The boys go to Nebraska to spend the holidays with Cartman’s grandparents. Cartman’s uncle Howard has to join the family dinner via satellite since he is in prison. That night, he breaks out with the help of his cellmate, Charles Manson. The boys go to the mall to see Mr. Hankey, but Kyle discovers that Mr. Hankey is a fake and all hell breaks loose. Meanwhile the cops see Manson and the chase begins.

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. Meanwhile Mr. Tweek is offered $500,000 by Mr. Postum, who wants 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. Mr. Tweek writes the report himself and gives it to the boys. The board likes the report and uses the boys to put up a proposition to keep Harbucks out of South Park. Meanwhile the boys seek help from the underpants gnomes to teach them about big corporations.

Kyle falls into an ice hole and when Stan comes to rescue him, they find a frozen man embedded in the ice. The boys pull the ice man out, Mephesto takes the ice man back to his laboratory to thaw him out. He discovers that the ice man has been frozen since 1996. The government wants to get him for their own experiments, but Stan and Kyle free him, so the government hires Steve Irwin (from Crocodile Hunter) to track him down.

Thinking it’s his way into her heart and other body parts, Kenny takes his new girlfriend to a Jonas Brothers Concert. His dream of taking their relationship to the next level is crushed when the Jonas Brothers give them purity rings.