It is disturbing that in modern-day Dunedin - post-Reformation, post-Renaissance, following the Age of Reason, the Age of Enlightenment, and even the great vowel shift that shook the pronunciation of the English language to its core from 1450 to 1750 - some people are still unaware a new series of Curb Your Enthusiasm is well under way on TV2.
Tomorrow night, the fourth episode of a series that is quite clearly the best show that has ever been made continues.
It is the absolute height of entertainment, the very apex of the mountain of funny things; that mountain created by people dedicated to making life almost bearable.
The half-hour show positively affects the disposition for at least 30 times longer than sex, and leaves the viewer in a state of such beatitude, so elated and insouciant, it compares favourably with the very best aspects of the human experience.
This is not the first time I have told you, so there are no excuses for not knowing about the Curb.
But I met, just the other day, a gentleman unaware of its existence.
That is possibly because TV2 has reserved for Curb the time slot it reserves for the very best of shows.
11.30pm on a Wednesday. Thank you TV2
So: One more time.
Curb Your Enthusiasm is an American comedy television series starring and written by Seinfeld writer, co-creator and executive producer Larry David, who acts in the lead role as himself.
David weaves his way through life struggling constantly with social convention, and inadvertently, or often advertently, offending friends and strangers alike, provoking the most splendid odium in almost everybody he comes in contact with.
Curb is clever beyond anything else on TV at the moment, and is quite clearly unmissable.
Take this on board.
There are people who don't like the Curb; I have met them.
They are people of the most appalling taste.
Most are dreadfully common types: the worst sort of riff-raff.
They are the sort you would be embarrassed to meet on the street if you were in even vaguely respectable company.
They are the sort of people who, if you were invited to a dinner party you knew they may attend, would motivate you to leave the country, or even feign death for the weekend as an excuse for not showing up.
When drunk they become either maudlin or truculent.
They wear trackie-daks outside when they go shopping. Don't be one of these people.
The current series is based on David's desire to organise a Seinfeld reunion for his own selfish motives, and that team came together for the first time in episode three.
So far you have missed that.
Don't miss any more.
