I went up to a girl in a bar once and asked her where she was from. I guess she wasn't interested, because she said, "Mars." So I asked, "You need a ride home?"

The joke turns on a familiar barroom brush-off: when asked where she’s from, the woman answers “Mars,” signaling disinterest through absurdity. Romano’s comic persona—earnest, socially awkward, and persistent—then escalates the premise by treating the dismissal literally (“You need a ride home?”). The humor comes from willful misinterpretation and the mismatch between conversational subtext (rejection) and the speaker’s literal response. It also plays with the everyday ritual of small talk in dating contexts, exposing how fragile and performative such exchanges can be, and how a determined suitor can transform rejection into a new comedic opening.