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-->''"She's like... a dirty hippy. Without the dirt."''
-->--[[HomestarRunner Strong Bad]]

An overtly left-wing character, usually with a penchant for tie-dyes, crystals, veganism, free love and anything that is '[[AllNaturalSnakeOil all-natural]]'. This character will commonly not be very well grounded, but cheerful; flighty, but not [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} scatter-brained]] enough to qualify as TheDitz, 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.

Male versions of this character are exceedingly rare, and are mainly depicted as aging 50- or 60-year-old [[NewAgeRetroHippie hippies]], either Tommy Chong-esque {{Erudite Stoner}}s or balding guys with ponytails who [[DiscoDan haven't yet accepted the end of the 1960s]]. Remember, Granola Guys are just a little out of touch with the modern world but are still sympathetic, intelligent men; Granola Girls are stupid, irrational idiots who aren't just wrong about everything but are proud of it too. It's a [[DoubleStandard much nastier trope]] than it seems on the surface.

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!!Examples:

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* Brutally parodied in TimBurton's film ''MarsAttacks!'' 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. [[AlienInvasion They aren't.]] She's one of the few people to survive the massacre that follows. Afterward, Barbara claims that they have come to punish humanity for destroying the Earth.
* Sophia Bush's character in ''JohnTuckerMustDie''.
* Michael Caine's character Jasper in ''{{Children of Men}}'' is an aging Granola Guy, living in the woods ''naturally'' with his wife, growing a [[strike:new]] immensely popular variety of pot that has a strawberry flavor.
** Of course, this could also be a reaction to the dystopian nightmare of England, [[NextSundayAD 2018 AD]]. It is implied that he was left without a choice but to withdraw from society after his wife was tortured by the government.
* Steve Jobs's girlfriend from ''PiratesOfSiliconValley'', 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.

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* Anathema Device from ''GoodOmens'' is something of a Granola Girl. She's a witch (the latest in a long line of witches) who subscribes to a number of environmentally-conscious and/or New Age magazines.
** Much of the plot results from those very same magazines, which are rather persuasive to [[RealityWarper a budding Antichrist]].
** Not a straight version of the trope, since Anathema is a good person and is actually factually right about most things. She's just socially conscious to a thousand percent - which is [[FridgeLogic a bit strange]], since she's one of the few people who knows for certain that [[ApocalypseHow there won't be any future generations to preserve the environment for]]...
* Dawn of the ''BabySittersClub''.
* Parodied/Lampshaded in ''ThursdayNext: First Among Sequels'', by Thursday's fictional counterpart, Thursday5, a LighterAndSofter version of her, written after the original complained about the DarkerAndEdgier 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 [[AllNaturalSnakeOil anything natural is good for you]].
** ''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, which out of a wide selection of identically-named plants is meant when a spell calls for a plant of that name. 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 belief that it does makes her a better doctor.
* One of {{David Foster Wallace}}'s titular ''Brief Interviews with Hideous Men'' (a collection of 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 WhateleyUniverse. I mean, she gave herself the codename 'Macrobiotic', what more do you need?


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* Topanga in the first few seasons of ''{{Boy Meets World}}''.
* 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'')
** This troper recalls a scene in ''TheMuppetsTakeManhattan'' where she mentions only doing nude modeling if it's artistically valid.
* Dharma and her parents from ''DharmaAndGreg''.
* Daphne Moon on ''{{Frasier}}'' claimed to be "a bit psychic". Prior to Lilith's first appearance on the show, she uttered the phrase "I sense a great evil," and was sick with a migraine for the rest of the episode until Lilith left.
* The trope is played straight in series actually set in the late 1960s or early 1970s, such as ''TheWonderYears''.
* ''BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' featured the 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'').
*** Well, that's the kind of woolly-headed ''conservative'' thinking that leads to being eaten. Streets run both ways.
** 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 horrifiedly 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 Synder who openly has it in for Buffy from day one.
* 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 actually PLAYED BY TOMMY CHONG!
* Che, Summer's uni friend from the fourth season of ''TheOC''.
* Barney from ''{{How I Met Your Mother}}'' was a Granola Guy who wanted to join the peace corps. Then his girlfriend dumped him for a jerk in a suit and Barney became Awe.....[[StockCatchphrase wait for it...]]some.
* Jane on ''{{Coupling}}'' is one, although some positions she claims to have are not completely true (her supposed lesbianism and vegetarianism).
*Maddy, from ''{{The Suite Life of Zack and Cody}}'' is a mild version of this.
*Has everyone forgotten Chelsea from ''ThatsSoRaven''?
*For the extreme version of this trope, there's Amy Burley from ''{{True Blood}}''. 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.
--->'''Amy (talking to kidnapped vampire):''' I am an organic vegan and my carbon footprint is miniscule.


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* Most of the main characters (with the distinct exception of Sydney) in ''DykesToWatchOutFor'' are distincly 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.
* Sky from ''ChelseaBoys'' 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 GoneHorriblyWrong--for instance, she loudly lectures anyone who eats meat, but has no problem with wearing fur to "preserve [the animal's] beauty forever." There are indications that she's [[{{Yandere}} psychotic]] [[MurderTheHypotenuse several times over]]. Given that [[spoiler:she wants to TakeOverTheWorld and might actually pull it off]], this is ''really'' bad.


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* Aggie of ''PennyAndAggie.''
* Monique of ''{{Sinfest}}'' fame is attempting to become one after an ecounter with Barack Obama. Sadly for her she is CursedWithAwesome in that her own sex appeal tends to trip her up, putting her on the Devil's radar.
* Tajel of ''{{PHD}}''.

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* Sheena from ''HeyArnold'' 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!"
* Satirized mercilessly in ''FamilyGuy'' 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 TheGrimReaper, what do ''you'' [[TouchOfDeath think he does]]? Followed by a {{Check Please}}.
* Posey from the short-lived ''MissionHill''.
** Often subverted for comedic value such as in "Kevin Vs. the SAT" (or "Nocturnal Admissions), in which she heals [[spoiler:a semi-paralysed 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 rare male example, nobly trying and failing to get the boys to read self-help books instead of just giving them detention.
** Mr. O' Neill from ''{{Daria}}'' is an {{Expy}} of Mr. Van Driessen made by different creators set in nominally the same universe.
* Almost everybody from ''TheGoodeFamily''
* Hayley from ''AmericanDad''. Something of a subversion in being grounded, [[DeadpanSnarker sarcastic]] and grouchy (sometimes to the point of being a {{Jerkass}}).
** This troper would argue Hayley is more akin to the OnlySaneMan given that she seems to be the only person with any common sense, in a universe inhabited by psychotic conservatives, camp aliens and [[strike:evil]] needy german goldfish.
***On the other hand, she's implied to usually be high after noon, has quite liberal views on sex, is downright agressive towards George Bush, seems to have connections with animal liberation groups and on one occasion went to pick berries for peace.
* Zoop from ''IggyArbuckle''.
* Beth from the animated show ''OGrady'', 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.
* Occasionally recurring ''{{South Park}}'' character "Aging Hippy Liberal Douche".
* Skye Blue from ''CarlSquared.''
* Miracle from ''SitDownShutUp''.
* Alice from ''WaitTillYourFatherGetsHome''. (And Chet, for that matter.)
---> '''Alice:''' I hate smog. People shouldn't travel anywhere except on foot. Or bicycle.
---> [A car horn sounds ourside]
---> '''Alice:''' Oh! Gotta go, there's my ride.
---> '''Harry:''' If you're so concerned about air pollution, why don't you ride your bike there?
---> '''Alice:''' But it's over ''three blocks!''

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* The quote at the top of the page addresses Marzipan from ''HomestarRunner'', whose "dirty hippie" quotient varies - although the Strong Bad Email [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail160.html coloring]] painted her as a frightening [[PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad political-correctness freak]].

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* Christine from [[BecomingABetterWriter Demonic Symphony]] has [[http://becomingabetterwriter.wordpress.com/2009/04/15/demonic-symphony-scene-072/ touches of this.]]

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* All the Elves of {{Overlord}} II fit this trope, being whiny hippies and ineffectual {{Hero Antagonist}}s to the VillainProtagonist, earning themselves a lot of harsh one-liners from your EvilChancellor Gnarl. Their main concern is saving fluffy and magical creatures from either TheEmpire 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 ObfuscatingStupidity]].
* Annie Frazier of the ''BackyardSports'' series.

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[[folder: Music ]]

* Mary Moon, the eponymous "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEDw9xgSmSc New Age Girl]]" from the song by Deadeye Dick, featured in ''DumbAndDumber''.

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