Meet Bernd das Brot, a depressed German loaf of bread that's spent 25 years as a TV cult classic A cult classic ... as Bernd’s birthday is Feb. 29. The latest series will premiere in September ...

The duo had been asked to come up with mascots for KiKA, a German children’s public television channel. Comic artist Georg Graf von Westphalen designed Bernd as a pullman loaf — white bread ...