Awww!! shit I teared up!! I didn't watch these two when they were alive, but in a way they felt like one of my uncles just going on about their day.
Sometimes Id catch the weird puppet talking to a model train inside a house with some dude in a red sweater... And I don't remember the episode, just that memory of it.
Or Bob Ross painting, Id never watch him paint the whole thing- Id always come back and see a BIG change on screen before it ended... I WAS A KID not a painter... Plus my parents didn't let me grow up till I moved out at 18 and that was... lol a long time ago now...
But they were there... I never listened to their advice enough to believe it... Then... Robin Williams died... Mr Rodgers died... and then I come to find out Bob Ross has been dead since 94... Like Vincent Van Gogh, his fame and attention arrived late... lol Hell ABC lost track of him once and they didn't even notice he had left xD! He sure as hell wasn't as open about his personal life as everyone else is now. He kept that under lock and key like hard!
Then... I suddenly felt like my life had time stolen from it... I wasn't happy with the time that I had used. Or misused because if it feels like time flew hard and fast... then odds are I wasn't paying attention or I didn't make any good memories. I Watched an episode today... Right after watching this ha! and... His advice is applicable to everything... "We don't make mistakes... We have... Happy accidents... But you learn to use everything that happens."
That's what we do... Use everything that happens! So out of something that wasn't drawn with the professionalism of a Japanese detailist that draws animations to the level of not noticing the diference between real life and CGI, you did something not many of them could do. You used your imagination... with their audios... and made it seamless... I mean it is senseless... but you know your audience, and they were watching good jerb dude