hamlet
Explanation
This comic features a conversation about Shakespeare's Hamlet, beginning with someone addressing God about studying the play. God (or an academic figure) explains that there are three types of Hamlet interpretation: animal, guttural/social, and episodic/stock.
The comic explains that "Hamlet is guttural" means it involves killing, naked or barely clothed figures, and the audience watching to gain understanding. "Hamlet is episodic" involves people being social -- discussing calories, babies, and other mundane topics -- offering a different perspective on the work. "Hamlet is stock" means people are treated as objects, with strong tendencies toward both delight and horror, making it hard to tell whether the audience is being critical or sincere.
The punchline comes when, after hearing all this taxonomic analysis, the response is: "In that case we should probably just cut it" -- suggesting that after all the academic overanalysis, the simplest solution is to just not bother with Hamlet at all. The comic satirizes the tendency of literary and academic criticism to overclassify and overanalyze works of art to the point where the analysis becomes more convoluted than the work itself.