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|name=Forty Percent Leadbelly | |name=Forty Percent Leadbelly | ||
|image | |image=[[File:Benderandbeelerfortypercentleadbelly cropped.png|225px]] | ||
|image text | |image text=[[Ben Beeler|Dr. Beeler]] joins [[Bender]] inside of his file system.<ref name="Huff Post"/> | ||
|season=7 | |season=7 | ||
|broadcast season=10 | |broadcast season=10 | ||
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|directed by=Stephen Sandoval | |directed by=Stephen Sandoval | ||
|caption=N/A | |caption=N/A | ||
|first aired=3 July | |first aired=3 July 2013 | ||
|number=7ACV14 | |number=7ACV14 | ||
|broadcast number=S10E04 | |broadcast number=S10E04 | ||
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{{future video}} | {{future video}} | ||
"'''Forty Percent Leadbelly'''" is the one hundred and twenty-eighth episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the fourteenth of the [[Season 7|seventh production season]] and the fourth of the [[Broadcast season 10|tenth broadcast season]].<ref>http://thefutoncritic.com/showatch/futurama/listings/</ref> | "'''Forty Percent Leadbelly'''" is the one hundred and twenty-eighth episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the fourteenth of the [[Season 7|seventh production season]] and the fourth of the [[Broadcast season 10|tenth broadcast season]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://thefutoncritic.com/showatch/futurama/listings/|title=Shows A-Z - futurama on comedy central|site=TheFutonCritic.com|accessdate=2013-6-26}}</ref> | ||
== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
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As late as 8 January 2013,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/EricRogersLA/status/288711818766073856|title=EricRogersLA|author=[[Eric Rogers]]|date=2012-01-08|site=Twitter|accessdate=2012-01-15}}</ref> it was revealed<ref>{{cite web|url=https://direct.foxfast.com/FoxFast/aspxfiles/TitleDetailsHome.aspx?TitleId=7DB49AE3-6DAC-481F-8522-9FE6F9C9F4AD&Type=SR&TtlSrchMode=All%20Titles~A&TtlSrchTxt=futurama|title=FoxFast: Futurama|site=[https://direct.foxfast.com/FoxFast/aspxfiles/Login.aspx FoxFast.com]|accessdate=2013-01-09}}</ref> that the title "Forty Percent Leadbelly", which had been, in February 2012, added to the {{w|Copyright Catalog}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.peelified.com/index.php?topic=21784.msg1294213#msg1294213|title="Futurama: Futurama News after 6ACV26 (Reincarnation)" (page 18)|site=[[PEEL]]|author="Just Fan"|date=2012-02-08|accessdate=2013-01-15}}</ref> and said by show writer [[Eric Rogers]] to be the title of something "supergood",<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/#!/Kitchelfilms/status/167461270612746242|title=Kitchelfilms|author=Eric Rogers|date=2012-02-08|site=Twitter|accessdate=2013-01-15}}</ref> was the episode's title. | As late as 8 January 2013,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/EricRogersLA/status/288711818766073856|title=EricRogersLA|author=[[Eric Rogers]]|date=2012-01-08|site=Twitter|accessdate=2012-01-15}}</ref> it was revealed<ref>{{cite web|url=https://direct.foxfast.com/FoxFast/aspxfiles/TitleDetailsHome.aspx?TitleId=7DB49AE3-6DAC-481F-8522-9FE6F9C9F4AD&Type=SR&TtlSrchMode=All%20Titles~A&TtlSrchTxt=futurama|title=FoxFast: Futurama|site=[https://direct.foxfast.com/FoxFast/aspxfiles/Login.aspx FoxFast.com]|accessdate=2013-01-09}}</ref> that the title "Forty Percent Leadbelly", which had been, in February 2012, added to the {{w|Copyright Catalog}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.peelified.com/index.php?topic=21784.msg1294213#msg1294213|title="Futurama: Futurama News after 6ACV26 (Reincarnation)" (page 18)|site=[[PEEL]]|author="Just Fan"|date=2012-02-08|accessdate=2013-01-15}}</ref> and said by show writer [[Eric Rogers]] to be the title of something "supergood",<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/#!/Kitchelfilms/status/167461270612746242|title=Kitchelfilms|author=Eric Rogers|date=2012-02-08|site=Twitter|accessdate=2013-01-15}}</ref> was the episode's title. | ||
On 12 April 2013, a preview clip for the episode was revealed on a {{w|HuffPost Live}} 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 {{w|3D printing|3D printer}}-like device. The air date for the second half of season 7 was also revealed to be 19 June 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://live.huffingtonpost.com/#r/archive/segment/'futurama'-writer-shares-exclusive-new-clip/5168daa202a76018a80005c6|title='Futurama' Writer Shares Exclusive New Clip|date=2013-04-13|site={{w|HuffPost Live}}|accessdate=2013-04-13}}</ref> | On 12 April 2013, a preview clip for the episode was revealed on a {{w|HuffPost Live}} 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 {{w|3D printing|3D printer}}-like device. The air date for the second half of season 7 was also revealed to be 19 June 2013.<ref name="HuffPost">{{cite web|url=http://live.huffingtonpost.com/#r/archive/segment/'futurama'-writer-shares-exclusive-new-clip/5168daa202a76018a80005c6|title='Futurama' Writer Shares Exclusive New Clip|date=2013-04-13|site={{w|HuffPost Live}}|accessdate=2013-04-13}}</ref> | ||
=== Image | === Image gallery === | ||
<gallery> | <gallery> | ||
File:Futurama Fry in Carbonite.jpg|Promotional still of Fry in {{sw|Carbonite (Star Wars)|carbonite}}. | File:Futurama Fry in Carbonite.jpg|Promotional still of Fry in {{sw|Carbonite (Star Wars)|carbonite}}.{{citation needed}} | ||
File:Futurama Forty Percent Leadbelly Make-O-Matic 3D Printer.jpg|Concept art for the [[Make-O-Matic]] 3D printer. | File:Futurama Forty Percent Leadbelly Make-O-Matic 3D Printer.jpg|Concept art for the [[Make-O-Matic]] 3D printer.{{citation needed}} | ||
File:Futurama Forty Percent Leadbelly Big Caboose.jpg|Concept art for a new character known as [[Big Caboose]]. | File:Futurama Forty Percent Leadbelly Big Caboose.jpg|Concept art for a new character known as [[Big Caboose]].{{citation needed}} | ||
File:Futurama Forty Percent Leadbelly Bender in Bed with Jezebel.jpg|Promotional still of Bender in bed with a new character known as [[Jezebel]]. | File:Futurama Forty Percent Leadbelly Bender in Bed with Jezebel.jpg|Promotional still of Bender in bed with a new character known as [[Jezebel]].{{citation needed}} | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
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=== Allusions === | === Allusions === | ||
* The episode's title is a reference to [[Bender's composition|a running gag]] that has | * The episode's title is a reference to [[Bender's composition|a running gag]] that has Bender claim to be 40% of something that keeps changing and the late American musician {{w|Lead Belly}}. In [[Futurama (video game)|the game]], Bender is 40% lead. | ||
*Fry is seen trapped in a block of carbonite, a reference to the ''[[Star Wars]]'' franchise. {{sw|Han Solo}} was also trapped in carbonite in ''{{w|Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back}}''. | *Fry is seen trapped in a block of carbonite, a reference to the ''[[Star Wars]]'' franchise. {{sw|Han Solo}} was also trapped in carbonite in ''{{w|Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back}}''. | ||
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== References == | == References == | ||
{{reflist}} | {{reflist}} | ||
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No. | 128 | ||||
Production number | 7ACV14 | ||||
Written by | Ken Keeler | ||||
Directed by | Stephen Sandoval | ||||
Title caption | N/A | ||||
First air date | 3 July 2013 | ||||
Broadcast number | S10E04 | ||||
Title reference | A running gag and the late American musician Lead Belly | ||||
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"Forty Percent Leadbelly" is the one hundred and twenty-eighth episode of Futurama, the fourteenth of the seventh production season and the fourth of the tenth broadcast season.[2]
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.[3]
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"[4] due to her work on this episode.[5] 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".[6] On the next day, she stated that she thought that it had gone "pretty well".[7]
As late as 8 January 2013,[8] it was revealed[9] that the title "Forty Percent Leadbelly", which had been, in February 2012, added to the Copyright Catalog[10] and said by show writer Eric Rogers to be the title of something "supergood",[11] was the episode's title.
On 12 April 2013, a preview clip for the episode was revealed on a HuffPost Live 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 3D printer-like device. The air date for the second half of season 7 was also revealed to be 19 June 2013.[12]
Image gallery
Promotional still of Fry in carbonite.[citation needed]
Concept art for the Make-O-Matic 3D printer.[citation needed]
Concept art for a new character known as Big Caboose.[citation needed]
Promotional still of Bender in bed with a new character known as Jezebel.[citation needed]
Additional information
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 Lead Belly. In the game, Bender is 40% lead.
- Fry is seen trapped in a block of carbonite, a reference to the Star Wars franchise. Han Solo was also trapped in carbonite in Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back.
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.
Quotes
[A large 3D printer-like device called the Make-O-Matic begins to create a guitar downloaded from Bender's memory.]
Ben Beeler: By laying down layer after layer of nano plastic, it can turn your wildest dreams into ordinary reality!
Bender: Witchcraft! Sorcerer! Neat.
[Bender has the rotating image of a guitar projecting from his eyes. He and Ben Beeler are looking at it.]
Ben Beeler: Using my fancy technology, I can make an exact copy of this guitar. [He points to it.]
Bender: Tell me Doctor Beeler, will I need to threaten you?
Ben Beeler: Not at all! You see nowadays, we can take a unique and beautiful object, and easily reduce it to a formula for mass production! I call the process: science!
Appearances
Characters
- Amy
- Ben Beeler
- Bender
- Debut: Big Caboose
- Professor Farnsworth
- Fry
- Debut: Jezebel
- Zoidberg (mentioned in text only, unknown moment)
Places
- The Planet Express conference room
- The technology lab
References
- ^ Cite error: Invalid
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- ^ Shows A-Z - futurama on comedy central. (TheFutonCritic.com.) Retrieved on 26 June 2013.
- ^ Producer David X. Cohen on Futurama's Final Final Season. (Popular Mechanics.) 08 May 2013. Retrieved on 08 May 2013.
- ^ Aimee Steinberger (27 January 2012). aimeekitty. (Twitter.) Retrieved on 27 January 2012.
- ^ Aimee Steinberger (27 January 2012). aimeekitty. (Twitter.) Retrieved on 27 January 2012.
- ^ Aimee Steinberger (14 February 2012). aimeekitty. (Twitter.) Retrieved on 15 February 2012.
- ^ Aimee Steinberger (15 February 2012). aimeekitty. (Twitter.) Retrieved on 16 February 2012.
- ^ Eric Rogers (08 January 2012). EricRogersLA. (Twitter.) Retrieved on 15 January 2012.
- ^ FoxFast: Futurama. (FoxFast.com.) Retrieved on 09 January 2013.
- ^ "Just Fan" (08 February 2012). "Futurama: Futurama News after 6ACV26 (Reincarnation)" (page 18). (PEEL.) Retrieved on 15 January 2013.
- ^ Eric Rogers (08 February 2012). Kitchelfilms. (Twitter.) Retrieved on 15 January 2013.
- ^ 'Futurama' Writer Shares Exclusive New Clip. (HuffPost Live.) 13 April 2013. Retrieved on 13 April 2013.