The title of "Morty's Mind Blowers" was announced on August 28, 2017.[1] The episode's writing and directorial credits were revealed upon its airing to be Bryan Newton, and Mike McMahan, James Siciliano, Ryan Ridley, Dan Guterman, Justin Roiland, and Dan Harmon. The series' writers posted on Twitter on September 18, 2017, a day after the airing of the episode, that they had initially come up with "about a hundred mind blowers, then had to narrow it down and vote, then still wrote more."[2][3]