The only good thing about a singles apartment is that you never had to clean it up. At least not until the day you moved and tried to get the security deposit back. Then you'd argue with the landlord. "No sir, the back door was missing when we moved in here. The pizzas were always on the ceiling."

Foxworthy riffs on the stereotype of the carefree (and careless) single person whose apartment becomes a low-stakes zone of disorder because no one is watching and consequences feel distant. The punchline arrives when adult responsibility finally intrudes: moving out and trying to recover the security deposit. The absurd excuses—claiming the back door was already missing and that pizzas “were always on the ceiling”—satirize the way people rationalize their own messes and try to shift blame onto landlords or circumstance. Beneath the joke is a familiar social observation: independence can slide into neglect, and deferred accountability tends to return at the least convenient moment.