After you've dated someone it should be legal to stamp them with what's wrong with them, so the next person doesn't have to start from scratch.

In this joke, Rudner uses an absurd, bureaucratic fantasy—“stamping” ex-partners with their flaws—to satirize the emotional labor of dating. The humor comes from treating intimacy like consumer protection: if relationships had warning labels, future partners could avoid repeating the same painful discoveries. Beneath the punchline is a familiar modern complaint about inefficiency and repetition in romance, and a wry acknowledgment that people often enter relationships hoping for a “fresh start” only to encounter entrenched habits and incompatibilities. The line also pokes fun at the temptation to reduce complex individuals to a single defect, revealing how breakup narratives can turn nuanced experience into a simple cautionary tale.