American reacts to 'Bernd das Brot' (Weird German bread guy)

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[@fra9-clin507]

as a german i can say that this is the peak of our culture. And i think that´s beautiful.

[@MJFMJOFFICIAL]

Hahah Man hätte damals Angst als er so gesagt hat: ,,SCHALTET AB, SCHALTET AAABBBB"

[@stupidash4057]

Mist

[@GabBra99]

Ich habe immer noch Angst vor Bernd 😂❤

[@MJFMJOFFICIAL]

@@GabBra99 🤣🤣

[@yammy7211]

@@GabBra99 same es gab diese eine folge übers internet. da war irgendwie so ein pony-zombie-spiel und dann wurde er von hate kommentaren zusammengeschlagen. hab immernoch mies angst vor der folge haha

[@ft6637]

just imagine falling asleep in front of the TV as a kid and waking up to this in an endless loop.

[@saen2755]

I had german TV as a kid, and there was an episode that scared the shit out of me and this bread, that when ever i saw the cartoon start i would go to bed. Prob a hellween episode

[@user-zg5ey5xo9i]

I did. Several times. It was like a strange fever dream.

[@Flaffy06]

It was like a never ending dram. A bread that is captured in the TV by an invisible robotic voice. One time, many years ago, my parents wanted to give me bread and I screamed and throwed it at them lol

[@Leona17]

happened to my dad every weekend lmao I just sat there watching it for HOURS. I think the first time that happened was the first time I wondered about the meaning of life... o-o

[@kuessebrama]

In my childhood there was only a test screen at night :D But Bernd das Brot was there nonetheless but only during normal screentime.

[@Tommy_Krappweis]

Thanks for reacting to our Creation! We appreciate it a lot and it's great to hear from so many fans. (And all the others too ;-) ) Greetings from the authors/producers ❤

[@starsheepone]

Ehrenbrot

[@juliaclaire42]

😍

[@solar0wind]

Oh wow this is really cool!

[@MimiMa359]

Ach wie c○○l ist das denn ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️😍

[@ankem4329]

Sitze hier und grinse due ganze Zeit. Wie oft ich das früher in Schleife geschaut habe. 🤓

[@Flamebeard0815]

The 'Night Loop' is a decades-long staple at the KIKA and used as filler for when there's no actual program to be aired (for the reason you guessed: children asleep). The KIKA once used different snippets from the shows featuring Bernd as a replacement for the 'not on air' signal,as they didn't share the channel with another program that would complement their airing. And after some time, buzzed young adults, returning from the clubs at or around midnight got a kick out of plopping in front of the TV and just drunk-watching the depressed bread. Ever since then, KIKA changes the loop once a month or so. And even started producing exclusive 'Night Loops', rather targeting drunk adults than kids, about 10ish years ago.

[@flylikeadodo6320]

Ah yes, Sendeschluss

[@Pryderia110]

Totally correct, love these nights 4 o clock back at home with some friends totally drunk and watching Bernd till u fall a sleep

[@DerEchteBold]

Meinst du sowas wie das hier mit der "drunk adults" Zielgruppe oder haben die irgendwann noch 'ne Schippe draufgelegt? Denn das hier muss länger her sein als zehn Jahre, ich schau seit ungefähr 2009 kein TV mehr und das muss schon mindestens ein-zwei Jahre davor auf Sendung gewesen sein.

[@Flamebeard0815]

@@DerEchteBold Ganz früher (frühe 2000er) waren das tatsächlich Best of-Zusammenschnitte des regulären Programms. Die Extra-Produktionen, wie wir sie heute kennen (und sehen), kamen später.

[@DerEchteBold]

​@@Flamebeard0815 Ja, schon klar, ich hab's nachgeschlagen, du hattest bei dem hier recht, das ist tatsächlich genau zehn Jahre alt, muss ich dann wohl auch auf YT gesehen haben. Aber die erste speziell produzierte Nachtschleife gab's tatsächlich schon 2003, nur hatten die dann immer wieder sehr lange Pausen bis eine neue kam.

[@Roozyj]

Being Dutch, I feel like I missed an important part of my teens by not having Bernd das Brot on the tv xD This is peak entertainment

[@akteno2796]

Premium German entertainment > Dutch... Uh... We all know the guy with long schlong by now...

[@fylkzadeya2505]

Definitely! 😂

[@Roozyj]

On the other hand, as a future German language teacher, I can force my students to watch it!

[@schlechtermensch1231]

Kann ich nur bestätigen 😂

[@gonzo2495]

not only as a teen, i also enjoyed Bernd as an adult after a long night at the bar. ;)

[@zeroalpha151]

"How can you hate magicians" Well, if the magigican magics me out of my shower straight in front of a camera I'd be a bit pissed too

[@prisle]

valid 😆

[@sailorcat]

I remember sitting in front of the TV and watching these loops over and over again, because I found them so funny. And I still appreciate them, Bernd is such an iconic character. Two of my other favorite episodes: The first one is about the dangers of the internet (I think that one has English subs too, it's called "Die Internet Freundschaft") and one explains the history of Germany in a funny way.

[@mittwochxiv.9770]

Lustig, dich hier zu treffen xD

[@actualprincess]

SAILOR CAT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH hast du noch Kontakt mit SoulJoe

[@totaltotal8481]

Ich mochte immer die mit den verschiedenen Musikrichtungen und dem Teleshopping-Kanal 😂

[@SatieSatie]

"Bernd das Brot" was one of the biggest culture shocks for me when my family moved to Austria in the late 90's. I was a lonely 5-year-old with persisting sleep disturbances in a foreign land on the other side of the world. Sometimes, when zapping between channels late at night, I would see this sinister-looking, depressing loaf of bread talking in a language I didn't understand and it made me _so_ upset, lol. At almost 30, I can fully appreciate its dry, absurdist humor (as I'm into much weirder, darker comedy now) but I still can't shake off the anxiety I felt as a child. It would be cool to see more Bernd reactions from you.

[@KekTekDe]

"Mist" is kinda Bernds signature move in all these episodes

[@schwammi]

catchphrase

[@ungepleyertyt4334]

Mist

[@mzak5204]

Fun fact - this video is repeated over and over again until the morning

[@Hendricus56]

_insert "Mr Krabs calling Plankton he will try it again and again and again" clip_

[@papastalin4545]

@@Hendricus56 Und dann wieder, und dann wieder, und dann wieder, Und dann wieder, und dann wieder, und dann wieder, Und dann wieder, und dann wieder, ...

[@Parrot_work]

I know becouse oh yeah im german

[@lucaschucht7498]

Schaltet ab Schaltet ab Schaltet ab ab ab ab Schaltet ab

[@papastalin4545]

@@lucaschucht7498 JETZT

[@RustyDust101]

I loved Bernd das Brot when I was still in uni roughly 30 years ago. It was absolutely ultra-level sarcastic watching already running gags being twisted into new versions of themselves. It all began with Bernd being stuck in white hell screen, where he left on one side of the screen just to pop in back on the other side. No matter which direction he took, he always returned to the white hell of nothing. This got twisted into so many variations over the years that it became a game of "Have you seen what they did to Bernd last night?" on the next day. That he is basically a loaf of bread with far too short arms, really just hands stuck to the body, exacerbates several situations. Bernd got more and more cynical each and every time, and his trademark, short, quipped "Mist!" / "Crap!" became a standard meme to anything you even marginally disliked, long before the term meme was even first mentioned.

[@LR-jo7ci]

Wait…you’re telling me these white void Bernd short films have existed 30 years ago 💀 I knew of the show with Chilli and Briegel, but thoight the midnight shorts are from the early 2000s

[@sirpr3ce855]

@@LR-jo7ci tbf 30 years ago is already the 1990s so knowing it from the early 2000s is only a few years off

[@LR-jo7ci]

@@sirpr3ce855 I keep forgetting it wasn’t just yesterday tbh 🥲

[@whohan779]

@@sirpr3ce855 Nope, before them KI.KA had only the usual until tomorrow banner. I'm quite certain it changed around 15 years ago or so, not three (but most did not even know it existed, as there was nothing to see before 2008) - at least Wikipedia says so.

[@SupremeShittyCraps]

I like those Bernd the Bread night loops where he faces totally random adventures. They're classics in German TV.

[@ascerberus3131]

As a now 23-year-old German dude. This show already felt pretty weird when I was a kid. Kinda amazed it got even weirder lol 🤣

[@ksgermania6159]

Thats what it was for... trust me

[@AquadrawELEN]

Aber dieneuen Folgen sind finde ich nicht mehr so traumatisierend

[@aka_Tatjana]

Ok, here's some background info nobody asked for. The co-inventor of Bernd is a German comedian, author, producer, film maker and multi talent called Tommy Krappweis. It's also his voice that narrates the show. He is a lifelong nerd himself (you guessed it) and has been a regular guest at several fan conventions in Germany for decades (sorry Tommy, I did not want to imply that you're old). The guests at Bernds nerd party are cosplayers he met at these conventions. It's so weird to see all these people I know on TV. Also, there's ton of inside jokes that nobody, who wasn't present, understands. It cracks me up every time. Also, there is another Bernd das Brot night loop about Hitler that is even weirder and more awesome if you want to check it out.

[@HalfEye79]

Wasn't Tommy Krappweis "the New Guy" at RTL Samstag Nacht or another of that shows? I vividly remember his introduction into it.

[@JohnHazelwood58]

@@HalfEye79 Yes, he was! :)

[@paha4209]

I didn´t know that those were cosplayers Tommy knew. I always just thought they were people working for KIKA or ARD/ZDF who dressed up for that sketch.

[@-Alarion]

How many different Bernd das Brot episodes are there? I as a german myself only remember two or three

[@yannis1578]

So, you're a nerd too? 🤣

[@NeovanGoth]

Bernd das Brot isn't just a bread, it's a way of life. 🖤

[@patiplatsch83]

Imagine being a young adult and coming home from the club. Being intoxicated and warching this on TV. Best TV Show ever !

[@CatalinaLinal7710]

The topics rarely relate to him being a bread, he's basically just a depressed and bitter person in a bread-body. He's also a bit like Squidward in the sense that he's the cynical and stuck up "adult" character who needs to loosen up. I think the moral of this episode is actually done in a very German approach. First we make fun of the nerds and Bernd refuses to be concidered one of them because he's "above that" and they are cringe and pathetic. Ridiculing nerds the way they did had the effect - for me as a German person - that it bluntly conveys that, yes, from the outside being a nerd looked pretty cringy at the time this aired but in the end Bernd had to accept that actually those are just people like him, passionate about their hobbies and special interests. Shaming THEM for simply having fun in the harmless way they do is no more "right" than ridiculing Bernd for his special interest in history of Wall paper. It may seem more sophisticated but at its core its pretty much the same "nerd" behavior. He's just as "cringe" as them so he joins them, cause even if it may look weird for some people from the outside, there is literally no harm in it. Just let people be. That's the message ^^

[@timefliesaway999]

How are nerds cringe tho. If you think that you’re rather are an American, not a German xP

[@CatalinaLinal7710]

@@timefliesaway999 this episode aired in 2013 for the first time, it's therefore a product of its time. And alot has happened in the last decade for how nerds are perceived in main stream society.

[@j.b.5422]

Didn't the wallpaper interest start as a sarcastic throwaway line in an earlier episode?

[@silvercandra4275]

I remember watching this for the first time, and thinking that there was nothing worse than being into DnD. Guess who's spend 5 years on developing a homebrew DnD setting complete with lore and a pantheon of gods by now? Yup. Turns out I'm one hell of a nerd, and genuinely enjoy it.

[@ItsJustKaya]

Bern das brot is the equivalent to squidward thaddeus

[@BS990507]

you were right about his knowledge about wallpaper :D one of his biggest hobbies is staring at woodchip wallpaper, which he sometimes even just does in the episodes running at night. Some years ago they published a book "written by him" with more of his depressed nonsense, 4 pages were just woodchip wallpaper "for you enjoyment"

[@flauschiger_keks]

I hope they chose 4 different types of woodchip wallpaper so people won‘t get bored easily.

[@derstoffausdemderjoghurtis4346]

I believe the wallpaper joke is a reference to visual hallucinations induced by psychedlic drugs.

[@vipolux8356]

​@@derstoffausdemderjoghurtis4346 Not in a episode of Chili tv it is explained: that because of home work he could not play with other children and watching his wallpaper is the only thing could do. From that IT turned to his Hobby like watching his favorit TV Chanel Germanys most boring railroads.

[@Mona-nv4vh]

In Berd das Brot the series one of his hobbies is also watching Germanys most boring railroads😁😁

[@krispycrisps]

I’m German and I actually was very scared of that series. Everytime it was “Sendeschluss” and that series came on tv I was scared. I don’t know why but for me it had this very scary vibe especially when it was dark outside and you knew you were supposed to sleep.

[@Danisachan]

The joke is that Bernd always gets put into silly and hilarious situations by the producer every night and has to act them out. 😂 There is really nothing more to it! The topics he has to play out range from evening to evening, so it never gets boring (especially because he hates it so much, but he is so loveable at the same time in his old grandpa-way! 😂 Bernd is such a classic! ❤️)

[@svenwilhelmbusch9279]

I love Bernd - and i am always happy to see something from him. His depressed, sarcastic comments fits in so many situations. Bernd is the most german bread ever baked :D

[@oq1106]

ironically also at its best if you yourself are in fact, very baked.

[@Ashley-lm4nv]

@@oq1106 Got to be baked for baked entertainment

[@miztazed]

@@oq1106 True. Watched it after some sports cigarettes years ago. It was fun as hell. 🤣

[@ketaminekermit802]

@@miztazed sportzigarette muss mit!

[@smiley3128]

Das stimmt 😄

[@komentierer]

The humor of that show went right over your head, but that's understanable if you're not familiar with it. "Bernd das Brot" was always supposed to be a nihilistic fever dream. Judging by your mood at the end of the video, it definitely had the intended effect 😂

[@DerEchteBold]

Wieso, er hat den ganzen Sarkasmus doch verstanden. Er hat zumindest ein paar mal behauptet dass es ihm auch gefällt und überhaupt sieht er ja immer so gelangweilt aus.

[@teeje8205]

the lore behind the wallpaper was a running gag in his show (from the early 2000s), that his favourite freetime activity was learning the pattern of his woodchip wallpaper in-and.out. The show also featured his 2 flatmates "Chili the sheep" who was a stunt-loving female sheep and "Briegel the bush", a guy that is a plant and a scientist. He was mostly annoyed by his flatmates shenanigans and it was hilarious xD

[@constanzia3722]

The co-inventor of Bernd das Brot, Tommy Krappweis, also co-hosts twitch and youtube channels called wildmics. He is hosting several shows that focus on public education. Aside from Bernd, he wrote several books, appeared as a stuntman and comedian in many popular german TV shows and openly opposes the far-right movement in germany. Great person.

[@martinlutz5446]

Ingrain (or wood-chip) wallpaper is the most common type of wallpaper in Germany because it is widely used in office spaces and public buildings (we mainly use wallpaper rather than painting the walls). It's seen as a symbol for mundane and boring aspects of the average daily life, so if someone were to care about ingrain wallpaper he would be seen as especially weird and nerdy, since nobody cares about ingrain wallpaper because there is nothing exciting about it. Kind of like people standing outside of airports to watch planes take off and then discuss what kind of plane it is, but times a hundred (no offense to those people though, you do you)

[@harzor4328]

Should add: not just office and public buildings, every place I've ever rented had wood chip wallpaper, and while most landlords will allow you to paint or cover the walls with whatever you want, there is usually a clause in the contract in which you are obligated to leave the place the way you got it. Edit: Should add add, I'm from the former east, but I've also lived in Regensburg for a few years - lived in a place with the same kind of stipulations.

[@arnolsi]

@@harzor4328 After enough layers of paint it's very flat. I have it on the ceilings after 35 years and many paintings it don't look like wood-chip anymore.

[@FutureChaosTV]

Wallpaper is not the norm anymore I think. It was very big in the 70's and 80's though. Same as wood panels on the walls and ceiling.

[@arnolsi]

@@FutureChaosTV Wood panels are very hip at the moment like the furniture from the 60th and 70th. I'm happy I kept the danish teak furniture from my parents, my son took them for his new house.

[@DATAof2]

Most of all this museum scene was a reference to the very first night-loop where Bernd tried to waste some time by staring at the wallpaper. For about a minuted they showed just a empty white screen, identifies it as a digital wood-chip wallpaper.

[@zeroalpha151]

Regarding the woodchip wallpaper. I remember him always going "I would much rather sit at home and memorize the pattern of my woodchip wallpaper than do this"

[@hrgunit]

the south wall was his special favourite. But he memorized all wallpapers in his flat.

[@eaglenoimoto]

I think you're missing out in a crucial part of this - we usually watched this at night after getting drunk/smoking weed as teens. This is what made it so mystically popular. I had two younger siblings that would have been at target group age for the channel at that time, and they were actually scared of the bread 😂

[@flaumeme7341]

Bernd was part of shows that were shown at the day and at first the stuff shown at night were just clips from that focused on him in an endless loop till morning. After he became popular with his night show they made exclusive material just for the night show.

[@damiandorhoff719]

I remember him doing a quiz show and he complained that no one would call because the information on the letter said that you could win 1000 Euros but it would cost 1 000 000 Euros per Minute. And all the Bread was doing was to explain that no one would call because they would loose money even if the call would only last one second. So he would just wait near a telephone for a call that would never come.

[@shinyagumon7015]

My favourite gag from that is when his friend and Producer calls the number and Bernd explains that he just wasted 1000.000 Euros by calling and then it jump cuts to the friend whiting out all the zeroes so it says it costs a Euro to call instead.😂

[@Danisachan]

The hilarious thing watching this for me was, that "red shirt" actually IS a cinematic expression for an (unimportant) person appearing in an episode, for them to die, to show how dangerous a place or situation is! 🤣 And it IS derived from Star Trek!! New props in red shirts/uniforms would simply appear one episode and just die in it. That was their whole grand purpose. It is so funny, that Bernd got that so accurately right! The creator of this show really is a genius! 😂

[@Anthyrion]

There is also a Meme, that includes both Universes. The Stormtrooper shoots, misses but the Red Shirt dies anyway^^

[@Danisachan]

@@Anthyrion That is so funny! 🤣 O yeah the Stormtrooper is also a trope! They are basically just to show that there is an Army (and they look all the same, because face and expression are not important). I actually did my (you could say) bachelor thesis on movie tropes. There are so many cool and interesting more! You will never watch movies the same way again if you know them, because you will notice them anywhere! 😂 Actually the shooting and missing is propably more the "A-Team firing" trope. (I am flatly translating from German here) The A-Team (heroes) would always hit and the bad guys would always miss them, despide massive barrage of bullets. 😂

[@Anthyrion]

@@Danisachan Ich weiß. Damals musste es familienfreundlich sein. So wie die Fahrzeuge sich teils überschlagen haben dürften die Gegner eigentlich nicht einfach nur benommen aus den Wracks kriechen dürfen. Von der ganzen verschossenen Munition mal ganz abgesehen. Airwolf war da wieder eine ganz andere Nummer. Natürlich hat man da viele Einstellungen wiederholt, aber da wurden die Gegner auch durchaus getötet

[@-kyoko-7742]

In other words the creator of the show is a nerd .

[@Anthyrion]

@@-kyoko-7742 Which one? Star Trek or Bernd?

[@EnderJannik]

The joke is that Bernd often says that he would like to be at home staring at his wall and would like to learn the pattern of his woodchip wallpaper by heart

[@Piddzle3]

I can’t believe you just made me want to watch all of that again

[@hinekde]

Originally Bernd was part of a show called "Tolle Sachen" with 2 other characters Chili Schaaf and Briegel Busch. Chili was meant to be the main character, but Bernd was better received by the audience. There were several spin of series with spoofs of other shows, "Berndi Broter and the Box of Disasters" (Harry Potter), "USS Bumblebee Bush" (Star Trek), etc. They were all on TV in the daytime. So the "Nachtschleife" (night loop) you watched is another show, exclusively with Bernd.

[@noahgollnick891]

Chili Schaf hat schon ne Menge Main Character Energy

[@jackiegerlach]

oh my god, I totally forgot about those two! :o

[@derhavas]

Okay, the right crowd here. I always understood the pun behind Chili das Schaaf (scharf), but I never got the pun behind Briegel (der) Busch...

[@stereoI8II8I]

@@derhavas „Prügel“ - im Sinne von „Knüppel“, „dicker Ast/Stock“. Wird im bayerischen [bri:gl] ausgesprochen.

[@derhavas]

@@stereoI8II8I daran hatte ich auch schon gedacht, aber ist das nicht etwas schwach im Vergleich zu den anderen Benennungen? Da muss doch noch etwas anderes dahinterstecken ; )

[@GrootGuy_27]

Bernd das Brot is the legend of our childhood

[@spirit_of_fox_7351]

Hello from Germany My English is not good pls Translate this pls P.S. Die Sendung ist ein Lückenfüller und keine richtige Kinderserie dient dabei das Kinder die form Fernseher eingeschlafen sind dass die Eltern dadurch immer wissen wann es Zeit wahr denn Fernsehen auszuschalten es gibt davon auch glaube ich noch aus dem Kopf zu wissen 3 verschiedene Versionen davon wenn ich mich richtig erinnere

[@jodohe]

​@@spirit_of_fox_7351 es gibt mehr Versionen (Ulti hat sie auch schonmal alle im Stream angeschaut) Dazu gab es auch eine echte Serie früher.

[@spirit_of_fox_7351]

@@jodohe oh lol das wusste ich nicht

[@ACEsParkJunheeWreckedMeHard]

17:36 to answer the question: in old shows whenever he was not feeling like it he said he would preffer to stare at his wall at home. However this addiction to staring at the wall made him love wallpapers

[@moinmoinbridges9201]

"I always had high expectations for the bread" is such a great quote

[@fighterphoenix5789]

The bread is depressed and mean because he went through a lot of things. And it is not even his fault, his two "friends" drag him into it every time. He is forced into this situations.

[@Richardsoundso]

Wait isnt this the lore of Spongebob?

[@fighterphoenix5789]

@@Richardsoundso not exactly but close, there is no equivalent for Patrick

[@lilysnape6520]

​@@fighterphoenix5789 I think instead of Patrick IT would be Sandy ... Spongebob as chilli the sheep but more explosive and Sandy as the Bush but way more into unsafe experiments

[@Serryy]

​@@lilysnape6520 Aside from the experiments, Sandy fits perfectly to the sheep.

[@Ulrich.Bierwisch]

The Kid-channel KIKA is usually shut down over the night. At some point in time, they had the capacity on the satellite anyway and instead of sending a static image with the information "This is KIKA, program will continue at 6:00 in the morning, they showed videos like this in an endless loop. The result was, that this channel got among the highest ratings of all TV-channels in the middle of the night. I think this stuff is perfect for people who are switching thru the channels at 3:00am. Another very successful night channel shows the "Space Night". This is mostly old footage from the space race in the 60's and other material from space mixed with electronic music.

[@ames_virosa]

As a German I of course accidentally watched Bernd das Brot once or twice after staying up for too long as a child but honestly if you’d ask me now what the plot is I'd have no idea. It’s like a fever dream really.

[@Nx56_]

Can you watch more Bernd das Brot with subtitles?

[@larsg.2492]

The night loops aren't meant for kids, it's a staple for drunk or otherwise intoxicated adults, returning home and getting a few minutes of good humored chillout before falling asleep. 😁 And during the regular broadcast Bernd is the straight man, the foil to two other characters. There's Chili the Sheep, stuntwoman and adrenaline junkie, and Briegel the Bush, mad scientist, inventor, and subscriber to get-rich-quick-schemes. Even if Bernd does not like to admit it, he would do anything for his friends and gets roped into lots of misadventures. And he sings the Blues, they produced an album on cd about twenty years ago. As a companion piece they even filmed a little story with the different tracks, I bet it's still around on the net somewhere.

[@Warentester]

Bernd or Space Night - the best shows after a party.

[@larsg.2492]

@@Warentester Right, Space Night! Where is that again, BRalpha? Didn't they have Bob Ross segments too? Such a great place to mellow out.

[@martinkasper197]

Now it's ARD Alpha..

[@robertnett9793]

Well I watched them a while ago, when I was sick and couldn't sleep due to coughing / stuffy nose.... To be fair I also felts slightly drunk...

[@timefliesaway999]

It’s meant for all the kids who won’t listen to parents and go to sleep early.

[@dontfeellonely8953]

2:33 He is probably referring to "upps die pannenshow" which was also a late night TV show back in the day It's similar to fail video completions but with moderation

[@diekrahe7151]

Bernd das Brot is such a big meme here in germany in the current 20+ genereation....because we all watched that when we were young xDDD And it was so great and funny...and it gets so relatable when you get older, especially nowadays with a the conflicts in the world..... This Bread is a legend.

[@_axxika_3715]

Just Imagine being drunk and falling asleep while watching Tv- and you wake up and see *THIS* 😂😂😂

[@TomWaldgeist]

Ahhh childhood memories… 😊

[@bosessellerie8227]

Ich hab mir das einmal angeguckt und war verwirrt

[@SiqueScarface]

@@bosessellerie8227 So the episode served its purpose.

[@themostincrediblethings2809]

so sweet :)

[@evobrand1210]

This entire show is like a fever dream

[@kuessebrama]

Bei mir gab es einfach nur ein Testbild zum Sendeschluss... Ich habe es mir aber später mal zufällig angeguckt weil ich nachts durchgeschaltet habe :D Ja aber Bernd das Brot gab es auch vorher schon, also ist nicht so dass ich ihn nicht kannte.

[@JustPyroYT]

Bernd das Brot is a strange mixture of cringe, creepy and funny xD

[@wozn7195]

Hes one of the characters that you can relate to more the older you get... Pretty much like sqidward 😅

[@JustPyroYT]

@@wozn7195 true 😂

[@aki_rad8106]

I remeber directly, whenever i accidentally fell asleep while watching tv as a child and when i woke up, Bernt das Brot was on the tv. He was peak interesting and i loved him. I think this moment happend to every german/swiss (bc im from swiss) child.

[@katinx3505]

This video was a crazy flashback for me! I remember having watched this episode on loop for *quite* a while when I was a child… Well, I’d say it has definitely left its mark. I do have a messed up sense of humor too (and I love it). Thanks Bernd, and thanks to you reacting to this

[@Copterheld]

"i have to collect my thoughts" made my day. all the best from germany

[@derhavas]

It's quite easy, the whole point of the show is that Bernd is a depressed people-hater who just wants to be left alone. But the spooky voice just won't let him. Oh, and that he is a bread.

[@derhavas]

BTW, if it is dubbed you should check out the internet and social media episode, one of the best ever

[@maunz5791]

😂😂😂 your reaction was great! Irritated, fascinated, confused but entertained - kinda relatable.

[@Jun-fg1zm]

Yeah haha... there are definitely more versions.... and this show always runs in a loop!! The whole night there

[@baumstamp5989]

lmao this is the first time i actually watched bernd das brot for longer than a minute :))))))

[@dotterbart5020]

me too

[@tufan9454]

Same bro

[@quetal5695]

first time i actually watched Bernd das Brot. edit: no, I can not watch until the end. It doesn't entertain me.

[@m.h.6470]

keep in mind, that this runs in a loop, so the next thing you see is the robot arm from the start, moving the magician around.

[@spicymemeboi2646]

Bernd was part of my childhood and let me tell you, he's a real one. He's still my spirit animal/loaf

[@erdmannelchen8829]

The thing with the wallpaper is that Bernd likes to be at home and stare at his wall. And the most common wallpaper we have in Germany are woodchip wallpapers. If I recall correctly Bernd eventually remembered the pattern of his woodchip wallpaper too.

[@StrohutMiku]

And now imagine after that ending it will just begin from the start again (pretty smooth tbh) and loop for hours 👀😂

[@MetaLatias5]

There are several different sketches/themes for these late night skits of Bernd and once they've run through their ca 12mins runtime the same skit will just start over again and loop all night through until the morning program starts again They change which skit is playing every now and then, though I don't know how often, though I definitely know that I've seen specifically this Nerd one a lot already Bernd is also part of a puppet trio within an actual Bernd das Brot TV series with Chili the Sheep and Briegel the Bush, in which (if I remember this show correctly from my childhood) he's basically the pessimistic, depressed guy forced to share a living space with the outgoing, action-seeking Chili and scientist/inventor Briegel, both of which will constantly try to involve him in their shenanigans and even if they don't, the fact that he's living in close quarters with them already disturbs his peace by itself

[@Player_Schark]

As a german I can tell you this runs as a loop the whole night. He will never come back to his shower because he is trapped inside the infinite white-box and forced to dance with nerds. Acually the series runs since 2015 as far as i know and predicted the mandalorian XD

[@theNeorax]

You absolutely have to watch the other episodes too! Nice to see a non-German appreciate this part of our childhood! Heartfelt greetings from the German state of Saxony.

[@marcelkirch6805]

Wieso hab ich vergessen wie lustig ich Bernt fand

[@ANTSMR_Dango]

Bernd likes flour soup and boring stuff. His favourite activity is looking at wallpapers. In his original show he was in a team with a hyper active Sheep and a mad genius Bush. They used him as test subject and he hated it. There are more of these night fillers. You should watch the first one to understand why he is in there and can't get out.

[@WhyName]

Getting wasted and waking up to depressed bread is one of the most iconic moments you can experience in Germany.

[@MoonysPie]

German here. Bernd was goals back in my childhood, we stayed up late JUST to watch bernd on KIKA.

[@caroline6544]

oh, this is gold! Please more! 😂Are there other Bernd videos with subtitles? I would not have thought that, but the humor is really quite well transferred in the translation

[@AutorTAMLang]

just tipe that in your yt search: Bernd das Brot english subs :) Enjoy

[@CptnTatendrang]

Spread the bread love. Bernd is King 😃

[@robertnett9793]

Indeed the humor is kept quite good. Probably, because it relies more on situational humor than on word play.

[@AnonD38]

4:32 fun fact: according to a study this happens because the neurons in our brain which have connected to form our understanding of this word (in this case „fork“) are fired repeatedly by us saying the word over and over which leads to the neurotransmitter (used to transport signals between neurons) for these neurons running low which leads to the signals not being sent correctly. That is also why it will sound normal again if you don’t think about it for a bit (the neurotransmitter gets replenished).

[@Lillyluri]

Wow, thank you for this information I never knew I needed!

[@susannaknobloch4601]

I discovered this program as an adult, I liked it, but I always tought the loops intention was primarily to get the kids bored so that they finally go to bed. I have to admit that there must have been a lot of thought and work put into it. It happend regularly that I used to watch it before I went to bed. Usually I watched the loop three times to fully enjoy all the funny little twists and jokes. I never found that the bread was depressed, but I am from Vienna, so being a little bit grumpy all the time seems relatively normal to me. 😉

[@UndercoverDog]

Im so proud of watching Bernd das Brot in my childhood!

[@herb6677]

This just makes sense when you are awake in the middle of the night, when you cannot sleep, when there is no other TV programm which would be worth to watch, and you watch this holy crap over and over again when it loops through the night. Now this is a really early episode where many things happen. Nowadays is is much more hypnotic, which I prefer more.

[@skeptiker1907]

I've seen this exact episode so often when i was a kid :D I've watched Bernd das Brot 'Sendeschluss' again and again. It was the best thing. Kinda warms my heart that its actually still hillarious as an adult. It has a special charme. Great video. I enjoyed myself!

[@OctoberOctopusM]

In 2009 Bernd das Brot was abducted and then found again in an abandoned building. It made headline news on most chanbels 😂

[@remem95]

The lore of the woodchip wallpaper is that in one very old episode the gags became too silly, so Bernd opted to stare and comment on the wallpaper instead, eventually playing a melancholic song and just showing that for a few minutes.

[@dieludolfverschwoerung]

"Bernd das Brot" is really just a creative way to fill the time between the channel's broadcast end and start (during the night), He doesn't tell the weather (as far as I know)... You have to know that KIKA is part of the german public broadcast, which has got shitload of money and is not dependent on money from commercials. So they may had some unused money and some bored employee and this was the crazy result of this combination xD It's kind of entertaining, especially when you take LSD or Shrooms, we did that back in college days and watched it through the whole night, although it constantly repeats the short clips, and you watch the same shit again and again. We had so much fun ^^

[@cstone3178]

I discovered Bernd das Brot after moving to Germany from the US. My take on it? It is best enjoyed stoned, late on a Saturday night. Then, it is effing hilarious!

[@Warentester]

Bernd or Space Night.

[@fabi-jj1kd]

Just started the video and I havent seen anything, but a 20 minutes video about Bernd das Brot is so great😂😂 Love your videos!!

[@gaker19sc]

Fun fact: Bernd is also on Spotify and releases his music there

[@asmodon]

✋🍞🤚🎵 „Alle zusammen, tanzt das Brot!“ 🎶🕺🏼💃🏼

[@bendervorleser8906]

🎶Wir sitzen doch alle im selben Boot🎶✋️🍞✋️⛵️ (verdammt warum ist mir der text nach Jahren noch so geläufig)

[@lucaskull7229]

if there's more of these with subtitles, you need to watch more of them. This one was a bit more chaotic than the others

[@bernice6867]

May favorite part is when he says "Mist". It wasn't a very popular swearword before and he says it in such a distinct way. I like to say it now and think of Bernd.

[@taaya6037]

Oh, there is SO much more. Over 100 episodes of the show he started with, where he as to test strange new inventions. A version of "Dinner for one" (a European New year's classic) with him, some feature movies, I think,... Lots and lots of material. (He did tell the weather once, yes.)

[@ElectronicSin]

We used to watch „Bernd das Brot“ on chill outs after techno parties. When you are completely high and wasted, this show is something else, I tell you 😂

[@zoathehunter]

You're right with that this is a show for the drunken. Watched it a lot in my teenage years when i came home drunken or watched it with friends while we were drinking. Or making drinking games, like take a shot everytime he's saying "mist".

[@Dancemaus1984]

I forgot how funny Bernd was😂i used to watch him when i was a child and couln't sleep

[@oneschnuffelampc5733]

The improvised magic spell from bernd might be a reference to another famous (actually for) kids show: "Bibi Blocksberg", a young witch living in Neustadt (the city where another german culture icon, "My best friend Conni", lives) or occasionally on a horse ranch with her best friend Tina (in the "Bibi und Tina"-spinoff, which I actually watched more than the original). Her magic spells also always rhyme and end with "Hex Hex" (or "whizz whizz" as it is translated here). Yeah so anyways it's pretty big and basically everyone in Germany, or at least all the girls I know, have recognise it, there are tv shows, books, audiobooks and even movies (it was always such a huge event in my childhood when a new movie dropped). Idk it is also such a german thing, maybe you wanna check it out^^

[@zwojack7285]

mmmmMist. Oh, and at 5:14, it's Levio-SA

[@ringone198]

17:40 The loop switches from time to time and there was one where he like kept trying to escape a white infinite loop room for the entire time and got taunted while doing so

[@madmidnights7776]

Bernd just loves to watch at wallpapers and drinks flour soup😂 I loved his loop show at night

[@thetruepain3761]

i sometimes sneaked out of bed at night to watch Bob Ross and Bernd on tv xDD awesome time

[@jonasholzer4422]

As a child, I did not realize the comedic genius of this

[@nigoki9706]

Bernd has several clips and yes in one of them he does the weather. Maybe you noticed it but in the end the clip cuts to a white screen like there was in the beginning. On TV they loop all night long.

[@jaronn_]

the thing is every german kid fell asleep while watching tv at least once and then woke up to this bread telling you to destroy the tv or something

[@hollminator9382]

I just watched you react on extra 3 and now Bernd das Brot. It’s just hilarious!!! Keep on goin!

[@meerlinski]

Well we actually say “nerd” too but translated it means “Streber” (male nerd) and “Streberin” (female nerd). Nowadays a lot of english words are used in Germany as well so it is fine to use both. I think tho that “Streber” is more used when it comes to the “top-graded-students” and is kind of more the nerd in school. The “nerd” is more like a society seen person: the one that collects things, is passionate about certain things and so on (like the things that are listed in the video). Hope that it kinda helped

[@himmel-erdeundzuruck5682]

There is a difference between Streber and Nerd. A Streber will always try to have the best grades in school, as well by learning as by being teacher's darling etc. Whereas Nerd is the american nerd: Specialized in one thing up to no sense, while being a bit strange. The word "Nerd" describes an asperger autist, the word "Streber" describes a very ambitious child.

[@timefliesaway999]

@@himmel-erdeundzuruck5682 not every nerd is autistic tho.

[@himmel-erdeundzuruck5682]

@@timefliesaway999 That's true!

[@antikreativ96]

Streber = teacher's pet

[@Drezil]

Best: It loops endlessly :D Neverending .. and gets funnier the drunker you get :D

[@daniel_ghax]

Morale of the story: 1. It's okay to be a nerd. 2. Don't mess with a nerd, he knows where the reactor is.

[@RCBirds]

Did you know he won the German equivalent of the Grammy? And even the Matrix guys dedicated the subway scene to Bernd? You should watch the classical Bernd cannot leave the screen for technical reasons. 😁

[@bulldowozer5858]

Very nice how he called it "dubbed" and "dupped" Version, while it clearly says "Subtitles" hehe

[@haberschnack]

My partner and I often quote some of Bernd's best phrases, also I lived in Erfurt, city in Thuringia where the KiKa has their main office. All over the city you can find many of their popular mascots. Right next to the historic Town Hall you can find him as a statue. Also:"Alle zusammen tanzt das Brot!"

[@bastercall6586]

Wir sitzen alle im selben boot

[@LunaThueringen]

In Erfurt (in Germany) there are various figures from the Kika programs, including Bernd the bread, the Sandman, Captain Bluebear, Hein Blöd and TigerEnte

[@kpunkt.klaviermusik]

It's a long time since I watched the last Bernd das Brot broadcast. This was really sick.

[@amelie5287]

Just read the title...this is gonna be fun and for him so weirdly confusing I luv it😂❤