I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.

In this line, Fred Allen uses a mock autobiographical boast to satirize both legal education and the litigiousness associated with the legal profession. The joke hinges on an absurdly “practical” measure of mastery: learning law so thoroughly that one can immediately weaponize it against one’s own school. The punchline also plays on a familiar suspicion that tuition is not “worth it,” implying the education was so defective—or so cynically transactional—that the only sensible outcome is to recover the money. As with much of Allen’s humor, the wit is dry and self-deprecating, presenting the speaker as simultaneously clever and aggrieved.