Forty Percent Leadbelly

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

Plot
Bender meets his hero, a famous folksinger who has been in jail 30 times, and wants to duplicate his success. This means duplicating his guitar too, which he tries to steal from a maximum-security prison, but fails, so instead resorts to 3D-printing technology to duplicate the guitar — again resulting in horrible consequences.

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 interview with Futurama writer Patric Verrone, showing Bender using the help of Ben Beeler to bring a guitar image stored in his file system into reality by use of a large -like device. The air date for the second half of season 7 was also revealed to be 19 June 2013.

Trivia

 * Bender's porn drive has a memory size of 100,000 Terabytes and his main drive has the memory size of only 1 Terabyte.

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.
 * Fry is seen trapped in a block of carbonite, a reference to the Star Wars franchise. was also trapped in carbonite in .

Continuity

 * When Dr. Beeler accesses Bender's main drive in his file system, two folders can be seen within it, "Main Personality" and "Penguin Personality", a reference to when Bender was rebooted in Penguin mode in "The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz".
 * Funnily enough, his main personality file has a memory size of 3 MB, whereas his Penguin personality has a memory size of 150 MB.

Characters

 * Amy
 * Ben Beeler
 * Bender
 * Debut: Big Caboose
 * Professor Farnsworth
 * Fry
 * Debut: Jezebel
 * Zoidberg

Places

 * The Planet Express conference room
 * The technology lab