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{{quote|''"She's like... a dirty hippy. Without the dirt."''|'''[[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
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.
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Compare [[Bourgeois Bohemian]], [[Soapbox Sadie]].
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* ''[[Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back]]'': Seann William Scott played a rare young male example.
* ''[[Black Sheep the Movie (Film)|Black Sheep]]'': Experience. She claims to be able to see auras, carries around an aromatherapy candle, and at some point learned something about acupuncture.
* ''[[Mars Attacks (Film)]]'': 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 Bastards|humanity for destroying the Earth]].
* ''[[Hocus Pocus]]'': Max is a bit of one, at least as described by [[The Nostalgia Chick (Web Video)|The Nostalgia Chick]], but with one notorious exception:
{{quote| Max is from California, where people wear tie-dye, play drums, and just love tie-dye! 'Cause California has hippies, and hippies love tie-dye! But the thing about hippies is that hippies actually have sex. Free love is one of the main characteristics of Hippie-dome. But Max is a [[Overly Long Gag|[thunderclap, dramatic pause, dramatic whisper] virgin!]]}}
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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 (Literature)|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
* ''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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* 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 Marys (Video Game)|Escape From St Marys]]'' is known simply as "the Artist."
* [[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
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* ''[[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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'''Harry:''' If you're so concerned about air pollution, why don't you ride your bike there?<br />
'''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.
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