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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"She's like... a dirty hippy. Without the dirt."''
== Film ==▼
|'''[[Homestar Runner|Strong Bad]]'''}}
An overtly [[Strawman Political|comical liberal or left-wing]] character, usually with a penchant for tie-dyes, crystals, veganism, free love, [[Nude Nature Dance|oneness with nature]] and anything that is '[[All-Natural Snake Oil|all-natural]]'. This character will commonly not be very well grounded, but cheerful; flighty, but not [[Cloudcuckoolander|scatter-brained]] enough to qualify as [[The Ditz]], yet the character is often associated with being book smart, and will have a tendency to [[Soapbox Sadie|make her opinions known whenever possible]]. She will [[All-Natural Snake Oil|love any kind of alternative medicine]] and will refer to actual real doctors as "allopaths" and "greedy". Of course, she will never actually have a health problem worth seeing a doctor about it, because any problem she has will be all in her head.
Male versions of this character (granola guys) are exceedingly rare, and are mainly depicted as aging 50- or 60-year-old [[New Age Retro Hippie|hippies]], either Tommy Chong-esque [[Erudite Stoner]]s or balding guys with ponytails who [[Disco Dan|haven't yet accepted the end of the 1960s]]. Very occasionally you will see [[Mega Man ZX|young men who fall under this trope]], and who are if anything treated as being even more ridiculous than the female version. Expect them to play the guitar very badly. However, such characters (regardless of gender) are almost always portrayed as sincere and well-meaning.
Compare [[Bourgeois Bohemian]], [[Soapbox Sadie]].
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* A series of home insurance adverts for UK insurer Direct Line, featuring a potential customer who misses their offers because she's worried about feng shui, or accidentally drops a heavy crystal on the salesman's foot. Occasionally used for [[Hypocritical Humor]], such as the one where she claims not to need insurance because she's moved beyond material goods, and then can't find her handbag.
{{quote|'''Customer''': It's got all my ''things'' in it! It's got all my '''''money'''''!!}}
== [[Fan Works]] ==
* Terra Caldwell from ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5330983/1/Convergent_Paths Convergent Paths]'' (a ''[[Pokémon]]'' fanfic), who [[Does Not Like Shoes|dislikes shoes]] and likes meditating, up to the point of switching between normal state and meditative state (in which she speaks "like a wise elder of a village").
* ''[[John Tucker Must Die]]'': Sophia Bush's character.
* ''[[Children of Men]]'': Michael Caine's character Jasper is an aging Granola Guy, living in the woods ''naturally'' with his wife, growing a <s>new</s> immensely popular variety of pot that has a strawberry flavor. It is implied that he was left without a choice but to withdraw from society after his wife was tortured by the government.
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** Wednesday's priceless rebuttal: [[Crowning Moment of Funny|"Are they made from real girl scouts?"]]
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* Dawn of the ''[[Babysitters Club]]''.
* Parodied/Lampshaded in ''[[Thursday Next]]: First Among Sequels'', by Thursday's fictional counterpart, Thursday5, a [[Lighter and Softer]] version of her, written after the original complained about the [[Darker and Edgier]] first four.
* Magrat Garlick from the [[Discworld]] books, especially in her early appearances, where the citizens of Lancre had come to fear her self-righteous lectures about how meat is bad for your health and how [[All-Natural Snake Oil|anything natural is good for you]].
* ''Brief Interviews with Hideous Men'': One of [[David Foster Wallace]]'s short stories involved a man relating the story of a hook-up with a "granola cruncher" that turned into a most peculiar tale about her {{spoiler|managing to get a rapist to not rape her in a truly bizarre manner}}.
* Macrobiotic, of the ''[[Whateley Universe]]''. I mean, she gave herself the codename 'Macrobiotic', what more do you need?
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* Nola, Phoebe's hippy friend in the novel ''[[Oh. My. Gods.]]'' by Tera Lynn Childs. "Nola" is actually a nickname for her name, which is Granola.
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* Mokey in ''[[Fraggle Rock]]''. If she were human, you could easily picture her listening to sitar music and polishing crystals.
* ''[[Boy Meets World]]'': Topanga in the first season. She was intended as a one-shot character, but the actress made such an impression that she was invited back as a regular. The novelty wore thin pretty quickly, so when the show [[Retool|re-tooled]] in the second season, they changed her into a [[Hollywood Nerd]] (Type 2), essentially [[Brother Chuck|sacrificing]] the one who was already part of the cast (poor Minkus, Type 1) to do it.
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* Lisa in ''[[Six Feet Under]]'' qualifies : " (Lisa) I don't go to the movies. Film is processed with gelatin. Gelatin comes from horses' hooves. (Claire) I didn't know that. (Lisa) Most people don't. Hence the global slavery of animals."
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* As described by [[Beck (musician)|Beck]] in "Nitemare Hippy Girl":
{{quote|'She's spazzing out on a cosmic level
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* The title character of Dean Friedman's 1977 single [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONXQbbJJLuM "Ariel"] is clearly a hippie holdout in the late 1970s.
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* ''[[Dykes to Watch Out For]]'': Most of the main characters (with the distinct exception of Sydney) are distinctly on this end of the spectrum compared to mainstream Middle America, with Sparrow starting off as the most so. Ironically, in the strip's latter days the biggest Granola Girl is the main ''male'' character, Stuart.
* Sky from ''[[Chelsea Boys]]'' is a Granola Boy full stop. Vegetarian, idealist, does his yoga every day, raised on a hippie commune in Canada, the list goes on...
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* Andrea "Andy" Fox from [[FoxTrot]] is an exaggerated version of this making things like Eggplant brownies.
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* By all accounts, [[Bryan Danielson]] is a [[Real Life]] male example. [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] commentator Michael Cole has made many snide references to Bryan's veganism, while Bryan responded to Cole's remarks with a rant on WWE's image-obsessed hiring practices.
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* Leaf Coneybear from ''[[The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee]]'' is a male example of this. He's homeschooled and makes his own clothes.
* Astrov, from Chekhov's ''[[Uncle Vanya]]'' might qualify as a male example, possibly making this trope [[Older Than Radio]]!
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* ''[[Monster High]]'': Draculaura is a [[Vegetarian Vampire]].
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* All the Elves of ''[[Overlord|Overlord II]]'' fit this trope, being whiny hippies and ineffectual [[Hero Antagonist]]s to the [[Villain Protagonist]], earning themselves a lot of harsh one-liners from your [[Evil Chancellor]] Gnarl. Their main concern is saving fluffy and magical creatures from either [[The Empire]] or you, since you're a being of dark magic with Florian Greenheart being a consistent annoyance towards you {{spoiler|in an impressive act of [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]}}.
* Annie Frazier of the ''[[Backyard Sports]]'' series.
* ''[[The Conduit]]'': Talk radio host Autumn Wanderer, who thinks the game's alien invasion is due to a misunderstanding by the angry, male-dominated government.
* A common character in ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]''. Despite their outspoken pacifism, hippies (male and female) are often enemies. Since they don't bathe, their attacks revolve around their body odor. NPC hippies are usually friendly, but out of their minds.
* One in ''[[Escape From St. Mary's
* [[An Ice Person|Thetis]] from ''[[Mega Man ZX]] Advent'' is definitely a non-comical version of this trope. He is young boy not much younger than [[The Hero|Grey]]...[[Well-Intentioned Extremist|WHO WANTS TO DESTROY ALL OF HUMANITY]] [[Humans Are the Real Monsters|FOR DARING TO POLLUTE THE OCEAN.]]
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* ''[[Homestar Runner]]'': Marzipan whose "dirty hippie" quotient varies—although the Strong Bad Email [http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail160.html coloring] painted her as a frightening [[Political Correctness Gone Mad|political-correctness freak]]. The Christmas 2010 'toon suggests she may be farther on the dark side of the trope than we realize; she's got smug superiority written into her every line.▼
* Storm, who is shot down with prejudice by the viewpoint character in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U Storm The Animated Movie].▼
{{quote|'''Narrator, quoting Storm''': Pharmaceutical companies are the enemy! They promote drug dependency at the cost of the ''natural'' remedies that are all our bodies need! [...] I think it's time we took another turn to live with natural medical alternatives!}}▼
* Aggie of ''[[Penny and Aggie]].''
* Monique of ''[[Sinfest]]'' fame is attempting to become one after an encounter with Barack Obama. Sadly for her she is [[Cursed with Awesome]] in that her own sex appeal tends to trip her up, putting her on the Devil's radar.
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* ''[[Head Trip]]'' got an [http://headtrip.keenspot.com/d/20110131.html Evian Girl].
== [[Web
* Christine from ''[[Becoming a Better Writer|Demonic Symphony]]'' has [http://becomingabetterwriter.wordpress.com/2009/04/15/demonic-symphony-scene-072/ touches of this.]▼
* ''[[DC Nation]]'': Aurora "Fauna" Andersen is still a left-wing activist for a variety of causes, with her activist work sometimes just as dangerous as her missions as a Titan. She keeps her superheroing a secret because the people she works with disapprove of caped vigilantes.▼
* The character of [[The Nostalgia Chick]] [[Deconstruction|deconstructs]] this one. She's a misanthropic, uncaring [[Straw Feminist]] who ''talks'' about the environment and progressive causes, but would rather lie around in her house, drink beer and bitch about nostalgic crap.▼
** Played literally in one review where she can be seen munching on granola.▼
* ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'': Sheena, who is a health-nut and hates violence of any kind. Helga even lampshades it at one point: "That's it granola girl, you're dismissed!"
* ''[[Family Guy]]'': Satirized mercilessly in the episode where Death is attracted to a girl who works at the pet store. When he finally asks her out, he discovers to his horror that she says inane things like "you can't hug a child with nuclear arms" and, well, he's [[The Grim Reaper]], what do ''you'' [[Touch of Death|think he does]]? Followed by a [[Check, Please!]].
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* Cadpig from ''[[101 Dalmatians|101 Dalmatians: The Series]]''
* Jenny from ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]''.
▲== Web Animation ==
▲* ''[[Homestar Runner]]'': Marzipan whose "dirty hippie" quotient varies—although the Strong Bad Email [http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail160.html coloring] painted her as a frightening [[Political Correctness Gone Mad|political-correctness freak]]. The Christmas 2010 'toon suggests she may be farther on the dark side of the trope than we realize; she's got smug superiority written into her every line.
▲* Storm, who is shot down with prejudice by the viewpoint character in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U Storm The Animated Movie].
▲{{quote|'''Narrator, quoting Storm''': Pharmaceutical companies are the enemy! They promote drug dependency at the cost of the ''natural'' remedies that are all our bodies need! [...] I think it's time we took another turn to live with natural medical alternatives!}}
▲== Web Original ==
▲* Christine from ''[[Becoming a Better Writer|Demonic Symphony]]'' has [http://becomingabetterwriter.wordpress.com/2009/04/15/demonic-symphony-scene-072/ touches of this.]
▲* ''[[DC Nation]]'': Aurora "Fauna" Andersen is still a left-wing activist for a variety of causes, with her activist work sometimes just as dangerous as her missions as a Titan. She keeps her superheroing a secret because the people she works with disapprove of caped vigilantes.
▲* The character of [[The Nostalgia Chick]] [[Deconstruction|deconstructs]] this one. She's a misanthropic, uncaring [[Straw Feminist]] who ''talks'' about the environment and progressive causes, but would rather lie around in her house, drink beer and bitch about nostalgic crap.
▲** Played literally in one review where she can be seen munching on granola.
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