Ned's Newt Season 2 Episode 18 The Show Must Go Off ( Air Date 1998-12-23 ) Genre Animation, Comedy category. Overview "While Ned is working at a TV station, Newton accidentally destroys all of the station's pre-recorded content for the weekend, and he and Ned have to record all-new footage to replace it. They re-enact the news, several TV shows, and try to splice in whatever spare footage they can find to fill time.".