Forty Percent Leadbelly "The A.V. Club" gave this episode a B-. Max Nicholson of IGN gave the episode a 5/10 "Mediocre" rating, saying the episode "took Bender down an all-too-familiar path, with only mild jokes along the way." Forty Percent Leadbelly "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
Where Was Spring? Beatles' "Revolver" album. These were accompanied by songs specially commissioned from Ray Davies of the Kinks. One of these, Where Did My Spring Go?, echoed the series title. One other distinctive feature of the show's style were stylised photographs of both Bron and Fortune shown between sketches where the couple are dressed as Graeco-Roman Gods (Jupiter/Venus), perhaps illustrative of the perfection or imperfection of classic male-female relationships. Recordings of the show are believed to have been wiped by the BBC as part of an economy measure. Many of the sketches were reproduced in the book Is Your Marriage Really Necessary?