermaid).

Ellie Kemper, Eric Stonestreet, Megan Mullally, Nick Offerman, Ginnifer Goodwin, Bonnie Hunt, Jeffrey Tambor, and more also voice characters on occasion. Other voices on the show include Wayne Brady as a rabbit obsessed with food and naps (like Garfield) and Tim Gunn as Baileywick, the often hapless but kind castle steward. The show premiered as a movie titled Once Upon a Princess that generated 5 million viewers and led to a series, the episodes of which hover around 2 million viewers. Think of The Brady Brunch meets Cinderella. The king already had twins, a son and a daughter, James and Amber. “I was a girl in the village doing all right/Then I became a princess overnight” As the show’s theme song explains in the first lines: Voiced by Modern Family‘s Ariel Winter, the titular character of the Disney Junior show Sofia the First, Sofia is a girl of modest origins from the village of Dunwiddie in the kingdom of Enchancia who became a princess after her mother married King Roland II. If you don’t have kids and are therefore able to watch non-animated shows at any time of the day or night, you may not be familiar with Sofia. If asked to choose a second favorite, it’d be a battle between Minnie Mouse, Ariel, and Sofia. She loves Anna and Elsa, Aurora and Belle, Cinderella and Snow White. Like so many young girls, she’s drawn to princesses.

I’ve even started to get her into Batman: The Animated Series.

Thus, she loves all sorts of films and shows with all sorts of protagonists from Little Einsteins to Super Why to Mickey Mouse Clubhouse to Sheriff Callie’s Wild West to most of the Pixar and Disney films. Oh, the questions.įrom the beginning, we didn’t force her to play with any toys or watch any shows based on gender identity (not because we’re good liberals, though we are, but because we didn’t think about it). She’s an amazing person, full of life, vitality, jokes, and questions. Considering we spend a great deal of time together and I live in a place far from many of my friends, she is probably my best friend. I have a daughter that will turn 4 in a couple of months. Update: The creator of Sofia the First answered my questions

Sofia the first episodes