History Main / MimeAndMusicOnlyCartoon

* ''SuperSmashBrosBrawl'': ''The Subspace Emissary'' plays out like this, with the only spoken dialogue outside of a comment from [[Franchise/MetalGear Solid Snake]] [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall addressed as much to the player as to other characters]] coming from CallingYourAttacks.

* In one chapter of ''HeavyRain'', the protagonists' child watches the same short nonsensical mime and music for hours.

* ''Disney/{{Fantasia}}'', perhaps the greatest artistic manifestation of this trope.
** Not to mention its sequel, ''Disney/{{Fantasia 2000}}''. Not as great, but still good on its own merits.

* Most of the WesternAnimation/PixarShorts. Only "Boundin'" with its rhyming narration, and the shorts spun off the features, have any dialogue.

* The shorts that comprise the anthology movie ''RobotCarnival'' are all silent, with the exceptions of "Presence" and "A Tale of Two Robots".

* Creator/ChuckJones was particularly fond of these; other dialogue-free cartoons of his include the [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner Road Runner/Coyote]] series (unless you count "beep, beep!" as dialogue), the BugsBunny entry ''Baton Bunny'', ''Much Ado About Nutting'', ''Now Hear This!'' and ''High Note''.

* All but two of the ''Franchise/PinkPanther'' theatrical shorts from the 1960s and early 1970s were produced in this manner.

* ''OneFroggyEvening'' is just such a musical, no-dialog cartoon. Of course, it ''does'' have singing, which might be considered "dialogue" of a sort.
* Creator/ChuckJones was particularly fond of these; other dialogue-free cartoons of his include the [[RoadRunnerVsCoyote Road Runner/Coyote]] series (unless you count "beep, beep!" as dialogue), the BugsBunny entry ''Baton Bunny'', ''Much Ado About Nutting'', ''Now Hear This!'' and ''High Note''.

*** Speaking of bunnies, there's also ''UntalkativeBunny''.

** In an episode of ''TomAndJerryTales'' we actually see the ''media'' version of this trope; Tom is sitting lazily on the couch eating popcorn and watching a generic cat vs mouse cartoon.
* As an extension, ''TheSimpsons''' ShowWithinAShow ''Itchy & Scratchy'' (which is based heavily on ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry''[[note]] More specifically, the direct inspiration for ''I&S'' was ''WesternAnimation/HermanAndKatnip'', itself a more violent rip-off of ''Tom & Jerry''[[/note]]) also seldom have dialog.
* All but two of the ''PinkPanther'' theatrical shorts from the 1960s and early 1970s were produced in this manner.
* A modern example is ''OggyAndTheCockroaches''.
** From the same creator, there's ZigAndSharko.
* ''{{Pingu}}''. Penguins and seals don't talk, after all.

* Most of the PixarShorts. Only "Boundin'" with its rhyming narration, and the shorts spun off the features, have any dialogue.

* The characters in ''Animation/TheLittleMole'' only speak in an unintelligible gibberish.

* As expected from a music video, the animated version of Music/MysterySkulls' "Ghost" features this, with everything that happens syncing up to the beat, but even when characters are just sitting still, they're still bobbing their heads to the music.

* As expected from a music video, the animated version of [[Music/MysterySkulls]]' "Ghost" features this, with everything that happens syncing up to the beat, but even when characters are just sitting still, they're still bobbing their heads to the music.

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* Likewise WaltDisney's AnimatedAdaptation of ''PeterAndTheWolf'', though it has a narrator.

* Not to mention its sequel, ''Disney/{{Fantasia 2000}}''. Not as great, but still good on its own merits.

* The Italian ''Fantasia'', ''Allegro non tropo'', especially the glorious coke-bottle scene done to Ravel's "Bolero".

* ''SuperSmashBrosBrawl'': ''The Subspace Emissary'' plays out like this, with the only spoken dialogue caused by CallingYourAttacks.

* ''Animation/NuPogodi'' is a series of Soviet and Russian cartoons which feature almost no spoken dialogue other than the CatchPhrase that provides the title.

* ChuckJones was particularly fond of these; other dialogue-free cartoons of his include the [[RoadRunnerVsCoyote Road Runner/Coyote]] series (unless you count "beep, beep!" as dialogue), the BugsBunny entry ''Baton Bunny'', ''Much Ado About Nutting'', ''Now Hear This!'' and ''High Note''.

* Disney did a number of these in the 1930s. ''TheOldMill'' is particularly noteworthy for its melodramatic depiction of [[ItWasADarkAndStormyNight a dark and stormy night]].

* ''TheTripletsOfBelleville'', another animated film with practically no dialogue.

* ''Animation/KoziolekMatolek''. Nobody speaks intelligibly; speech is, at best, represented by hollow metal noises.