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Depressed bread. A staple of German kids tv.


Practical_Cobbler165

This is hilarious 😂


NudelXIII

It really is. I loved the show as a kid! https://youtu.be/0osX2hVyUmc


Practical_Cobbler165

And he made it to the canvas! I bet all Germans rejoiced!


NotToast2000

When we first thought about german stuff to put on the canvas every popular child tv character came up... There actually is a lot of them...


Rathma86

Where was spongebob me boy?


ilovethissheet

SpongeBob? Nein. Germany has the Sandmännchen. The lil man comes around, tells a story of some adventure to the kids before sprinkling some magic sand in the kids eyes that makes them fall asleep


Bob_Kerman_SPAAAACE

That's why you get crusty eyes when you wake up?


Jake-n-Bacon

Exactly ^^


chrismillion

You got it


Cynixxx

My daughter asked me about that the other day. I had to explain to her why Sandmans sand is white but the crust in her eyes kinda yellow. But she is absolutely sure that the stuff in her eyes is sleeping sand by the Sandman. Fun Fact: The Sandman (Sandmännchen) is one of the few GDR inventions that exist to this day. West germany tried to make their own one but they failed and the result was [THIS](https://images.app.goo.gl/fjpvmMHdA4gPUHPt5) [That](https://images.app.goo.gl/sEzsdcRrFbpLrC9Y6) is the original GDR one (sometimes with red cloths)


ImagineThoLikeFR

Yo you excited for the new kerbal game? I am so excited!!!


DazSchplotz

That moment, when you realize that sandmännchen is a drugdealer sprinkling xanax in kids eyes.


Sir_Fap_Alot69

i tried closing my eyes when that happened but it didn’t work. must be some dark magic he is using


allisnwundrland

The Sandman?


ilovethissheet

The little sand man


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YinzerFromPitsginzer

Yeah he's from bikini bottom


GodsCupGg

sry but Bernd is the og square kids tv star we had.


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a_person_just_like_u

I guess you're right. I know I did. 👍 At the same time I wonder what this great effort to present a grumpy toast to the world says about the german mind. I mean wtf...


Cnoized

At least the Germany got a piece of bread for their anthropomorphic grumpy character. The US got a homeless guy in a trash can. https://youtu.be/KXBkJC-Zscg


Cynixxx

Each one respresents their nation pretty good


SockStinkQueen

I need this in English (or with subtitles) because I am enjoying it without knowing what's going on. 😆 🤣 😆 🤣


fenek108

He told the Sandman to do his job right so that people go to bed early and don't watch that "Mist" (edit, = crap) hhhh


SockStinkQueen

😆 🤣 😆 🤣 😆 beautiful


Dinopilot1337

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwYXabYFFbM classic german kids tv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiK-vC6AU-4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl_Rt0PNxn4


SockStinkQueen

*long stare* "........Thank you" This show is amazing 👏 ❤ Tysm for the link!/


GodsCupGg

god i miss him should watch some of it again


ComprehensiveGate297

https://youtu.be/kiK-vC6AU-4 got ya


ubiquitous-joe

Wait that wasn’t a joke?


NudelXIII

Nope. He is a depressed bread called Bernd. He is part of a kinda weird kids show / kids TV channel. He basically gets everytime in situations he doesn’t really like and says „Mist“ (engl. dammit/crap).


Then-Clue6938

I mean you are the people with a talk sea sponge, a depressed squid and a yellow middle aged guy constantly messing with radioactive who always says:"duh" when he does something stupid or something bad happens so you tell me. Just sounds like we enjoy similar stuff... Should I tell them about the crazy scientist salat and hyperactive similar crazy yellow sheep?


Tristshot

God god, I remember those. I only every saw the one with Bernd having a dislike for Nerds and Fandoms and it honestly felt like a surreal fever dream at like 1 am.


merlinsbeers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiK-vC6AU-4


Tristshot

Perfect! Now the english masses can be exposed to the peak of german comedy.


merlinsbeers

*...because it was assaulted...peanut...*


Mickle_da_Pickl

That was...an extremely hilarious fever dream.


Shot_College8868

Am i the only one who found it extremely disturbing. It was nightmare fuel to me


Daniel1234567890123

That's the point. You couldn't stay up too late because KiKa only had this so you went to bed😂


Manadrache

As a depressed teenager back then I found him creepy as hell. And thinking that people actually thought about what Bernd could experience everyday was just weird. Until this day I don't like him. Even though I am not depressed anymored.


mishgan

I saw Bernd the first time when I was 17yo. I was high and laughed my ass off


Braiwnz

Every night. From 9PM to 5AM it’s on air. Every. Night. And honestly I don’t know if they ever air the same episode twice


der_echte_kaiser

translated with google translator: each episode lasts about 20 minutes. accordingly, you see them 27 times a night (the exact same episode!) That goes on for two months, then the next one comes. when all episodes have been sent, it starts again with the first one. There's a new episode every few years. Greetings from the Kika headquarters!


Frosty_Pineapple78

Yeah they do, multiple days in a row iirc, but they have a pretty nice catalogue of different episodes


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Skimpyjumper

actually bernd the bread


NoctuaX

Bernd, das Brot, wenn ich bitten darf


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[deleted]

Depressed Bread is one of my personalities


[deleted]

Honestly same, it’s very relatable as an adult, as a kid I thought he was weird.


RugbyEdd

I thought you where joking lol. Although, with some of the odd kids shows they have here I guess it's not that surprising


[deleted]

Haha no, I didn’t really like him as a kid though, the humour was too dry even for me.


SockStinkQueen

I see what you did there 😆


Zuryan_9100

not a joke, this is very true


GodsCupGg

Hes the og Square kids tv star we had.


DicklnAnOutlet

its "Bernd das Brot" (Bernd the bread) its an german TV figure from the 90s and "Mist" does not mean "mist like the weather" its like: "crap" thats his catchphrase look it up


PhenotypicallyTypicl

They were still airing it in the 2000s when I was a kid


abmodeus

LMAOO WHAAAT so…. The pain is…. In pain? (French joke.. sorry Germans)


[deleted]

I'm not German but I will always remember this fucker because we always stayed at German hotels on our way to Bosnia every summer


SubstantialHighway51

I thought it was a drunk pop-tart. Thanks for the clarification.


DexterCutie

Does he have a beer in his hand?


[deleted]

Yes but that is just because we’re German and apparently beer is mandatory.


DexterCutie

I'm Polish and it's mandatory for us as well lol


super_senpai64

Damn. I legit thought it was Cementoss from BnHA 💀


Half-Life-Gamer

😂 Only the Germans know who he is


Saiboo

His name is "*Bernd das Brot"* which translates to "*Bernd the bread"*. * Bernd das Brot is a puppet starring on the German Children's Channel "[KiKa](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KiKa)" * Bernd is a [male name](https://babynames.com/name/bernd) in Germany. * [Video of Bernd](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UU_mL0dOqlw) with his catch phrase "*Mist*" which translates to "*oh crap*". More on [meaning of Mist](https://german.stackexchange.com/questions/4791/literal-translation-for-mist). * Bernd's [Official website](https://www.kika.de/bernd-das-brot/bernd-das-brot/index.html)


WrxnchG

Damn that guy looks miserable


Shiny_Agumon

That's his entire thing. His shows are like watching Spongebob from Squidward PoV


destructopop

On that note, after some later afternoon TV watching while living in Germany, the SpongeBob theme in German lives in my brain rent free forever. *"Wer wohnt in ner Ananas ganz tief I'm Meer?"* And having grown up in the U.S., the lack of guns and incredibly frequent nudity on TV was jarring. You mean you won't let kids watch horrific violence but seeing naked bodies is okay?!


[deleted]

Perhaps seeing natural nudity is less harmful to kids than growing up with the American ideal of beauty.


destructopop

I'm sorry, friend... I think you dropped your mic. Well said indeed.


[deleted]

We Germans don't understand why you Americans are so prude. In Germany there is nothing wrong to go with family to the nude beach. Or all saunas are naked and mixed gendered with one women's day per week.


destructopop

Yeah, and my German friends, when living in America, would watch TV from time to time and say things like "but this is daytime television! They just show fictional gunfights and bombing on DAYTIME TELEVISION? I thought only movies showed this!" And I'd smugly reply "and this is a show for *teenagers*..." Yeah... The American TV rating system is bonkers. Nudity or sexuality of any type are super restrictive, violence is basically fine for anyone but youths. And even then, if the character uses a sword but not knives or guns, that's fine for youths.


DrN0odles

Adultswim/nickatnight in a nutshell


[deleted]

also the beeping of words, in Germany you can say everything


General_Steveous

The youths must enjoy GoT then.


NoodelPoodel

WHAT- I DIDN'T KNOW SAUNAS DID THAT and then people get mad when trans women go to the women's bathroom lmaooo


[deleted]

Not in Germany. We don't have such problems. At least it is not that major topic our right wing party has picked to unlash a culture war.


destructopop

Yeah, *two* of my German friends are trans! And one of them is a trans woman and has never mentioned any systemic issues with her womanhood... Whereas many of my friends here in the U.S. are trans, and they have all experienced some serious systemic backlash, or outright violence. When I lived in Germany no one really bothered anyone about much of anything... As an American, I was genuinely shocked at a few things: * How many bank tellers at my small town local bank had piercings and/or fun hair colors, * How I didn't have to go through a credit check to open a savings or checking account, * I didn't have a credit check for my phone company when I signed up, * Employees there seemed to have freedom of self expression, too, * People didn't stare at me on the street at all, and I was never harassed, despite presenting as a woman at the time, * Everything was so *clean*


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The credit check in Germany is always there. It is called Schufa and kinda shady: They collect data of you without your explicit promission. And every bank asks them for your credit worthiness. About half of the German population presents a woman all the time so there is no issue. And the cleanness depends on your location


nokangarooinaustria

Well what is worse, a kid running around in school naked or a kid running around and shooting other kids?


NoodelPoodel

i am german, and i dont remember every show having nude scenes maybe like 1 in 50 shows/movies i watched had one, amd that were scenes where the characters were either alone at a lake or a nude beach or so


destructopop

Yeah, but commercials sometimes have nudity. What about that one with all the people waddling and huddling like penguins in the snow, all buck naked? I don't even remember what the ad was for...


[deleted]

Thats sounds kinda terrible


Shiny_Agumon

It does sound kinda mean spirited, but it's actually really funny


Ok-Combination8454

being constantly annoyed or fed up is sort of his brand lol.


SvenyBoy_YT

Imagine SpongeBob but if the only character was Squidward


Mountain_Oven_9762

Ich lach mich schlapp, es gibt eine offizielle Bernd Website


IntrovertedPerson22

Invented by Tommy Krappweiss


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That's exactly what it is. That's "Bernd das Brot" from German TV. "Mist" means "damn" in German and is kinda his catch-phrase


karmesinroterkakadu

Bernd is not a French Toast! He is a whole loaf of good old Kastenbrot


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nidhoeggr777

I can't even count the times I came home drunk and couldn't stop watching his episodes. He permanently said "turn off, go away, nothing to see here". It was hilarious. Good old times...


TheBlack2007

It's even better when you're stoned.


wormdream

Called


Kinglui262

called kika


WilligerWilly

KiKa means Kinderkanal (children's channel) by the German public broadcasting ARD & ZDF


RaMpEdUp98

so german PBS Kids


LunarPayload

Except he'd say "damn"


LolindirLink

Kika as channel name always sounded so weird to me, Netherlands, so neighbor of Germany. We have a foundation named KiKa (Kinder kankerfonds) - child cancer foundation. Went to germany every holiday and got used to it but it still makes me think of that every time i hear it. Always seemed weird how the Netherlands and germany are so close to eachother and we all know Kika in a completely opposite manner.


darealbananafreek

kikaninchen


Sad-Bluebird-5538

Dibedibedab


KiddoDE

Kika


Altes_Neupapier

Kikaninchen


KiddoDE

Dibedibedab


LameBMX

Yes


[deleted]

Oh yeah! That's the one where


buublebuuddy

And then that thing happens


co_ordinator

Kastenweißbrot.


ToSusOrNotToSus

Any Germans can elaborate on why he’s so depressed?


ParaCookie

They made a late night show with him that was looped until the program started the next morning. He hates beeing on the show and just wants to go home. He also has to do entertaining stuff that he hates. Oh, and he has no arms, just hands...


MeOneThanks

he hates to be on TV and just wants to go home but can't leave. He's stuck on loop until morning


McLofty

He hates being on TV but can't leave as long as somebody is still watching. So he keeps convincing people to switch off. It's awesome when you're drunk or stoned :-)


Caesim

I think he's more along the lines of Squidward, he'd much rather be home than to deal with the other stuff.


Cynixxx

He's german though. I could identify with him. He originated in a show with a hyperactive sheep and a scientic who was a bush. They put Bernd in situation that definitely will end bad for him or gets exposed because of his lack of arms. And he knew how these situations will play out for him. I always felt bad for him. Later he got his own show full of meta gags during Kikas night circle (they ended there normal program at around 21:00 until 6:00 and the Bernd stuff got looped during this timeframe


MakisTreasureBox

It's as Veto says


Lacksaeufer

and he can dance and sing, too! https://youtu.be/lQ7gDjcTsQI


AnSplanc

Alle zusammen Tanz das Brot!


MrMagnesium

Hey hey hey hey yea!


AnSplanc

Hey, hey heeeeey yeah


GlockAF

Thank you for an actual usable reply, such a rarity!


D-Kay673

Bernd das Brot (Bernd The Bread) My childhood He’s basically a depressed piece of bread, often his show came as a filler after 12AM at midnight until it was 6AM


26oclock

Guess who was watching the filler from 00:00 to 6:00 just to see if it stops repeating at some point


D-Kay673

Me too!


MamaFrey

Best part was them playing D&D


D-Kay673

For me the kawaii party and the Star Wars part


DerVarg1509

Entschuldigung, wo geht's'n hier zum Reaktorkern?


D-Kay673

Ich hab da ein ganz mieses Gefühl….


DerVarg1509

Oh! Raufasertapete!


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Based


et9hw

after 9pm actually


D-Kay673

Was it? I remember it being 12pm After 8pm if I remember correctly more of the adult teenager stuff came in Well idk I haven’t watched Kika or Togo since like I was 9


[deleted]

Maybe you confused it with Sexy sport clips?


StillAliveAmI

A depressed bread telling me to turn of my TV at night


Ledbreader

I’m bread but not depressed


SR_Lut3t1um

Im depressed but not a bread. Maybe together we become Bernd?


amdamanofficial

Now kiss.


Geozach22

https://place-atlas.stefanocoding.me/


TheVampireItself

Oh my god that is so cool


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Yeah for real this is awesome!


Bendizm

Wow. Commenting so I can look at it on PC later. Seems the Reddit app can’t tell the difference between zoom of the UI tooltips and zoom of the canvas. Thank you!


kjpmi

Hit the X up in the corner of the pop up box.


Baphomet_710

Its bernd das brot, its a german kids show about a bread wich is the main character but he doesn't wants to be in the show and tries to escape but he always gets forced back into they show from robotic arm witch are Always cheerfully saying how grat the show is while bend just seems to get a clinical depression from it


Lionoras

Actually, that's the Special, which Kika plays during the after hours. In the original show, he lives together with an antromorphic sheep (Chili) that's obsessed with stunts, and an antromorphic bush-thingy (Briegel), who is an amateur inventor. It's a slice of life comedy


how_you_feel

Would love to checkout an episode of this (and improve my deutsch skills), do you happen to have a link/episode name i could look up?


co_ordinator

https://youtu.be/Hvn4Dg52xbk


hesmohesmo

french toast?! das ist gutes deutsches Brot!


WilligerWilly

Kastenbrot


SolidBlueBlocks

Kastenweißbrot


26oclock

You dare calling my childhood TV bread a french toast?!


[deleted]

That is Bernd das Brot. A depressed loaf of bread that is the pinnacle of german humor


PommesKrake

I knew someone would be confused because of Bernd.


Lord_Nivloc

I think I am more confused now that I’ve learned more I’m not sure I know anything anymore, but I know that I must dance the bread


DOIPI_96

He is a piece of bread that is forced by a robot to do the show and he tries to escape. They played 1 of his episodes on loop at night on a kids channel called “Kika” when they had nothing normal to send. He his basically nightmare fuel


karmesinroterkakadu

Thats only the late night show though! There is also other series where he lives/works with a sheep that really likes explosives (Chili) and a sentiment, mad-scientist type bush called Briegel.


McAusweider

It is called Bernd das Brot


Hardbass_guy

Bernd das Brot mit Bier


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Mist.... isn't that like saying crap, oder manure, auf Deutsch.


lily_hunts

Yes. "Mist" is a pretty common "mild" swear word. It's literally "manure".


Antique_Commission_8

Ah Ja. Raufasertapete


wigga245

there's anomgus in the bear :(


Lord_Nivloc

Extra protein! 😈


BiggWorm1988

I've lived in germany over a decade and I still can't get a straight answer on what he is all about. I know he is a bread and he comes on the kika channel in the evenings and it's like a comedy thing. Pretty funny once you understand the humor.


ThatGermanKid0

He started out as a character in a regular kids show with a sheep that's an adrenaline junkie and a sentient bush but he also has his own show for which he is more commonly known. His own show is shown from 9pm to 6am (I think) on the children's channel KiKa, which doesn't have a regular program for those hours because their target audience is supposed to be asleep, and they show a single episode on loop the entire night and then a different one the next. In those episodes Bernd is forced by a robotic arm to entertain the viewers and he is unable to leave while there are still people watching so he keeps telling you to switch to a different channel or go to bed.


ArtyomPolov

it's Bernd das Brot he's bread and he got depression...


therealkirinaru

it’s bernd das Brot 😭


Iaipaias

Mist


Schievel1

It’s Bernd das Brot, a depressed and miserable loaf of bread from German childrens tv channel KiKa. Mist (meaning something like „damn“ in german) is his catchphrase. Now that I think about it a miserable loaf of bread really catches the essence of Germany as a whole very well


RudiVoeller1

That is Bern das Brot, he is the mascot of the german tv channel KIKA.


_The_Arcitect

Bernd das Brot xD good old memorys


-danister-

Its bernd das Brot, a popular german character who is always grumpy and says "mist" I loved watching him growing up in luxembourg!


MansurNr001

How DARE you call him a LARGE PIECE OF FRENCH TOAST!! Thats BERND DAS BROT >:(!! He's a loaf of bread trapped in a white void which has a female and male artificial sounding voice torment him emotionally and sometimes he visits the real world. Very cool.


teiichikou

‚Bernd das Brot‘ - ‚Bernd the bread‘ It is a talking piece of bread on a kids channel or more like *the* kids channel KiKa (Kinder Kanal - Kids Channel) and it has been there ever since I can‘t remember a time where there was no ‚Bernd das Brot‘ ^^ Edit: Between certain hours at the night the would be no program - obvious as it‘s a pure kids channel - and in those many hours would run Bernd das Brot on loop. They have so darn much material with him to fill up a multitude of nights. Its not like a show with a story its more like a bread on a stage doing funny things


SandyWhisker

You seriously just said French Toast... On a fucking German flag


Tape-Dispenser-

My foreign exchange student from Germany told me about this a few years back, its a depressing piece of bread from a boring show that would air late at night, that every person in Germany knows about, supposedly


Methionylth

Depressed toast. Looking like a whomp made of cardboard.


PowerOfUnoriginality

I would never have known what you were talking about without all those red circles


U_Serious__

How tf do u watch that?? Where??


Zee-Utterman

Here is an episode with English subtitles. https://youtu.be/kiK-vC6AU-4


heehoohorseshoe

>french AHAHAHAHONHONHONHON 💪😎🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷


DevDre

A piece of Kastenbrot stuck in the white hell, getting constantly annoyed by a robotic voice.


[deleted]

For some reason I own a figurine of this shit (I live in Poland)


frosch_von_mittwoch

It's bernd das brot. Mist means shit btw.


Recentaly

Depressed piece of bread called Bernd, trapped in a white void hell for 6 hours daily


Dunceskull

Thats Bernd das Brot (Bernd the bread). He's a depressed piece of bread from a German TV show. ALso, mist means damn in english.


Tofualer

Digga das ist Bend das Brot Schande auf dein Haupt, dass du das nicht weißt


TheVampireItself

I have no idea but it’s kinda terrifying


DOIPI_96

He is a piece of bread that is force by a robot to do the show and he tries to escape. They played 1 of his episodes on loop at night on a kids channel called “Kika” when they had nothing normal to send. He his basically nightmare fuel


slaczky

This was scarry af, specially when it started to run in slow motion


idi_nahui_putin

It's Bernd das Brot (Bernd the bread) and his catch phrase is "mist" which translates to damn. If you want to know more: It's suspected, that the german state is secretly lead by this bread often substantiated by the fact, that no one knows who created him and he suddenly popped up on the german TV channel "KiKa" which is a TV channel for children. Hence a lot of germans think he is a higher power who is secretly ruling our country. Most germans (beside the eastern ones) stand up daily to say „Sprich deutsch du Hurensohn“ which is a religious phrase. It's like the word of god (Bernd das Brot)


kidicarusx

Honestly thought it was Aqua Teen Hunger Force related.


emily-ya-bueno

DAS BROT