A patient is sitting in an examination room. The doctor is entering, carrying a needle.
The needle is humongous.
How is he going to give the man a shot with that monstrosity?
You will feel a thing.
scene: a doctor's office description: A patient is sitting in an examination room. The doctor is entering, carrying a needle. uncanny: The needle is humongous. entities: Hypodermic_needle, Doctor. caption: You will feel a thing.
Doctors often assure patience before injections that they won't feel a thing: this calms people with a fear of needles. But here, the phrase is turned on its head: because the needle is ominously large, the doctor humorously assures the patient that they will indeed experience pain. This is funny because it's a more honest commentary on the pain associated with shots, where patients often feel it even if the doctor says they won't.