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"'''Forty Percent Leadbelly'''" is the one hundred and twenty-eighth episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the fourteenth of the [[Season 7|seventh production season]] and the first of the [[Broadcast season 10|tenth broadcast season]]. | "'''Forty Percent Leadbelly'''" is the one hundred and twenty-eighth episode of ''[[Futurama]]'', the fourteenth of the [[Season 7|seventh production season]] and the first of the [[Broadcast season 10|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 trys to steal from a maximum-security prison but fails, so instead resorts to 3D-printing technology to duplicate the guitar — again with horrible consequences.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/digital/fact-vs-fiction/producer-david-x-cohen-on-futuramas-final-final-season-15445588?click=pm_news|title=Producer David X. Cohen on Futurama's Final Final Season|date=2013-05-8|site=Popular Mechanics|accessdate=2013-05-8}}</ref> | |||
== Production == | == Production == | ||
On 27 January 2012, assistant director [[Aimee Steinberger]] commented that she could not go to the [[20th Century Fox|FOX]]-lot screening of the first full-color animation for "[[7ACV01]]"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/#!/aimeekitty/status/162687168794468352|author=[[Aimee Steinberger]]|date=2012-01-27|title=aimeekitty|site={{w|Twitter}}|accessdate=2012-01-27}}</ref> due to her work on this episode.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/#!/aimeekitty/status/162687490547924992|author=Aimee Steinberger|date=2012-01-27|title=aimeekitty|site=Twitter|accessdate=2012-01-27}}</ref> On 14 February 2012, she said that [[Animatic:Forty Percent Leadbelly|the animatic]] for the episode was "done" and would be screened "[on the next day] at the FOX lot".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/#!/aimeekitty/status/169537261514407936|author=Aimee Steinberger|date=2012-02-14|title=aimeekitty|site=Twitter|accessdate=2012-02-15}}</ref> On the next day, she stated that she thought that it had gone "pretty well".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/#!/aimeekitty/status/169896651899682817|author=Aimee Steinberger|date=2012-02-15|title=aimeekitty|site=Twitter|accessdate=2012-02-16}}</ref> | On 27 January 2012, assistant director [[Aimee Steinberger]] commented that she could not go to the [[20th Century Fox|FOX]]-lot screening of the first full-color animation for "[[7ACV01]]"<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/#!/aimeekitty/status/162687168794468352|author=[[Aimee Steinberger]]|date=2012-01-27|title=aimeekitty|site={{w|Twitter}}|accessdate=2012-01-27}}</ref> due to her work on this episode.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/#!/aimeekitty/status/162687490547924992|author=Aimee Steinberger|date=2012-01-27|title=aimeekitty|site=Twitter|accessdate=2012-01-27}}</ref> On 14 February 2012, she said that [[Animatic:Forty Percent Leadbelly|the animatic]] for the episode was "done" and would be screened "[on the next day] at the FOX lot".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/#!/aimeekitty/status/169537261514407936|author=Aimee Steinberger|date=2012-02-14|title=aimeekitty|site=Twitter|accessdate=2012-02-15}}</ref> On the next day, she stated that she thought that it had gone "pretty well".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/#!/aimeekitty/status/169896651899682817|author=Aimee Steinberger|date=2012-02-15|title=aimeekitty|site=Twitter|accessdate=2012-02-16}}</ref> | ||
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== Additional information == | == Additional information == | ||
=== Trivia === | === 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. | * 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 === | === Allusions === | ||
* 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. | * 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. | ||
=== Continuity === | === Continuity === | ||
* When [[Ben Beeler|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]]". | * When [[Ben Beeler|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. | ** 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 === | === Quotes === | ||
{{q| | {{q| | ||
<poem>''[A large 3D printer-like device called the Make-O-Matic begins to create a guitar downloaded from Bender's memory.]'' | <poem>''[A large 3D printer-like device called the Make-O-Matic begins to create a guitar downloaded from Bender's memory.]'' | ||
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=== Appearances === | === Appearances === | ||
==== Characters ==== | ==== Characters ==== | ||
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==== Places ==== | ==== Places ==== | ||
* The technology lab | * The technology lab | ||
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No. | 128 | ||||
Production number | 7ACV14 | ||||
Written by | Ken Keeler | ||||
Directed by | Stephen Sandoval | ||||
Title caption | N/A | ||||
First air date | TBA | ||||
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 first 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 trys to steal from a maximum-security prison but fails, so instead resorts to 3D-printing technology to duplicate the guitar — again with horrible consequences.[1]
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"[2] due to her work on this episode.[3] 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".[4] On the next day, she stated that she thought that it had gone "pretty well".[5]
As late as 8 January 2013,[6] it was revealed[7] that the title "Forty Percent Leadbelly", which had been, in February 2012, added to the Copyright Catalog[8] and said by show writer Eric Rogers to be the title of something "supergood",[9] 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 episode was also revealed to be 19 June 2013.[10]
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.
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
- Ben Beeler
- Bender
- Zoidberg (mentioned in text only, unknown moment)
Places
- The technology lab
References
- ^ 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.