Forty Percent Leadbelly
← Previous | Navigation in production order | Next → |
---|
Season 7 episode Broadcast season 10 episode | |||||
Forty Percent Leadbelly | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
N/A | |||||
No. | 128 | ||||
Production number | 7ACV14 | ||||
Broadcast number | S10E01 | ||||
Written by | N/A | ||||
Directed by | N/A | ||||
Title caption | N/A | ||||
First air date | TBA | ||||
Title reference | A running gag and the late American musician Lead Belly | ||||
Additional | |||||
| |||||
Season 7 | |||||
|
"Forty Percent Leadbelly" is the one hundred and twenty-eighth episode of Futurama, the fourteenth of the seventh production season and the first of the tenth broadcast season.
Contents |
[edit] Production
On 27 January 2012, assistant director Aimee Steinberger commented that she could not go to the FOX-lot screening of the first full-color animation for "7ACV01"[1] due to her work on this episode.[2] On 14 February 2012, she said that the animatic for the episode was "done" and would be screened "[on the next day] at the FOX lot".[3] On the next day, she stated that she thought that it had gone "pretty well".[4]
As late as 8 January 2013,[5] it was revealed[6] that the title "Forty Percent Leadbelly", which had been, in February 2012, added to the Copyright Catalog[7] and said by show writer Eric Rogers to be the title of something "supergood",[8] was the episode's title.
[edit] Additional information
[edit] Allusions
- The episode's title is a reference to a running gag that has Bender claim to be 40% of something that keeps changing and the late American musician Lead Belly. In the game, Bender is 40% lead.
[edit] References
- ^ Aimee Steinberger (27 January 2012). aimeekitty. (Twitter.) Retrieved on 27 January 2012.
- ^ Aimee Steinberger (27 January 2012). aimeekitty. (Twitter.) Retrieved on 27 January 2012.
- ^ Aimee Steinberger (14 February 2012). aimeekitty. (Twitter.) Retrieved on 15 February 2012.
- ^ Aimee Steinberger (15 February 2012). aimeekitty. (Twitter.) Retrieved on 16 February 2012.
- ^ Eric Rogers (08 January 2012). EricRogersLA. (Twitter.) Retrieved on 15 January 2012.
- ^ FoxFast: Futurama. (FoxFast.com.) Retrieved on 09 January 2013.
- ^ "Just Fan" (08 February 2012). "Futurama: Futurama News after 6ACV26 (Reincarnation)" (page 18). (PEEL.) Retrieved on 15 January 2013.
- ^ Eric Rogers (08 February 2012). Kitchelfilms. (Twitter.) Retrieved on 15 January 2013.