The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for August 13, 2018

When we go II a movie, we expect II see what we pay IV.

She’s misreading it. Her speech bubble is hiding the title of the movie, Rocky XXX.

maybe she thought the movie was overr-VIII-ed

Toga. Toga. Toga. Toga. Toga. Toga.

Maybe she’s upset her date did not have Roman hands!

About time we abandoned Roman numerals.

They were expecting an amphitheater?

It was worse than a Roman bath in there!

Wonder if they saw Caligula?

Too much VI and violence?

I could make a joke using LIX…. but I won’t….

But, shouldn’t this woman be speaking Latin?

XXX “rated” movies would not be scandalous to the Romans.

I was going to see Malcolm X, but I hadn’t yet seen Malcolms I-IX…

What we have here… is a failure to communicate.

Kudos Hilburn – funniest comic of the day!

And your rating system is redundant.

It takes me 5 minutes to read the dates of Amazon Prime movies which show a current date but are from decades ago; 3-minutes to stop it at the necessary screen, and 2-minutes to decipher the roman numerals. This just to find out how old the actress with the over ripe melons was at the time.

We used to have X-rated movies (even tho they’re now euphemistically called NC-17), and the porn industry gave us XXX, but has any movie ever been rated just XX? Or would that invite trademark-infringement suits from that Mexican brewery?

It’s all Greek to me!