The timeless fortunes of the cake tin mafia
"The closet is basically open": One of the funniest TV segments ever has been slumbering on YouTube for ten years and only has just under 500,000 views. Time to change that.
The program was broadcast on NDR twelve years earlier, in 1996, and tells the story of the advertising promise of a Berlin safe manufacturer, MCR Geldschrank-Vertriebs GmbH: While the safes of the so-called "Kuchenblechmafia" could be cracked within minutes, the company claimed that its own products could withstand any attempt to crack them. The satirical magazine "Extra 3" took up the self-confident words of the security experts and had the differences between quality and junk ("safes at the lowest shame line") demonstrated. The six-minute feature shows: Funny is still funny after 22 years. And: Not only good wines get even better over the years. (hae)
