Tribute to Steam Powered Giraffe (showtape) (Johnsonverse)

Played at ShowBiz Pizza Place in the Japanese Isles from April to May 2016.

Skits

 * Aaron Fechter as Looney Bird, Rolfe DeWolfe, and Earl Schmerle
 * Stephanie Sheh as Yui Hirasawa
 * Cristina Valenzuela as Mio Akiyama
 * Cassandra Lee Morris as Ritsu Tainaka
 * Shelby Lindley as Tsumugi "Mugi" Kotobuki
 * Laura Bailey as Nodoka Manabe

Songs

 * Isabella Bennett as Yui Hirasawa
 * David Bennett and Jon Sprague as Tsumugi "Mugi" Kotobuki
 * Jon Sprague, Sam Luke, Michael Phillip Reed, and Paul Alborough as Ritsu Tainaka
 * Erin Burke and Sam Luke as Mio Akiyama

Segment 1

 * (The band performs "Clockwork Vaudeville")
 * Mugi: Welcome to ShowBiz Pizza Place! Today we're doing our tribute to a great indie band, Steam Powered Giraffe. Created in 2007, the band is well-known for its steampunk theme and for its band members performing in-character.
 * Yui: What is steampunk, anyway?
 * Mugi: Well, Yui, we knew you'd ask this, so we brought a special guest with us today.
 * (The Stage Left curtain opens to reveal Nodoka)
 * Ritsu: Seriously, ShowBiz? You got Nodoka and couldn't change the stage for her? It's still Billy Bob's stage. Even Looney Bird is still there!
 * Looney Bird: Yeah. Apparently ShowBiz got lazy, that's why.
 * Nodoka: Thank you, everyone. I've been asked to conduct a brief history lesson on the steampunk musical genre. First off, I have done plenty of research, and I can safely say... uh... that the steampunk genre began in the 1980s as a tongue-in-cheek variant of cyberpunk. Despite this, however, uh, many works considered seminal to the genre were released in the 60s and 70s.
 * Yui: Nodoka, you're making a lot of pauses. Is something wrong?
 * Nodoka: Nothing's wrong, Yui. Maybe stage fright?
 * Yui: Oh. Carry on, then.
 * Nodoka: What I'm saying is, uh, that the phrase "steampunk" was first used in 1987, but it's now also used for works from the 50s or earlier.

Trivia

 * This is the first showtape with Nodoka Manabe as a guest star, replacing Billy Bob. Looney Bird and the Smitty's Super Service Station setting are unchanged in order to make jokes at ShowBiz's laziness.