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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-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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* Macrobiotic, of the ''[[Whateley Universe]]''. I mean, she gave herself the codename 'Macrobiotic', what more do you need?
* ''[[American Gods]]'': Samantha Black Crow delivers a beautiful speech of all the (sometimes contradictory) things she believes in, which could well be a summary of the beliefs of many of these characters. In a subversion, this is a universe where all this [[All Myths Are True|might well be true, at the same time.]]
* Nola, Phoebe's hippy friend in Oh. My. Gods. Nola is actually a nickname for her name, which is Granola.
== Live Action TV ==
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* ''[[The Wonder Years]]'': The trope is played straight -- the series is set in the late 1960s.
* 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 [[Granola Girl|Granola Guy]] rather than a [[New Age Retro Hippie]] (although he displays many of these characteristics as well. See also: [[Erudite Stoner]].). He was undoubtedly the peace-loving “hippie” of the group, donning groovy 60's fashion (moccasins, beads, henna, flowers), and very openly displaying his dislike of violence onscreen.
** *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'').<br /><br />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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* 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 by the Bell]]'' the show's resident know-it-all crusader.
* 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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