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There's [[The Stoner]], then there's the '''Erudite Stoner'''. What sets this type of stoner apart from other stoners is that they're deeply philosophical, usually very mellow, slow to anger, and a veritable font of wisdom for the straight, more uptight characters.
Visually, they may be [[New Age Retro Hippie|hippie throwbacks]], with long hair, tie-dye shirts, bell-bottom jeans, and fringed vests, or they may be up-to-date but casual in their appearance. The one thing they are highly unlikely to be is expensively or meticulously dressed and groomed.
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* Stoner from ''[[Eureka Seven]]''. Really, his name says it all.
* [[Moe Anthropomorphism|Greece]] from ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]''. Okay, he's not a drug user (...[[Tempting Fate|probably]]), but everything else fits. [[The Philosopher|Deeply philosophical]]? Check. Very mellow and slow to anger? Check ([[Berserk Button|except when Turkey's around]]). Having a slow, rambling speech pattern? Check. Sounding like a [[Cloudcuckoolander]] as often as dispensing insightful words? Check. [[Messy Hair|Generally unkempt]] in appearance? Check.
* Rei "Hana no Saint Juste" Asaka from [[Oniisama e...]], ''not'' [[Played for Laughs]]. She's a beautiful, talented, kind-hearted pianist/guitar player and one of the three local [[School Idol
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'''Sarge: '''*[[Beat]]* [[The Sixties]] weren't good to you, were they? }}
** Fun Fact: The Pixar animators had fun with this: every third blink really ''is'' slower.
** Also fun fact: Filmore was voiced by [[George Carlin]], a [[Real Life]]
* Many depictions like this owe at least something to [[Dennis Hopper]]'s photojournalist character in ''[[Apocalypse Now]]''. Direct parodies of this character occur often in ''[[Animaniacs]]''.
* Lazlo Hollyfeld in ''[[Real Genius]]'', though it's never stated that he took drugs; instead, he cracked years earlier from the realization that his inventions were being used to make weapons, and had spent over decade living alone in a steam tunnel under the university.
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'''Carl Johnson''': What fuckin' book? }}
** Little Jacob from ''[[Grand Theft Auto IV]]'' also qualifies.
* Gustafa from the ''[[Harvest Moon]]''
* Three Dog from ''[[Fallout]] 3'' has the speech pattern, dress style, and the profession for it. Though the paraphernalia doesn't appear, he confesses casually in broadcast that he did harder recreational drugs in the past. Oddly he claims he might have been hallucinating under the influence of a drug that isn't hallucinogenic.
* ''[[Animal Crossing]]'' has Pascal and K.K. Slider. Pascal in particular screams (or rather casually mumbles) high.
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* ''[[American Dragon: Jake Long]]'' has the title character's friend Arthur "Spud" Spudinski, who talks like this (and has some rarely seen [[Genius Ditz]] computer skills), though his age and the fact that it's Disney make it unlikely he's actually a stoner.
** One episode showed that he's just [[Obfuscating Stupidity]] so that he can enjoy life and not be stuck in the genius schools.
** It's both and neither. Spud's good at a lot of things instead of just one, so he's not really a [[Genius Ditz]]. His uh...eccentricities are only ''sometimes'' faked, so he's not [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]. The whole of his character is best encompassed by [[Zig-Zagging Trope|zigzagging]] between those two,
* Otto from ''[[The Simpsons]]''. Otto's gotten a lot more explicit lately. Moments like "Whoa! What am ''I'' smoking? ...Oh, right. Pot." and drinking the water from a bong in the movie.
* Beachcomber, the pacifist, hippie, nature loving mini-bot from the original ''[[Transformers Generation 1|Transformers]]''. Sure, robots can't really get high, but he's working on it.
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== Real Life ==
* [[Carl Sagan]]. One of the most esteemed scientists in recent history. Enthusiastic marijuana smoker. His widow Ann Druyan carries out his legacy as a popularizer of science and as president of the NORML<ref>
** Referenced in episode 9 of ''[[Cosmos]]'', upon describing the restoration of gravity upon removing it and its effects on tea: "[[Funny Moments|I've been to a couple of parties like that myself!]]"
* The already mentioned Tommy Chong.
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