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* The ''~2000 AD~'' series ''Bob Byrne's Twisted Tales'' is a series of one-off strips, all of which have no dialogue at all. Byrne, the artist, came up with the idea when he got annoyed by letterers sticking speech bubbles all over his art.
* From the same artist, ''Mister Amperduke'' is an entire [[Graphic Novel]] in which the closest thing we get to dialogue is the odd semiquaver to indicate a character whistling.
* Issue #28 of [[The Powerpuff Girls]] (DC Comics) had a story--"Princess For A Day" (involving their school adversary Princess Morbucks) which had no dialogue, save for a two-word balloon just before the climax of the story.
* The [[Doctor Who Magazine]] strip "Onomatopoeia" has no dialogue until the final two pages, relying instead on sound effects alone.
* ''[[Alpha Flight]]'' had a dialogue-less section after {{spoiler|James Hudson's death}}. Proved to be a nightmare of his widow.
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== Professional Wrestling ==
* A recent segment of Raw was done without a word of dialogue. [[The Undertaker]] makes a return after a long absence. His music plays. The crowd cheers loudly. Before he can do or say anything, [[Triple H]] makes a surprise return after an even longer absence. The crowd goes nuts. The two of them stare each other down, and then turn to look at the [[Wrestlemania]] logo. The crowd ''explodes''. More staredown, dueling chants, dueling taunts, not a word spoken.
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* ''[[Freefall]]'' had [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1500/fc01477.htm A Walk in the Park with Polly].
* ''[[Questionable Content]]'' has had a few of these.
* [http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0277.html This strip] of the [[Web Comic]] ''[[Darths and Droids]]''.
* ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'' [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0313.html #313]
* [http://framelesscomic.tk/?p=1 Frameless] [http://framelesscomic.tk/?p=11 Comic] [http://framelesscomic.tk/?p=15 does] [http://framelesscomic.tk/?p=17 this] [http://framelesscomic.tk/?p=18 all] [http://framelesscomic.tk/?p=19 the] [http://framelesscomic.tk/?p=20 time.]
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*** The short "The Kite," one of the most atypical segments of the show, is also dialogue-free.
*** The episode "C Flat or B Sharp" where the only dialogue is near the beginning where Yosemite Sam gives Buster, Plucky, and Hamton instructions on moving the piano.
* ''[[Kids Next Door]]'' episode "Operation: THE-FLY"
* The ''[[Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi]]'' episode "Ikkakujuu".
* ''[[Samurai Jack]]'' was famous for doing this (and doing it very well) for dramatic effect in most action sequences. The cartoon is almost a no dialogue ''series'' considering how many times it happened. Jack himself has no dialogue in a few episodes. Particularly notable is "The Four Seasons of Death", where only one character in one segment has any lines at all.
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* ''[[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 ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 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.
* ''[[Two Stupid Dogs]]'' had an episode that was not only silent but was drawn in a style similar to old silent cartoons and was in black and white.
* Hanna-Barbera actually had a continuous series with no talking. "Blastoff Buzzard" was a Road Runner-esque segment of their 1977 show [[The CB Bears]].
* The ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]'' short "The Brain's Apprentice", in a parody of the Sorcerer's Apprentice, features Brain building a robot but Pinky shuts it down. When he activates it he accidentally creates thousands of clones that almost do succeed in taking over the world, but Brain interferes and only at the last minute does he realize what could've been. the cartoon contained no dialogue except for the garbled gibberish spoken by the humans.
** There was also the ''[[Animaniacs]]'' episode "Ragmuffins" which features the Warner siblings getting jobs as chefs in a bakery, the cartoon is in black and white and done in the style of a 1920's cartoon.
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* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'': Both "Appa's Lost Days" and "The Tale of Momo" segment of "Tales of Ba Sing Se". Both subverted (as there is some spoken dialogue, though they are few and far between), and played straight, as most of the vocal sounds are coming from the animal stars of the episode.
* The ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' episode "Tri-Stone Area": the characters speak solely in minimally-intelligible "cave talk", with occasional cutaways to photo-animation of the creators explaining what's going on, in case anyone isn't following.
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