Pappa ante Portas

Nobody at the firm can explain why Heinrich Lohse (Loriot), purchasing manager and a man of strict method, has ordered forty tons of mustard and enough typing paper to last forty years. The bulk discount was the reason, and soon after his boss sends him into early retirement. Loriot, who also wrote the script, sets him loose on the household of his wife Renate (Evelyn Hamann) and their son Dieter (Gerrit Schmidt-Foß) with the same unhurried, deadpan precision.