Forty Percent Leadbelly story
"Forty Percent Leadbelly" is the fourteenth episode of the seventh season of the animated sitcom Futurama. 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. Directed by: Stephen Sandoval. Story by: Ken Keeler.
12 total · 3 major · 9 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| humanoid robot | major | Bender was a robot who wanted to become a folk singer. Caboose was a robot working on the railroad. |
| music | major | Bender tried to become a folk singer. |
| the entertainment industry | major | Bender was on the road trying to make it as a folk singer. |
| cryogenic technology | minor | The Planet Express crew delivered a cryonically suspended prisoner to jail. |
| intellectual property in society | minor | Should Bender be allowed to copy Silicon Red's folk song? |
| love triangle | minor | Bender, Caboose, and Jezebel. |
| loyalty to a friend | minor | Fry accused Bender of abandoning him. |
| romantic infidelity | minor | Jezebel cheated on her boyfriend, Caboose, with Bender. |
| romantic jealousy | minor | Caboose trusted Bender to keep his girlfriend Jezebel company, but Caboose became violently jealous upon discovering that she fell for Bender and slept with him. |
| silicon-based being | minor | The folk singer Silicon Red was evidently made of rock. |