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
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