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There's no punching done in this joke, no winner or loser. It's just observational humor. The pharmacist draws a mistaken conclusion from his observation.
it's "winner" and "loser" not winner and loser.
If Cinderella, Cinderella is the loser to the step sisters, the winner to the prince's affection, the loser to time constraints, the winner to the final slipper fit.
It's a method of discussing rising and falling action in Aristotlean poetics w/r/t narrative mores.
Well it's a pretty inane method then
I mean it's how our brains are wired after roughly 10,000 years of oral storytelling tradition, and you can draw a direct line of storytelling methodology in most cultures back about 4000 years. These methods are what constructed the odyssey, the Iliad, the aeneid, the plays of Aesceleus, Euripedes, Sophecles, Aristophanes... all the way up to modern comic books, superhero movies and telenovellas.