This cartoon, seen here on the cover of a notebook, is set in a doctor’s surgery, where a patient is receiving some rather unexpected feedback from his GP. The doctor is telling an overweight patient that he’s in “perfect shape” – but quickly adds, “if you were a sumo wrestler!”
The humour lies in the doctor’s blunt honesty and the play on words around what it means to be in “perfect shape.” In most contexts, that phrase would be reassuring – but here, it’s turned upside down by the punchline, which redefines “perfect” in a way the patient wasn’t hoping for.
It’s a light-hearted take on the way doctors sometimes mix compassion with candour, and it works visually too – the contrast between the doctor’s calm professionalism and the patient’s startled reaction makes the joke land perfectly.
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