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Contrast to [[Lull Destruction]]. Subtrope of [[Silence Is Golden]].

== Anime and Manga ==

* The Training montage chapter before the Submerged Fish Hunt in ''[[Tower of God]]''.

* The ''[[Ah My Goddess (Manga)|Ah My Goddess]]'' spin-off ''[[Adventures of Mini Goddess (Anime)|Adventures of Mini Goddess]]'' has an episode with Urd going out on a rainy day.

* The ''[[Ah! My Goddess (Manga)|Ah My Goddess]]'' spin-off ''[[Adventures of Mini Goddess (Anime)|Adventures of Mini Goddess]]'' has an episode with Urd going out on a rainy day.

* Chapter 166 in ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', focusing on Okochi Akira, an unusually quiet student, is done entirely without dialogue. Even when characters speak to each other, only pictures or one or two words are shown in the speech bubbles. [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by Chachazero holding a sign reading "This chapter is brought to you in near silence."

* Lampshaded in ''[[Bakuman｡ (Manga)|Bakuman｡]]'': Niizuma Eiji writes a chapter of his manga with no words, only pictures and sound effects. The editors remark at how dangerous doing something like that is for ratings, but it ends up successful.

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== Live-Action TV ==

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', "Hush", which was nominated for an Emmy. It featured demons rendering everyone in the town mute, because a real human voice was the only thing that could kill them. More than half of the episode had no dialogue, yet they still managed [[Buffy Speak]] during the silent part.

* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', "Hush", which was nominated for an Emmy. It featured demons rendering everyone in the town mute, because a real human voice was the only thing that could kill them. More than half of the episode had no dialogue, yet they still managed [[Buffy-Speak]] during the silent part.

* ''[[Space Above and Beyond]]'': "Who Monitors the Birds?"

* In one episode of ''[[Wizards of Waverly Place]]'', Justin and Harper become good friends due to their shared appreciation of silent movies (which Alex hates). After Alex messes up their friendship, they get back at her by turning the world into a silent movie, treating the audience to a few minutes of [[Deliberately Monochrome]] and [[Silence Is Golden]].

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* The ''[[Angry Beavers]]'' episode "Silent But Deadly" has the beavers stuck in their house surrounded by sleeping wolverines. The entire episode is largely silent (except with music) due to the brothers attempting to escape without waking the predators up. A pseudovariation occured in a later episode in which the brothers had a competition to not talk. (They solved this by carting around giant tape players with tapes that had words on them so they could communicate. Yes, it's '''that''' kind of show.)

* The ''[[Rocko's Modern Life]]'' episode "Fatal Contraption", in which Rocko buys a living food processor, features no dialogue except for an announcer saying "Buy this! Food-O-Matic 2000!"

* ''[[Spongebob SquarePants]]'' mini-episode "Reef Blower" contains no dialogue at all, except "[[~~You Exclamation|~~You!]]" which was not heard, only appearing in subtitle on the bottom of the screen.

* ''[[Spongebob SquarePants]]'' mini-episode "Reef Blower" contains no dialogue at all, except "[[You!]]" which was not heard, only appearing in subtitle on the bottom of the screen.

* The [[Bugs Bunny]] short ''Baton Bunny'' in which he plays a conductor is his only cartoon with no dialogue, although in the early short Rhapsody Rabbit was mostly silent Bugs had three lines of dialogue "Eh, what's up, doc? Who? Franz Liszt? Never heard of him. Wrong number.", "Fi-ga-ro! Fi-ga-ro!", and "Look, one hand! No hands!"

* The Leonardo segment of the ''[[TMNT 2003|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' (2003) episode "The Shredder Strikes Back, Pt. 1" is done in this manner; it's not immediately noticeable, however, since the characters do continue to grunt and do battle noises. The comic book issue this episode was based on, ''Leonardo #1'', also used the technique.