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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
Compare [[Bourgeois Bohemian]], [[Soapbox Sadie]].
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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]]
''[[Discworld/Lords and Ladies|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?
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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!
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== Newspaper Comics ==
* ''[[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
* 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.
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== Video Game ==
* 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.
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== Web Animation ==
* ''[[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].
{{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!}}
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