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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"She's like... a dirty hippy. Without the dirt."''
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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
▲{{quote|''"She's like... a dirty hippy. Without the dirt."''|'''[[Homestar Runner|Strong Bad]]'''}}
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
▲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|Erudite Stoners]] 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.
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* 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").▼
== [[Fan
▲* Terra Caldwell from ''[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5330983/1/Convergent_Paths
* ''[[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.
* ''[[
* ''[[Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back]]'': Seann William Scott played a rare young male example.
* ''[[Black Sheep
* ''[[Mars Attacks!]]'': Brutally parodied in [[Tim Burton]]'s film Annette Bening's character Barbara is a Granola Girl who sets up New Age crystals as she watches the Martians land, believing that they are the saviors of the human race, here to enlighten us. [[Alien Invasion|They aren't.]] She's one of the few people to survive the massacre that follows. Afterward, Barbara claims that they have come to [[Aliens Are Bastards|punish]] [[Humans Are
* ''[[Hocus Pocus]]'': Max is a bit of one, at least as described by [[
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* ''[[Being John Malkovich]]'' has Lotte.
* ''[[Stranger Than Fiction]]'' has the quite badass tax-resistant anarchist baker Ana Pascal.
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** Wednesday's priceless rebuttal: [[Crowning Moment of Funny|"Are they made from real girl scouts?"]]
▲== Literature ==
* 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 [[
** ''[[Lords and Ladies]]'' mitigates this somewhat, however - Magrat's cottage has traditionally housed thoughtful witches who carefully researched things and wanted to know, for example, when a spell calls for eye of newt, does left or right make a difference? Granny is a better witch because she knows it doesn't matter, but she nonetheless goes to Magrat for help when someone is poisoned because she knows that Magrat's beliefs do make her a better doctor.
* ''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?
* ''[[
* 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.
== Live Action TV ==▼
* 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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* Janice from ''[[The Muppet Show]]'', who apparently had a discussion with her mother at some point about living on the beach and walking around naked. (''[[The Great Muppet Caper]]'')
* ''[[Dharma and Greg]]'': Dharma and her parents.
* ''[[The Wonder Years]]'': The trope is played
* Amy Jellicoe in ''[[Enlightened]]'', although her sincerity is sometimes questioned.
* ''[[The Monkees]]'': Peter Tork (on the TV show ''and'' in real life) was more of a
** *Which may explain why he was cast as Topanga’s father Jedidiah in early episodes of ''[[Boy Meets World]]''.
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' featured the literally short-lived Principal Flutie as another male version of the trope. After some possessed students ate him (he finally found the gumption to threaten them with detention just before dying), he was replaced by the better-known [[Sadist Teacher|Principal Snyder]], who utters the immortal, 'That's the kind of woolly-headed liberal thinking that leads to being eaten,' (as opposed to what eventually happens to ''him'')
:Flutie's immediate characterization paints him as ''aspiring'' to this archetype rather than succeeding in it. He wants to give Buffy a fresh start, tears up her transcript, and then, horrified, tapes it back together after glancing over the specifics, and tells Buffy the kids know they can call him by his first name but then adds, "but they don't." He ''was'' a nice guy though, a sort of hypocritical but well-meaning [[Reasonable Authority Figure]], as opposed to Snyder who openly has it in for Buffy from day one.
* ''[[Dollhouse]]'': Caroline of is a fine example of the trope. Her heart is arguably in the right place, but her pushy attitude and reckless lack of planning result in {{spoiler|her boyfriend's death as well as the maiming of her friend's arm}}. One gets the impression that she's intended to come across as far more sympathetic than she actually does.
* Leo from ''[[That '70s Show]]'' could be an example of this because he's an older hippy stoner who refuses to grow up, although the fact that the show is set in the 70's makes this a moot point. Though it helps that this character is played by Tommy Chong!
* ''[[The OC]]'': Che, Summer's uni friend from the fourth season.
** And, to a lesser extent, Summer herself at times.
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* ''[[Hannah Montana]]'': Sarah, who once went to work in Rico's snack shack and ended up getting rid of paper plates and cups under the excuse that they would all asphyxiate if they didn't quit using them. While she's right, it is kind of extreme.
* ''[[True Blood]]'': For the extreme version of this trope, there's Amy Burley. She may kidnap and torture vampires for a high, but it doesn't matter because being a Granola Girl makes her a good person, dammit.
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* Britta on ''[[
* Lindsay on ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'' tries to present herself as this at times, but utterly fails at it in practice. Once to prove herself a real activist she joined a volunteer group to clean up the Wetlands. She ended up getting a taxi there because she didn't want to take the bus, skewered a frog with her trash spike, got lost, and "I think I maced a crane." She also has ostrich skin boots.
* ''[[The Thick of It]]'': Stewart Pearson from is a [[Rare Male Example]], and an unusual one in that he is neither an aging hippy nor a sympathetic character. He drinks herbal tea, cycles everywhere and is possibly far too PC for the centre-Right political party which employs him as a spin doctor. His colleagues generally find him irrational and irritating: MP Peter Mannion was less than impressed when Stewart made him install a wind turbine on the roof of his home. For PR purposes, naturally: underneath it all he's as ruthless as a spin doctor needs to be.
* Emma from ''[[Degrassi the Next Generation]]'' .
* In ''[[Eureka]]'', Jack Carter's sister Lexi is an excellent example, while Tess is a somewhat more low-key version.
* In ''[[Project Runway]]'' season two, the designers were given an assignment to create a new look for each other. Santino said that he was going to make Kara Janx look like less of a "granola hippie".
* Jerry from ''[[Raising the Bar]]'' is a fairly realistic example, played straight as an idealistic lawyer.
* Jessie Spano in ''[[Saved
* 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."
== [[Music]] ==
▲== Music ==
''And she's meditating with the devil
▲* As described by [[Beck (Music)|Beck]] in "Nitemare Hippy Girl":
▲{{quote| She's spazzing out on a cosmic level<br />
▲She's cooking salad for breakfast<br />
* Mary Moon, the eponymous "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEDw9xgSmSc New Age Girl]" from the song by Deadeye Dick, featured in ''[[Dumb and Dumber]]''.
* [[Tim Minchin]]'s nine-minute beat poem [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0W7Jbc_Vhw "Storm"] describes his encounter with and ensuing verbal smackdown of a Granola Girl called Storm.
* 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
▲* ''[[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...
* Roxanne from ''[[Candorville]]'' is this [[Gone Horribly Wrong]]
* Opus' fiancée in ''[[Bloom County]]'' was even named Lola Granola.
* Andrea "Andy" Fox from [[FoxTrot]] is an exaggerated version of this making things like Eggplant brownies.
* 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.▼
▲== Professional Wrestling ==
▲* By all accounts, [[Bryan Danielson]] is a [[Real Life]] male example. [[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.
▲== Theatre ==
* 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]]!
==
* ''[[Monster High]]'': Draculaura is a [[Vegetarian Vampire]].▼
== [[Video Games]] ==
* All the Elves of ''[[Overlord|Overlord II]]'' fit this trope, being whiny hippies and ineffectual [[Hero Antagonist
* 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.
* [[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
* ''[[Homestar Runner]]'': Marzipan whose "dirty hippie" quotient
* Storm, who is shot down with prejudice by the viewpoint character in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U Storm The Animated Movie].▼
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== [[Web
* 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
** [
* Tajel of ''[[PHD]]''.
* ''[[
== [[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 [[
** Played literally in one review where she can be seen munching on granola.▼
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[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!]].
* ''[[Mission Hill]]'': Posey. Often subverted for comedic value such as in "Kevin Vs. the SAT" (or "Nocturnal Admissions), in which she heals {{spoiler|a semi-paralyzed pimp ''precisely'' so that he can fully feel the pain of landing after having been pushed off the roof}}.
* Mr Van Driessen from ''[[Beavis and Butthead]]'' was a male example, nobly trying and failing to get the boys to read self-help books instead of just giving them detention.
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* ''[[The Goode Family]]'': Almost everybody.
* Zoop from ''[[Iggy Arbuckle]]''.
* ''[[O
* ''[[South Park]]'': An occasionally recurring character is the "Aging Hippy Liberal Douche". Wendy tends to fit this as of late, too.
* Skye Blue from ''[[Carl Squared]].''
* Miracle from ''[[Sit Down, Shut Up]]''.
* Alice from ''[[Wait Till Your Father Gets Home]]''. (And Chet, for that matter.)
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[A car horn sounds outside]
'''Alice:''' Oh! Gotta go, there's my ride.
'''Harry:''' If you're so concerned about air pollution, why don't you ride your bike there?
'''Alice:''' But it's over ''three blocks!'' }}
* Lisa from ''[[The Simpsons]]'' : she's vegetarian, Buddhist, ecologically aware, into homeopathy and maybe not as smart as she thinks she is. She is one-upped by a [[White
* Sam from ''[[Danny Phantom]]'', whom she's self-labeled herself as an "Ultra-Recyclo Vegetarian." {{spoiler|Who's Gothic! [[Flat What|What?]]}}
** She's a wannabe-{{spoiler|goth}}. But that's just my former goth talking.
* Reanne from ''Girl Stuff/Boy Stuff''.
* Starfire from ''[[Teen Titans (
** She doesn't quite have the diet part down though; known for eating many a bizarre food, when they actually go to Tamaran she's shown to have the same level of table manners as the rest of her people (none) and much of their food appears to ''still be alive''.
* ''[[
** His dad, too.
* Haley from ''[[
* Starr from ''[[
* Mimi's mom from ''What About Mimi?'', to the point where she forbids her husband and kids from eating meat and they have to resort to eating it behind her back.
* Didi from ''[[Rugrats]]'' would be this [[Depending
* On ''[[Birdz]]'', Eddie's big sister, Steffy, is a staunch environmentalist. The first episode has her throwing paint on models wearing fuzzy caterpillar coats, and another has her boycotting a singer because he uses shampoo with the extract of an endangered plant (even though she had been begging to go to one of his concerts).
* Male example with TCFM on ''[[Jimmy Two
* ''[[Recess]]'': Miss Grotke, through and through
* Cadpig from ''[[
* 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!}}
▲* Christine from ''[[Becoming a Better Writer|Demonic Symphony]]'' has [http://becomingabetterwriter.wordpress.com/2009/04/15/demonic-symphony-scene-072/ touches of this.]
▲* ''[[Monster High]]'': Draculaura is a [[Vegetarian Vampire]].
▲* ''[[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 (Web Video)|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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