[OC] First word spoken in each episode of How I Met Your Mother

Text below is from original post in r/himym here where the 2nd and 3rd charts are. Thanks to u/EnvironmentalToe8944 for the suggestion for the 1st chart.

Full dataset as a csv in this comment here.

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Source: Me watching each episode on Hulu a few months ago.

Some of my favorite findings:

• The first character other than Older Ted (Bob Saget narrating) or Ted is not one of the main characters but actually the DJ at Marshall and Lily's wedding in Season 2 Episode 22 (Something Blue), the season 2 finale.
• Marshall has 9 first words spoken, Barney has 8 first words spoken

First time character spoke the first word:

• Older Ted: Season 1 Episode 1 (Pilot)
• Ted: Season 1 Episode 19 (Mary the Paralegal)
• Robin: Season 4 Episode 4 (Intervention)
• Barney: Season 4 Episode 7 (Not a Father's Day)
• Marshall: Season 4 Episode 14 (The Possimpible)
• Lily: Season 4 Episode 15 (The Stinsons)
• The Mother: Season 9 Episode 15 (Unpause)

People may disagree about these ones (and likely others) where the 'first word' I added some subjective interpretation:

• Season 1 Episode 18 included a segment where Ted states "previously on How I Met Your Mother". I decided to interpret this as not new content (shots from the prior episode) and so chose the first word following the conclusion of the entire segment. You could also interpret this as:
  • Ted stating 'previously' (literally the first word)
  • Ted stating 'she' (the first word mentioned after the sentence 'previously on How I Met Your Mother
  • Older Ted stating 'Kids' (the first word mentioned after that entire segment plus theme music)
• Season 3 Episode 11 included a segment where Ted screams "Oh my god! I got a tattoo!" which was already seen in Season 3 Episode 1. I decided to interpret this as not new content (shots from the prior episode) and so chose the first word following the conclusion of the entire segment. You could probably interpret this as:
  • Ted stating 'Oh' (literally the first word)
  • Older Ted stating 'Kids' (the first word mentioned after that entire segment)

I also added some additional notes in the original post in r/himym here while watching. regarding the second word spoken in each episode in case people wanted to exclude some common words.