Granola Girl/Playing With

Basic Trope: Hippy chick

• Straight: Alice is a member of PETA, prefers hemp and linen to polyester, recycles, drives a Prius, is a member of a co-op, spends quite a lot of time and money eating organic, and sees a Naturopath regularly.
• Exaggerated:
  • Alice "frees" pets from their owners, is a nudist, doesn't use anything that cannot be washed and reused, eats only raw or local or what she grows herself, and protests outside of doctor's offices.
  • Alternatively, Alice has gone "off the grid" and lives as one with nature.
• Downplayed: Alice likes flowers, health food and folk music, but still drives her kids to school in a minivan.
• Justified: Alice suffers various allergies that make her especially sensitive to additives in food and household products.
• Inverted: Alice is a Blonde Republican Sex Kitten.
• Subverted: Alice is raised in a free-loving hippie commune, and follows most of their ways out of habit. While she is the least "earthy" of her family, she's still firmly a hippie by normal standards.
• Double Subverted: Alice is firmly a skeptic of new age propaganda, only to find out that they were right all along about food additives and Western medicine.
• Parodied: Alice is a Large Ham and shameless toker who hilariously passes around illicit substances to younger family members during church.
• Deconstructed:
  • Alice alienates people by talking constantly about politics, and offends others when she turns her nose up at their "non-enlightened" lifestyles.
  • Alternatively, Alice contracts cancer and pursues homeopathic remedies because she distrusts modern medicine. She quickly succumbs to an out-of-control malignant brain tumor.
  • Alice refuses to have her son inoculated. He contracts smallpox from another uninoculated child at his daycare, and dies.
• Reconstructed: Alice learns from the misfortunes stemming from her blind adherence to natural remedies and new-age propaganda, and embarks on a quest to insist that the organic and alternative medicine industries be properly regulated and monitored.
• Zig Zagged: Alice is a new age guru who is eventually exposed to believe absolutely nothing she preaches -- nor practice it -- but simply is just a shameless opportunistic capitalist.
• Averted: Alice eats healthy according to the recommendations of proven science and common sense, and avoids over-consumption out of tact.
• Enforced: Alice is a character in a movie about the hippie movement of the 1960s.
• Lampshaded: "Don't ask Alice about what we ought to do about the deer overpopulation problem. She's a PETA nut."
• Invoked:
  • Alice's parents deliberately attempt to convert her to vegetarianism by taking her on a tour of a slaughterhouse.
  • Alice is trying to infiltrate an Animal Wrongs Group, and takes on this persona because she thinks it will make her fit in.
• Defied: Alice, daughter of hippies, is head of public relations for multinational fast food company McBeefy's.
• Discussed: "You're Alice?? From reading your blog, I was expecting more hemp..."
• Conversed: "Man, I identify as a liberal, but that Alice chick in this show is really over-the-top. Nobody is actually like that, right?"
• Played For Laughs: Alice finds herself stranded in a lesbian hippie commune. Hilarity Ensues.
• Played For Drama: Alice grew up on the shores of a picturesque river with dreams of eventually taking up the family's organic fish farm. She dies penniless at the age of 45 -- with traces of toxic heavy metals in all her major organs -- after an unsuccessful and bitter legal battle with a polluting oil refinery upstream.

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