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* Laurie proposes to Amy during on of these in ''LittleWomen''.
** Years later in the final sequel ''Jo's Boys'', Tom begins his acquaintance with his future wife by overturning their boat. The story gets turned into a dramatic RescueRomance as it spreads.
* DaisyMiller tries to get Winterbourne to take her on one of these.
** Years later in the final sequel ''Jo's Boys'', Tom begins his acquaintance with his future wife by overturning their boat. The story gets turned into a dramatic RescueRomance as it spreads.
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* Wheeler does this with Linka when they're investigating in Venice in an episode of ''CaptainPlanet''.
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* The tunnel of love version appears in the sci-fi novel ''AgainstADarkBackground'' -- you can bail about beforehand, but the tunnel is so long that having sex is pretty much all you can do other than sit in the dark and be bored to death. The protagonist's LoveInterest gets her to go into the tunnel with him by promised to reveal a wish he'd made earlier (which of course was his wish to make love to his beautiful superior officer).
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* ''MST3K'' - one of the 'Rocky Jones' epics had the original title "The Gypsy Moons". A framing sequence posits that that is the title of an old-timey turn of the century popular song, which Crow and Tom Servo sing (using every possible rhyme with 'moon'), serenading Gypsy on a stage set depicting such a rowboat date.
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* ''StarTrekEnterprise''. Trip Tucker should have known better when an alien woman takes him into a virtual reality simulation involving the two of them in a rowboat -- it leads to a MisterSeahorse situation.
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* [[http://www.brickset.com/detail/?Set=3622-1 This set]] from the ''{{LEGO}}'' ''{{Fabuland}}'' toyline seems to invoke this trope. (And yes, these are [[InterspeciesRomance a lion and a hippopotamus]].)
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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': The Fourth Doctor and Romana are shown punting on the Cam in "The Five Doctors" (using footage shot for the unfinished serial "Shada"). YourMileageMayVary on how much of a date this is, but Tom Baker and Lala ward did eventually marry in RealLife.
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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': The Fourth Doctor and Romana are shown punting on the Cam in "The Five Doctors" (using footage shot for the unfinished serial "Shada"). YourMileageMayVary on how much of a date this is, but Tom Baker and Lala ward did eventually marry in RealLife.
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* ArchieComics: Archie and Betty go on one in a slightly infamous story set in ThegayNineties.
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* In ''RanmaOneHalf'' - Ukyo and male!Ranma go on a date involving row boats. Ryoga and Akane are also on a date, and fighting ensues.
* Played with in ''GreatTeacherOnizuka''. Onizuka plays hooky to take a stressed out Fuyutsuki rowing, but he claims he does this all the time by himself when he's feeling stressed. And then the boat turns out to be leaky.
* In ''{{Octave}}'', Yukino and Setsuko go on one. Since they're both girls, they [[RockPaperScissors janken]] to decide who rows.
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* ArchieComics: Archie and Betty go on one in a slightly infamous story set in ThegayNineties.
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* Spoofed in the film ''SomeLikeItHot'', due to the twists already happening in the plot, like DisguisedInDrag.
* An episode of ''HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'', that is a WholePlotReference to ''SomeLikeItHot'', a guy sees Salmoneous in drag, and pictures doing this date with him.
* Invoked in ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' as part of the song "Kiss the Girl".
* A date in ''{{Disney/Tangled}}'' didn't start out this way, but ended up being so. Flynn took Rapunzel on a boat to see the lanterns she had always wanted to see, and their talk in this moment turned it into a date.
* Spoofed in [[http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/b/bird_tail.asp this cartoon with two peafowl in a boat]].
* Featured in a [[TheMerch official Disney collectible]] "Mickey's Rowboat Romance", which is similar in tone to the {{Classic Disney Short|s}} ''The Nifty Nineties'' (which did not have such a scene though).
* In RanmaOneHalf - Ukyo and male!Ranma go on a date involving row boats. Ryoga and Akane are also on a date, and fighting ensues.
* An episode of ''HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'', that is a WholePlotReference to ''SomeLikeItHot'', a guy sees Salmoneous in drag, and pictures doing this date with him.
* Invoked in ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' as part of the song "Kiss the Girl".
* A date in ''{{Disney/Tangled}}'' didn't start out this way, but ended up being so. Flynn took Rapunzel on a boat to see the lanterns she had always wanted to see, and their talk in this moment turned it into a date.
* Spoofed in [[http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/b/bird_tail.asp this cartoon with two peafowl in a boat]].
* Featured in a [[TheMerch official Disney collectible]] "Mickey's Rowboat Romance", which is similar in tone to the {{Classic Disney Short|s}} ''The Nifty Nineties'' (which did not have such a scene though).
* In RanmaOneHalf - Ukyo and male!Ranma go on a date involving row boats. Ryoga and Akane are also on a date, and fighting ensues.
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* In ''{{Series/Scrubs}}'', JD has an ImagineSpot where he's on such a date with Elliot, and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqbOX6Gk18k even throwing her lover in a lake]].
* An episode of TheMuppetShow had a Wayne and Wanda sketch where the two were enacting such a date while singing "Row, Row, Row". It's one of few Wayne and Wanda sketches that make it to the song's chorus, Then the boat springs a leak.
* Alfalfa and Darla do this in the 1994 film of TheLittleRascals.
* An episode of TheMuppetShow had a Wayne and Wanda sketch where the two were enacting such a date while singing "Row, Row, Row". It's one of few Wayne and Wanda sketches that make it to the song's chorus, Then the boat springs a leak.
* Alfalfa and Darla do this in the 1994 film of TheLittleRascals.
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* In ''KindHeartsAndCoronets'', Ascoyne D'Ascoyne takes his mistress punting, although his intentions are anything but chaste. When he moors his boat to have his way with her, Louis unties it; causing Ascoyne and his mistress to be swept to their deaths over the weir.
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* Played with in GreatTeacherOnizuka. Onizuka plays hooky to take a stressed out Fuyutsuki rowing, but he claims he does this all the time by himself when he's feeling stressed. And then the boat turns out to be leaky.
* Parodied in ''{{Futurama}}'', when Amy and Kif go on a date in a row-''kite'', which bobs majestically through the air, somehow suspended by their meager paddling.
* Parodied in ''{{Futurama}}'', when Amy and Kif go on a date in a row-''kite'', which bobs majestically through the air, somehow suspended by their meager paddling.
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* [[http://www.brickset.com/detail/?Set=3622-1 This set]] from the ''{{LEGO}}'' ''{{Fabuland}}'' toyline seems to invoke this trope. (And yes, these are [[InterspeciesRomance a lion and a hippopotamus]].)
* [[http://www.brickset.com/detail/?Set=3622-1 This set]] from the ''{{LEGO}}'' ''{{Fabuland}}'' toyline seems to invoke this trope. (And yes, these are [[InterspeciesRomance a lion and a hippopotamus]].)
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* ''Series/DoctorWho'': The Fourth Doctor and Romana are shown punting on the Cam in "The Five Doctors" (using footage shot for the unfinished serial "Shada"). YourMileageMayVary on how much of a date this is, but Tom Baker and Lala ward did eventually marry in RealLife.
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* Spoofed in [[http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/b/bird_tail.asp this cartoon with two peafowl in a boat]].
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* Featured in a [[TheMerch official Disney collectible]] "Mickey's Rowboat Romance", which is similar in tone to the {{Classic Disney Short|s}} ''The Nifty Nineties'' (which did not have such a scene though).
* [[http://www.brickset.com/detail/?Set=3622-1 This set]] from the ''{{LEGO}}'' ''{{Fabuland}}'' toyline seems to invoke this trope. (And yes, these are [[InterspeciesRomance a lion and a hippopotamus]].)
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* Invoked in ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' as part of the song "Kiss the Girl".
* A date in ''{{Disney/Tangled}}'' didn't start out this way, but ended up being so. Flynn took Rapunzel on a boat to see the lanterns she had always wanted to see, and their talk in this moment turned it into a date.
* Parodied in ''{{Futurama}}'', when Amy and Kif go on a date in a row-''kite'', which bobs majestically through the air, somehow suspended by their meager paddling.
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* Spoofed in [[http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/b/bird_tail.asp this cartoon with two peafowl in a boat]].
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* Featured in a [[TheMerch official Disney collectible]] "Mickey's Rowboat Romance", which is similar in tone to the {{Classic Disney Short|s}} ''The Nifty Nineties'' (which did not have such a scene though).
* [[http://www.brickset.com/detail/?Set=3622-1 This set]] from the ''{{LEGO}}'' ''{{Fabuland}}'' toyline seems to invoke this trope. (And yes, these are [[InterspeciesRomance a lion and a hippopotamus]].)
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* Invoked in ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' as part of the song "Kiss the Girl".
* A date in ''{{Disney/Tangled}}'' didn't start out this way, but ended up being so. Flynn took Rapunzel on a boat to see the lanterns she had always wanted to see, and their talk in this moment turned it into a date.
* Parodied in ''{{Futurama}}'', when Amy and Kif go on a date in a row-''kite'', which bobs majestically through the air, somehow suspended by their meager paddling.
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* ''StarTrekEnterprise''. Trip Tucker should have known better when an alien woman takes him into a virtual reality simulation involving the two of them in a rowboat -- it leads to a MisterSeahorse situation.
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A lady and her suitor are having a romantic date on a rowboat. This was a popular dating image for the 19th and early 20th century upper classes, as it provided a chance for couples to be alone together, but still in plain sight to avoid accusations of anything sexual happening -- and because they are propelled by oars, not sails, there is no danger of being becalmed.
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A lady and her suitor are having a romantic date on a rowboat. This was a popular dating image for the 19th and early 20th century upper classes, as it provided a chance for couples to be alone together, but still in plain sight to avoid accusations of anything sexual happening.
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* [[http://www.brickset.com/detail/?Set=3622-1 This set]] from the ''{{LEGO}}'' ''{{Fabuland}}'' toyline seems to invoke this trope. (And yes, this these are [[InterspeciesRomance a lion and a hippopotamus]].)
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* Briefly seen in the "That's How You Know" montage in ''{{Enchanted}}'', complete with the parasol and a mariachi band on a couple of other boats.
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* Briefly seen in the "That's How You Know" montage in ''{{Enchanted}}'', ''Film/{{Enchanted}}'', complete with the parasol and a mariachi band on a couple of other boats.
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* In {{Octave}} Yukino and Setsuko go on one. Since they're both girls, they [[RockPaperScissors janken]] to decide who rows.
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The typical image is the lady sitting under her ParasolOfPrettiness in a mildly PimpedOutDress, while the gentleman sits on the other side, wooing her in various ways.
Now "old fashioned" in the title means it. This isn't quite a DeadHorseTrope, but spoofs of it far outnumber straight uses these days. Also, the "Tunnel of Love" rides in amusement parks was sort of a play on this trope, using the dark to allow couples to have intimate contact with nobody actually seeing anything.
Now "old fashioned" in the title means it. This isn't quite a DeadHorseTrope, but spoofs of it far outnumber straight uses these days. Also, the "Tunnel of Love" rides in amusement parks was sort of a play on this trope, using the dark to allow couples to have intimate contact with nobody actually seeing anything.
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Now "old fashioned" in the title means it. This isn't quite a DeadHorseTrope, but spoofs of it far outnumber straight uses thesedays.days, usually with at least one of the participants falling into the water if the boat doesn't sink. Also, the "Tunnel of Love" rides in amusement parks was sort of a play on this trope, using the dark to allow couples to have intimate contact with nobody actually seeing anything.
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* In ''ToTheManorBorn'', [=DeVere=] invites Audrey for what she thinks is a date, ending with the two of them together in a punt. When she discovers he's actually using her as an extra in a grocery advertisement he's filming, she takes her revenge by setting the punt adrift in the river, with him on board.
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* Parodied in ''{{Futurama}}'', when Amy and Kif go on a date in a row-''kite'', which bobs majestically through the air, somehow suspended by their meager paddling.
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* Played with in GreatTeacherOnizuka. Onizuka plays hooky to take a stressed out Fuyutsuki rowing, but he claims he does this all the time by himself when he's feeling stressed. And then the boat turns out to be leaky.
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A SisterTrope to SerenadeYourLover, CourtlyLove (another romance ideal).
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->''It’s the classic Victorian love story scene — a couple lounging in a rowboat, on a lazy summer afternoon in the middle of the lake, while he woos her with poetry by Byron or Keats.''
-->-- "[[http://www.thedctraveler.com/2008/07/reading-poetry-on-a-row-boat/ Reading Poetry on a Row Boat]]"
A lady and her suitor are having a romantic date on a rowboat. This was a popular dating image for the 19th and early 20th century upper classes, as it provided a chance for couples to be alone together, but still in plain site to avoid accusations of anything sexual happening.
The typical image is the lady sitting under her ParasolOfPrettiness in a mildly PimpedOutDress, while the gentleman sits on the other side, wooing her in various ways.
Now "old fashioned" in the title means it. This isn't quite a DeadHorseTrope, but spoofs of it far outnumber straight uses these days. Also, the "Tunnel of Love" rides in amusement parks was sort of a play on this trope, using the dark to allow couples to have intimate contact with nobody actually seeing anything.
A SisterTrope to SerenadeYourLover.
Compare TheGayNineties, ChasteHero, TheIngenue, PurityPersonified.
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!!Examples
* In an ImagineSpot in ''TheMuppetMovie'', Miss Piggy pictures herself doing this with Kermit.
* Spoofed in the film ''SomeLikeItHot'', due to the twists already happening in the plot, like DisguisedInDrag.
* An episode of ''HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'', that is a WholePlotReference to ''SomeLikeItHot'', a guy sees Salmoneous in drag, and pictures doing this date with him.
* Invoked in ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' as part of the song "Kiss the Girl".
* A date in ''{{Disney/Tangled}}'' didn't start out this way, but ended up being so. Flynn took Rapunzel on a boat to see the lanterns she had always wanted to see, and their talk in this moment turned it into a date.
* Spoofed in [[http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/b/bird_tail.asp this cartoon with two peafowl in a boat]].
* Featured in a [[TheMerch official Disney collectible]] "Mickey's Rowboat Romance", which is similar in tone to the {{Classic Disney Short|s}} ''The Nifty Nineties'' (which did not have such a scene though).
* In RanmaOneHalf - Ukyo and male!Ranma go on a date involving row boats. Ryoga and Akane are also on a date, and fighting ensues.
* Briefly seen in the "That's How You Know" montage in ''{{Enchanted}}'', complete with the parasol and a mariachi band on a couple of other boats.
* ''Film/TheAdventureOfSherlockHolmesSmarterBrother'', Sigerson Holmes and Jenny Hill go for an outing in a rowboat. Since this is a comedy, Sergeant Sacker comes along as the rower and his accidental mistakes with the oars repeatedly cause Sigerson to be splashed in the face with water.
* Spoofed mercilessly in the MarxBrothers film ''HorseFeathers'', where Groucho has a rowboat date with the CollegeWidow, who is trying to seduce him to steal information about an upcoming football game. The dialogue is anything but chaste, and the date ends with her falling into the water and Groucho wisecracking rather than saving her. Also, she was the one doing the rowing while Groucho sat under the parasol and sang to her.
* In ''{{Series/Scrubs}}'', JD has an ImagineSpot where he's on such a date with Elliot, and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqbOX6Gk18k even throwing her lover in a lake]].
* An episode of TheMuppetShow had a Wayne and Wanda sketch where the two were enacting such a date while singing "Row, Row, Row". It's one of few Wayne and Wanda sketches that make it to the song's chorus, Then the boat springs a leak.
* Alfalfa and Darla do this in the 1994 film of TheLittleRascals.
* LordPeterWimsey and Harriet Vane go punting in ''Gaudy Night'', and the scene is retained in the 1987 BBC television production. Such boating excursions are traditional at Oxford, where the story is set. The modern twists on this are their practical discussion of Harriet's poison pen prankster investigation and the "spot of celibacy" Harriet is maintaining, despite Wimsey's numerous proposals of matrimony.
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->''It’s the classic Victorian love story scene — a couple lounging in a rowboat, on a lazy summer afternoon in the middle of the lake, while he woos her with poetry by Byron or Keats.''
-->-- "[[http://www.thedctraveler.com/2008/07/reading-poetry-on-a-row-boat/ Reading Poetry on a Row Boat]]"
A lady and her suitor are having a romantic date on a rowboat. This was a popular dating image for the 19th and early 20th century upper classes, as it provided a chance for couples to be alone together, but still in plain site to avoid accusations of anything sexual happening.
The typical image is the lady sitting under her ParasolOfPrettiness in a mildly PimpedOutDress, while the gentleman sits on the other side, wooing her in various ways.
Now "old fashioned" in the title means it. This isn't quite a DeadHorseTrope, but spoofs of it far outnumber straight uses these days. Also, the "Tunnel of Love" rides in amusement parks was sort of a play on this trope, using the dark to allow couples to have intimate contact with nobody actually seeing anything.
A SisterTrope to SerenadeYourLover.
Compare TheGayNineties, ChasteHero, TheIngenue, PurityPersonified.
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!!Examples
* In an ImagineSpot in ''TheMuppetMovie'', Miss Piggy pictures herself doing this with Kermit.
* Spoofed in the film ''SomeLikeItHot'', due to the twists already happening in the plot, like DisguisedInDrag.
* An episode of ''HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'', that is a WholePlotReference to ''SomeLikeItHot'', a guy sees Salmoneous in drag, and pictures doing this date with him.
* Invoked in ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'' as part of the song "Kiss the Girl".
* A date in ''{{Disney/Tangled}}'' didn't start out this way, but ended up being so. Flynn took Rapunzel on a boat to see the lanterns she had always wanted to see, and their talk in this moment turned it into a date.
* Spoofed in [[http://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/b/bird_tail.asp this cartoon with two peafowl in a boat]].
* Featured in a [[TheMerch official Disney collectible]] "Mickey's Rowboat Romance", which is similar in tone to the {{Classic Disney Short|s}} ''The Nifty Nineties'' (which did not have such a scene though).
* In RanmaOneHalf - Ukyo and male!Ranma go on a date involving row boats. Ryoga and Akane are also on a date, and fighting ensues.
* Briefly seen in the "That's How You Know" montage in ''{{Enchanted}}'', complete with the parasol and a mariachi band on a couple of other boats.
* ''Film/TheAdventureOfSherlockHolmesSmarterBrother'', Sigerson Holmes and Jenny Hill go for an outing in a rowboat. Since this is a comedy, Sergeant Sacker comes along as the rower and his accidental mistakes with the oars repeatedly cause Sigerson to be splashed in the face with water.
* Spoofed mercilessly in the MarxBrothers film ''HorseFeathers'', where Groucho has a rowboat date with the CollegeWidow, who is trying to seduce him to steal information about an upcoming football game. The dialogue is anything but chaste, and the date ends with her falling into the water and Groucho wisecracking rather than saving her. Also, she was the one doing the rowing while Groucho sat under the parasol and sang to her.
* In ''{{Series/Scrubs}}'', JD has an ImagineSpot where he's on such a date with Elliot, and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqbOX6Gk18k even throwing her lover in a lake]].
* An episode of TheMuppetShow had a Wayne and Wanda sketch where the two were enacting such a date while singing "Row, Row, Row". It's one of few Wayne and Wanda sketches that make it to the song's chorus, Then the boat springs a leak.
* Alfalfa and Darla do this in the 1994 film of TheLittleRascals.
* LordPeterWimsey and Harriet Vane go punting in ''Gaudy Night'', and the scene is retained in the 1987 BBC television production. Such boating excursions are traditional at Oxford, where the story is set. The modern twists on this are their practical discussion of Harriet's poison pen prankster investigation and the "spot of celibacy" Harriet is maintaining, despite Wimsey's numerous proposals of matrimony.
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