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Alexander was on TV teaching this stuff, perhaps contemporaneously with Ross - but Ross, as I said, stole everything from
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The legacy section could use some help. Something simple like listing the items chronologically would help, but . As is, the late-life accomplishments of Bob Ross (mentioning the MTV commercials and Bill Nye parody) are interleaved with the much later events like the 2015 Twitch stream event. Also
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I'm almost positive everyone inside the creative spectrum and most people on the outside have some sort of knowledge watching his show, I think there should be a legacy section, indicating parodies and odes that were about either Bob Ross or the show in total.
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The word season is often used in the United States, while the word series is often used in the UK and
Australia for instance. They mean the same thing. According to all official sources, The Joy of Painting consists of 31 seasons with 13 episodes each.
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