History Main / BobRossRib

Much like Creator/FredRogers, Creator/BobRoss of ''Series/TheJoyOfPainting'' became famous through the medium of public television and quickly gained traction as an icon for his calm, wholesome NiceGuy personality, contagious optimism, and [[EdutainmentShow educational premise]]. People all over would use episodes on his television show both as art teacher and meditation tool. Having ascended to meme-status over the years, Bob Ross as an icon became popular and eventually codified various tropes found on this very website.

And with that said, popularity breeds imitation. His bohemian dress, perm haircut and the general visual aesthetic of his show is often parodied to death in happy little comic books, happy little movies, even other happy little television shows, all adopting his happy little tone and happy little catchphrases.

* One of the many incarnations of Mabel in Dimension MAB-3L in the ''ComicBook/GravityFallsLostLegends'' story "Don't Dimension It" is one that resembles Bob Ross, donning his clothes, hair, mustache and [[SkewedPriorities prioritizes painting a landscape over trying to stop Anti-Mabel from stealing Prime Mabel's ship and escaping]].

* A ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' cartoon features a woman painting along with a Bob-Ross type instructor talking about happy little trees, however a tree has smashed through her house, hitting her.

* ''WesternAnimation/RalphBreaksTheInternet'': In the montage of videos Ralph creates to accumulate money, one of the videos he makes is a parody of Bob Ross, including a black background, his iconic perm, a brush and canvas and relaxed expression.

* The comedy film ''Film/{{Paint|2023}}'' centers on the struggles of a painter whose appearance and career are heavily based on Bob Ross.

* One of your customers in ''VideoGame/NoUmbrellasAllowed'' is Bokho Park, a painter reminiscent of Bob Ross. He brags that his paintings are better than Nari's, but his actual artwork is tagged as [[TerribleArtist a "Failed Piece of Art".]]

* One of your customers in ''VideoGame/NoUmbrellasAllowed'' is Bokho Park, a painter reminiscent of Bob Ross. He brags that his paintings are better than Nari's, but his actual artwork is tagged as [[TerribleArtist tagged a "Failed Piece of Art".]]

* One of your customers in ''VideoGame/NoUmbrellasAllowed'' is Bokho Park, a painter reminiscent of Bob Ross. He brags that his paintings are better than Nari's if you try selling them to him, but his actual artwork is [[TerribleArtist what one would expect from a child.]]

* One of your customers in ''VideoGame/NoUmbrellasAllowed'' is a painter reminiscent of Bob Ross. He brags that his paintings are better than Nari's if you try selling them to him, but his actual artwork is [[TerribleArtist what one would expect from a child.]]

* One of your customers in ''VideoGame/NoUmbrellasAllowed'' is a painter reminiscent of Bob Ross. He brags that his paintings are better than Nari's if you try selling them to him.

* The comedy film ''Film/{{Paint}}'' centers on the struggles of a painter whose appearance and career are heavily based on Bob Ross.

* The Dutch sketch comedy show ''Koefnoen'' did a parody of Bob Ross where he paints a person instead of a landscape (which the real Bob Ross strongly disliked). At one point, he even uses his hair as a makeshift brush.

* The comedy film ''Paint'' centers on the struggles of a painter whose appearance and career are heavily based on Bob Ross.

* In Film/TheMasterOfDisguise, this was one of the disguises used by Pistachio in a DoorRoulette scene; but the scene was cut from the film and only appears in the final cut [[PostCreditsScene during the credits.]]

* ''Series/MadTV'' had "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9L_ZZgPMyA Drawing with Jerry]]", in which the artist increasingly suffers a CreatorBreakdown over a nasty divorce, which affects the nature of his drawings and ultimately leads to his show getting swiftly pulled off the air.

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* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Dilbert}}'' episode "Art" begins with a Bob Ross figure named Rusty Shanks teaching Dilbert, Dogbert and Ratbert about modern abstract art. However, in the middle of his show, he's abducted due to his inability to pay back loans he owes. He's eventually revealed to have been beheaded by a mafia-style group headed by UsefulNotes/LeonardoDaVinci, who controls the world's fine art business.

Much like Creator/FredRogers, Bob Ross of ''Series/TheJoyOfPainting'' became famous through the medium of public television and quickly gained traction as an icon for his calm, wholesome NiceGuy personality, contagious optimism, and [[EdutainmentShow educational premise]]. People all over would use episodes on his television show both as art teacher and meditation tool. Having ascended to meme-status over the years, Bob Ross as an icon became popular and eventually codified various tropes found on this very website.

->''"Hello my happy little viewers, hello. As you recall last time, we did a happy little painting on the happy little ''Film/{{Ghostbusters|1984}}''. You all seem to like this one and I don't blame you, its a wonderful piece. So today, we're going to do a happy little follow-up to this happy little picture, because you like it so much, you deserve to see it explored even more... except for the parents, you didn't care for the swearing and the smoking, so uh this one we're going to make it more family-friendly."''

* The Dutch sketch comedy show ''Koefnoen'' did a parody of Bob Ross where he paints a person instead of a landscape. At one point, he even uses his hair as a makeshift brush.