‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’ Unseats ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’ As TV’s Wordiest Show
Though The Sound and the Fury, Finnegans Wake and Ulysses may have long stumped scholars with their linguistic complexity, these classic texts may have finally met their match: the subtitles for Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
Famed for its wit and meta attempts at addressing police brutality, the 2010s sitcom has gained yet another claim to fame nearly four years after its finale, boasting the most words per minute of any popular show available on streaming, per a new analysis from Kapwing. In calculating this statistic, content strategist Liam Curtis and his team “counted the number of subtitled words in up to 50 of the latest episodes of the most popular TV shows,” dividing those sums by the episode’s run time to determine a program’s average words per minute.
After crunching the numbers, the Fox/NBC sitcom landed at the top of the list, blowing away its competition at 206 words per minute.
Famed for its wit and meta attempts at addressing police brutality, the 2010s sitcom has gained yet another claim to fame nearly four years after its finale, boasting the most words per minute of any popular show available on streaming, per a new analysis from Kapwing. In calculating this statistic, content strategist Liam Curtis and his team “counted the number of subtitled words in up to 50 of the latest episodes of the most popular TV shows,” dividing those sums by the episode’s run time to determine a program’s average words per minute.
After crunching the numbers, the Fox/NBC sitcom landed at the top of the list, blowing away its competition at 206 words per minute.
- 4/17/2025
- Cracked
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