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July 6, 2009 10:32 AM

Bob Ross Streaming live.

"We can have anything we want in our world!"

posted by kathrineg (34 comments total)

I'm glad it isn't Bob Ross screaming live. I'm afraid to think of what would make him angry.
posted by filthy light thief at 10:34 AM on July 6, 2009

I really need to get hour long Bob Ross show recordings into the mp3 format, then play it on planes, before bed, etc. It'd make the ultimate soundtrack for relaxing and having a nap.
posted by mathowie at 10:36 AM on July 6, 2009

OBLOLCAT
posted by tommasz at 10:38 AM on July 6, 2009

HE̵͢ ͝CO҉̛͜M͢ES̀
posted by fleetmouse at 10:40 AM on July 6, 2009 [7 favorites]

Quite the definition of "live" we have here.
posted by Mikey-San at 10:40 AM on July 6, 2009 [15 favorites]

BOB ROSS MAD! ANGRY ROCKS SMASH HAPPY TREES! YRAAAR! MAKE REFLECTION IN LAKE LIKE THIS!
posted by steef at 10:42 AM on July 6, 2009

OH GOD YES
posted by Alvy Ampersand at 10:43 AM on July 6, 2009

Bob Ross has come to battle Zalgo.

Go, Bob, go.
posted by Muddler at 10:45 AM on July 6, 2009 [2 favorites]

Female-voiced version, but with massages.

I swear this genre would make a good late night show.
posted by @troy at 10:51 AM on July 6, 2009 [1 favorite]

Oh. I thought "streaming live" meant that it would feature the Zombie Bob Ross. Oh well.
posted by pemberkins at 11:02 AM on July 6, 2009 [3 favorites]

My dream is to have a dark bar where TVs play Bob Ross or Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood.

And there are LEGO tables.
posted by kathrineg at 11:03 AM on July 6, 2009 [2 favorites]

It's streaming live from heaven, you guise
posted by kathrineg at 11:04 AM on July 6, 2009

"We don't want the tumor too big—we don't want to steal focus from the mountains, okay? And what we'll do is we'll reflect the tumor in the water, down here. But we work, again, with the color we've created. We just sort of imply it, because we don't want to wind up screaming, 'hey, everyone, look! there's a reflection of a tumor in the lake!'"
posted by decagon at 11:05 AM on July 6, 2009 [3 favorites]

I'd kill to be half as mellow as Bob...
posted by Thorzdad at 11:11 AM on July 6, 2009 [1 favorite]

"Sorry, the maximum number of viewers for this channel has been reached."

QUIT HOGGING HIM!
posted by piratebowling at 11:12 AM on July 6, 2009 [3 favorites]

Let's just do a quick happy little sky here.

The thalo green is very strong. Be careful with it. It'll eat up your whole world.

Let's wash our ol' brush off.
As you know, we wash our brush with odorless paint thinner. And just beat the devil out of it.

Now. The first decision we're going to have to make here is, "Where is our mountains gonna live?"
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 11:12 AM on July 6, 2009

"Sorry, the maximum number of viewers for this channel has been reached."

So the "We can have anything we want in our world!" is a lie?
posted by DreamerFi at 11:14 AM on July 6, 2009

let's paint and exercise tv!
posted by shmegegge at 11:15 AM on July 6, 2009

I'm glad it isn't Bob Ross screaming live. I'm afraid to think of what would make him angry.
posted by filthy light thief

From Wikipedia:

Having held military positions that required him to be, in his own words, "mean" and "tough," "the guy who makes you scrub the latrine, the guy who makes you make your bed, the guy who screams at you for being late to work," Ross decided that if he ever moved on from the military, "it wasn't going to be that way any more," and "vowing never to scream again."
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 11:16 AM on July 6, 2009 [4 favorites]

More on the (non)screaming Bob Ross:

Having held military positions that required him to be, in his own words, "mean" and "tough," "the guy who makes you scrub the latrine, the guy who makes you make your bed, the guy who screams at you for being late to work," Ross decided that if he ever moved on from the military, "it wasn't going to be that way any more," and "vowing never to scream again."

Oh, and with respect to Kids in the Hall, weird - Bob Ross actually died of cancer, and the rumor was a brain tumor...
posted by Muddler at 11:25 AM on July 6, 2009

I should have guessed Bob Ross is ex-military. He's got a built-in helmet!
posted by DU at 11:26 AM on July 6, 2009

DOH! - beaten to the post
posted by Muddler at 11:26 AM on July 6, 2009

A few years ago, I'm relaxing on a friend's couch. It's the day after a wedding and we're feeling a bit rough, and Bob Ross is giving his special kind of comforting narration. He starts talking about how not being totally happy with your painting can be good by increasing your motivation to do better. Then he turns to the camera and says, "in fact, I hope you are plagued with dissatisfaction for the rest of your life." Then he goes back to his fluffy clouds and happy trees. It was an intensely surreal moment, having Bob Ross wish perpetual unhappiness on me, and I had to check with my friend that I hadn't just hallucinated. I'm still not sure.

Oh- I guess it really happened.
posted by squarehead at 11:37 AM on July 6, 2009 [8 favorites]

Awesome FPP title.

Full quote: "One of the greatest things about humans is that they are never satisfied, I hope you realize that and i hope you are plagued with dissatisfaction the rest of your life because you will always strive for more." -Bob Ross
posted by zarq at 11:42 AM on July 6, 2009

I hope you are plagued with dissatisfaction the rest of your life

So far, so good.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 11:46 AM on July 6, 2009 [6 favorites]

I am plagued with dissatisfaction, but it's a nice, happy little dissatisfaction.
posted by weapons-grade pandemonium at 11:49 AM on July 6, 2009 [1 favorite]

"We don't make mistakes; we just have happy accidents."

Hooray, I watch Bob Ross every Wednesday afternoon (right before the equally trance-inducing Sit and Be Fit) or tape it for later relaxification.
posted by FelliniBlank at 11:50 AM on July 6, 2009

Bob Ross™ Realtime Image Stream - http://twitcaps.com/search/bob%20ross
posted by BoatMeme at 12:24 PM on July 6, 2009

or for the cut-and-paste averse, the new and improved Bob Ross™ Realtime Image Stream
posted by BoatMeme at 12:27 PM on July 6, 2009

Bob Ross was great, but his predecessor was no slouch as an entertainer either.
posted by digsrus at 12:57 PM on July 6, 2009

To follow up on digrus, here is Patton Oswalt riffing on misters Ross and Alexander.
posted by djeo at 1:37 PM on July 6, 2009

Still too many viewers...but I can wait. I've missed Bob. Has anyone but me ever tried painting along? It's a little like "paint by numbers by zen". Very relaxing. Sort of a brain defrag. A gentle, happy, tree filled, brain defrag.
posted by dejah420 at 8:13 PM on July 6, 2009

Between Ross and the massage lady, I'll never have insomnia again.

Ross love.
posted by custardfairy at 5:54 AM on July 7, 2009

"We don't make mistakes; we just have happy accidents."

Try telling that to clients. Their reaction is priceless.
posted by juiceCake at 8:39 AM on July 7, 2009