The essential episodes of Sonny with a Chance
Watch these 15 in order and you've got Sonny with a Chance — each pick states its reason.
- 01
Sonny enters the set excited but doesn't know that she's off for a difficult time with Tawni. Other than that, she's all good and definitely ready.
- 02
Sonny's idea for a sketch is rejected by her cast mates, but she is comforted by Chad and the "MacKenzie Falls" cast, who lavish her with expensive gifts.
- 03
Sonny creates her own imaginary fan named Eric when she fails to receive any fan mail, but her creation gets her in trouble when Marshall wants to invite Eric to the set. Meanwhile, Nico and Grady intercept a package intended for Zora.
- 04
Sonny worries about an upcoming geometry exam that may decide the fate of her future on So Random. Meanwhile, a pretty new girl on set catches the eye of Nico and Grady, who go to extraordinary lengths to impress her.
- 05
Sonny feels left out when her best friend from Wisconsin comes to visit and instantly hits it off with Tawni. Tension reaches the boiling point when Tawni and Lucy go to Chad's birthday party... without inviting Sonny. Meanwhile, Nico and Grady plot revenge against a security guard who has been helping himself to their pizza.
- 06
Sonny and Tawny's blossoming friendship turns sour when a popular gossip blogger posts the results of a poll, pitting the two teen stars against each other. Can their friendship survive when Tawny's ego takes a major blow?
- 07
When Sonny realizes she is missing out on that most important of teen milestones - prom - she decides to throw a prom for the cast, right there on set. But Marshall says a firm no. Will Sonny and her friends have a night to remember? Or is prom nothing but a distant dream?
- 08
Sonny has to find a way to break up a relationship she put together after her matchmaking goes awry.
- 09
After Chad announces he is the host of a new celebrity prank show, the So Random cast becomes paranoid about who's going to be pranked first, and who might be in on the joke with Chad.
- 10
Sonny in the Kitchen with Dinner
Sonny tries to help Tawni have a good date with an intern Hayden (Robert Adamson). Sonny begs Chad for his Lakers tickets. But when she and Hayden are shown on the kiss cam they are forced to kiss and Tawni sees them. Tawni gets mad and hides in her dressing room, locking the two doors. Meanwhile, Chad gets jealous because he sees the kiss on Tween Weekly Magazine. Sonny makes another date and tells Hayden that Tawni is going to cook for him. But when Sonny learns that Tawni can't cook, Sonny offers to have the date at her place and to cook the food. After Sonny ruins the food, she tries to call Nico and Grady to bring food but she drops her phone in the sink by mistake. Tawni tries to help her by turning on the light but she turned on the garbage disposal instead and it somehow calls Chad. Chad thinks that Sonny is in trouble and later breaks down her door. When everyone shows up at Sonny's apartment, the night turns awkward. Meanwhile, Grady and Nico try to put their influence on the name of a sandwich but whoever ate the sandwich ends up puking.
- 11
When Sonny and Tawni are guests on "Gotcha with Gilroy Smith," Gilroy tries to get Tawni and Sonny to confess some embarrassing moments on "So Random!". Sonny and Tawni make a pact backstage that they will have each others back but they realize that there is a hidden camera so Gilroy knows about their pact. Tawni breaks the pact and Sonny starts to think about Chad Dylan Cooper, but Gilroy knows that is a face of someone who has a boy crush. Gilroy brings Chad out (Chad thinks he's there because of a book he read) and shows a clip of him and Sonny sharing a rather romantic moment from Episode 2. They both go backstage and they don't realize there's another hidden camera and everyone is watching them. Sonny and Chad are about to tell each other what their feelings are for one another, but Tawni, feeling she owes Sonny, grabs the remote and turns off the camera so Gilroy and the studio audience can't see what happens. Gilroy turns the camera back on and sees Sonny saying "That was so much easier to say than I thought it would be," and then walking away with Chad. Gilroy becomes mad because he doesn't know what Sonny and Chad said to each other, although it is thought that they told each other that they like each other, based on what they were saying before and after Tawni turned the camera off.
- 12
After Sonny starts watching Mackenzie Falls, Chad ask Sonny out on a date, which she accepts. Then she begins to have second thoughts when she realizes how her castmates will react.
- 13
Chad and Sonny finally had their first date, but Chad was afraid of how people see him and Sonny was afraid of how her friends at So Random see her.
- 14
After going to a taping of her favorite childhood show, Pauly and Pals, Sonny gets an opportunity to be Pauly for a day, but this makes her woefully late to her date with Chad, making him worry that she's lost interest in him.
- 15
Sonny starts writing a song unaware that it's a song about her break-up with Chad. After her new neighbor and the "Patio" waitress, Mel criticizes Sonny over her music, the two decide to place a bet in order to prove that the audience will love Sonny's song. She attempts to sing it in the new coffee shop "The Patio", but fails because she is unable to perform it while facing Chad. Shortly after, Sonny realizes that the song she's written is about Chad with the help of Mel and that she still has feelings for him.
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