Forty Percent Leadbelly

"Forty Percent Leadbelly"
Futurama episode
Episode no.Season 7
Episode 14
Directed byStephen Sandoval
Written byKen Keeler
Production code7ACV14
Original air dateJuly 3, 2013 (2013-07-03)
Episode features
Opening captionAny Resemblance To Actual Future Is Purely Coincidental
Opening cartoon"In a Cartoon Studio" by Van Beuren Studios (1931)
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"Forty Percent Leadbelly" is the fourteenth episode in the seventh season of the American animated television series Futurama, and the 128th episode of the series overall. It originally aired on Comedy Central on July 3, 2013. The episode was written by Ken Keeler and directed by Stephen Sandoval. In this episode, Bender meets his hero, Silicon Red, a folk singer who has been in jail 30 times, during a convict transport, and uses a wireless 3D printer to duplicate his guitar, but the wireless connection between Bender's brain and the 3D printer turns his folk song about an angry space railbot hunting down Bender into reality.