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'The Joy of Painting' Is Much Less Serene With Fallout 4's Machine Guns

Watch "Bob Ross" use a machine gun to paint fluffy clouds in pastel blue skies.

Throw away your fan brush and paint those fluffy clouds with a machine gun. The calm and relaxing TV show The Joy of Painting, hosted by artist Bob Ross, just got a millennial makeover, recreated in the video game Fallout 4.

In The Joy of Painting, which ran from 1983 through 1994, Bob Ross taught the audience techniques for oil painting landscapes in Virginia or Indiana. In Fallout 4, players roam the land, customize their weapons, and create or destroy buildings and other sorts of settlements in Boston, circa 2287.

Juxtaposing the action of a post-apocalyptic video game with the serenity of Bob Ross's green landscapes and pastel skies is more than a bit disorienting. Depicting the earthy painter as a simulated action figure only adds to that effect.

This video by UpIsNotJump, a Youtube channel that remakes movies and TV scenes in Fallout 4, begins subtly. The Bob Ross sim invites us to a "relaxing half hour" painting the masterpieces of nature on canvas. He orients us with some liquid white or liquid black to make the canvas slick, and introduces us to some of his colors: vault-tec blue, titanium white, Indian yellow.

Even in a video game, his smooth, friendly voice is relaxing—but that all goes under once the sky turns an apocalyptic orange, debris starts to fall, and he starts flinging paintbrushes at canvas before whipping out a machine gun.

It only goes down from there. But at least the paintings, in this surreal dystopia, come out alright—as if Bob Ross had painted them peacefully in 1990.