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Talking with Signs

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Talking with Signs	comment	A 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 — and may overlap with The Tape Knew You Would Say That. These signs appear and disappear (like so many other possessions of cartoon characters) as needed. Usually they are examples of No Fourth Wall, as they frequently bear comments made to the audience, not other characters. Compare Hand Signals for those who communicate with hand gestures. Reading Foreign Signs Out Loud may ensue in dubbing. This trope is very useful for a Silent Snarker.
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Talking with Signs / int_11b7db91	comment	Adventure Time: In the episode "Shh!", 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.
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Talking with Signs / int_1248906e	comment	Shion in Shion no Ou was rendered mute due to psychological trauma, so she communicates using a notepad she carries with her.
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Talking with Signs / int_12978c3d	comment	In Splatoon: Squid Kids Comedy Show, Judd can only say meow, and canâ€™t speak the Inkling language, so he uses referee flags with words written on them to communicate, in contrast to the rest of the series, where heâ€™s the Intelligible Unintelligible and has Telepathy on top of that.
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Talking with Signs / int_186be976	comment	Strix from Secret Six is incapable of speech and uses a notepad to talk to her teammates, with phonetic spelling. It's played as equal parts heartwarmingly silly and heart-wrenchingly tragic.
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Talking with Signs / int_1b386512	comment	Ranma Â½: Genma Saotome is unusual in that he uses signs to communicate with other cast members (and not the audience) when in his panda form. In a spectacular Lampshade Hanging of this trope, one of the Ranma OVAs shows Genma floating in a boat built entirely of all the signs◊ he ever displayed during the course of the television series, which he had apparently been carrying on his person all that time. In another episode, a team of pursuers tracked Genma down by following the trail of signs he was leaving behind. Deconstructed for laughs in one chapter of the manga, where he chases after Ranma to tell him something... but since he's holding a sign, Ranma can't tell that Genma is trying to talk to him until he catches up. When he tries to give some exposition in panda form, he's shown writing the sign before someone else tells him to quit wasting time and just turn human.
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Talking with Signs / int_1beda93b	comment	Rudolph (yes, the reindeer) in Sluggy Freelance. Also ZoÃ«'s mother, who as she put it, "wasn't talking to her", but had made enormous signs so she could rant and/or nag her daughter like she usually would.
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Talking with Signs / int_1e79fd20	comment	In Black Rat, the Black Rat communicates to her targets only through text written on notebook pages.
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Talking with Signs / int_1f2f1535	comment	Milk And Mocha: Mocha is mute, and sometimes communicates with their significant other, Milk, by texting or using an iPad-style tablet.
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Talking with Signs / int_1f72b18d	comment	Tom and Jerry: 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 "Is There a Doctor in the House?".
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Talking with Signs / int_1fcdbe32	comment	In The Phantom Tollbooth, as Milo passes through the Valley of Sound, a region that was rendered silent by the Soundkeeper, some citizens of the Valley communicate with Milo via a blackboard, asking him to confront the Soundkeeper.
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Talking with Signs / int_21a64727	comment	Kukuri Tachibana from 11eyes 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 healing.
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Talking with Signs / int_22caa0de	comment	Used in his review of The Good Son (in-universe, it's said he screamed at the awfulness of the movie until losing his voice; in reality, Doug had a throat infection). He even described his situation as turning into a "human Wile E. Coyote".
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Talking with Signs / int_23ae009a	comment	GTO: 14 Days in Shonan: Onizuka is spying on a bathing Shinomi, who hears him but thinks he's Ayame, the other woman who's a caretaker at White Swan. He can't speak, or he'd reveal his male voice, so he grabs a sketchbook and writes that he has a cold. When she asks about the new guy who's staying there (Onizuka), he does a â€¦But He Sounds Handsome, saying Onizuka "looks just like Sorimachi".
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Talking with Signs / int_2499a7	comment	In Love Actually, Mark stops by Juliet's flat to confess his love to her and wish her a merry Christmas; to cover for his appearance (as she has just been married), he shows her a series of pre-made signs while playing a tape of a choir singing "Silent Night".
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Talking with Signs / int_25f3f2d1	comment	The Vicar of Dibley: 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 EastEnders, etc. only written on boards. Jim Trott even cares to write "no no no no no" before each sentence, as his speech impediment would force him to, if he was actually speaking.
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Talking with Signs / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: One episode had Homer being forced to get his jaws wired, and spent a good part of the episode doing this by writing on a chalkboard he carries around. He even wrote "D'oh!" when Marge tells him that Ned Flanders stopped by. There's another episode of The Simpsons written by and guest-starring Ricky Gervais, in which the Simpsons and another family go on a Wife-Swap type show. When Gervais's character serenades Marge on the guitar, one camera guy filming them puts up a sign that reads, "What a jerk", to another, who promptly responds with glare and a sign reading, "Don't waste signs."
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Talking with Signs / int_267cbfa	comment	Dominic Deegan: Bort, a mongrelfolk that Dominic and Luna meet in the Wildlands, mostly communicates by painting signs, possibly because his jaw structure doesn't allow him to speak. In the Elemecca he's somehow able to speak, and is as surprised by it as Dominic. In the sequel The Legacy of Dominic Deegan: Snout often communicates this way with his friends due to being deaf. They often communicate back in the same manner.
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Talking with Signs / int_27c708b3	comment	Sun Otonashi from Rosario + Vampire writes in a notebook to communicate. She can actually speak just fine, but as a Siren (and an exceptionally powerful one at that), her voice can be lethal if not carefully controlled. Thus, she rarely speaks, and her notebook also functions as a magical Power Limiter; when she closes it during a fight, it means she's getting serious.
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Talking with Signs / int_2a77d7bc	comment	A series of posters for The Secret Life of Pets has each of the main characters wearing a sign with their thoughts written on it; for example, Max's says "I really really really really really really really really missed you!" and Snowball's says "Cute is just my cover."
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Talking with Signs / int_2a8d8e6f	comment	Gotham: Martin, the adorable Cute Mute kid, 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.
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Talking with Signs / int_2af8d0bc	comment	In Yuki Yuna is a Hero, after Itsuki loses the ability to talk, she uses a notepad Fu gave her to talk.
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Talking with Signs / int_2b186988	comment	Shouko from A Silent Voice is deaf. She has enough hearing to speak some Japanese (albeit with a heavy Speech Impediment) however overall uses sign language. When she first transferred to her elementary school, she spoke to the others using a notepad and was horribly bullied for it. Several years later in high school, her main ex-bully Shouya (the protagonist) has decided to atone and befriend her. Learning sign language was one of the things he did to befriend her, though Shouko still writes down when talking to people who don't know JSL.
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Talking with Signs / int_2cbc520b	comment	Holy Bibble: 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.
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Talking with Signs / int_2e833eb	comment	Derpy Hooves in Fallout: Equestria, rendered a ghoul with a cut out tongue after an unspecified 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 that she is the author of the book Littlepip is looking for.
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Talking with Signs / int_309df9ea	comment	Atop the Fourth Wall: Ninja Style Dancer 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."
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Talking with Signs / int_31313512	comment	ANNO: Mutationem: In the DLC, Noni is unable to speak due to her avatar's appearance, she instead writes her messages on the ground to communicate with Ayane.
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Talking with Signs / int_31a48eed	comment	The Outer Limits (1995): A variation in "The Beholder". Kyra, an alien who lives on a different plane of existence, is initially only able to communicate with Patrick Tarloff by writing in the air. He later gains the ability to hear her when she exposes him to a device that she salvaged from her ship.
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Talking with Signs / int_32396c80	comment	Kronk's New Groove: When Kronk realizes that his fondue is about to blow, he holds up a sign that says "Uh Oh".
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Talking with Signs / int_34e0e9fc	comment	Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People: Parodied in all sorts of ways. 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.
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Talking with Signs / int_34edd8ba	comment	Core to Senryu Girl, where main character Nanako produces tanzaku cards with her replies in full senryu form (poems sharing the 5-7-5 structure of haiku but not limited to appreciating nature). She is joined by Kino, who sketches her own dialog and reaction faces.
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Talking with Signs / int_38f43772	comment	Brahms: The Boy II: As a result of his trauma from the home invasion at the start of the movie, Jude lost the ability to speak, and spends the first half of the movie writing on a notepad to communicate. He ragains his voice eventually, though.
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Talking with Signs / int_3980fc06	comment	Zoophobia: Vespa, one of the demon triplets, is mute and uses signs to communicate. Also seems to be slightly saner than her sisters.
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Talking with Signs / int_3adfb1ba	comment	House of Mouse: In "Mickey and Minnie's Big Vacation", Timothy scares away the Pink Elephants by holding a sign reading "BOO!". In "Pete's House of Villains", several guests complain about the villains-on-staff stealing their stuff, including a mute Ariel, who holds up a sign reading "Somebody stole my voice again."
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Talking with Signs / int_3bdd6423	comment	What the Fuck Is Wrong with You?: Nash's Stick Boy talks through both this and Voice Grunting.
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Talking with Signs / int_3cc61f13	comment	We Bare Bears: Because Baby Ice Bear can't talk, he holds up a hand-written sign with his name.
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Talking with Signs / int_410adc24	comment	Taz-Mania (Sega): Taz holds up a sign saying, "Ouch." if he gets squished by a hammer in the first act of the factory, or when an elevator falls on him in the second act of the mines. He holds up another sign saying, "Uh-oh..." before facing off against Weed-ola and the statue of his ancestor in the respective jungle and Taztec Ruins levels.
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Talking with Signs / int_41e3a8af	comment	Zits does a non-speechless version of this. Jeremy comes down for breakfast with a stack of cards, and answers each of his mother's questions ("Orange juice? Eggs?") with the next card. Finally, she insists "I am not that predictable!" and he reveals the card which reads "Wanna bet?"
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Talking with Signs / int_426a7572	comment	Animaniacs: Given the nature of the trope as a traditional animation gag, it's not surprising to find it's being used 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 The Voiceless since there are a couple occasions where he makes some kind of noise (such as whistling or brief snippets of off-key singing).
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Talking with Signs / int_45fddd2b	comment	Silent Bob of The View Askewniverse sometimes communicates this way.
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Talking with Signs / int_4617a9f2	comment	Married... with Children: One of the neighbors temporarily loses her voice and starts carrying a bunch of pre-written cards around with her.
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Talking with Signs / int_48f53c06	comment	The Patty Duke Show: In "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.
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Talking with Signs / int_4d30cecb	comment	Both Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner have communicated with signs. On at least two occasions, the Roadrunner holds up a sign that reads "Roadrunners can't read".
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Talking with Signs / int_4d9653ef	comment	In Planescape, Dabus are a species of enigmatic humanoids that act as the caretakers of Sigil, the city of doors. Rather than talking out loud, they communicate by flashing a series of symbols above their heads that translate into whatever they're trying to say. For example, if they wanted to say "I understand," they might show pictures of an eye and a man standing under a bridge.
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Talking with Signs / int_4e152e8a	comment	Defied in Fallout: New Vegas. You can suggest this to the mute Christine as an alternative to her hand signals, but it turns out she can't read or write due to brain damage after she was nearly lobotomized in The Big Empty.
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Talking with Signs / int_4e45b093	comment	The Big Bang Theory: When Sheldon 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.
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Talking with Signs / int_4f2040e9	comment	Tad, the Lost Explorer: Belzoni the parrot is mute so he constantly communicates holding tiny picket signs in his wing.
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Talking with Signs / int_507e9df1	comment	In Equestrian Legends, Shuck the Diamond Dog had his throat nearly ripped out in his Backstory, so he uses signs to communicate.
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Talking with Signs / int_513e22f6	comment	Scandinavia and the World: Finland, on the rare occasion he feels the need to say something that can't be communicated with a Death Glare, will hold up a sign.
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Talking with Signs / int_5286ec36	comment	Who Framed Roger Rabbit: Benny the Cab asks Eddie and Roger to pull a lever that will help them escape the Weasels. When they can't figure out 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".
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Talking with Signs / int_53a0bd32	comment	The Twilight Zone (1959): In "Cavender is Coming", there is a variation. Harmon Cavender writes "Guardian Angel" in the air to prove to Agnes Grep that he is telling the truth about his identity.
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Talking with Signs / int_5492ba0c	comment	Ignition Zero: Hugh 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.
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Talking with Signs / int_57e02043	comment	Danny, the Champion of the World: Played with in Danny's imagination. As he notes the stone plaque above the school entrance which says "This school was erected in 1902 to commemorate the coronation of his Royal Highness King Edward VII", he thinks how boring it is to read the same words over and over again, and how nice it would be if it said something different every day. He imagines his father writing a different daily message on it with chalk, with facts such as:
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Talking with Signs / int_5852c4c7	comment	In Mr. Nanny, Frank Olsen uses pre-written index cards to communicate with his widowed boss Alex Mason, Sr., after being injured during a robbery at Mason's office.
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Talking with Signs / int_5ae078da	comment	Aptly-named ECW character Sign Guy Dudley.
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Talking with Signs / int_5c7c67c7	comment	Red in The PokÃ©mon Squad is mute, so he has to do this in order to communicate with the rest of the cast. His signs reveal him to be quite the sarcastic fellow.
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Talking with Signs / int_5d15a6f9	comment	In Shine a Light, Wally and Les decide to talk only with letters in "Red Letter Day", purely out of boredom.
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Talking with Signs / int_5d354f8	comment	Red Dwarf: At the end of Captain Hollister's Humiliation Conga in "Pete" the PTSD renders him speechless, which he explains to the Dwarfers via note cards. And then sentences himself to three months in "the Hole" so he can catch a break from their antics.
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Talking with Signs / int_5dfc7572	comment	The Angry Beavers: At the end of "Stump Looks for His Roots", Stump and his family hold up signs with sounds of laughter on them after seeing an Embarrassing Slide of Dagget picking his nose.
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Talking with Signs / int_5eb346d4	comment	Strawberry Marshmallow, manga chapter 24: the girls communicate almost completely through signs to avoid waking Nobue up from her nap. Chika, not Miu, is the one to almost break the silence, as she nearly cracks under the pressure of having to write a whole lot, not to mention having Miu constantly trying to get her to burst into spontaneous laughter.
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Talking with Signs / int_5ed98c03	comment	Komi Can't Communicate: The titular protagonist has trouble communicating by talking due to crippling shyness and anxiety, so she resorts to write her responses on her notebook. As a Running Gag, she's a very verbose, prolific and cartoonishly fast writer.
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Talking with Signs / int_60878253	comment	The Last Days of FOXHOUND: The Sorrow often uses this to communicate to the living if they can't speak to spirits.
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Talking with Signs / int_6234f5b3	comment	Father Brown: In "The Tree of Truth", Bunty claims to have laryngitis and communicates with Mrs McCarthy by a series of pre-prepared signs, having already predicted everything Mrs McCarthy is going to say.
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Talking with Signs / int_625bd788	comment	Cursed Princess Club: Princess Renee's curse makes it where she constantly spits out frogs whenever she opens her mouth. To compensate, her kingdom's doctor's stitched a zipper into her mouth, and she communicates by writing on paper signs.
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Talking with Signs / int_6276800c	comment	The Nostalgia Critic: Used in his review of The Good Son (in-universe, it's said he screamed at the awfulness of the movie until losing his voice; in reality, Doug had a throat infection). He even described his situation as turning into a "human Wile E. Coyote". In a later review of James and the Giant Peach, the Critic responds to the explanation of James' parents' deathnote eaten by a wild rhinoceros with a card saying "What?". After the clip is repeated, he writes another sign saying "WHAT???".
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Talking with Signs / int_64eedb73	comment	The Rumor, for most of the Dallas arc of The Umbrella Academy, communicates on a notepad, mostly with scathing sarcasm. She gets better just in time to use her power to resolve the plot, assassinate JFK, and save the world.
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Talking with Signs / int_694ab80	comment	Batman Beyond: In "Babel", after Shriek messes with soundwaves, preventing anyone in Gotham City from being able to communicate intelligibly, Terry and Bruce relay messages to pass information.
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Talking with Signs / int_699c1e80	comment	Awesome Andy in She-Hulk. The poor guy doesn't have a face, so he communicates with a chalkboard he has hanging from his neck — even, at one point, after it had been broken in two!
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Talking with Signs / int_6a858b0c	comment	History Matters does this quite a bit, since the only audio is the narrator speaking. Which is amusing when some of the arguments between historical figures devolves into fits of Volleying Insults with Your Mom or No, You.
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Talking with Signs / int_6af83614	comment	A Thing of Vikings: Since she's mute, Gothi uses her staff to write in the dirt, or a tablet she carries around.
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Talking with Signs / int_6b3cfe38	comment	Bob and George: Nate.
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Talking with Signs / int_6ccaea9f	comment	Squid Row: The homeless guy uses cardboard signs.
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Talking with Signs / int_6fe107ca	comment	At Last the 1948 Show: In the sketch "Burglar Hides in the Library", the librarian (Eric Idle) and library patrons keep impatiently shushing the police sergeant (Graham Chapman) 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 "'Allo 'Allo 'Allo" and "'Orl right, Wilkins, we know yer 'iding in 'ere", then "blows his whistle" to summon two constables (John Cleese and Marty Feldman) by holding up a tiny sign reading "Peep! Peep!". Cleese then helps Chapman disarm the burglar by holding up a sign reading "Look out. There's someone behind you".
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Talking with Signs / int_7131953	comment	Kirby's Dream Land: At the end of the game, when Kirby drops down to the cheering citizens of Dream Land, he bids farewell to the player with a sign reading "bye-bye".
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Talking with Signs / int_7385bc4d	comment	Doraemon: In "A World Without Sound", Noby and his friends are unable to talk, so they communicate by writing on signs. Even this isn't enough to prevent Big G from sounding awful.
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Talking with Signs / int_746814ae	comment	Arthur: In "I Wanna Hold Your Hand", 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 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 In Name Only 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.
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Talking with Signs / int_7832b74c	comment	Steven Universe: 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.
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Talking with Signs / int_7925c507	comment	In The Witch Files, Crazy Sarah, having lost her voice due to magic, communicates by writing notes on pieces of paper and holding them up.
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Talking with Signs / int_7950511c	comment	In the film Murder by Death, 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.
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Talking with Signs / int_797793b1	comment	Shaman King: One of Tamao's initial quirks is that she can only speak to others by writing on a sketch block, since she's too shy to use her voice in front of other people. She eventually drops this.
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Talking with Signs / int_797f47fc	comment	In The Demoniacs, the girls are rendered mute after their attack, when the priest asks what their goal is, they convey that they wish to kill their attackers by drawing skull and crossbones in the dirt in front of him.
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Talking with Signs / int_79d01256	comment	The Assist-droids in Cat Planet Cuties use this to communicate with people.
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Talking with Signs / int_7a867a29	comment	In AmÃ©lie, When Samantha is dancing in the peep-show booth to loud music, Nino tries to ask her if she can replace him on the till at four o' clock. First he tries bellowing above the music, then pointing to himself and holding up four fingers. Finally he resorts to writing a note and holding it up.
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Talking with Signs / int_7c038c18	comment	Phineas and Ferb: Meap from the 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.
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Talking with Signs / int_7d122312	comment	The Flintstones: In "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.
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Talking with Signs / int_7d3f1bd3	comment	A variation is used by Nodamiki in GA: Geijutsuka Art Design Class. She scribbles something akin to a manga panel background on her sketchpad and holds it up behind someone, putting words in their mouth.
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Talking with Signs / int_7f39a041	comment	Elizabeth from Gintama can only communicate to other characters using signs, but mostly not to the audience. In one episode, Elizabeth actually used a signboard as a weapon against a space pirate. (Appropriately enough, written on it was a battle cry.) It turns out it's actually a member of an entire race of aliens who communicate in this fashion. One episode has Elizabeth replaced by a Russian lookalike who instead types messages on a Bentendo TS to communicate. Despite this and numerous other quirks, Katsura somehow remains unaware that the original was ever gone.
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Talking with Signs / int_81b76f22	comment	Chibi-Robo! is normally spoken for by his partner Telly, but when faced with a yes/no situation (usually a player choice), he can pop up one of two signs: a green exclamation mark for "yes" and a red no-sign for "no".
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Talking with Signs / int_830cf331	comment	Peanuts did some Lampshade Hanging when Linus was about to throw a snowball at Snoopy who just happens to be carrying a sign that is exactly relevant to the situation, "If you throw that snowball at me. I'll have the Humane Society on you so fast it will make your head swim!" To which Linus notes, "Whoever paints those signs for him does a good job!" Many comics feature Schroeder using signs telling the number of days before Beethoven's birthday. In one, Lucy says, "Who cares?!", to which Snoopy shows a sign that says We do!.
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Talking with Signs / int_84823809	comment	Kaeloo: In Episode 132, the non-anthropomorphic sheep, who can't talk, resort to using signboards with pictures on them to communicate with the main cast.
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Talking with Signs / int_861d0fdb	comment	Kuchinashi from NEEDLESS communicates with sign language. Despite having to carry around her sketchbook with her at all times, she's a pretty effective fighter.
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Talking with Signs / int_87173599	comment	In Ashes of the Past, Raikou does this when doing the Johto League Gym challenge. He also uses the signs as a version of Wood Hammer.
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Talking with Signs / int_882f1fdb	comment	In "Hair-Raising Hare", Bugs Bunny is terrified by a monster (who was later named Gossamer). Unable to speak, he displays to the audience a sign bearing a tiny "yipe!". Still frightened, he stares at the sign in apparent confusion, then flips it to reveal a much larger and more emphatic "YIPE!!!!"
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Talking with Signs / int_89e40f73	comment	Evil, Inc. has a sentient piece of paper who can only communicate this way by producing writing on himself.
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Talking with Signs / int_8d817ccb	comment	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).
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Talking with Signs / int_8d8264fb	comment	Noob: PrÃ©cieux 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".
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Talking with Signs / int_8d84ebc5	comment	Taxi: On one episode, Latka loses a bet with Tony and can't talk for a week. In one scene, he communicates with the cabbies using signs.
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Talking with Signs / int_8f072a6c	comment	In New Hope University: Major In Murder, Lucina Sorenson, the Ultimate Conductor, has lost her voice. She mostly communicates by writing on pieces of paper, although she also knows sign language, and uses that to communicate with Katy. During the fifth trial, which takes place inside a computer simulator, she is once again able to speak.
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Talking with Signs / int_8f668221	comment	Friendly Hostility: Played with 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.
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Talking with Signs / int_8f6d81a3	comment	The Pink Panther: If he wasn't using a visible Imagine Spot, the titular character was communicating this way.
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Talking with Signs / int_8fc868f5	comment	The Brittas Empire: The beginning of the episode "Sex, Lies, and Red Tape", has Gordon Brittas go on a sponsored silence to raise funds for a trampoline. As a result, to continue running the centre, he communicates with the staff through writing out what he wanted to say on a notepad. This becomes problematic when he has to take the telephone at one point.
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Talking with Signs / int_90feccf9	comment	Latchkey Kingdom: Cute Mute Rose communicates with a chalkboard around her neck, being incapable of making vocal sounds.
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Talking with Signs / int_91e45f5	comment	Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney: Downplayed where young artist Vera Misham is perfectly capable of speech, but is so shy and withdrawn that she conveys her emotions via drawing on her notepad.
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Talking with Signs / int_92916f5a	comment	In 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".
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Talking with Signs / int_937b68e6	comment	HTF +: When Flippy plays Luna Game he starts to scream, Flaky hears him from the other room and holds up a sign "Should I ask?" in HTF+LG 1. The Author Avatar hold up a sign reading "Thought I should break the fourth wall before dying" in HTF+FI/RF 2.
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Talking with Signs / int_974f7efb	comment	The Drew Carey Show: In one episode, 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.
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Talking with Signs / int_97abe183	comment	The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius: In the first episode, 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!!.
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Talking with Signs / int_986c0b5a	comment	In Jazztronauts, the Singer only ever communicates using an electronic tablet.
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Talking with Signs / int_9891fcdd	comment	In "Mickey and Minnie's Big Vacation", Timothy scares away the Pink Elephants by holding a sign reading "BOO!".
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Talking with Signs / int_9ac11ed7	comment	Supernormal Step: Cute Mute Melissa carries a whiteboard and marker around to talk to people, and has mentioned a 'big speech' board for dramatic moments.
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Talking with Signs / int_9b7e31d	comment	Thunderbirds: There's actually a serious version of this in one episode, 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.
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Talking with Signs / int_9d7ec380	comment	The Good Place: In his eponymous episode, Derek glitches by repeating the name "Jason", and he holds up a Coyote sign saying, "HELP! I CAN'T STOP SAYING JASON!"
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Talking with Signs / int_a13a3497	comment	In My Little Minecraft: At the End The Miner can't speak vocally, so he's forced to communicate by using signs. A significant part of his interaction with the Mane Six is trying to learn their alphabet and language so he can write to them, though Twilight, at least, has made some effort towards learning his own pictographic language in order to teach him better.
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Talking with Signs / int_a151c91c	comment	Azazel from As Miss Beelzebub Likes talks in signs due to his extreme Gentle Giant tendencies and poor social skills. He'll even hold up multiple signs to emulate speech balloons.
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Talking with Signs / int_a18e538f	comment	Suzuho of Magician's Academy also communicates by sketchbook messages, though her Split Personality Suzuka doesn't refrain from talking at all.
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Talking with Signs / int_a1951fc2	comment	Aline Belamie of We Are All PokÃ©mon Trainers is a mute girl who communicates mainly through a writing sign, though she does know sign language.
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Talking with Signs / int_a1f4556	comment	In the Erebus Sequence, Anea is The Speechless, and at first, she communicates by writing in a notebook she carries around. Later, she and her friends devise a sign language which is rather easier to use.
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Talking with Signs / int_a485ad0f	comment	The Angry Video Game Nerd: In the The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle episode, the Nerd holds up a sign that says "YIKES!" when Bugs Bunny (who is really a disguised Woody Woodpecker) gives him Bugs Bunny in Crazy Castle 4. At the very end of the video, when the explosion from Bugs' bomb sends the two of them to Hell, the Nerd holds up a sign that says "FUCK!" as the screen irises out on him.
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Talking with Signs / int_a5052567	comment	In Road Runner's Death Valley Rally, after you defeat the final boss, Wile E. Coyote is seen dropping a really long distance back to Earth. He holds up a sign reading "How about ending this game before I hit?" This was taken from the cartoon "Gee Whiz-z-z" where the same thing happens. As he's falling at the end of the cartoon, he holds up a sign saying, "How about ending this cartoon before I hit?" When the cartoon obliges, he quickly shows a "Thank you." sign as the iris out finishes. The game, however, does not honour his request and he is shown hitting the ground hard enough to get buried up to his head, starting off his Humiliation Conga ending.
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Talking with Signs / int_a6492af2	comment	The Stand has deaf-mute character Nick Andros who carries around a notepad to help him communicate. Unfortunately, he winds up paired for a while with the mentally retarded Tom Cullen, who can't read.
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Talking with Signs / int_a825da3e	comment	Magic: The Gathering: The Unhinged card Erase (not the Urza's Legacy One) has a wizard (whose head is being erased by a giant eraser) holding up a sign that says "Not the face!"
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Talking with Signs / int_a88c6b74	comment	Megumi Yamamoto in Special A prefers to preserve her voice for singing, and thus communicates by holding up a sketchpad with what she wants to say written on it.
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Talking with Signs / int_ab42c63a	comment	Get Smart: In the 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 (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.
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Talking with Signs / int_acb92fd0	comment	Happened twice on Father Ted. Once when an even more loathsome priest than Jack moved in and started blaring jungle music 24/7, meaning the characters had to talk in signs, with Mrs. Doyle offering a cup of tea -followed by a large stack of signs saying "Go on, go on, go on". Another where the house was bugged had Ted communicate to Dougal that they needed to talk in signs, with Dougal's first sign being simply "What?"
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Talking with Signs / int_ad5d2ec4	comment	A variant appears in Oh, Suddenly Egyptian God. The character Otter doesn't verbally speak, but they have a sun disk above their head, which doubles as a speech balloon, filled with either phrases that they would've said out loud or sound effects related to the things they're doing. An example is "ã�©ã�ž" note "dozo" = here you go, help yourself as they're serving Set his meal or handing Anubis a phone.
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Talking with Signs / int_ad97c383	comment	In the Queen's Blade OVA episodes, the Swamp Witch's flaming avatar communicates with wooden signs.
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Talking with Signs / int_ada478bb	comment	Red Dwarf: 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".
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Talking with Signs / int_aeb22ba	comment	Midnight Horror School: This is Fonton's way of communicating as well as his main character trait.
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Talking with Signs / int_af60702d	comment	The Legend of Zelda: 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.
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Talking with Signs / int_b1678eb4	comment	In The Adventures of Fox Tayle, Fox is being kept in a water-filled glass container with a breathing mask. To communicate, he has to use a small waterproof writing pad and a grease pencil.
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Talking with Signs / int_b29621f3	comment	A variation: In Feet of Clay, golems have no voice and always carry around a tablet and chalk to write on in order to communicate. The golems' writing looks like Hebrew script. Because they can move much faster than one might expect, golems can communicate this way at more or less normal talking speeds, even with complex messages.
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Talking with Signs / int_b29b88fb	comment	Evil Diva: Gabriel carries around a notepad for this.
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Talking with Signs / int_b3c36122	comment	What Not to Wear: One episode had co-host Stacey doing this for a short while. Allegedly she lost her voice because she was just that horrified at the state of that episode's guest's wardrobe.
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Talking with Signs / int_b4f817ae	comment	The Leftovers: Due to their vow of silence, some members of the Guilty Remnant cult do this to communicate.
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Talking with Signs / int_b5a087d7	comment	Robot Chicken: In the rare skits where he actually appears, the eponymous character and the scientist speak like this, other than the Theme Song's "It's Alive!!!" which isn't necessarily the mad scientist's own voice.
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Talking with Signs / int_b8a652cb	comment	In the film Little Miss Sunshine, the character of Dwayne, played by Paul Dano, has taken an oath of silence until he achieves his goal of becoming a test pilot in the Air Force. He communicates with a notepad for the majority of the film. Of course, he then finds out that he is colorblind and cannot fly jets for the Air Force. Swearing ensues.
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Talking with Signs / int_b96564e6	comment	Fawlty Towers: The incompetent manager, Basil Fawlty, shows off an attempt to communicate with the Spanish worker Manuel, holding up a series of cards showing a suitcase, an up arrow, and the number seven to instruct Manuel to take a guest's case up to room 7. Manuel then produces a card saying "OK" right back at Basil. In another episode, Basil tries to tell an irritable deaf guest to turn on her hearing aid. He finally writes "turn it on" on a piece of paper, which she can't read without her glasses, which are propped up on her forehead. Basil tries to point this out by writing another note, before realisation dawns.
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Talking with Signs / int_ba666650	comment	Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater: The Sorrow holds up a variety of helpful signs for Naked Snake, including a realtime countdown at one point. He can't speak because he is dead.
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Talking with Signs / int_bc758ea9	comment	Tiny Toon Adventures: Calamity Coyote, Wile E.'s Spiritual Successor, 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 Looney Tunes: Back in Action). 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 inadvertently killing them, 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. An interesting take on this was used in the SNES game, Buster Busts Loose. 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.
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Talking with Signs / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000 even has an example of this one: in the 3rd edition Ork codex, it refers to Gretchin deafened by artillery duty being forced to communicate using "a sort of sign language," which "tends not to work very well, as a Gretchin can only carry so many signs."
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Talking with Signs / int_bd310eaa	comment	El Goonish Shive: Grace holds up a sign that says "End." at the end of the "Squirrel Diplomacy" storyline.
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Talking with Signs / int_c0eadab8	comment	Sonic X featured this in an episode that partially took place underwater so the characters could communicate while breaking the fourth wall. Executive Meddling, however, made sure that in the 4Kids dub, the signs were emptied of their text for no apparent reason other than to remove all the written text in the show.
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Talking with Signs / int_c4282b71	comment	Pinkie Pie in multiple My Little Pony fanfictions, including dC/dtâ‰ 0 (as part of a mime costume) and I am the Nightmare and so is Luna (when she is rendered mute by poison joke).
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Talking with Signs / int_c4778e4b	comment	In one of Mythbusters Don't Try This at Home segments, Adam does the standard spiel while Jamie holds a cartoon bomb with a lit fuse. Adam leaves and Jamie holds up a sign reading "NOT a real bomb!" Done more literally in "Walk in a straight line blindfolded", which has Adam blindfolded in the intro and Jamie uses signs to talk to the audience without Adam noticing.
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Talking with Signs / int_c8b499f0	comment	Man-Thang communicates in this way in Marvel's What The?! parody comics. Signs seen have included "SHUT UP", "JUST SAY NO" and "YOU! YOU'RE THE GUY WHO STOLE MY ORIGIN!"
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Talking with Signs / int_ca5d97f1	comment	Spoofed by Monty Python's Flying Circus, where such non-talking classics as "The Semaphore Version of Wuthering Heights" and "Julius Caesar on an Aldis Lamp" are presented with subtitles convenient for viewers who can't even interpret the flag signals for "AAAAUUUGGH! AAAAUUUGGH!" Also the dirty old man in a raincoat flashing passing women, who then turns to the camera, opens his coat and shows he's fully clothed with a sign reading "BOO!" hanging around his neck. The "Conquistador Coffee Campaign" sketch has the boss raise a "joke" sign repeatedly, and the employee he's calling on the carpet raises another sign that says "No, a sales campaign."
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Talking with Signs / int_cbfe14ff	comment	Since Siren from Intelligence Factor is a Roserade, a species who can't talk, she communicates by writing. She holds up several signs during her battle against Leon's team.
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Talking with Signs / int_ccdddca4	comment	Detention: Duncan Bubble prefers to communicate by spelling out messages with his yo-yo.
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Talking with Signs / int_cf66aa4c	comment	The screw/ball sign turns up in a few other Looney Tunes shorts, notably "Duck Amuck", where after the sadistic animator removes his voice Daffy Duck holds up a sign saying "Sound, please!".
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Talking with Signs / int_d120122a	comment	Wataru Kurenai, the eponymous Kamen Rider Kiva, initially communicates with a notebook full of pre-written responses because he's a Hikikomori who thinks he's allergic to the world. At one point Cool Big Sis Megumi asks something like "You can't have a response for everything in there!" When Wataru starts actually looking for a response, she takes it away from him.
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Talking with Signs / int_d46cc708	comment	Ed, Edd n Eddy: At the end of "Stop, Look, and Ed", after an attempt to convince the other kids to break the rules ends badly for the boys, the boys get locked up in a cage. Eddy, Edd, and Ed try to wave down help with signs reading (respectively) "HELP", "PLEASE ASSIST", and "KETCHUP".
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Talking with Signs / int_da92c130	comment	In Erfworld, Stanley orders◊ Parson to "Shut up until you're ordered to speak!" He tries to exploit the obvious loophole with the written message "Hey, Bogroll, order me to speak!"; however, Bogroll can't read. When we next see Parson, he's conversing with Sizemore, who presumably did read and follow such a request.
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Talking with Signs / int_de0f8ee1	comment	In RWBY Chibi, Neo 'talks' in this manner. Because her Semblance lets her change her appearance on a whim, it's reasonable to assume that she changes the sign's writing to whatever she needs to say. (although once, she did use the sign to strike Mercury in the face, but there's an excuse)
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Talking with Signs / int_df424ee8	comment	Played for laughs in Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, when Sakura met Nozaki's younger brother Mayu and gave him a sketchbook and marker to communicate because the latter was too lazy to talk. Then subverted when Mayu decides that writing is even more of a hassle than speaking, and begins to talk normally instead.
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Talking with Signs / int_e066b269	comment	In "Scaredy Cat", Porky and 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 fails time and again to tell him what's going on, he is next seen Bound and Gagged 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."
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Talking with Signs / int_e25322af	comment	The Poopsmith from Homestar Runner has started this in later entries, as a way around his vow of silence.
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Talking with Signs / int_e275c4e2	comment	Looney Tunes: Both Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner have communicated with signs. On at least two occasions, the Roadrunner holds up a sign that reads "Roadrunners can't read". Tiny Toon Adventures: Calamity Coyote, Wile E.'s Spiritual Successor, 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 Looney Tunes: Back in Action). 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 inadvertently killing them, 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. An interesting take on this was used in the SNES game, Buster Busts Loose. 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. In Road Runner's Death Valley Rally, after you defeat the final boss, Wile E. Coyote is seen dropping a really long distance back to Earth. He holds up a sign reading "How about ending this game before I hit?" This was taken from the cartoon "Gee Whiz-z-z" where the same thing happens. As he's falling at the end of the cartoon, he holds up a sign saying, "How about ending this cartoon before I hit?" When the cartoon obliges, he quickly shows a "Thank you." sign as the iris out finishes. The game, however, does not honour his request and he is shown hitting the ground hard enough to get buried up to his head, starting off his Humiliation Conga ending. Chuck Jones, in his later years, created lithographs of the Looney Tunes characters he helped create. One such litho featured the Coyote running off a cliff in pursuit of the Roadrunner, who held up a sign that bore a quotation of Santayana that Chuck Jones once stated was a perfect description of Wile E.: "A fanatic is one who redoubles his efforts while forgetting his aim." In "Hair-Raising Hare", Bugs Bunny is terrified by a monster (who was later named Gossamer). Unable to speak, he displays to the audience a sign bearing a tiny "yipe!". Still frightened, he stares at the sign in apparent confusion, then flips it to reveal a much larger and more emphatic "YIPE!!!!" 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 Puns such as a screw and ball, a cracked pot, a dripping faucet, and a belfry with bats flying around it. At the end of the cartoon, Bugs pretends to be a bear attacking Elmer, while the real bear held up the same signs from before. The screw/ball sign turns up in a few other Looney Tunes shorts, notably "Duck Amuck", where after the sadistic animator removes his voice Daffy Duck holds up a sign saying "Sound, please!". Marvin the Martian sometimes had a Martian dog named "K9" with him, who could only communicate by passing him written notes on cards. In "Scaredy Cat", Porky and 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 fails time and again to tell him what's going on, he is next seen Bound and Gagged 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."
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Talking with Signs / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: "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.
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Talking with Signs / int_e323eb44	comment	In Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: World of Light, Diddy Kong does this in lieu of talking.
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Talking with Signs / int_e3c4fe80	comment	Dragobo, of the RPG World webcomic (As well as many more animal sidekicks).
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Talking with Signs / int_e6275a02	comment	In Looking for Group, after possessing the Crown of Legara, Richard takes a liking to communicating via conjured signs, despite the fact that others can clearly hear him when he speaks normally. When Aelloon swats the signs away in frustration, Richard simply conjures a new one saying "Tough crowd".
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Talking with Signs / int_e6695c62	comment	Kit Kat from the movie Hudson Hawk. Mute, uses pre-printed cards to dialogue. Actually he carries hundreds of them and manages to deliver a hilarious One-Liner. Guess who is the actor? David Caruso!
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Talking with Signs / int_eedac02b	comment	Celty Sturlusson from 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.
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Talking with Signs / int_f0a86c12	comment	How I Met Your Mother: One episode had Barney be jinxed and, by the heavily enforced rules of their 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!"
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Talking with Signs / int_f2041376	comment	Charmed (1998): In the episode "Sense and Sense Ability", the sisters are assailed by a 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 Kazi Demon, who, as a lesser demon, is illiterate.
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Talking with Signs / int_f3c07f91	comment	The Mask: Played for laughs 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.
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Talking with Signs / int_f4848ebf	comment	Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie: Jigen pulls out a hand-held sign during the narration introducing him, as well as a scene when Conan is talking on the phone.
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Talking with Signs / int_f554e011	comment	Katawa Shoujo: Shizune 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.
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Talking with Signs / int_f655ed11	comment	Frasier: During one first season episode, 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:
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Talking with Signs / int_f7ed2fd7	comment	In "Pete's House of Villains", several guests complain about the villains-on-staff stealing their stuff, including a mute Ariel, who holds up a sign reading "Somebody stole my voice again."
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Talking with Signs / int_f80ae736	comment	The eponymous, mute character of Helen ESP relies on large note pads to communicate.
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Talking with Signs / int_f83d9d5b	comment	Phil of the Future: One episode 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!"
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Talking with Signs / int_f8956ef3	comment	Used minimally in one of the last YuYu Hakusho episodes, so as not to let on to Yusuke and Yomi that they're listening in. It gets pretty funny at one point when Rinku shows a sign that reads, "..." (a sign showing silence, in other words), and Chu chides him with another sign that reads, "You don't have to write the dramatic pauses."
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Talking with Signs / int_fb57d4f2	comment	In Is This A Zombie?, Cute Mute 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.
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Talking with Signs	processingCategory2	Silence Tropes
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Happy Heroes (Animation) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
CB Chara Go Nagai World / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Grenadier / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Lupin III vs. Detective Conan: The Movie / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Midnight Horror School / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Are You Alice? (Audio Play) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
My Little Pony (2022) (Comic Book) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Odd Thomas (Comic Book) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Stanley and His Monster (Comic Book) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
The Umbrella Academy (Comic Book) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
The Unfunnies (Comic Book) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Zits (Comic Strip) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Adopted Displaced / Fan Fic / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Cindy's Story / Fan Fic	seeAlso	Talking with Signs
A Backwards Grin (Fanfic) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Bad Prediction AU (Fanfic) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Fallout: Equestria - Empty Quiver (Fanfic) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Hero Class Civil Warfare (Fanfic) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
How To Steal Hearts (Fanfic) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Intelligence Factor (Fanfic) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Jack of All Trades (Fanfic) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate: World of Light (Fanfic) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
The Pokémon Squad (Fanfic) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
AmÃ©lie / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Amy	seeAlso	Talking with Signs
Amy (1998) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Black Rat / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Brahms: The Boy II / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Final Cut / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Little Miss Sunshine / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Looney Tunes: Back in Action / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Love Actually / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Space Jam: A New Legacy / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
The Martian / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
The Nativity Story / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Cat Planet Cuties / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Danny, the Champion of the World / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
GJ-bu / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Humanity Has Declined / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Magician's Academy / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
The Adventures of Fox Tayle / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Red Dwarf (Magazine) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Africa Salaryman (Manga) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
FullMaPla (Manga) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Great Teacher Onizuka (Manga) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Helen ESP (Manga) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Mamotte Shugogetten (Manga) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Mitsudomoe (Manga) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun (Manga) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Onihime VS (Manga) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Poison Berry in My Brain (Manga) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Shion no Ou (Manga) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Sket Dance (Manga) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Strawberry Marshmallow (Manga) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
The Comic Artist and his Assistants (Manga) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Even Worse (Music) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
New Morning (Music) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Equestrian Legends (Roleplay) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Father Brown / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Fawlty Towers / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Kamen Rider Double / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Keeping Up Appearances / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Noob / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Pokémon Sunday / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Saved by the Bell: The New Class / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Secret Garden / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Shine a Light / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Tensou Sentai Goseiger / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
The Brittas Empire / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
The Tick (2016) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
The Vicar of Dibley / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Toon (Tabletop Game) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
ANNO: Mutationem (Video Game) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Chibi-Robo! (Video Game) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Desert Speedtrap (Video Game) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Fallout 76 (Video Game) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Jazztronauts (Video Game) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Kirby's Dream Land (Video Game) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
The Legend of Zelda (Video Game) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Tiny Toon Adventures: Buster Busts Loose! (Video Game) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Magic-kyun! Renaissance (Visual Novel) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
BT21 UNIVERSE (Web Animation) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Bad Days (Web Animation) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
History Matters (Web Animation) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
RWBY Chibi (Web Animation) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Starter Pokemon Battle Royale (Web Animation) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Wild King Dumb (Web Animation) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Dr. Crafty (Web Video) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
MiniDrivers (Web Video) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Outside Xbox (Web Video) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Stampy's Lovely World (Web Video) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Everything Is Broken (Web Animation) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Ask White Pearl and Steven (almost!) anything (Webcomic) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Diamond and Dazzle (Webcomic) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Evil, Inc. (Webcomic) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Immaterial (Webcomic) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Little Nuns (Webcomic) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Muted (Webcomic) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
qxlkbh (Webcomic) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Sluggy Freelance (Webcomic) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
The Last Days of FOXHOUND (Webcomic) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
The Cartoon Physicist (Web Video) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
A Corny Concerto / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
A Monster in Paris / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Batty Baseball / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Beep, Beep / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Bunny Hugged / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Crashbox / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Duck Amuck / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Duck! Rabbit! Duck! / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Dumb-Hounded / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Guided Muscle / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Hair-Raising Hare / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Herr Meets Hare / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
House of Mouse / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Kronk's New Groove / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Lickety-Splat / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Really Rosie / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Scaredy Cat / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Scrambled Aches / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Shaun the Sheep / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Soup or Sonic / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Tad, the Lost Explorer / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Tee for Two / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
The Cat Above and the Mouse Below / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
The Heckling Hare / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
The New Adventures of Zorro (1997) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
The Pink Panther / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
There They Go-Go-Go! / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Tiny Toons Looniversity / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Treehouse of Horror / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
The Dudley Boys (Wrestling) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
A Gift of Love / Fan Fic / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs
Hope for the Heartless (Fanfic) / int_d06305ff	type	Talking with Signs

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