In 1982, a station in Falls Church, Virginia aired a taping of his art class as a pilot, and 60 PBS stations signed up for the show in the first year. uses the legal system to silence people who might criticize it, but I don’t see any legal claims that back that up.

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Born in 1942, Bob Ross dropped out of school, in ninth grade, and joined the Air Force as a teen-ager. I don’t remember the first time I saw Bob Ross on TV, but I have distinct memories of watching him when I was a kid.

When he’d turn his painter’s knife on its edge and carve out a crisp, snow-capped mountain, he’d sometimes point to one side and say, “This is where the little mountain goat lives, right up in here. The versions were each marked on the side or back of the canvas: "Kowalski" for the initial version, "tv" for the version painted during the TV show and "book" for the book version. Even in the comments under the YouTube videos, usually one of the more poisonous forums on the internet, nearly all of the posts are appreciative. It was Annette Kowalski who saw Ross’s commercial potential, while she was taking a class to help cope with the loss of a child. The way it was structured was that if one partner died, the other three pooled their money and purchased that quarter from the estate of the deceased person.

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I’d learn he also uses some Bob Ross vernacular, sprinkling instructions with expressions such as “We don’t make mistakes, we just have happy accidents.Every Halloween, thousands of Americans don curly-haired wigs and carry paint palettes and attend parties as Ross. Of course, the main draw, whether you were painting along at home or not, was Ross himself: that alfalfa-sprout helmet of hair, that gentle sea breeze of a voice, that Buddha-like calm. At the end of the 1980s, Joy of Painting had 80 million worldwide viewers and received 200 letters in the mail every day, according to old newspaper stories. Social media is not showing the love like we’re so used to, which is breaking our heart, because normally social media—we’ve got nothing but just gobs and gobs of love towards Bob. He first crossed over into the pop-culture mainstream when he started recording MTV commercials in the early 1990s.

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Like I said, my hope is that [people] haven’t replaced their obsession with the beautiful side of Bob with being mad at us. When Ross left the Air Force, he got a job teaching classes all over the country for Alexander’s company. And yeah, the paint manufacturer and the brush manufacturer, everybody had this platform for developing products and books. More consequentially the Kowalskis, who declined to be interviewed, now control Bob Ross Inc, the company that oversees the lucrative use of Ross’s name and image on paints, brushes and other merchandise.They are relaxing and unwinding with Bob’s gentle manner and encouraging words, captivated by the magic taking place on the canvas. There are] some other things that aren’t mentioned in the documentary that would make people feel better about their worry for Steve. The trouble, it turns out, has to do with the posthumous handling of Ross’s brand, which became the subject of an extended legal morass after his death.