This episode was most likely written by Fred Ladd. Ladd is one of the credited writers in the group list in the closing credits of M.A.S.K.. Ladd wrote the episode It Lives! It Grows! It Destroys! for the 1982 Incredible Hulk cartoon. In that episode, a yellow slime eats anything in its way, with a joke about touching it and your new nickname is Lefty. In Deadly Blue Slime, a blue slime eats anything in its way, with a joke about touching it and your new nickname is Lefty.