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9	[-[[caption-width-right:350:"And we'll add a [[GentleGiant happy cartoon]]...and a HeroicComedicSociopath...and a...well...he's painting a pretty pony. That's very nice."[[labelnote:L - R, top to bottom]][[Series/TheJoyOfPainting Ross]], [[WesternAnimation/RalphBreakstheInternet Ralph]], Film/{{Deadpool\|2}}, and [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Discord]].[[/labelnote]]]]-]
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15	->''"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."''
16	-->-- '''The Nostalgia Critic''' ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKpM33kdG1Y review]] of ''Film/GhostbustersII''), ''WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic''
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18	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.
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20	SubTrope of FountainOfExpies and StockParodies. Related to FunnyAfro (the "character dons an afro wig for a quick gag" variant). Compare ArtsyBeret, the other image of artists in media.
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23	!!''God bless''
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27	[[folder:Comic Books]]
28	* 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.
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31	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
32	* ''ComicStrip/BigNate'': One of Nate's favorite shows is "Oil Painting with Rusty", a parody of ''The Joy of Painting'' starring "America's Favorite TV Artist" Rusty Sienna.
33	* A ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' cartoon features a woman {{painting\|s}} along with a Bob-Ross-type instructor talking about happy little trees, however, a tree has smashed through her house, hitting her.
34	* One ''ComicStrip/{{Foxtrot}}'' strip has Jason attempt Website/YouTube stardom by imitating Bob Ross, only with math problems.
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37	[[folder:Fan Works]]
38	* A few examples from {{Derpibooru}}:
39	** Japanese MLP fan-artist Uotapo gives us [[https://derpibooru.org/images/661869 a ponified Bob Ross teaching self-portrait]] to Lyra and Bon Bon.
40	** [[https://derpibooru.org/images/2052140 Queen Chrysalis as Bob Ross]] by [=CatScratchPaper=].
41	** [[https://derpibooru.org/images/1964783 Kettle Master as Bob Ross]] by [=BobTheDalek=].
42	** [[https://derpibooru.org/images/1423486 Rain the bat pony as Bob Ross]] by Kellythedrawingunicorn.
43	** [[https://derpibooru.org/images/1027317 Twilight Sparkle as Bob Ross]] by Pirill.
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46	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
47	* ''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.
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50	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
51	* In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-5Wv9UGkN8 one of the promotional materials]] for ''Film/Deadpool2'', Deadpool himself does a parody of Bob Ross, wearing his iconic clothes and perm over his form-fitting red spandex. As he paints, he gives the same relaxed delivery as he paints, but since this is Deadpool doing it, his words are far from family-friendly. Even when he is whacking the brush against the leg of the easel (something Bob was himself prone to do) he does it as an allusion to masturbation.
52	-->'''Deadpool:''' Sweet baby Jesus. Wish I could just jump in there, roll around in all that cascading white powder. Yeah, just get high on all of life's splendor. [[BaitAndSwitch God, I love cocaine]].
53	* 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.]]
54	* The comedy film ''Film/{{Paint\|2023}}'' centers on the struggles of a {{painter\|s}} whose appearance and career are heavily based on Bob Ross.
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57	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
58	* One of Mexican comedian Creator/EugenioDerbez's sketches on his TV shows consisted of this, as "Bob Atros". His parody had the added element of HongKongDub, as the dub of ''Series/TheJoyOfPainting'' in Spanish was notorious for paying little or no attention to lip-synching.
59	* ''Series/MadTV1995'' 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.
60	* The Dutch sketch comedy show ''Series/{{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.
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63	[[folder:Music]]
64	* The music video for Music/TheStupendium's "Rogue's Gallery" has the Stupendium dress up as Bob Ross at one point; in-universe, it's part of a Bob Ross box set that Crazy Redd had purchased.
65	* The Music/TomSmith song "Undead Happy Trees" is about a zombie Bob Ross painting an apocalyptic monster-strewn landscape.
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68	[[folder:Toys]]
69	* Due to the popularity of the ''Film/Deadpool2'' promotional material (seen above), Toys/FunkoPop produced a vinyl figure of [[https://www.funko.com/products/all/brands/pop/pop-marvel-deadpool-as-bob-ross Deadpool as Bob Ross]], including a transparent hand-palette and a massive paintbrush.
70	* Rival vinyl figure vendor [[https://www.yooutooz.com YouTooz]] currently sells [[https://youtooz.com/products/bob-ross-carson similar vinyl figures]] of Twitch streamer WebVideo/CallMeCarson, alongside more straight homages to Bob Ross.
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73	[[folder:Video Games]]
74	* One of your customers in ''VideoGame/NoUmbrellasAllowed'' is Bokho Park, an optimistic 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".]]
75	* In ''VideoGame/SummertimeSaga'' Ms. Barbara Ross is the school's hippie art teacher. She even references the "happy little trees" phrase [[spoiler:during her sex scene]].
76	* ''VisualNovel/SuperDanganronpaAnother2'': Ultimate Painter Iroha Nijiue briefly dresses up akin to Bob Ross, complete with obtaining an afro and fake mustache out of nowhere, [[spoiler:when you engage in Terminate Talk Shooting against her]].
77	* ''VideoGame/{{Smite}}'' offers a skin for Sylvanus, officially licensed by Bob Ross Inc, that turns him into Bob Ross himself, while his treant companion Grover gets a happy little smile. Later on, a second Bob Ross homage was added as a skin for Zhong Kui.
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80	[[folder:Web Animation]]
81	* In the "Mind Freakers" episode of ''WebAnimation/CampCamp'', David and Gwen are too spaced out from a "Rob Boss" video to notice that [[https://youtu.be/ccmYE6wCEHA?t=511 the situation has gone too far]] (again). Miles Luna voiced both David and Rob in this episode (see the "Web Video" folder below).
82	* An EasterEgg in the Toons menu on ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' shows a clip of Marzipan painting a picture while dressed up as Bob Ross, complete with afro wig and goatee.
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85	[[folder:Webcomics]]
86	* One of the shows Leviathan watches in ''Webcomic/{{Belzebubs}}'' is ''The Joy of Pain-Things'' by Belzebob Ross. It's basically a Bob Ross {{Expy}} wearing corpse paint depicting damned souls being tormented by demons on canvas.
87	-->'''Belzebob Ross:''' ''[wacks his brush against the easel]'' There we go, just shake off the excess and beat the Jesus out of it.
88	* In ''Webcomic/WeakHero'', a bearded teacher with a distinctive afro and positive attitude is seen tutoring the class that Eugene signs up for in cram school. It's then revealed in separate instances that his name is Mr. Ross and Bob.
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91	[[folder:Web Original]]
92	* In the ''Script/ThunderAndFriends'' episode "Mom's the Word", Cody dresses up like Bob Ross in art class, while trying to get his mom to stop bugging him.
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95	[[folder:Web Videos]]
96	* Due to Ross' popularity in the ASMRVideo community, homages created by videomakers who dress up as him are not uncommon.
97	* Per the Toys section above, WebVideo/CallMeCarson commemorated the release of his vinyl figure with a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezCvfGxq6fc stream]] wherein he attempted to paint his own self-portrait in an afro wig.
98	* WebVideo/CountDankula's video on Bob Ross has him [[StylisticSuck attempting to paint]] throughout the entire video — first [[ThoseWackyNazis Buddha]], then a low-detail landscape with [[UnusualEuphemism "the Devil's cabbage"]] on display, and finally just [[MemeticMutation a massive "F"]] when he gets to the news of Bob Ross's death. He ends up destroying the first two paintings — the first via MegatonPunch, the second with a CoolSword.
99	* ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory'''s "Bob Ross vs. Pablo Picasso" episode has this in spades; a lot of visual elements in Bob Ross' raps, along with how he raps with a calm, soothing voice, are all pulled directly from ''Series/TheJoyOfPainting'' show.
100	* [[WebVideo/LoadingReadyRun LoadingReadyRun]]:
101	** Crapshot 259, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86Pd2sKL6Ak The Splines]]", the happy little tree is produced in (very simple) 3D on "The Joy of Rendering".
102	** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zP_4qwUulg cold open]] to [=LoadingReadyLIVE=] episode 28 ("Blended Thanksgiving") had Graham's Ross panting a happy little turkey, starting with a children's hand-outline turkey and changing into ever more detailed turkeys every time the camera cut away, before becoming a literal turkey sandwich.
103	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jn39vTcMuk The intro]] to ''[[WebVideo/DesertBusForHope Desert Bus For Hope]] 9'' had Ross (again played by Graham) painting the DBFH logo using green-screen green paint to pull a PolkaDotPaint.
104	* Another Youtube artist [[WebVideo/DrawWithJazza Jazza]] has a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5UWq3DI6-k spoof video]] where he dresses up as Bob Ross with a [[TheBogan bogan]] flair for Australia Day.
105	* In the WebVideo/JonTron video "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIuF_W1-s1w THE JONTRON CHALLENGE!]]", the second challenge pitched to Jon was to do a parody of Bob Ross. [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext He ends up painting a stick figure peeing blood before instantaneously creating a (clearly photoshopped) depiction of a muscular Bob Ross in a snowy-landscape.]]
106	* In the Kyle Hill video "[[https://youtu.be/41H7kKwUlHo What are IMPOSSIBLE COLORS?]]", there's two scenes with a black background with a blank easel, as Kyle imitates Bob Ross's voice. In the first, a brief intro, the names of some of the eponymous "impossible colors" -- Stygian Blue[[note]]A blue that appears darker than black[[/note]], Self-luminous Red[[note]]A pink that appears brighter than white and seems to glow[[/note]], Hyperbolic Orange[[note]]An extremely bright orange that appears to have more than 100% saturation[[/note]], and Yellowish-Blue[[note]]A true intermediate color between yellow and blue which isn't green[[/note]] -- appear on the screen in yellow text like which paints Ross says he's going to use for a given episode. In the second, he mixes paints while explaining that the human eye works a bit differently than we might think and doesn't just mix colors like he's doing.
107	* Future ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' writer Anna Drezen did a [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLba_1WHWjOebykf4w7AebpSZPd7S40n78 series of videos]] called ''The Joy of Painting with Shitty Bob Ross''. As the title implies, a lot of the humor comes from StylisticSuck, e.g. the "palette" being a paper plate with some magic marker scrawls on it.
108	* In the beginning of WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKpM33kdG1Y review]] of ''Film/GhostbustersII'', they do a brief Bob Ross-parody sketch (with Doug Walker as Bob Ross) used as a visual metaphor for how the conception behind the film's plot may have turned out, even replacing whatever curse words he is accustomed to saying with "God bless".
109	* Creator/WillFriedle donned the iconic Bob Ross look and persona to explain the art of "Skirbobbling" in a promotional spot for Season Three of his Creator/GeekAndSundry series ''Painters Guild''.
110	* Website/YouTube artist WebVideo/{{Proko}} does a spoof video of ''The Joy of Painting'' in the video "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk4f3RuHw80 How to Paint Happy Trees - Bob Ross Parody]]", mocking the tongue-and-cheek nature of the show.
111	-->'''Proko:''' All you need is a dream and a whole lot of money to buy your paints.
112	* Miles Luna from Creator/RoosterTeeth does a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6AJzdLlhy4 pretty decent]] Bob Ross impression, although he tends to play him with [[StepfordSmiler rage simmering just under the surface]].
113	-->'''[[AC:DIE BLAINE]]'''
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116	[[folder:Western Animation]]
117	* ''WesternAnimation/AllHailKingJulien'': In "The King Julien Show", Mort has a show where he paints pictures of King Julien's feet while wearing an afro.
118	* ''WesternAnimation/BackAtTheBarnyard'' has one first appear in a TV show in "Pig Amok", then appear as a background character.
119	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' episode "[[Recap/TheBoondocksS1E12RileyWuzHere Riley Wuz Here]]", Riley gets art lessons from an unnamed painter who looks and acts like an {{expy}} of Bob Ross, albeit with blond hair.
120	* ''WesternAnimation/CreatureComforts'': In the American version's art episode, a gorilla makes a subtle TakeThat to Bob Ross.
121	-->'''Gorilla:''' Hi, the happy squirrel, were going to make some happy clouds. Were going to take the big fanning brush, let's mix a little umber, a little yellow, a little orchard a little blue. Okay, stroke stroke stroke stroke.
122	* 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 Creator/LeonardoDaVinci, who controls the world's fine art business.
123	* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' episode "Doug's a Genius", Doug's art teacher gushes over how wonderful his paintings are. Doug then imagines himself as Bob Ross, using "Prussian Blue" and "Titanium White" to paint a lake in a matter of seconds.
124	* In an early episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy,'' Peter is watching Bob Ross while learning to paint himself. This Bob Ross is a bit of a psycho as he adds a little bush and then tells the audience, "If you ever tell anyone that that bush is there, I will come to your house and I will cut you." Peter then complains how his painting doesn't look anything like Ross'. We are then shown that he painted a picture of the cast of ''Series/FamilyTies''.
125	* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/MissionHill,'' Andy, Jim, and Poesy are all watching Bob Ross, but act like they're watching a big sporting event. Highlights include Andy eagerly telling Ross to use his fan brush, and when Ross tries to think of what to put next, Andy excitedly says "A happy little tree! A happy little tree!"
126	* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS5E22WhatAboutDiscord What About Discord?]]", Discord twice takes on the appearance of Bob Ross to explain himself, at one point using Ross's frequent "happy little" language, in order to literally "paint her a picture".
127	* In the beginning of one ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'' episode, Bob Ross is seen on the TV adding a meteor to a painting. [[BrickJoke This meteor would be important later]].
128	* ''WesternAnimation/RainbowButterflyUnicornKitty'': "Anubis Newbie" features a scene where Felicity is seen painting a kitten. She even parodies the line "let's paint ourselves a happy little tree".
129	* In the ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' episode "Bad Portrait", Mordecai's inspiration Benny Harris is a thinly-veiled Ross parody.
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