History Main / NoDialogueEpisode

* [[WebAnimation/Hololive hololive]]'s "Holo no Graffiti" shorts are usually packed with very rapid dialogue (in part because they are showcasing the voice actors as much as the digital personas), but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB2HUC22aHo Episode 125: Danger: Do Not Wake]] has only one line at the end, with all the gags being expressed through careful animation.

* WebVideo/TheMusicVideoShow'' has this in [[https://youtu.be/ksZIWAVqPCQ an episode]] where the host turns off the music at the beginning of the video and gives the music video the finger for 7 minutes without saying a word.
* ''WebVideo/BackwardsSongsWithLuke'''s "I Need Your Help To Find The Illuminati" features no talking, with Luke silently making hand-gestures and writing to the audience instead.
* Justified in an episode of ''WebVideo/{{Alantutorial}}'', where Alan doesn't want to be caught making a tutorial. Though his phone's audio is working due to the noise in the background, Alan stays silent and tries to convince his audience his mic is broken.

* The notorious "Loss" strip from ''WebComic/CtrlAltDel'', as well as the final strip pre-ContinuityReboot, are two of the vanishingly rare comics with no dialogue at all. In both cases the trope was PlayedForDrama to highlight reactions to a traumatic event, but the ''blatant'' CerebusSyndrome taken with the characters' expressions barely differing from [[DullSurprise the standard "B^U" face]] made them come across as more pretentious than anything.

* [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2521 SCP-2521]] of the Wiki/SCPFoundation is this out of necessity, as it is a weird HumanoidAbomination that steals anything written about it and kidnaps anyone who talks about it. However, ''drawing pictures'' that describe it is just fine, as it apparently can't comprehend pictorial represenetations of information.

* One aspect of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' people always seemed to single out for praise was the dialogue. In response to this, Joss Whedon decided to write an episode called "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS4E10Hush Hush]]", which was nominated for an Emmy. Demons called "the Gentlemen" render everyone in the town mute, because a real human voice is the only thing that can kill them. More than half of the episode has no dialogue, yet the characters still engage in BuffySpeak during the silent part.

* In ''{{Series/LOST}}'', the first season's final episode, ''Exodus, Part 2'' features no dialogue in its entire final act, bringing the musical score to the foreground instead. The last word spoken by any character in this episode is Michael screaming "Walt!" immediately before the last act break. This creates a [[BookEnds book end]] of sorts, as this was also the first line of dialogue heard a few minutes into the pilot episode.

* Chapter 92 of ''Manga/YuruYuri'', focusing on the practically mute Risa Matsumoto, is one of these to the extreme of not even having a chapter title.

* The entirety of ''Anime/{{Interstella 5555}}'', considering the movie is a single, hour-long AnimatedMusicVideo, talking would get in the way of the music.

* This happens in ''Manga/TheDisastrousLifeOfSaikiK'' with Chapter 226 which is another New years day themed chapter along with its adaptation from the final short of Episode 20 from Season 2.

** "Toy Shop Terror" and "Babblin' Bijou" both contain no dialogue except for one line from Yakko at the end.

* Archie Goodwin and Walt Simonson were working on a one-shot follow-up to their classic ''Manhunter'' run; when Goodwin [[AuthorExistenceFailure died]], Simonson reworked the idea into a silent story rather than write dialogue in Goodwin's place.

* "405 Method Not Allowed" contains only two lines of dialogue, at the beginning and the end, both {{pun}}ny. First Darlene picks up Elliot at the burning van and says, "That's cool, we don't have to talk." Then Vera approaches Krysta and says, "It's time we talked." For added self-consciousness the second is scored to "Silent Night".

* Hanna-Barbera actually had a continuous series with no talking. "Blastoff Buzzard" was a Road Runner-esque segment of their 1977 show ''WesternAnimation/TheCBBears''.
* WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts

* The ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'' episode "Quiet Please" seems to play with this. After being warned by the ScaryLibrarian to not even make a slight sound otherwise they'll be banned, the Greens rely on the use of American Sign Language and charades whenever they need to say something out loud (usually Bill and Tilly), with almost all their dialogue [[InnerMonologueConversation told through their thoughts.]] They go back to speaking whenever they want once they leave the library in the end.

** Issue 49 of ''ComicBook/KurtBusieksAvenger'' run, part of his GrandFinale, "ComicBook/TheKangWar", focuses on [[WhamEpisode Kang's taking over the planet]].

** Issue 49 of ''ComicBook/KurtBusieksAvenger'' run, part of his GrandFinale, "ComicBook/TheKangWar" focuses on Kang's taking over the planet.

** Additionally, in the [[WesternAnimation/Animaniacs2020 reboot]], the episode "Ralph Cam" features the Warners messing with Ralph while he's sleeping.

* The ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'' episode "Quiet Please" seems to play with this. After being warned by the ScaryLibrarian to not even make a slight sound otherwise they'll be banned, the Greens rely on the use of American Sign Language and charades whenever they need to say something out loud (usually Bill and Tilly), with their dialogue told through their thoughts.

* Chapter 166 in ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', 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}}d by Chachazero holding a sign reading "This chapter is brought to you in near silence."

* The ''Manga/MutekiKanbanMusume'' manga has a chapter nearly devoid of dialogue. It also features one of the greatest [[UnstoppableRage rage]] faces in history after [[spoiler: a blackbird steals a bit of Miki's lunch]], after which, HilarityEnsues.

** The Uncanny X-Men issue of that month contains a silent depiction of Banshee's scream destroying the Blob. New X-Men featured Jean Grey and Emma Frost entering Charles Xavier's mind for a "psychic rescue." And Wolverine's issue featured an extended silent three-way fight between himself, Sabretooth and the Villain Of The Week.
** ''Peter Parker: Spider-Man (Vol. 2) #38'' had a most appropriate plot for this trope: Spider-Man fighting a gang of criminal mimes.

* [[MarvelUniverse Marvel Comics]] used this gimmick in every single comic they published cover-dated February 2002, calling it "'Nuff Said Month". As well, around the time of 9/11, Marvel had most of its comics, for the most part, silent issues, with no dialogue or little.

** Ironically, the ''Amazing Spider-Man'' edition of the gimmick month had to be delayed one month ''because'' of 9/11 (Marvel used issue #36 to remember 9/11 and its 'Nuff Said issue occurred in #39)

** Save for a couple of lines at the very beginning and end, "Dream Hoppers" contains no dialogue either, with the actions on screen being timed to the music.

* ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'' features an especially infamously [[TearJerker tearjerking]] one called ''Davie''.