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* ''[[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.
* ''[[Pirates of Silicon Valley (Film)|Pirates of Silicon Valley]]'': Steve Jobs's girlfriend, who had a daughter with him named Lisa. His first reaction when she breaks up with him is to fire the entire Apple Lisa dev team.
* ''[[Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back]]'': Seann William Scott played a rare young male example.
* ''[[Black Sheep the(2006 Movie (Filmfilm)|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!]]}}
* ''[[Being John Malkovich]]'' has Lotte.
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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-Natural Snake Oil|anything natural is good for you]].<br /><br />''[[Discworld (Literature)/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 (Literature)|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.
 
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* ''[[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.
{{quote| '''Amy (talking to kidnapped vampire):''' I am an organic vegan and my carbon footprint is miniscule.}}
* Britta on ''[[Community (TV)|Community]]''. But not half as much as Vaughn.
* 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]]'' .
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* 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 Byby 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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== Music ==
 
* As described by [[Beck (Musicmusician)|Beck]] in "Nitemare Hippy Girl":
{{quote| She's spazzing out on a cosmic level<br />
And she's meditating with the devil<br />
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* ''[[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. Marys (Video Game)Mary's|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-Intentioned Extremist|WHO WANTS TO DESTROY ALL OF HUMANITY]] [[Humans Are Bastards|FOR DARING TO POLLUTE THE OCEAN.]]
 
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* 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 Withwith Awesome]] in that her own sex appeal tends to trip her up, putting her on the Devil's radar.
** [http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3563 Namechecked, natch]
* Tajel of ''[[PHD]]''.
* ''[[Head Trip (Webcomic)|Head Trip]]'' got an [http://headtrip.keenspot.com/d/20110131.html Evian Girl].
 
== Western Animation ==
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* ''[[The Goode Family]]'': Almost everybody.
* Zoop from ''[[Iggy Arbuckle]]''.
* ''[[O 'Grady]]'': Beth, as well as her mother. Subverted by her employer, Jazmine, who runs The Enchanted Soybean ("A Healthful Life Encounter!"). After returning from an illness to find a radically changed product line including soda and candy bars, she yells at Beth's friend Abby for "polluting" her store and promptly fires her. Ironically, just before the credits we see her locking the store and hiding in the back room so she can eat potato chips, diet cola, candy bars, and read gossip magazines.
* ''[[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.)
{{quote| '''Alice:''' I hate smog. People shouldn't travel anywhere except on foot. Or bicycle.<br />
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** She's a wannabe-{{spoiler|goth}}. But that's just my former goth talking.
* Reanne from ''Girl Stuff/Boy Stuff''.
* Starfire from ''[[Teen Titans (Animationanimation)|Teen Titans]]'' shows signs of this, though she's still getting used to our planet and doesn't really have the finer points down.
** 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''.
* ''[[DextersDexter's Laboratory]]'': Oceanbird, Mandark's Mom.
** His dad, too.
* Haley from ''[[American Dad (Animation)|American Dad]]'' is usually a more cynical version. The trope can be played quite straight, too.
* Starr from ''[[Sixteen (Animation)|Sixteen]]''
* 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 Onon the Writer|sometimes]]. Usually when cooking or when it put her at odds with Betty.
* 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 -Shoes]]'', who happened to look [[Identical Stranger|similar to Beezy]].
* ''[[Recess]]'': Miss Grotke, through and through
* Cadpig from ''[[101 Dalmatians (Disney)|101 Dalmatians: The Series]]''
* Jenny from ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]''.
 
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* ''[[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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