Forty Percent Leadbelly 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 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. The
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