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At [[11-Worth Variable-Security Prison|a maximum-security prison]], [[Bender]] meets [[Silicon Red|a famous folk singer]] and attempts to make a copy of his precious guitar. | At [[11-Worth Variable-Security Prison|a maximum-security prison]], [[Bender]] meets [[Silicon Red|a famous folk singer]] and attempts to make a copy of [[Salmonella|his precious guitar]]. | ||
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*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. | ||
*[[Dr. Brutalov]]'s finger knives may be a reference to the claws of the {{cat|superheroe|superhero}} {{w|Wolverine (comics)|Wolverine}} or the glove worn by the primary antagonist of the ''{{w|A Nightmare on Elm Street (franchise)|A Nightmare on Elm Street}}'' film series, {{w|Freddy Krueger}}. | *[[Dr. Brutalov]]'s finger knives may be a reference to the claws of the {{cat|superheroe|superhero}} {{w|Wolverine (comics)|Wolverine}} or the glove worn by the primary antagonist of the ''{{w|A Nightmare on Elm Street (franchise)|A Nightmare on Elm Street}}'' film series, {{w|Freddy Krueger}}. | ||
*When Bender declares that he will duplicate the guitar, [[Silicon Red]] states that "with all Salmonella and me been through, her sound is unique". This may be a reference to {{w|Stradivarius}} violins, as no modern copy has been able to truly replicate their "perfect" sound. | *When Bender declares that he will duplicate the guitar, [[Silicon Red]] states that "with all [[Salmonella]] and me been through, her sound is unique". This may be a reference to {{w|Stradivarius}} violins, as no modern copy has been able to truly replicate their "perfect" sound. | ||
*Fry is trapped in a block of carbonite, a reference to the ''[[Star Wars]]'' franchise. {{sw|Han Solo}} was also trapped in carbonite in ''{{sw|Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back}}''. | *Fry is trapped in a block of carbonite, a reference to the ''[[Star Wars]]'' franchise. {{sw|Han Solo}} was also trapped in carbonite in ''{{sw|Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back}}''. | ||
*[[T.G.I. Folky's]] is a reference to the restaurant chain [[T.G.I. Friday's]]. | *[[T.G.I. Folky's]] is a reference to the restaurant chain [[T.G.I. Friday's]]. | ||
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No. | 128 | ||||
Production number | 7ACV14 | ||||
Written by | Ken Keeler | ||||
Directed by | Stephen Sandoval | ||||
Title caption | Any Resemblance To Actual Future Is Purely Coincidental | ||||
First air date | 3 July 2013 | ||||
Broadcast number | S10E04 | ||||
Title reference | A running gag and the late American musician Lead Belly | ||||
Opening cartoon | "In a Cartoon Studio" | ||||
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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. It aired on 3 July 2013, on Comedy Central. At a maximum-security prison, Bender meets a famous folk singer and attempts to make a copy of his precious guitar.
Story
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"[1] due to her work on this episode.[2] 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".[3] On the next day, she stated that she thought that it had gone "pretty well".[4]
As late as 8 January 2013,[5] it was revealed[6] that the title "Forty Percent Leadbelly", which had been, in February 2012, added to the Copyright Catalog[7] and said by show writer Eric Rogers to be the title of something "supergood",[8] was the episode's title.
On 12 April 2013, a preview clip for the episode was released during a HuffPost Live interview with Futurama writer Patric Verrone, showing Bender using the help of Dr. Ben Beeler to bring a guitar image stored in his file system into reality by use of a large 3D printer, the Make-O-Matic. The air date for the second half of season 7 was also revealed.[9]
Image gallery
Dr. Beeler joins Bender inside of his file system.[9]
Promotional picture of Fry in carbonite.<ref> Countdown to Futurama: Fry in Carbonite. (Comedy Central's Tumblr page.) 10 May 2013. Retrieved on 26 June 2013.
Concept art for the Make-O-Matic 3D printer.<ref> Countdown to Futurama: Make-O-Matic. (Comedy Central's Tumblr page.) 11 May 2013. Retrieved on 26 June 2013.
Concept art for Big Caboose.<ref> Countdown to Futurama: Big Caboose. (Comedy Central's Tumblr page.) 12 May 2013. Retrieved on 26 June 2013.
Promotional picture of Bender in bed with Jezebel.<ref> Countdown to Futurama: Bender in Bed with Jezebel. (Comedy Central's Tumblr page.) 13 May 2013. Retrieved on 26 June 2013.
Additional information
Lyrics
Trivia
- This is the only episode of the tenth broadcast season not to be featured in the Vulture preview clip.
- Dr. Ben Beeler is named after Futurama writer Ken Keeler, who wrote this episode. Dr. Beeler also appeared in another episode written by Keeler, "Overclockwise", but he did not speak.
- Bender's porn drive has a memory size of 100,000 terabytes and his main drive has the memory size of only 1 terabyte.
- In Bender's Big Score, which was also written by Keeler, the scammers delete 50 terabytes of porn from Bender.
- This episode confirms Dandy Jim's name, which was first used in a Volume Three menu.[10]
- When Bender and Jezebel begin making out, a train goes into a tunnel, a metaphor for sexual penetration.
- Bender is wrong, "octopi" is not a true plural form of "octopus" and originates from a misconception on Latin pluralization rules.[11][12][13]
- The Bender duplicate says that his audience deserves better than some crappy, formulaic ending. This may be a reference to the fact that Ken Keeler wrote the finale.
- Ramblin' Rodriguez's birth year is given as 2996. This may be Bender's "birth" year, making Bender 16 or 17 at the time of his "death".
Allusions
- Click here to see cultural mentions made in this episode.
- 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.
- Dr. Brutalov's finger knives may be a reference to the claws of the superhero Wolverine or the glove worn by the primary antagonist of the A Nightmare on Elm Street film series, Freddy Krueger.
- When Bender declares that he will duplicate the guitar, Silicon Red states that "with all Salmonella and me been through, her sound is unique". This may be a reference to Stradivarius violins, as no modern copy has been able to truly replicate their "perfect" sound.
- Fry is 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.
- T.G.I. Folky's is a reference to the restaurant chain T.G.I. Friday's.
- The name of Bender's song, "The Ballad of Me, Ramblin' Rodriguez", may be a reference to English musician Frank Turner's song "The Ballad of Me and My Friends". It's also a reference to Bender's catchphrase "me, Bender".
- The name Ramblin' Rodriguez may be a reference to one of the following.
- Folk singer Ramblin' Jack Elliott.
- Ramblin' Rod, a children's-show host from series creator Matt Groening's home town of Portland, Oregon.
- The 1962 song "Ramblin' Rose".
Continuity
- The Awesome Express uniforms, from "The Route of All Evil", appear once again.
- Bender's dream of being a folk singer was established in "The Series Has Landed", which was also written by Ken Keeler.
- Fry previously did karate in "Attack of the Killer App".
- Bender's address bar reads "C:\BENDER_2716057". 2716057 is Bender's serial number, established in "The Lesser of Two Evils".
- 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.
- A few penguins attend Bender's funeral later in the episode.
- The prism railroad previously appeared in "The 30% Iron Chef".
- The front door to Fry and Bender's apartment no longer contains the main cupboard for Bender, from "I, Roommate", at the opening. This means the main apartment is no longer just a "closet" and simply is the apartment.
- Leela refers to a phone as a cell phone telephone, as she and Bender did in Into the Wild Green Yonder.
- The funeral dresses that Leela and Amy wear are the ones from "The Sting".
- The Wong Hotel & Casino has got a strike through "Wong", possibly because the Martians took it over in "Viva Mars Vegas".
- Bender previously rapped during the end credits for "Free Will Hunting".
Goofs
- When the ship lands at the prison, the crew is already at the door.
- The autopilot may have been on.
- When everyone is at T.G.I. Folky's, Hermes doesn't have a pipe in the first shot but later on he does.
- In the scene where Bender is lying in bed with Jezebel, the left sleeve of his shirt isn't outlined.
- In the scene where Fry and Leela are watching TV in Fry and Bender's apartment, the shot depicting the television set is clearly the one used for the Planet Express employee lounge.
- Leela states that Big Caboose, Duplicate Fry, and Cookie are simply creations from Bender's song, but Bender met Big Caboose and Cookie before he wrote the song.
- She is referring to the Big Caboose that was in the apartment. She may also be saying that she met Cookie herself, sometime after Bender presumably wrote him into his song.
- Dr. Beeler says that a duplicate was created as a decoy in Star Trek: The Next Generation, but, in "Where No Fan Has Gone Before", Star Trek had been outlawed.
- Dr. Beeler could have found an illegal method of watching Star Trek.
Quotes
[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.
[Ben Beeler points to the copy.]
Bender: Tell me Dr. 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!
[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: You're always gett'n' frozen in stuff. It's your thing, man!
Bender: I failed at my life-long dream again. How can I be so bad at everything I try, and still be so great?
Fry: You know my favourite part of your song? The part where it ended.
[Fry laughs.]
Alien-language sightings
Time: 08:52
Location: Fence next to The Rusty Rail
Language: AL1
Translation: WILCOT WAS HERE
Appearances
Characters
- Amy
- Dr. Ben Beeler
- Bender
- Debut: Big Caboose
- Debut: Cookie
- Debut: Dr. Brutalov
- Dandy Jim
- Dr. Daniel Zenus' robot (cameo, 10:06)
- Professor Farnsworth
- Debut: Fast Frank Brogan
- Fry
- Gus
- Helper (cameo, 10:07)
- Hermes
- Humorbot 5.0 (cameo, 10:05)
- The Hypnotoad
- Debut: Jezebel
- Leela
- The male nurse
- The Robot Chef (cameo, 9:00)
- Debut: Silicon Red
- Zoidberg
Characters at the funeral
Places
- Debut: 11-Worth Variable-Security Prison
- Alabama (mentioned in speech only)
- Apartment 00100100
- New Hampshire (mentioned in speech only)
- Debut: Mississippi (mentioned in speech only)
- The Planet Express conference room
- The Planet Express employee lounge (goof)
- The Planet Express headquarters
- The Planet Express kitchen
- The prism railroad
- Robot Arms Apartments
- Debut: The Rusty Rail
- The technology lab
- The Temple of Robotology
- Debut: T.G.I. Folky's
- The Wong Hotel & Casino
Miscellaneous
- Debut: Salmonella
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b 'Futurama' Writer Shares Exclusive New Clip. (HuffPost Live.) 13 April 2013. Retrieved on 13 April 2013.
- ^ Special Features > Still Gallery on Volume Three, disc 4.
- ^ octopus: definition of octopus in Oxford dictionary (British & World English). (Oxford English Dictionary.) Retrieved on 13 July 2013.
- ^ Search Chambers - Free English Dictionary. (Chambers Dictionary.) Retrieved on 13 July 2013.
- ^ Definition of octopus. (Collins English Dictionary.) Retrieved on 13 July 2013.