April 05, 2004
Another Dead Person
Bob Ross, painter of "happy little trees" and host of an ultra-cheezy PBS show, is still dead. But his legacy
lives on overseas with many devotees of his calming instruction style. This is equal parts disturbing and hilarious (via
The Morning News).
Posted by mhinrichs at April 5, 2004 11:54 AM
Didn't Mad TV do a spot-on parody of Ross? He really was an instant cure for insomnia, and his paintings were of a quality one normally only sees at Starving Artist fairs in shopping malls.
Bob Ross is the best. Those MTV commercials he did years ago were great.
i remember being surprised the first time i saw him on tv here in taiwan. but i was even more surprised when i recently went to taichung(a city towards the middle of the island) and saw giant billboard size advertisments of him.