When I was a young lad growing up in western Canada, we had 6 TV channels.  One of those channels was PBS Detroit and on Sunday morning around 10, “The Joy Of Painting” was my Jam (followed by Stampede wrestling).

Bob was a fucking ROCKSTAR hammering 30 seasons of “The Joy Of Painting” before dying of cancer in 1994.  He WAS painting for hundreds of millions of people around the world and you’d think his kids would be swimming in that Bob Ross money but NO.  After a lifetime of work, Bob’s partners, Walt and Annette Kowalski, fucked him over LITERALLY on Bob’s death bed and if it says Bob Ross, Kowalski’s own it.   The stories and the greed are second to none and our boy Bob here comes off as a bit of a sex machine with questionable taste.

Bob and his second wife Lynda formed a partnership with Annette and Walt Kowalski who propped Bob up in his early days as a painter after serving in the second world war.  Over the next couple of decades, Bob’s fame grew as did his portfolio.  Bob and Lynda shared everything with Walt and Annette including Annette who, according to the Netflix doc, fucked Bob’s brain out for a while. (Bob liked the ladies).

Watched it last night. Annette Kowalski sounds like she is👌👈 a go-er.

— Dean Blundell🇨🇦 (@ItsDeanBlundell) August 27, 2021

When Lynda died, Walt and Annete put the business screws to Bob until the day he died, including stealing the rights to Bob Ross’s name and likeness FOREVER despite willing it all to his son Steve.

(Steve Ross)

Steve spent 20 years after Bob’s death in a BRUTAL spiral finding out along the way that his uncle Jimmy fucked him out of MILLIONS as well.  He started painting again and teaches others how to paint like his dad but still can’t market himself as Bob Ross’s son because, this hot babe owns anything with the words ‘Bob Ross’ and ‘Paint’ in it.

(Annette Kowalski)

Watching Steve break the entire thing down in the doc is equal parts soul crushing and uplifting.  If you hate seeing ‘unfair’ and you get triggered by it, don’t watch Bob Ross: Happy Accidents.  By the end of it, you’ll want to piss in Walt and Annette’s morning coffee before their primary caregivers feed it to them in sippie cups.

You’ll also spend 20 minutes trying to find Steve Ross’s contact information to send him $20 or ask him to join you for an interview.

I HIGHLY recommend it to everyone else.  You end up loving Bob Ross even more AND promising yourself you’ll never buy another Bob Ross Chia Pet because you know Bob’s leathery old side piece gets all the $.

I still can’t believe he tapped that BUT, knowing he was always DTF just makes him more of a legend.

What i took out of this is there are people out there who are completely fucked in the head to the point where they’ll make a dying man give up his legacy for a few bucks.  It just sucks knowing there are people among us like that.  There’s being a smart business person then there’s what (it sure looks like) the Kowalskis did to Bob and Steve Ross.

Everything is documented and really well laid out in the doc which explains why the Kowalskis and Bob Ross Inc. couldn’t prevent the show from being released.  They sued pretty much everyone who had anything to do with making it, which tells you more.

You’ll love the end.  If you like life philosophy and need a lesson in letting go of negativity and resentment, and love Bob Ross, you’ll LOVE Happy Accidents.