for those of y’all still claiming Germans don’t have a sense of humour, let me introduce you to Bernd das Brot:
An anthropomorphic loaf of bread with short, stumpy arms and a pessimistic, cynical personality, Bernd comes from a German children’s tv series and has become a bit of a mascot for KiKa, the channel this was broadcast on. KiKa is aimed at children and only broadcasts between 6:00 AM and 9:00 PM, which means there’s a lot of dead air. So they decided to fill this air time with short movies like the one above, in which Bernd is basically put through a series of psychological and existential torture in Der KiKa Lounge. His attitude with which he undergoes these trials is what makes it hilarious and this particular one had me especially giggling. It’s just all very…
(And for all the nerd mockery on display in this video, it’s in the end actually very respectable.)
So if you’re ever in a German speaking country and late at night you’re flicking channels and come across a boxy, stubby armed muppet undergoing strange tortures in a white room, you now know what it is and no, it’s not a hallucination brought on by too much bratwurst and dunkelbier.
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