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{{Infobox television episode
| Title = The Show Must Go On
| Series = [[Transformers: Renegade Rhetoric]]
| Image = [[File:tsmgo-title2.jpg|225px]]
| Caption = "The Show Must Go On" title
| Season = 1
| Episode = 10
| Airdate = September 16th, 1986/October 19th, 2015 
| Production = 
| Writer = Jim Sorenson
| Director =
| Guests = 
| Episode list = 
| Prev = [[Cy-Kill For President]]
| Next = [[On the Rocks (Transformers: Renegade Rhetoric)|On the Rocks]]
}}
'''The Show Must Go On''' is a fictional story in the ''[[Transformers: Renegade Rhetoric]]'' series episode 10. Written in 2015, it retroactively took place in an unaired second season of the ''[[Challenge of the GoBots]]'' animated series.<ref>{{Cite episode |title= The Show Must Go On|episodelink=The Show Must Go On (Transformers: Renegade Rhetoric) |series= Transformers: Renegade Rhetoric|serieslink= Transformers: Renegade Rhetoric|credits= Written by Jim Sorenson |network= |station= |airdate= September 16th, 1986/October 19th, 2015 |season= 1|number= 10}}</ref> 

==Synopsis==
The Renegades put on a show that brings the house down. 

==Source Text==
The following was posted on Facebook on October 19th, 2016.<REF>https://www.facebook.com/AskVectorPrime/posts/739436742854965</REF>

{{quote|
Dear Renegade Rhetoric, Besides [[C.S. Lewis]], have you read any other human authors?

[[Cy-Kill (GoBots)|Cy-Kill]]: But of course! One cannot hope to conquer a civilization without some level of understanding. I was particularly impressed with your [[Machiavelli]] and [[Sun Tzu]]. [[Nietzsche]], [[Marx]], and [[Locke]] had some keen insights as well. And I had a rollicking good laugh over the antics penned by [[Gilbert & Sullivan]]. Why once we even managed to put on a production of [[The Pirates of Penzance]] as part of an elaborate scheme to rid ourselves of the hated Guardians once and for all.

[[Christopher Colgin]]: This, I'd like to hear about!

Cy-Kill: Oh, it was the usual. [[Traitor (GoBots)|Traitor]] learned that an eccentric and wealthy theater enthusiast was leaving his entire fortune to the best production of the season. That fortune included a mystical gemstone with incredible powers, originally owned by the ancient Roman thaumaturge [[Arcanus Maximus]]. I wanted to acquire the stone and so put on a show. 

Inexplicably, the old fool preferred the Guardians' production. It was some impenetrable drivel by [[Kafka]], though I must admit that the casting of [[Leader-1 (GoBots)|Leader-1]] as a giant cockroach was inspired. Naturally we grabbed the jewel anyway, but were much chagrined to discover that Arcanus Maximus was a fraud and that his stone was a worthless bauble. 

[[Thomas Rice]]: I...I kinda want to see the GoBot production of Pirates of Penzance.

[[image:snoop-cotg.jpg|left|thumb|240px|Snoop in ''Challenge of the GoBots'']]
Cy-Kill: Oh, it was a sight to behold. Though I had had my heart set on the Pirate King, none of my troops could do justice to "Modern Major General," and so my hands were tied. [[Bugsie]] took the Pirate King role, with appropriate panache. [[Snoop (GoBots)|Snoop]] did a passable Mabel, and her chemistry with [[Re-Volt]]'s Frederic was, appropriately, electric. Or am I mixing a metaphor? Sparks flew, in any event. Literally. [[Crasher (GoBots)|Crasher]] refused to play Ruth, but [[Psycho (GoBots)|Psycho]] turned in a surprisingly good performance in the role. That left [[Twin Spin]]'s serviceable Police Sergeant. 

Needless to say, we brought down the house. Again, literally.

Christopher Colgin: Did [[Cop-Tur (GoBots)|Cop-Tur]] have a part?

Cy-Kill: Cop-Tur is an abysmal actor. It takes him ages to get off book, and he never seems to hit his mark.

He was, however, surprisingly adept in his capacity as stage manager.
}}

==Cast==
<center>
{| class="wikitable" align="center"
|-
! Guardians
! Renegades
|-
| [[Leader-1 (GoBots)|Leader-1]]
| [[Cy-Kill (GoBots)|Cy-Kill]]
|-
| 
| [[Traitor (GoBots)|Traitor]]
|-
| 
| [[Bugsie]]
|-
| 
| [[Snoop (GoBots)|Snoop]]
|-
| 
| [[Re-Volt]]
|-
| 
| [[Crasher (GoBots)|Crasher]]
|-
| 
| [[Psycho (GoBots)|Psycho]]
|-
| 
| [[Twin Spin]]
|-
| 
| [[Cop-Tur (GoBots)|Cop-Tur]]
|}
</center>

==Notes==
*On December 21st, 2015 the Ask Vector Prime Facebook page posted a fictional list of the unaired episodes of ''Challenge of the GoBots'' season 2, which listed "The Show Must Go On" as season 2 episode 10, which was supposed to air September 16th, 1986.

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