Forty Percent Leadbelly

"Forty Percent Leadbelly" is the one hundred and twenty-eighth episode of Futurama, the fourteenth of the seventh production season and the first of the tenth broadcast season.

Production
On 27 January 2012, assistant director Aimee Steinberger commented that she could not go to the FOX-lot screening of the first full-color animation for "7ACV01" due to her work on this episode. On 14 February 2012, she said that the animatic for the episode was "done" and would be screened "[on the next day] at the FOX lot". On the next day, she stated that she thought that it had gone "pretty well".

As late as 8 January 2013, it was revealed that the title "Forty Percent Leadbelly", which had been, in February 2012, added to the and said by show writer Eric Rogers to be the title of something "supergood", was the episode's title.

On 12 April 2013, a preview clip for the episode was revealed on a HuffPost Live interview with Patric Verrone, showing Bender using the help of Ben Beeler to bring a guitar file stored in his memory into reality by use of a large -like device. The air date for the episode was also revealed to be 19 June 2013.

Characters

 * Amy
 * Ben Beeler
 * Bender
 * Fry
 * Leela
 * Hermes
 * Professor Farnsworth
 * Zoidberg

Allusions

 * The episode's title is a reference to a running gag that has Bender claim to be 40% of something that keeps changing and the late American musician . In the game, Bender is 40% lead.