Some People Call Me the Space Carb-Boy

March 5, 2020 6:18 PM

This is the voyage of the starship USS Bumblebee, on a mission to rescue one very depressed life form, Bernd the Bread, from the most vicious loaves in the universe. WE ARE BREAD. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE. (SLYT, German language, English subtitles, and the pompatus of extremely boring rock formations.)
posted by MonkeyToes (7 comments total)

Also, Bernd is a damn inspirational speaker for our times.
posted by MonkeyToes at 6:52 PM on March 5, 2020

vicious loaves

...is my new sockpuppet name.
posted by Greg_Ace at 7:14 PM on March 5, 2020

"I found a single, VERY depressed life form"

Marvinbrot!!
posted by Greg_Ace at 7:16 PM on March 5, 2020 [2 favorites]

Mist.
posted by Reverend John at 7:26 PM on March 5, 2020

This is great! When I lived in Germany a while ago, I would watch him close out kika when it went off the air.

Mist.
posted by Otherwise at 7:33 PM on March 5, 2020

I thought this might be related to the L S Bumblebee but no.
posted by Rash at 7:53 PM on March 5, 2020

"Unlike his friends Chili and Briegel -- who are unremittingly upbeat and happy and excited about life and their adventures -- Bernd is a manic depressive. Here is a bread whose main tag line, used repeatedly in the skits is “Mein Leben ist die Hölle" ("My life is hell"). He admonishes his audience that he’s had enough, he’s going home, and you, the viewer, should as well! “Geh nach Hause!” says Bernd in his resonant, gloomy baritone. He hates us all and isn’t ashamed to admit it. He is the dark night of the German soul anthropomorphized as a bakery item, itself iconic in a land that refers to even its beer as “flüssiges Brot," liquid bread. Bernd views the world and the people in it as "Mist," crap."
posted by MonkeyToes at 7:08 AM on March 6, 2020