Futurama (TV Series) Forty Percent Leadbelly (2013) User Reviews

Underrated episode

[not_you_guillermo · 8/10 · 5 March 2022]

I only wrote this to call the reviewer who thinks this is a rip off of an American Dad episode an idiot. There's been a running gag about Bender wanting to he a folk singer since the 2nd episode back in 1999.

Rip off of American Dad! (6AJN10)

[10086cn · 1/10 · 13 November 2020]

WTF were the writers of this episode in particular thinking?! This is a complete rip off of the American Dad episode "Gorillas in the Mist", particularly the part about only writing music of things that have actually happened to you personally.

Of all things, this was the last thing I'd have expected from Futurama (to rip off an episode from a similar show), but sadly they've stooped down to that level. :(

Just not my cup of tea

[r-a-196883 · 4/10 · 7 January 2024]

I find it a bit boring is all. It's quite depressing how they give Bender, an amazing character, a plot that makes me not really care about him at all. Not really much of a spoiler: he starts doing country music. Maybe it's just I don't take a liking to country music episodes for whatever reason, I seem to vaguely remember one (or perhaps even more at this point) episodes of the Simpsons involving some character making country music as the plot.

I guess part of it might be it's very unmotivated - Bender has never shown this side of him much. Compared to Bender's well-established life of crime, his romantic side, or even his desire to be a chef, it's somewhat bizzare. Bender being a chef also works due to the humour of him being a robot who can't eat, and his hedonism in his enjoyment of sex and crime which you'd imagine wouldn't match the personality of a robot. But making music seems much more "usual" or "generic" to me in some way.