The show's title is a pun based upon the fact that the German word Mattscheibe can mean "television screen" as well as a "mental blackout".

After changing channels several times over the years, the show's current incarnation (entitled Kalkofes Mattscheibe Rekalked) is broadcast on Tele 5.

At least since the beginning of the Mattscheibe show, it is Kalkofe's trademark to use many various humorous pseudonyms and puns based upon his real last name often mispronounced or misremembered by people and the fact that it involves the syllable Kalk, which is the German word for "chalk" or "lime", and at times these puns also show conscious interplay with the German verb verkalken ("to calcify", "to fossilize", "to ossify", "being a fossil").

The movies were based on a Frühstyxradio sketch series and the scripts written together with comedian Bastian Pastewka as Chief Inspector Even Longer.

In 2013, Kalkofe and fellow comedian Peter Rütten created and began hosting the still-running show SchleFaZ; "Die schlechtesten Filme aller Zeiten" ("The worst movies of all time") on Tele 5, which is loosely based on the format of Mystery Science Theater 3000.