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Much like Fred Rogers, Bob Ross of The Joy of Painting became famous through the medium of public television and quickly gained traction as an icon for his calm, wholesome Nice Guy personality, contagious optimism, and 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.
Sub-Trope of Fountain of Expies and Stock Parodies. Related to Funny Afro (the "character dons an afro wig for a quick gag" variant). Compare Artsy Beret, the other image of artists in media.
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Rainbow Butterfly Unicorn Kitty: "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".
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A The Far Side 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.
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In the JonTron video "THE JONTRON CHALLENGE!", the second challenge pitched to Jon was to do a parody of Bob Ross. 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.
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In one episode of Mission Hill, 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!"
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Super Danganronpa Another 2: Ultimate Painter Iroha Nijiue briefly dresses up akin to Bob Ross, complete with obtaining an afro and fake mustache out of nowhere, when you engage in Terminate Talk Shooting against her.
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Back at the Barnyard has one first appear in a TV show in "Pig Amok", then appear as a background character.
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Creature Comforts: In the American version's art episode, a gorilla makes a subtle Take That! to Bob Ross.
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Due to the popularity of the Deadpool 2 promotional material (seen above), Funko Pop! produced a vinyl figure of Deadpool as Bob Ross, including a transparent hand-palette and a massive paintbrush.
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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.
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MADtv (1995) had "Drawing with Jerry", in which the artist increasingly suffers a Creator Breakdown 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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Ralph Breaks the Internet: 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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Count Dankula's video on Bob Ross has him attempting to paint throughout the entire video — first Buddha, then a low-detail landscape with "the Devil's cabbage" on display, and finally just 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 Megaton Punch, the second with a Cool Sword.
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One of the many incarnations of Mabel in Dimension MAB-3L in the Gravity Falls: Lost Legends story "Don't Dimension It" is one that resembles Bob Ross, donning his clothes, hair, mustache, and prioritizes painting a landscape over trying to stop Anti-Mabel from stealing Prime Mabel's ship and escaping.
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In the beginning of The Nostalgia Critic's review of Ghostbusters II, 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".
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In Weak Hero, 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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In the beginning of one Pinky and the Brain episode, Bob Ross is seen on the TV adding a meteor to a painting. This meteor would be important later.
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In Summertime Saga Ms. Barbara Ross is the school's hippie art teacher. She even references the "happy little trees" phrase during her sex scene.
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The music video for The Stupendium'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.
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In The Boondocks episode "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.
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In the Regular Show episode "Bad Portrait", Mordecai's inspiration Benny Harris is a thinly-veiled Ross parody.
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The 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 Leonardo da Vinci, who controls the world's fine art business.
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Future Saturday Night Live writer Anna Drezen did a series of videos called The Joy of Painting with Shitty Bob Ross. As the title implies, a lot of the humor comes from Stylistic Suck, e.g. the "palette" being a paper plate with some magic marker scrawls on it.
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One Foxtrot strip has Jason attempt YouTube stardom by imitating Bob Ross, only with math problems.
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Another Youtube artist Jazza has a spoof video where he dresses up as Bob Ross with a bogan flair for Australia Day.
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One of the shows Leviathan watches in 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.
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Epic Rap Battles of History'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 The Joy of Painting show.
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All Hail King Julien: In "The King Julien Show", Mort has a show where he paints pictures of King Julien's feet while wearing an afro.
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LoadingReadyRun:
Crapshot 259, "The Splines", the happy little tree is produced in (very simple) 3D on "The Joy of Rendering".
The 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.
The intro to Desert Bus for Hope 9 had Ross (again played by Graham) painting the DBFH logo using green-screen green paint to pull a Polka-Dot Paint.
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The Tom Smith song "Undead Happy Trees" is about a zombie Bob Ross painting an apocalyptic monster-strewn landscape.
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In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "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".
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YouTube artist Proko does a spoof video of The Joy of Painting in the video "How to Paint Happy Trees - Bob Ross Parody", mocking the tongue-and-cheek nature of the show.
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In the "Mind Freakers" episode of Camp Camp, David and Gwen are too spaced out from a "Rob Boss" video to notice that the situation has gone too far (again). Miles Luna voiced both David and Rob in this episode (see the "Web Video" folder below).
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In The Master of Disguise, this was one of the disguises used by Pistachio in a Door Roulette scene; but the scene was cut from the film and only appears in the final cut during the credits.
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Big Nate: 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.
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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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In an early episode of Family Guy, 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 Family Ties.
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In the 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.
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