Dolferl the Coffee Automaton (by Stilldown)
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19th Nov 2021, 2:07 AM
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I have no words for how cruel that is!
To deny a man his COFFEE?!!
I can't speak for Tarik, but, if it were me... well, after 2 days of that nonsense, somebody would catch an EMP pulse and a chainsaw to the faceplate!
To deny a man his COFFEE?!!
I can't speak for Tarik, but, if it were me... well, after 2 days of that nonsense, somebody would catch an EMP pulse and a chainsaw to the faceplate!
19th Nov 2021, 4:12 AM
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Tarik has the patience of a saint - or he's just too afraid that the automaton might somehow fight back...
19th Nov 2021, 7:37 PM
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With an unreliable coffee automaton at our house, I know those moments, too. A few words about the background, as Kottan isn't probably known in many countries. It was a television show that started as common austrian police/ crime serial, but turned into a comedy with extremly absurde humor and infamous running gags during it's run.
In former episodes, a secretary kept serving boiling coffee, burning everyone, so the staff appreciated the new coffe automaton, except the chief of the police, Präsident Pilch, the opponent and personal enemy of Major Kottan. Pilch never gets coffee, but punches and insults. Pilch, who is psychotic (and later totally loses the mind in the last episodes) got promoted instead of Kottan, so it turns out that Kottan set up the automaton as revenge. (For unknown reasons, the automaton here replaced Pilch with Tarik. Kottan was blonde and Pilch dark haired, so maybe Peter and Tarik got confused by the electronics.)
Finally, after Pilch made one last attempt to get coffee disguised as Santa Claus, he destroys the coffee automaton in a crusher, as seen in this outtake. It wasn't the end of Pilch vs. automaton, as in the full episode (not seen here,) Pilch returns happily to the police station, just meeting a new replica of the coffe automaton riding down the paternoster lift.
In former episodes, a secretary kept serving boiling coffee, burning everyone, so the staff appreciated the new coffe automaton, except the chief of the police, Präsident Pilch, the opponent and personal enemy of Major Kottan. Pilch never gets coffee, but punches and insults. Pilch, who is psychotic (and later totally loses the mind in the last episodes) got promoted instead of Kottan, so it turns out that Kottan set up the automaton as revenge. (For unknown reasons, the automaton here replaced Pilch with Tarik. Kottan was blonde and Pilch dark haired, so maybe Peter and Tarik got confused by the electronics.)
Finally, after Pilch made one last attempt to get coffee disguised as Santa Claus, he destroys the coffee automaton in a crusher, as seen in this outtake. It wasn't the end of Pilch vs. automaton, as in the full episode (not seen here,) Pilch returns happily to the police station, just meeting a new replica of the coffe automaton riding down the paternoster lift.
It's a reference to a similar machine from the Austrian TV series Kottan ermittelt.
In Stilldown's own words:
"Dolferl", the coffee automaton.
At first sight a solid, high quality late 1970ies coffee automaton, fully restored. Professor Axel Lidenbrock bought it for a reasonable price for the institute after it had been at service of an austrian police station for many years. Everybody believes it works perfect and it was a great bargain. Except Tarik, who never gets any coffee and has heard it talk ("No coffee for unit Tarik!") and has seen a few of the many mean gimmicks hidden inside – flicking out boxing gloves, trapdoors that swallow the cup he wanted to grab, hidden glasspanels blocking the way to the coffee, kicking boots, etc.