I Gave Up

I Gave Up is a proposed "grand finale" of the Bureau of Fiction by the strongly anti-BOF Jones Family. Jointly penned by a combination of the entire surviving family, it was submitted to the BOF as a means to drump up discouragement for the brutally slow, light workweek that was blistering corporate morale. The BOF had a contingency in the event of total inactivity, which had been discovered by Baldurshroom in his illegal research of the BOF that eventually destroyed him. He never had the chance to try his hand at forcing an invocation of Operation Grand Finale, as it was called, until 2012.

-but hey, isn't the best way to win by causing your opponent to forfeit?

(What the family doesn't know is that if they actually do convince the BOF to give up, Operation Grand Finale would be to shut the universe down into a suspended animation, freezing time, space, and continuity, with only three of the Masters of the Universe untouched.)

Lyrics
MELODY

'Tis been five years Of glorious days, Writing and storytelling's blast.

I know it's hard to see all walk away So look at yourself and ask: Speedasher Explorer even Tails are all flyin' So you know it is the truth that the wiki is dying!

GIVE UP!

We've been runnin' this business so long, -but even so no one new is trying...

GIVE UP!

TurtleShroom has packed up and gone, No one but Swiss Why bear this load on your shoulders GIVE UP!

[...]

No one's writing and no one ever comes to call, The Recent Changes feed never pass two. So I ask you once more why keep on believing 'cause there's other things to do and other sights to be seeing!

GIVE UP!

It's time to stop tricking and now Face the truth and raise the white flag.

GIVE UP!

So lower your head 'cause this wiki is dead! At least the funeral won't need a commute! The Fanon gave up!

I gave up I gave up!

{Enter gospel choir of all of TS' characters} I,GAVE,UP!

TAMMYSHROOM: The time has come; that's all folks!

{choir} I,GAVE,UP!

TURTLESHROOM: Ask me to rule again? Seriously?

{choir} I,<BR />GAVE,<BR /><BR /><BR />UP!<BR />

NAOMI: It'sh time ta clossssshe up shop!

{choir} I,<BR /><BR /><BR />GAVE,<BR /><BR /><BR />UP!<BR />

TORTUGADESETAS: Now go actually do worthwhile!

{choir} I,<BR /><BR /><BR />GAVE,<BR /><BR /><BR />UP!<BR />

TURTLESHROOM: It's the end.

{choir} I,<BR /><BR /><BR />GAVE,<BR /><BR /><BR />UP!<BR />

Mister Icarius (cameo): Taste the mourning! I LIKE IT!

Dara (cameo): Aaaah, it's miserable, man!

$$FIN$$

Aftermath
The song was very catchy and very convincing to the BOF. The Board of Fiction nearly even agreed to set a countdown, but Iceflower sent a final plea for a renewal of the wiki's infinite timeline, and with her touching, beautiful words, they decided against it at the last second.

Even so, TurtleShroom and family hope they'll change their minds, they themselves totally unaware of the repercussiosn... again.

Trivia

 * I Gave Up is the real TurtleShroom's favorite Phineas and Ferb song.