"McStroke" was written by Wellesley Wild and Brian Iles is the director of the episode. The episode was broadcast while Seth MacFarlane (creator of "Family Guy") was in the 2007–08 Writers Guild of America strike. MacFarlane worked on writing and voice acting before the strike. He did not help work on the episode after that. Ralph Garman, Max Burkholder, Lisa Wilhoit, Alex Breckenridge, Denis Martel, Ricardo Montalban, and Phil LaMarr are guest stars in the episode.