From Bernd das Brot to a duck accompanied by, “Ich habe Paranoide Schizophrenie,” these silly brain rot memes are distinctly German. The Vertikal Rotierender Fisch began showing up in these ...

Celebrate 25 years of Bernd das Brot, the grumpy German bread puppet who became a cult classic with his gloomy humour and reluctant TV stardom. Photo: AP ...

The toast of children’s television, Bernd das Brot was first baked up by Tommy Krappweis and Norman Cöster. Georg Graf von Westphalen then designed Bernd as a loaf of white bread with a ...

FILE - A journalist takes footage of a statue of "Bernd das Brot" in front of City Hall in Erfurt, Germany, Feb. 4, 2009. "Bernd das Brot" is a talking loaf of bread from a children's TV show.

A cult classic in Germany, Bernd das Brot (Bernd the Bread) is a puppet renowned for his deep, gloomy voice, his perpetual pessimism and his signature expression, “Mist!” (Think “crap!” in ...

BERLIN — Forget SpongeBob SquarePants, Sesame Street and the sourdough starter craze: a depressed German loaf of bread named Bernd das Brot is celebrating his 25th anniversary as the reluctant ...

FILE - The statue "Bernd das Brot" stand in front of the City hall in Erfurt, Germany, on Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2009. (AP Photo/Jens Meyer, File) ...

BERLIN (AP) — Forget SpongeBob SquarePants, Sesame Street and the sourdough starter craze: a depressed German loaf of bread named Bernd das Brot is celebrating his 25th anniversary as the ...