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* 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").
== Film ==
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* Played with in ''[[The Addams Family]]''. A Girl Scout insists she only eats all-natural, preservative-free foods while debating purchasing some of Wednesday's lemonade... and then offers to sell them highly-processed Girl Scout cookies.
** Wednesday's priceless rebuttal: [[Crowning Moment of Funny|"Are they made from real girl scouts?"]]
== Literature ==
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* 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.▼
▲''[[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?
* ''[[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 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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** *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.▼
▲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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* 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."
== Music ==
* As described by [[Beck (musician)|Beck]] in "Nitemare Hippy Girl":
{{quote|'She's spazzing out on a cosmic level
''And she's meditating with the devil
''She's cooking salad for breakfast
''She's got tofu the size of Texas }}
* 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.
== 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 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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* 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.
== 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]]!
== Toys ==
* ''[[Monster High]]'': Draculaura is a [[Vegetarian Vampire]].▼
== Video Game ==
* 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.
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* [[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.]]
▲== Webcomics ==
* 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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== 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!]].
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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.]
▲* ''[[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]] [[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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