Gnomes

To keep the school board from firing him for incompetence, Mr. Garrison assigns group oral reports to his class. The boys are put in a group with Tweek, the jittery son of a coffee shop owner. Tweek suggests doing the report on the underpants gnomes that steal his underwear every morning at 3:30. The boys stay over at his house to witness it and write a report. Mr. Tweek was offered $500,000 earlier by Mr. Postum, who wanted to turn his store into a "Harbucks" franchise. Mr. Tweek rejects the offer, and that night suggests that the boys do their report on how large corporations try to push out small business. The boys stay up drinking coffee instead, so Mr. Tweek writes the report himself and gives it to the boys. At that moment, the gnomes arrive, but only Tweek is paying attention. In the morning, they give the report to the school board, which praises their work and allows Mr. Garrison to keep his job. The board uses the boys to put up a proposition to keep Harbucks out of South Park. While they try to figure out a way to learn about corporations, and not reveal that they cheated, the gnomes return. The gnomes invite them to their underground operation, and teach them how they have a three phase plan that goes from stealing underwear to making profit (even though phase two has not yet been defined). Meanwhile, the new Harbucks is failing and decides to close down amidst the proposition voting. The boys arrive and announce that the gnomes taught them that big corporations are good, and that Harbucks is so big because they make good coffee. Everybody finally tastes the coffee and discover its superiority to Tweek's, even Mr. Tweek, who is offered the manager's position.

Eric Cartman, Kyle Broflovski, Stan Marsh, Kenny McCormick