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* TokenGoodTeammate: Kyle is the only person to show any concern for Tweek's well-being throughout the whole episode calling out both his parents and the gnomes for what they're doing to his mental health

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* TokenGoodTeammate: Kyle is the only person to show any concern for Tweek's well-being throughout the whole episode calling out both his parents and the gnomes for what they're doing to his mental healthhealth.
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* TokenGoodTeammate: Kyle is the only person to show any concern for Tweek's well-being throughout the whole episode calling out both his parents and the gnomes for what they're doing to his mental health
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* RightHandVersusLefHand: The Underwear Gnomes all ''think'' there's a step two to their plan and that one of them is keeping it secret, when it reality, none of them have a clue.

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* RightHandVersusLefHand: RightHandVersusLeftHand: The Underwear Gnomes all ''think'' there's a step two to their plan and that one of them is keeping it secret, when it reality, none of them have a clue.
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* RightHandVersusLefHand: The Underwear Gnomes all ''think'' there's a step two to their plan and that one of them is keeping it secret, when it reality, none of them have a clue.
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* MissingStepsPlan: The Underpants Gnomes plan to steal underwear and then somehow profit from it. The "Step Two" is never discussed, with the Gnomes staying silent or drawing a blank before moving on, thus {{handwaving}} it. Also the former TropeNamer.

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* MissingStepsPlan: The Underpants Gnomes plan to steal underwear and then somehow profit from it. The "Step Two" is never discussed, with the Gnomes staying silent or drawing a blank before moving on, thus {{handwaving}} it. Also the former TropeNamer.TropeNamer, and a [[MemeticMutation famous enough scene]] that "Step 3: Profit" and "Underpants Gnomes" are terms frequently used in real life to describe this trope.

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The boys are forced to write a current events paper to save Mr. Garrison's job. Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny are grouped together with Tweek, a jittery child, who suggests that the presentation be on the "Underpants Gnomes", tiny men who sneak into his house and steal his underwear. Meanwhile, a local cafe, ran by Tweek's parents', is being threatened by Harbucks, a big-time corporate coffee shop, and Tweek's father uses the boys' current events assignment to rally people into shutting down Harbucks.

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The boys are forced to write a current events paper to save Mr. Garrison's job. Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny are grouped together with Tweek, a jittery child, who suggests that the presentation be on the "Underpants Gnomes", tiny men who sneak into his house and steal his underwear. Meanwhile, a local cafe, ran run by Tweek's parents', is being threatened by Harbucks, a big-time corporate coffee shop, and Tweek's father uses the boys' current events assignment to rally people into shutting down Harbucks.


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* PrecisionFStrike: Kenny says “Fuck you” to Cartman when he tells Tweek that Kenny’s family are perfectly happy being poor, and on welfare.
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'''Airdate:''' December 16, 1998

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'''Airdate:''' December 16, 1998
'''Original air date:''' 12/16/1998
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* PredatoryBusiness: {{Subverted}}. Most of the episode involves a small coffee shop owner, Mr. Tweek, trying to keep Harbucks from imposing on his business, including forcing the four main characters to rally the town around him. Then it turns out that Harbucks actually does make better coffee than Tweek's when the townspeople finally get around to tasting it, and Mr. Tweek is even offered a good job working there but he declines and then jokes about selling his son to slavery.



* WouldHurtAChild: "If I do get fired, Mr. Hat is gonna smack you bitches up."

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* WouldHurtAChild: "If I do get fired, Mr. Hat is gonna smack you bitches up.""
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* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Mrs. Tweak asks the townspeople if they even bothered to try Harbucks coffee.
* CaffeineFailure: The boys are introduced to coffee by Tweak's father while working on a school presentation. Pretty soon they're bouncing off the walls; one TimeSkip later, they've crashed completely and Cartman is throwing up coffee on the floor.

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* ArmorPiercingQuestion: Mrs. Tweak Tweek asks the townspeople if they even bothered to try Harbucks coffee.
* CaffeineFailure: The boys are introduced to coffee by Tweak's Tweek's father while working on a school presentation. Pretty soon they're bouncing off the walls; one TimeSkip later, they've crashed completely and Cartman is throwing up coffee on the floor.



* GroinAttack: Mr. Tweak has ''increasingly'' colorful comparisons for the relative positions of "they" (his corporate competition) and his balls.

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* GroinAttack: Mr. Tweak Tweek has ''increasingly'' colorful comparisons for the relative positions of "they" (his corporate competition) and his balls.



** Mr. Tweak uses the boys for his own agenda without remorse.

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** Mr. Tweak Tweek uses the boys for his own agenda without remorse.remorse.
* JerkassHasAPoint: The Harbucks representative might be a slimy and cutthroat businessman, but he's correct in that his company has just as much of a right to set up a coffeehouse in South Park as anyone. He also says that Tweek's coffee tastes like three-day-old diarrhea, which other resident's echo.



* ManipulativeBastard: Mr. Tweek manipulates the boys and forces them into a political debate they have no real understanding or proper opinion of just to keep a business competitor from moving in.



** Mrs. Tweak says that by trying to use the boys to push their agenda, they're no better than Creator/RobReiner.

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** Mrs. Tweak Tweek says that by trying to use the boys to push their agenda, they're no better than Creator/RobReiner.

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