It’s referring to the lyrics from the song “Big Yellow Taxi”, there’s a line that goes “They paved Paradise, and put up a parking lot”. It’s not very funny once it’s been explained haha

I’m pretty sure it ends up with him getting sent to a remote island on a missionary trip to avoid paying the pledge, and then he gets the locals hooked on drinking and gambling by convincing them to build a casino. Also love angry Elmo in the PBS mob “Elmo knows where you live” 😂

For anyone who’s interested, there was a movie made that was loosely based on this story called Oddball: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3401748/