I too was there! They opened with Have You Ever Seen the Rain!
It was so cool, becasue I was only in the country for a coupla weeks.
(Also, all of the Christchurch outdoor venues were destroyed in the earthquakes, so no chance of any upcoming events.)

"Chosen to be the chief bureaucrat or the leader who has to spend his life using reason and logic to bring people who actually have legitimate gripes together" is basically the plot of Nation by Terry Partcett.

Take the box to someone's house, of course.

If I had untold fortunes at my disposal, I think it would be hilarious to take an empty box with a big red button on it, and offer them the deal. Then come back in a week, hand them the money, and say the line from the end of the TZ episode, just to see their reaction.

I, too, was waiting for the bus driver's song, if only to have my AV Club username vindicated. Sadly, it was not to be.