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* [[Wouldn't Hurt a Child]]: Subverted in the case of Kenny and Butters quite often, and subverted to a lesser degree with Ike.
* [[Wounded Gazelle Gambit]]: Cartman is quite fond of these as a method of manipulating his mother. He, Stan, and Kyle also pull this at least [[Once Per Episode]] in Season Six, using Kenny's death to garner sympathy from their friends and family.
* [[Write Who You Know]]: Kenny is based on a childhood friend of Parker who was also poor and used a parka which muffled his speech.
** [[Tuckerization]]: Since Stan=Trey and Kyle=Matt, the parents of the duo (Randy/Sharon and Sheila/Gerald) are named after the creator's as well.
** [[Writer on Board]]: Cartman's mom, Liane, is named after Trey Parker's ex-fiancee, who cheated on him. On the show, Liane is a promiscuous woman who has banged nearly every man in town (along with at ''least'' one woman), who is a terrible mother and a naive idiot who enables and coddles her manipulative, sociopathic son. Parker also named an unfaithful horse Liane in his first film, ''[[Cannibal! The Musical]]''.
* [[Writing by the Seat of Your Pants]]: Shows are written the week before they air, and the episodes are often finished frightening close to their airtime.
* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: Cartman pulls one off in the season 3 episode "The Red Badge of Gayness" (The one with "S'more-flavored Schnapps") - He makes a bet with the others that he can make it so the south won the civil war, and the agreed stake in the bet is, the loser(s) have to act as the winners' slaves. When he loses the bet, he (successfully) argues that he can't be a slave because the south losing the civil war resulted in the abolition of slavery.
* [[X Must Not Win]]: Kyle's feud with Cartman is usually justified given the latter's highly malicious intent. However even in petty wars, Kyle takes a sometimes disturbing extra mile to make sure Cartman's plans go up in smoke. eg. In "Douche And Turd" he and Cartman create opposing school mascots, with Kyle using increasingly manipulative methods to get people to vote against Cartman's candidate. Similarly ''a lot'' of Cartman's intentions are built around making Kyle lose.
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