When my daughter was born, we videotaped the birth. Now when she makes me angry, I just hit rewind and put her back in.

The line is a piece of dark, parental humor built on the then-novel idea of recording childbirth on videotape. It exaggerates a common parental fantasy—wanting to “undo” a child’s misbehavior—by imagining the parent can literally rewind the tape and reverse the child’s existence. The joke depends on the mismatch between the irreversible reality of parenting and the mechanical reversibility of video. Beneath the punchline is an acknowledgment of frustration and powerlessness: parents cannot truly reset a difficult moment, only reframe it, cool down, and try again. The absurdity signals affection rather than cruelty, using hyperbole to vent irritation safely.