History Main / GranolaGirl

An overtly comical liberal or left-wing character, usually with a penchant for tie-dyes, crystals, veganism, free love, [[NudeNatureDance oneness with nature]] and anything that is '[[AllNaturalSnakeOil all-natural]]'. This character will commonly not be very well grounded, tending to be overly-cheerful and flighty but not [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} scatter-brained]] enough to qualify as TheDitz. They're often associated with being book smart, and will have a tendency to [[SoapBoxSadie make her opinions known whenever possible]]. She will [[AllNaturalSnakeOil 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.

* Leo from ''That70sShow'' 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!

* Captain Stottlemeyer's first wife in ''Monk''. She even rants to her husband, ''a police captain!'', about how she doesn't want him to carry a gun on duty.

* ''Series/TheMonkees'': Peter Tork (on the TV show ''and'' in real life) was more of a [[GranolaGirl Granola Guy]] rather than a NewAgeRetroHippie (although he displays many of these characteristics as well. See also: EruditeStoner.). 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.

* ''DykesToWatchOutFor'': 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 GranolaGirl is the main ''male'' character, Stuart.

* Opus' fiancée in ''BloomCounty'' was even named Lola Granola.
* Andrea "Andy" Fox from FoxTrot is an exaggerated version of this making things like Eggplant brownies.

* By all accounts, BryanDanielson is a RealLife male example. Wrestling/{{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.

* ''MonsterHigh'': has two GranolaGirls. One is Draculaura who is a VegetarianVampire and the other is Venus McFlytrap a PlantPerson. Venus may seem pushy in wanting others to protect the planet and prevent pollution, but her health relies on a healthy environment.

* ''Brief Interviews with Hideous Men'': One of DavidFosterWallace'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]].

* Claire Howard of ''TheCloser'' is definitely this. She eats nothing but vegan stuff and tried to feed it to her brother and Brenda. She is a intuitionist (psychic). And she had tried a ton of other stuff including yoga and soap making.
* Dharma of ''DharmaAndGreg'', along with her friend Jane. Dharma even has the added bonus of having parents (''especially'' her father) who are still stuck in the 60s.

* ''TheThickOfIt'': Stewart Pearson from is a RareMaleExample, 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 ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'' is known as the school's "cause girl" because she has arranged many protests and boycotts for various causes. She is an staunch environmentalist, and many of her causes correlate with this.

* Lisa from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': she's vegetarian, Buddhist, ecologically aware, into homeopathy and maybe not as smart as she thinks she is. She is one-upped by WhiteHairedPrettyBoy Jesse Grass, who is everything Lisa is and then some. According to him, he is a "9th level vegan: does not eat anything that casts a shadow."

** They ''hate'' trees being chopped down. If you try to trade to an elven caravan anything made out of wood or anything derived from wood (like soap or clear glass[[hottip:*:the production of both require minerals which are purified from wood ash]]) it will offend the caravan master so much he'll immediately leave. In previous versions of the game visiting elven diplomats would demand that you'd set a yearly maximum quota for tree cutting. And when a world's history is being generated elven civilization swill ''go to war'' over human and dwarven civilizations cutting down too many trees.

* Magrat Garlick from the 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 [[AllNaturalSnakeOil anything natural is good for you]].\\
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''Discworld/LordsAndLadies'' 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.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' 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 [[SadistTeacher 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'').\\
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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 ReasonableAuthorityFigure, as opposed to Snyder who openly has it in for Buffy from day one.

* ''BeingJohnMalkovich'' has Lotte.
* Layla from ''Film/SkyHigh''.

* Sheldon Mopes of DeathToSmoochy
* Played with in ''Series/TheAddamsFamily''. 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: [[CrowningMomentOfFunny "Are they made from real girl scouts?"]]

* ''Series/DharmaAndGreg'': Dharma and her parents.

* Dawn of the ''BabySittersClub''.

* Emma from ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'' .

* Barney from ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' was a Granola Guy who wanted to join the peace corps. Then [[BreakTheCutie his girlfriend dumped]] him for a jerk in a suit and Barney became LEGEN-[[StockPhrase wait for it...]]DARY.
** Similarly, Ted's high school/sometimes college girlfriend Karen was a particularly insufferable example.

* The character of WebVideo/TheNostalgiaChick [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructs]] this one. She's a misanthropic, uncaring StrawFeminist 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.

* Astrov, from Chekhov's ''UncleVanya'' might qualify as a male example, possibly making this trope OlderThanRadio!

* Lisa from ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' : she's vegetarian, Buddhist, ecologically aware, into homeopathy and maybe not as smart as she thinks she is. She is one-upped by WhiteHairedPrettyBoy Jesse Grass, who is everything Lisa is and then some. According to him, he is a "9th level vegan: does not eat anything that casts a shadow."
** Calliope Juniper in the epispde "Flaming Moe" is also an example of this.

* Mr. Fellows, the English teacher from ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir''. He seems desperate to prove to [[Creator/WillSmith Will]] that he's totally "down" with having a black student by doing things like casually mentioning how much he loved ''Film/{{Glory}}'' , or stating how we need to "fix" the South.

* Mr. Fellows, the English teacher from ''FreshPrinceOfBelAir''. He seems desperate to prove to [[WillSmith Will]] that he's totally "down" with having a black student by doing things like casually mentioning how much he loved ''Film/{{Glory}}'' , or stating how we need to "fix" the South.

* Mokey in ''FraggleRock''. If she were human, you could easily picture her listening to sitar music and polishing crystals.
* ''BoyMeetsWorld'': 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 HollywoodNerd (Type 2), essentially [[BrotherChuck sacrificing]] the one who was already part of the cast (poor Minkus, Type 1) to do it.

* Phoebe from ''{{Friends}}''. Slightly less so in later seasons when she ended up a little less hippy and a little more edgy.
* Janice from ''TheMuppetShow'', who apparently had a discussion with her mother at some point about living on the beach and walking around naked. (''TheGreatMuppetCaper'')
* ''DharmaAndGreg'': Dharma and her parents.
* ''TheWonderYears'': The trope is played straight -- the series is set in the late 1960s.
* Amy Jellicoe in ''{{Enlightened}}'', although her sincerity is sometimes questioned.
* ''TheMonkees'': Peter Tork (on the TV show ''and'' in real life) was more of a [[GranolaGirl Granola Guy]] rather than a NewAgeRetroHippie (although he displays many of these characteristics as well. See also: EruditeStoner.). 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 ''BoyMeetsWorld''.