After
Kenny's semi-permanent death near the end of Season 5,
Butters became the replacement Kenny, until this episode, where he is fired for simply being too lame.
Stan,
Kyle and
Cartman hold a competition to find a new fourth friend while Butters, feeling rejected and angry at the world, creates an alternate personality, Professor Chaos, and sets off to spread discord among the world. He does minor things like swapping two soup meals at a Bennigan's restaurant, and stealing erasers from
Ms. Choksondik during class. The boys gather twenty local kids to compete for their friendship, and set up the contest to be like a reality TV show where they show scenes of interactions and show private individual comments. One of the early losers, a boy named
Dougie, winds up joining Butters and his "minions" (Butters' pet
hamsters) as Professor Chaos's sidekick, General Disarray. Together they try to flood the world using a garden hose, but this is thwarted when the
water department cuts off the water to his house after only flooding the backyard. The two then resort to spraying
aerosol cans into the air to destroy the
atmosphere. While Professor Chaos and General Disarray try to destroy the planet, Kyle, Stan, and Cartman pick six finalists to be their friend:
Token,
Timmy,
Jimmy,
Tweek,
Towelie, and
Pip. They first eliminate Pip during a baseball game when he asked for
tea and
crumpets. They then decide that Token is a smartass (Kyle points out that Cartman is also a smartass, but Cartman retorts with "Do we really need another one?"), Timmy can be too self-centered (likely a reference to the fact that Timmy is only able to say his own name with few exceptions), Towelie gets too high to be relied on for anything, and Jimmy is a suck-up (while they are deciding, Jimmy gives them a large gift basket with candy and games inside, and a large badge that reads "Best Friends 4 Ever"). The decision cuts off into a
cliffhanger, where a narrator asks three questions: "Will Professor Chaos' latest plot succeed and be the final undoing of Earth? Which boy has been chosen as the replacement for Kenny? And which of these South Park residents (
Chef,
Mr. Garrison,
Jimbo,
Officer Barbrady,
Ms. Choksondik, and
Mayor McDaniels) was killed and will never be seen again?" However, the questions are immediately answered: "No, Tweek, Ms. Choksondik." ==Production==