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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 episode 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 episode 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> | ||
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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 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.[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]
Image Gallery
A design for the Make-O-Matic 3D printer.
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.