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* FantasticPlastic: Bender's hard-drive becomes permanently connected to the Bluetooth of a giant 3-D printer to create whatever in his hard-drive out of nanoplastic. While he originally only wanted to replicate Silicone Red's guitar (the nanoplastic-guitar sounding indistinguishable to a real one), the printer begins to automatically print whatever he is thinking as perfect replicas, including 3 robots (one of which being a perfect replica of Bender), Fry, a fully-functioning train and several giant octopuses/octopi.

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* FantasticPlastic: Bender's hard-drive becomes permanently connected to the Bluetooth of a giant 3-D printer to create whatever in his hard-drive he imagines out of nanoplastic. While he originally only wanted to replicate Silicone Red's guitar (the nanoplastic-guitar sounding indistinguishable to a real one), the printer begins to automatically print whatever he is thinking as perfect replicas, including 3 robots (one of which being a perfect replica of Bender), Fry, a fully-functioning train and several giant octopuses/octopi.octopuses/octopi.
* GladIThoughtOfIt:
-->'''Bender:''' I've never picked cotton, or been on top of Old Smoky, or worked on anything all the livelong day, let alone a railroad.
-->'''Zoidberg:''' Then go live among the railroad men, why not? You'll come to understand them, just as I now understand the ape men of Earth.
-->'''Bender:''' As stupid as Zoidberg's idea is, it's brilliant when I have it.
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* AffectionateParody: The episode title alludes to folk singer Music/LeadBelly.
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*** We get a brief look at Bender's files in this episode, and he actually has a whole folder for his Penguin personality.
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''[[CouchGag Any Resemblance To Actual Future Is Purely Coincidental]]''
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* FantasticPlastic: Bender's hard-drive becomes permanently connected to the Bluetooth of a giant 3-D printer to create whatever in his hard-drive out of nanoplastic. While he originally only wanted to replicate Silicone Red's guitar (the nanoplastic-guitar sounding indistinguishable to a real one), the printer begins to automatically print whatever he is thinking as perfect replicas, including 3 robots (one of which being a perfect replica of Bender), Fry, a fully-functioning train and a giant octopus.

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* FantasticPlastic: Bender's hard-drive becomes permanently connected to the Bluetooth of a giant 3-D printer to create whatever in his hard-drive out of nanoplastic. While he originally only wanted to replicate Silicone Red's guitar (the nanoplastic-guitar sounding indistinguishable to a real one), the printer begins to automatically print whatever he is thinking as perfect replicas, including 3 robots (one of which being a perfect replica of Bender), Fry, a fully-functioning train and a several giant octopus.octopuses/octopi.
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Bender meets his hero, a famous folksinger who has been in jail 30 times, during a convict transport, and uses a wireless 3-D printer to duplicate his success, but the wireless connection between Bender's brain and the 3-D printer turns his folk song about an angry space railbot hunting down Bender into a reality.

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Bender meets his hero, Silicon Red, a famous folksinger who has been in jail 30 times, during a convict transport, and uses a wireless 3-D printer to duplicate his success, but the wireless connection between Bender's brain and the 3-D printer turns his folk song about an angry space railbot hunting down Bender into a reality.



* YawnAndReach: Leela attempts to do this when she and Fry are watching TV. Fry misunderstands that she's tired because it's late so gets up to get her coat so she can do home.

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* YawnAndReach: Leela attempts to do this when she and Fry are watching TV. Fry misunderstands that she's tired because it's late so gets up to get her coat so she can do go home.
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* FantasticPlastic: Bender's hard-drive becomes permanently connected to the Bluetooth of a giant 3-D printer to create whatever in his hard-drive out of nanoplastic. While he originally only wanted to replicate Silicone Red's guitar (the nanoplastic-guitar sounding indistinguishable to a real one), the printer begins to automatically print whatever he is thinking as perfect replicas, including 3 robots (one of which being a perfect replica of Bender), Fry, a fully-functioning train and a giant octopus.

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* CallBack: Once again, we see Bender's desire to be a folk singer.

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* CallBack: CallBack:
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Once again, we see Bender's desire to be a folk singer.singer.
** Bender's fake funeral is attended by [[Recap/FuturamaS3E9TheCyberHouseRules the Cookieville orphans he once adopted]], [[Recap/FuturamaS3E15IDatedARobot Lucy Liu's head]], and [[Recap/FuturamaS3E5TheBirdBotOfIceCatraz some Plutonian penguins]].
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* YawnAndReach: Leela attempts to do this when she and Fry are watching TV. Fry misunderstands that she's tired because it's late so gets up to get her coat so she can do home.

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* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler:Duplicate]] Fry refuses to help Bender when Big Caboose is after him. As he put it, "You deserted me once, and now it's your turn to ''feel the chill''".
* HonorBeforeReason: [[spoiler:Duplicate]] Bender refused to use a simple ending to save himself from being killed by Big Caboose, determined to have his song end with a blaze, resulting in him being killed. [[spoiler:As revealed, this was designed by Bender to prevent him from avoiding his fate by giving him artistic integrity.]]
* HypocriticalHumor: Bender believes that Fry [[spoiler:actually a duplicate]] refusing to help him hide from Big Caboose merits being strangled to death when he deserted Fry to a much worse fate.

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* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler:Duplicate]] Duplicate Fry refuses to help Bender when Big Caboose is after him. As he put it, "You deserted me once, and now it's your turn to ''feel the chill''".
* HonorBeforeReason: [[spoiler:Duplicate]] Duplicate Bender refused to use a simple ending to save himself from being killed by Big Caboose, determined to have his song end with a blaze, resulting in him being killed. [[spoiler:As As revealed, this was designed by Bender to prevent him from avoiding his fate by giving him artistic integrity.]]
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* HypocriticalHumor: Bender believes that Fry [[spoiler:actually a duplicate]] (who turns out to be duplicate) refusing to help him hide from Big Caboose merits being strangled to death when he deserted Fry to a much worse fate.



* WhatTheHellHero: Fry really takes it hard when Bender abandons him with a carbonite frozen criminal, who ends up escaping and trapping Fry in his place.

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* WhatTheHellHero: Fry really takes it hard when Bender abandons him with a carbonite frozen criminal, who ends up escaping and trapping Fry in his place.place.
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* HonorBeforeReason: [[spoiler:Duplicate]] Bender refused to use a simple ending to save himself from being killed by Big Caboose, determined to have his song end with a blaze, resulting in him being killed. [[spoiler:As revealed, this was designed by Bender to prevent him from avoiding his fate by giving him artistic integrity]].

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* HonorBeforeReason: [[spoiler:Duplicate]] Bender refused to use a simple ending to save himself from being killed by Big Caboose, determined to have his song end with a blaze, resulting in him being killed. [[spoiler:As revealed, this was designed by Bender to prevent him from avoiding his fate by giving him artistic integrity]].integrity.]]



* JerkassBall: Fry acts like a total {{Jerkass}} throughout the whole episode by holding a grudge towards Bender for leaving him behind. Justified as he ''was'' at the mercy of a criminal who trapped him in carbonate.

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* JerkassBall: Fry acts like a total {{Jerkass}} throughout the whole episode by holding a grudge towards Bender for leaving him behind. Justified as he ''was'' at the mercy of a criminal who trapped him in carbonate.carbonite.



* ShoutOut: The Planet Express crew visits a [[Franchise/StarWars carbonate]] prison.
* WhatTheHellHero: Fry really takes it hard when Bender abandons him with a carbonate frozen criminal, who ends up escaping and trapping Fry in his place.

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* ShoutOut: The Planet Express crew visits a [[Franchise/StarWars carbonate]] carbonite]] prison.
* WhatTheHellHero: Fry really takes it hard when Bender abandons him with a carbonate carbonite frozen criminal, who ends up escaping and trapping Fry in his place.
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* JerkassBall: Fry acts like a total {{Jerkass}} throughout the whole episode by holding a grudge towards Bender for leaving him behind. Justified as he ''was'' at the mercy of a criminal who trapped him in carbonite.

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* JerkassBall: Fry acts like a total {{Jerkass}} throughout the whole episode by holding a grudge towards Bender for leaving him behind. Justified as he ''was'' at the mercy of a criminal who trapped him in carbonite.carbonate.
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* JerkassBall: Fry acts like a total {{Jerkass}} throughout the whole episode by holding a grudge towards Bender for leaving him behind.

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* JerkassBall: Fry acts like a total {{Jerkass}} throughout the whole episode by holding a grudge towards Bender for leaving him behind. Justified as he ''was'' at the mercy of a criminal who trapped him in carbonite.

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* JerkassBall: Fry acts like a total {{Jerkass}} throughout the whole episode by holding a grudge towards Bender for leaving him behind.



* ShoutOut:
** The Planet Express crew visits a [[Franchise/StarWars carbonate]] prison.

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ShoutOut: The Planet Express crew visits a [[Franchise/StarWars carbonate]] prison.
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* HonorBeforeReason: [[spoiler:Duplicate]] Bender refused to use a simple ending to save himself from being killed by Big Caboose, determined to have his song end with a blaze, resulting in him being killed. [[spoiler:As revealed, this was designed by Bender to prevent him from avoiding his fate by giving him artistic integrity]].


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* ShoutOut:
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* HypocriticalHumor: Bender believes that Fry [[spoiler:actually a duplicate]] refusing to help him hide from Big Caboose merits being strangled to death when he deserted Fry to a much worse fate.
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Bender meets his hero, a famous folksinger who has been in jail 30 times, during a convict transport, and uses a wireless 3-D printer to duplicate his success, but the wireless connection between Bender's brain and the 3-D printer turns his folk song about an angry space railbot hunting down Bender into a reality.

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* CallBack: Once again, we see Bender's desire to be a folk singer.
* TheDogBitesBack: [[spoiler:Duplicate]] Fry refuses to help Bender when Big Caboose is after him. As he put it, "You deserted me once, and now it's your turn to ''feel the chill''".
* RewritingReality: Due to being connected to a 3-D printer, everything that Bender puts in his song actually happens.
* WhatTheHellHero: Fry really takes it hard when Bender abandons him with a carbonate frozen criminal, who ends up escaping and trapping Fry in his place.

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