Thistle Downe

 was Stan Pines' former love rival for the affections of Carla McCorkle.

History
Thistle Downe was a musician in the 70's and played a musical act called "Dimensional Healing with Thistle Down" at The Juke Joint. There he met Carla "Hotpants" McCorkle, who heard his transcendental music and fell for him even though she'd been dating Stan Pines. She left Stan for him and they started going out, much to Stan's dissappointment.

Out of revenge, Stan drove Thistle's van into a ravine.

Personality
According to Stan, he was a new age "tree hugger" and presumably a mellow, stereotypical hippie.

Appearance
Thistle was a thin, twiggy, young man. He had long, flowing, blonde hair; to minimize sweating, he wore a pink head-band. Under the band, his sideburns flowed down near to his jaw, below which a patch of hair clung to his chin, making a scruffy little beard. He tended to wear loose-fitting clothing, most often wearing a purple, poncho-like shirt that reached down to his hips. He had his concerns with fashion all the same, however; he wore a pair of red bell-bottoms, stitched near the bottom of the seam-lines where they had once torn. He was a Tree-Hugger through and through, he even liked to wear a flower in his hair from time-to-time.