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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

"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.

"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

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

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.

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

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.

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 ^^

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

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.

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 🤣

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"

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! ❤️)

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

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

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 😂

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.

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.

Bernd das Brot is the legend of our childhood

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)

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

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

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.

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! 😂

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 😂

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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"

Ahhh childhood memories… 😊

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

Its played as loop every night....all night

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

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

I used to watch all of these loops as a kid wirh my brother. There are so many of Berndt das Brot loops and these are peak entertainment!

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

I remember when I watched this as a kid and thought of it as some weird fever dream. About a year later, I remembered it and found it on youtube

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

This is not the only looped Bernd late night show, there are others. Might be worth a watch!

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!

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.

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.

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

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).

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.

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.

Big childhood memory unlocked

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

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!

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.

This really takes me back. Me and my sisters watched this from time to time. I was 11 years back then. Now I am 30. Time goes by, huh?

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

"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 ^^

This was literally my childhood I always watched it ever day

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

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".

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

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

This is so great, i often watched it, when it was bedtime!

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

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 😂

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.)

If you want the full experience, just imagine after the video ends there is a screen telling you that KiKa starts again its normal program at 6 am for about 60 seconds, then the same movie of Bernd starts looping again. And again. And again...

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

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.

i used to watch this exact episode on loop for HOURS on my grandmas TV until i finally fell asleep. Good memories

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

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

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.

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

KiKa is the german Children's Channel. At night, when the normal programm has ended, Bernd das Brot is on air for many hours until the program starts again the next morning. It is Bernd for hours on TV, no loop, everything he says and does is different. No commercial breaks. And it is also different the next days. I don't know how many hours of Bernd das Brot there are, but the channel have to have hundreds of hours. There were days I watched it for hours.

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

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!"

Bernd das Brot is in that weird range of memory for me where i cant remember anything about it but when i watch one single segment of it im just absolutely flooded with childhood memories with jokes 6 year old me never understood

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

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