History Main / TalkingWithSigns

* One gag in ''ComicBook/RobinDubois'' involves the sheriff Alwill insisting that he and Robin talk with signs, [[ItMakesSenseInContext so that they don't make any noise and accidentally wreck a newly-acquired second residence]]. The Sheriff quickly gets fed up doing this and deliberately destroys the house anyway.

* Once on a morning show on Chicago's WGN, audio to the studio was cut off, so the hosts had to use signs to communicate with the audience.

* Aline Belamie of ''RolePlay/WeAreAllPokemonTrainers'' is a mute girl who communicates mainly through a writing sign, though she does know sign language.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS3E101CavenderIsComing Cavender is Coming]]", there is a variation. Harmon Cavender writes "GuardianAngel" in the air to prove to Agnes Grep that he is telling the truth about his identity.

* The first time Creator/SarahMichelleGellar hosted ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', at the end of the episode after she thanked the show's cast and musical guest, she held up a hand-written sign reading, "I love you, [[Creator/AlysonHannigan Aly]]! [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Willow]] Rocks!"

* ''The Legacy of Webcomic/DominicDeegan'': Snout often communicates this way with his friends due to being deaf. They often communicate back in the same manner.

A [[TheSpeechless mute character]] -- or one who has been rendered speechless by events -- will communicate with hand-held signs on which are scrawled his comments and questions. Flipping the sign will often display additional messages -- often more than the two one would expect from a simple two-sided object.

* In the ''Series/AtLastThe1948Show'' sketch "Burglar Hides in the Library", the librarian (Eric Idle) and library patrons keep impatiently shushing the police sergeant (Creator/GrahamChapman) who has chased a burglar (Tim Brooke-Taylor) into the library. In deference to the rules of silence, he proceeds to hold up signs reading [[AC:"'Allo 'Allo 'Allo"]] and [[AC:"'Orl right, Wilkins, we know yer 'iding in 'ere"]], then "blows his whistle" to summon two constables (Creator/JohnCleese and Creator/MartyFeldman) by holding up a tiny sign reading [[AC:"Peep! Peep!"]]. Cleese then helps Chapman disarm the burglar by holding up a sign reading [[AC:[[LookBehindYou "Look out. There's someone behind you"]]]].
* On ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', when Sheldon [[DoesNotUnderstandSarcasm misinterprets a sarcastic remark yet again]], Leonard jokes that he has to hold up a sarcasm sign for him. Later in the episode, Leonard does just that.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' "Hush" devoted an episode to this trope. The entire town had its voices removed by the baddies. Almost immediately, some enterprising townfolk started selling whiteboard tablets on the street. The fourth season episode, which was nominated for an Emmy, was in response to accusations that the series relied too heavily on clever dialogue. It is generally acclaimed as one of the scariest of the series.
* In the ''Series/Charmed1998'' episode "Sense and Sense Ability", the sisters are assailed by a [[MonkeyMoralityPose monkey that robs Piper of her sight, Phoebe of her hearing, and Paige of her voice]]. To communicate, Page writes her messages on a paper notepad, for Phoebe to relay to Piper. Later, Paige encounters issues with interrogating a captured [[HiveMind Kazi Demon]], who, as a lesser demon, is illiterate.

* Averted in the ''Series/DeepSpaceNine'' episode "Babel" where a bioweapon has [[CurseOfBabel given everyone aphasia]]. At one point Chief O'Brien tries this trope using a PADD, only to find the sentence he's typing is gibberish as well.
* In an episode of ''Series/TheDrewCareyShow'' some landowners are trying to flush out Drew so they can take his home, and hire Mimi to do so. One of her tactics is blaring loud music across the neighborhood. Drew and his friends counter by putting earplugs on and talking with signs. At one point, Oswald responds to Drew's question with a "What?" Drew responds back, but writes the words on his sign so small that Oswald has to lean in; Drew then bops him in the head with the sign.

* In ''Series/FawltyTowers'':

* During a first season episode of ''Series/{{Frasier}}'', he and Roz do this to communicate while on the air after she put Lilith (Frasier's ex-wife) on the air as a caller. The signs were:

* In the ''Series/GetSmart'' episode "A Tale of Two Tails", Max and the Chief (and Larabee) are forced to communicate using the "CONTROL Secret Word File" (cards with individual words printed on them) while in the ([[RunningGag broken]]) Cone of Silence. They're not any more successful than the Cone, as the Chief loses patience trying to find the right words and eventually gives Max the assignment he wants just to put an end to it.
* In his eponymous episode of ''Series/TheGoodPlace'', Derek glitches by repeating the name "Jason", and he holds up a Coyote sign saying, "HELP! I CAN'T STOP SAYING JASON!"
* Martin, the adorable CuteMute kid on ''Series/{{Gotham}}'', communicates by scribbling words and pictures on a notepad he wears around his neck. Possibly justified in that he's an orphan stuck in a group home, and thus presumably never had anyone to teach him sign language.
* An episode of ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' had Barney be jinxed and, by the [[SeriousBusiness heavily enforced rules]] of their [[LimitedSocialCircle small group of friends]], not be allowed to speak until someone says his name. This leads him to speak in signs (written on a notebook) for almost the entire episode. At one point, instead of screaming, he just pantomimes it and holds up a sign saying "AAAAAAAH!"

* Due to their vow of silence, some members of the Guilty Remnant cult in ''Series/TheLeftovers'' do this to communicate.
* On ''Series/{{Lost}}'', Sun is forced to do this during the episodes where she's forgotten all of her English (well, how to verbally speak it, anyway).
* One of the neighbors in ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' temporarily loses her voice and starts carrying a bunch of pre-written cards around with her.

-->'''Adam:''' You ever work on something, and it's not going the way you want it to, and you feel like you're just...going around in circles?\\

* In ''Series/ThePattyDukeShow'' episode "Patty the Chatterbox", Patty has made a bet/agreement not to speak for 72 hours. This has created a headache for her boyfriend Richard, who's coming to see her hash out the situation. Before he arrives, Patty prepares a series of "answer cards". During their exchange, she holds up cards that exactly answer every one of his remarks, including the answer "because you're predictable"! Later on, she tries this with him again but fails because her younger brother Ross had inadvertently mixed up the cards beforehand.
* One episode of ''Series/PhilOfTheFuture'' pays homage to Wile E Coyote in a sequence where Pim sets up a bucket to dump water on her substitute teacher. However, when she goes to pull the rope which will overturn the bucket, the rope is gone. The teacher then pulls on a rope near her that Pim had failed to notice until now. Realizing that she's about to get drenched, Pim silently holds up a small sign reading, "Yikes!"

* On one episode of ''Series/{{Taxi}}'', Latka loses a bet with Tony and can't talk for a week. In one scene, he communicates with the cabbies using signs.
* There's actually a serious version of this in an episode of ''Series/{{Thunderbirds}}'', where Gordon Tracy uses a hand-held illuminated signboard to send messages to the pilots of an airliner that has sunk to the sea bed.

* ''Series/TheVicarOfDibley''. In one episode all of the characters gather in the Horton house, where Alice's newborn baby just fell asleep- so when the vicar arrives at this meeting, Hugo holds a board up, telling her to keep it down, so as not to wake the baby up. Once she goes inside the room, she finds an average conversation has been going on between the villagers about whether or not they liked a certain episode of ''Series/EastEnders'', etc. only written on boards. Jim Trott even cares to write "no no no no no" before each sentence, as his [[VerbalTic speech impediment]] would force him to, if he was actually speaking.
* One episode of ''Series/WhatNotToWear'' had co-host Stacey doing this for a short while. Allegedly she lost her voice [[DumbStruck because she was just that horrified]] at the state of that episode's guest's wardrobe.

* Downplayed in ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney'', where young artist Vera Misham is perfectly capable of speech, but is [[ShrinkingViolet so shy and withdrawn]] that she conveys her emotions via drawing on her notepad.

* Shizune from ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'' was born deaf and never learned to speak (it is possible to learn to speak if you are deaf, but it requires a teacher with special training and a lot of time). She usually has her friend Misha translate her sign language however when Misha's not around she will write on paper instead.

* The Sorrow holds up a variety of helpful signs for Naked Snake in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'', including a realtime countdown at one point. [[spoiler:He can't speak because he is dead.]]
* Parodied in all sorts of ways in ''VideoGame/StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople''. The Poopsmith can apparently summon Strong Mad from another room with a sign (despite not being in a place Strong Mad would be able to easily see), he holds up signs when playing a part in a movie (and causes Strong Bad to "hush" him at one point), and when video games merge with the main characters' reality, one of his signs becomes what at first appears to be an unintelligible mess.

* Nate from ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge''.

* Played with in ''Webcomic/FriendlyHostility'', when Derringer's throat is injured and he is forced to communicate through the use of signs. At one point he pulls out the wrong sign (one that describes a certain set of...interests...), realizes his mistake, and quickly pulls out another advising everyone who saw to disregard the previous message.
* In ''Webcomic/HolyBibble'' when God strikes Laban dumb, this is how he chooses to communicate for the rest of the arc. Including signs that make death threats at Jacob.
* Hugh from ''Webcomic/IgnitionZero'' looks like a scary monster but is very nice. They communicate through writing and write in a cutesy format where they dot their "i"'s with hearts.

* The Sorrow in ''Webcomic/TheLastDaysOfFoxhound'' often uses this to communicate to the living if they can't speak to spirits.
* CuteMute Rose from ''Webcomic/LatchkeyKingdom'' communicates with a chalkboard around her neck, being incapable of making vocal sounds.
* Snout from ''The Legacy of Webcomic/DominicDeegan'' often communicates this way with his friends due to being deaf. They often communicate back in the same manner.

* Mocha, from ''Webcomic/MilkAndMocha'' is mute, and sometimes communicates with their significant other, Milk, by texting or using an [=iPad=]-style tablet.

* Finland of ''Webcomic/ScandinaviaAndTheWorld'', on the rare occasion he feels the need to say something that can't be communicated with a DeathGlare, will hold up a sign.

* CuteMute Melissa from ''Webcomic/SupernormalStep'' carries a whiteboard and marker around to talk to people, and has mentioned a 'big speech' board for dramatic moments.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Zoophobia}}'' Vespa, one of the demon triplets, is mute and uses signs to communicate. Also seems to be slightly saner than her sisters.

* Ninja Style Dancer in ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' uses written signs to communicate. During the ''Ewoks #1'' review he held up a series of signs in the wrong order in one scene, so Linkara edited the footage to put the right text on top of the signs with an added: "Ninjas put their words in the wrong order to confuse their foes."
* Précieux from ''Series/{{Noob}}'' has no microphone and uses the text chat to speak. That gets illustrated first by him using a whiteboard, then by having a white (and later red-colored) rectangle with text in it appear onscreen whenever he "talks".

* Nash's Stick Boy in ''WebVideo/WhatTheFuckIsWrongWithYou'' talks through both this and VoiceGrunting.

* In the episode "Shh!" of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', Finn and Jake make a bet to see who can last the longest communicating in only this way, using only pre-made signs as opposed to being able to write them on the fly to fit the situation.

* Given the nature of the trope as a traditional animation gag, it's not surprising to find it's used in ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' as well. Mr. Skullhead, from the 'Good Idea, Bad Idea' skits, is largely mute, so he resorts to this to express himself to the audience (the fourth wall already being fairly thin on the show). He's more of TheVoiceless since there are a couple occasions where he makes some kind of noise (such as whistling or brief snippets of off-key singing).
* In "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" on ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', Binky is worried that George saw him holding his mother's hand that he warns him not to say anything. George has no idea what Binky is even talking about, but eventually Binky's frequent [[DeathGlare death glares]] cause him to stop talking entirely and start communicating this way. This is despite the fact that at this point in the series, Binky is essentially a bully InNameOnly who nobody can even remember anymore having actually hit anyone. At the end of the episode, everything is resolved; Binky's fellow Tough Customers find out that he sometimes holds his mother's hand, but they couldn't care less. George, however, is still talking using signs, so Binky tells him that he can talk now and George holds up a sign reading "Really?" "Yes, really," Binky replies, and George says "phew" in relief.

* Duncan Bubble from ''WesternAnimation/{{Detention}}'' prefers to communicate by spelling out messages with his yo-yo.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' episode "The Blessed Event", the episode where Pebbles was born, upon hearing that it would be any day, Fred gives Wilma peace and quiet. However, Dino and their cat were making a racket while fighting, with Dino having the cat on a branch up a tree. When Fred yells at them to be quiet, the two pull out signs, Dino holding a sign that reads "Bow Wow!" while the cat has one that reads "Meow!", as the two resume their quarrel in pantomime.

* In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'', Carl pretends to act like a mime, and holds up a sign that reads YEAH! when the plot is resolved. When Sheen tells him to stop and hits him, Carl flips the sign around where it says OUCH!!.

** Both WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadrunner have communicated with signs. On at least two occasions, the Roadrunner holds up a sign that reads "[[HypocriticalHumor Roadrunners can't read]]".
** ''[[WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures Tiny Toon Adventures]]''
*** Calamity Coyote, Wile E.'s SpiritualSuccessor, never spoke. In the short, "Born to Be Riled", from the episode, "The Buster Bunny Bunch", Plucky, Shirley, Fifi, Dizzy, and Calamity are on a group phone line, complaining about Babs' accurate but unflattering impressions of them, and Calamity's desperately waving a sign at the receiver (which would be repeated by Wile E. himself in ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'').

** In "Hare Remover", Elmer Fudd starts flipping out after accidentally ingesting a "Jekyll and Hyde potion" intended for Bugs...who responds by holding up a series of rebus signs for the audience featuring {{Visual Pun}}s such as a screw and ball, a cracked pot, a dripping faucet, and a belfry with bats flying around it.

** In "WesternAnimation/ScaredyCat", [[WesternAnimation/PorkyPig Porky]] and [[WesternAnimation/TweetyAndSylvester Sylvester]] move into a new house infested with murderous mice, and said mice plan to make them their next victims after recently decapitating the previous homeowners' cat, and likely the owners themselves. After Porky goes into the kitchen to prove that Sylvester is just seeing things when the latter [[YouHaveToBelieveMe fails time and again to tell him what's going on]], he is next seen BoundAndGagged by the mice and taken away to receive the same treatment as the recently-executed cat, holding a sign that reads "You were right, Sylvester."
* Played for laughs in an episode of the SaturdayMorningCartoon ''WesternAnimation/TheMask'' In the episode "Split Personality," the eponymous MacGuffin is broken in half, and when Stanley puts on the half he finds literally one side of him becomes The Mask, while the other remains boring old Stanley. When Stanley later encounters his boss, he deliberately stands in profile, so that only his "normal" half is visible. And while Stanley talks to Charlie, The Mask holds up signs such as "Underwear too TIGHT, Charles?" and "Make my day: FIRE ME!" Charlie is less than amused.

* Meap from the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "The Chronicles of Meap" communicated with Candace by pulling out a series of photographs to tell a story. {{Lampshaded}} when Candace wonders where he is getting all the photos from before Meap tells her (via gestures) to stay focused.
* If he wasn't using a visible ImagineSpot, ''WesternAnimation/ThePinkPanther'' was communicating this way.
* In the rare ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' skits where he actually appears, the eponymous character and the scientist speak like this, other than the ThemeSong's "It's Alive!!!" which isn't necessarily the mad scientist's own voice.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': In "Monster Reunion", Centipeetle frowns at Steven when he gives up on Talking with Signs in favor of pictograms. She's grumpy because — from her perspective — her writing is perfectly legible, but Steven is acting like he can't read it.
* In ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' it didn't happen nearly as often as one might think, given that the two characters are mute most of the time. There are a couple instances of it though, one most memorable example is after Jerry stabs a box with several pins and saws it in half, ''with Tom inside''. He looks inside the box and his eyes widen, and he quickly writes up a sign and displays it to the audience asking "IsThereADoctorInTheHouse".

* Kukuri Tachibana from ''VisualNovel/ElevenEyes'' is another who communicates by writing what she wants to say on her sketchbook. She's the passive member of the chosen ones, leaving most of the fighting up to her guardian angel, Abraxas and focusing on [[HealingHands healing]].

* [[RightHandCat Tama]] from ''Manga/FushigiYuugi''. Yes, ''the cat''.

* In ''Literature/IsThisAZombie'', CuteMute {{Necromancer}} Eucliwood 'Yuu' Hellscythe communicates entirely through a notepad. She's even seen occasionally using it when there's no-one around, apparently 'talking' to herself...
* Suzuho of ''Literature/MagiciansAcademy'' also communicates by sketchbook messages, though her SplitPersonality Suzuka doesn't refrain from talking at all.

* ''Magazine/RedDwarf '': Rimmer is forced to do this in one strip of ''Red Dwarf Smegazine'' when he is devolved into a silent show 2D projection in "Evolution".

* PlayedForDrama in ''Film/TheMartian'': since Watney's first contact with Earth after being left behind is video-only, he has to communicate by writing on plastic tub lids and holding them in front of the camera. After a little while, this becomes impractical - especially for receiving messages, since that more or less limits it to yes and no questions - and starts using hexadecimal instead.

* In the film ''Film/MurderByDeath'' the cook is deaf-mute and communicates via cards. She is illiterate and the cards are pre-printed. Unfortunately, the person she has to communicate with the most is the butler, who is blind.

* In ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'', Benny the Cab asks Eddie and Roger to pull a lever that will help them escape the Weasels. When they can't figure out [[BillionsOfButtons which one]], a sign reading "THIS LEVER, STUPID!" pops out of Benny's dashboard to point out the lever in question.
** During the first scene in the bar, Eddie sees a hung-over Red Car conductor and asks a mute barfly what's wrong with him. He takes a notepad and writes the answer "LAID OFF".

* The 'Laryngitis' ''[[Series/TheDailyShow Daily Show]]''/''[[Series/TheColbertReport Colbert Report]]'' check-in combines this with TheTapeKnewYouWouldSayThat, as Stephen's signs accurately [[ImprobablyPredictable predict everything Jon's going to say]] and respond to it.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI'': As Link is a Heroic Mime in the series proper, perhaps this is the only way he could truly talk. He holds up a sign saying "PLEASE LOOK UP THE MANUAL FOR DETAILS" in the opening scroll.

* The Sorrow holds up a variety of helpful signs for Naked Snake in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3'', including a realtime countdown at one point. [[spoiler:He can't speak because he is dead.]]

* In the first episode of ''WesternAnimation/JimmyNeutron'', Carl pretends to act like a mime, and holds up a sign that reads YEAH! when the plot is resolved. When Sheen tells him to stop and hits him, Carl flips the sign around where it says OUCH!!.

'''Neo:''' ''[[[BreakingTheFourthWall holds up a sign saying]]]'' "[[SilentSnarker THEY WON'T]]"]

* In ''LightNovel/IsThisAZombie'', CuteMute {{Necromancer}} Eucliwood 'Yuu' Hellscythe communicates entirely through a notepad. She's even seen occasionally using it when there's no-one around, apparently 'talking' to herself...
* Suzuho of ''LightNovel/MagiciansAcademy'' also communicates by sketchbook messages, though her SplitPersonality Suzuka doesn't refrain from talking at all.

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'', Lord Farquaard's men hold up signs to the crowd to tell them how to react, such as "Applause", "Reverence", "Revered Silence", "Laugh". Just before the final kiss, a sign is hastily written which says "Awww".

*** In "Night of the Living Pets", the third and final short of "Toons from the Crypt", moments after Elmyra answers the door for her deceased pets, who have risen from the grave as zombies wanting revenge for her [[AndCallHimGeorge inadvertently killing them]], [[spoiler:only at the end of the short, to endure more torture from her,]] she pulls out a sign that reads '''HELP!''' before barricading the door trying to protect herself from the wrath of said pets.

** The screw/ball sign turns up in a few other ''Looney Tunes'' shorts, notably "WesternAnimation/DuckAmuck", source of the page image (for context, Daffy, who spends the whole short tormented by a sadistic animator, has just had his voice removed).

* Rimmer is forced to do this in one strip of ''[[Magazine/RedDwarf Red Dwarf Smegazine]]'' when he is devolved into a silent show 2D projection in "Evolution".
* One gag in ''Robin Dubois'' involves the sheriff Alwill insisting that he and Robin talk with signs, [[ItMakesSenseInContext so that they don't make any noise and accidentally wreck a newly-acquired second residence]]. The Sheriff quickly gets fed up doing this and deliberately destroys the house anyway.

* Derpy Hooves in ''Fanfic/FalloutEquestria'', rendered a ghoul with a cut out tongue after an unspecified [[NoodleIncident Raider attack]], carries a whiteboard around her neck wherever she goes to communicate. Her first encounter with Littlepip, having been kidnapped and stripped of possessions, leaves her completely unable to explain who she is or how she got there, or that she is the author of the book Littlepip is looking for.

* The Assist-droids in ''LightNovel/CatPlanetCuties'' use this to communicate with people.

* Celty Sturlusson from ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'' uses her cellphone in this manner -- typing whatever she wishes to say and then showing it to someone. The anime has these lines voiced to save every scene she's in from having to focus on her cellphone screen.

* Music/BobDylan's video for "Subterranean Homesick Blues" is a [[TheOner oner]] of Bob standing in an alley showing signs with some words of the lyrics written on them. Weird Al brings it one step further in his Dylan pastiche "Bob", where the signs have the whole lines (along with "[[UnsoundEffect Harmonica Solo]]" and "????").
* Music/{{INXS}} paid tribute to the Bob Dylan one in their video for "Mediate", with each band member taking a part of the song.
* Music/WeirdAlYankovic does a "woo" with a printed SpeechBalloon near the end of the video for "Fat".

*** In "Night of the Living Pets", the third and final short of "Toons from the Crypt", moments after Elmyra answers the door for her deceased pets, who have risen from the grave as zombies, she pulls out a sign that reads '''HELP!''' before barricading the door trying to protect herself from the wrath of said pets.

*** In "Night of the Living Pets", the third and final short of "Toons from the Crypt", Elmyra does this when she answers the door to her deceased pets, who have risen from the grave as zombies. Moments after Elmyra answers the door for her zombie pets, she pulls out a sign that reads '''HELP!''' before barricading the door trying to protect herself from the wrath of said pets.

** An interesting take on this was used in the [[UsefulNotes/SuperNintendoEntertainmentSystem SNES]] game, ''VideoGame/TinyToonAdventuresBusterBustsLoose''. While many of the characters almost always move their mouths when they speak, when Calamity Coyote had to speak in the scene before Stage 5, his sprite merely held up a blank sign, but what he needs to say is displayed on the normal dialogue box. He also holds up a sign saying "Help me!" in Babs' bonus game instead of yelling it like the other characters and pulls out another sign saying "Thank you!" when you rescue him instead of saying it like the other characters.

** Calamity Coyote, Wile E.'s SpiritualSuccessor on ''[[WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures Tiny Toon Adventures]]'', never spoke. In the short, "Born to Be Riled", from the episode, "The Buster Bunny Bunch", Plucky, Shirley, Fifi, Dizzy, and Calamity are on a group phone line, complaining about Babs' accurate but unflattering impressions of them, and Calamity's desperately waving a sign at the receiver (which would be repeated by Wile E. himself in ''Film/LooneyTunesBackInAction'').

** In "WesternAnimation/ScaredyCat", [[WesternAnimation/PorkyPig Porky]] and [[WesternAnimation/TweetyAndSylvester Sylvester]] move into a new house infested with murderous mice, and said mice plan to make them their next victims after recently decapitating the previous homeowners' cat, and likely the owners themselves. After Porky goes into the kitchen to prove that Sylvester is just seeing things when the latter [[YouHaveToBelieveMe fails time and again to tell him what's going on]], he is next seen BoundAndGagged by the mice and taken away to be given the same treatment as the recently-executed cat, holding a sign that reads "You were right, Sylvester."