History Main / RollInTheHay

* "Hayloft" by Mother Mother, later covered by NickelCreek, is all about this trope, complete with gun-bearing OverprotectiveDad.

-->'''Eric's Father''': You can't spend your life between a woman's legs.

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* In ''Film/YoungFrankenstein'', Eigor transports professor Fronkensteen to the castle by haywain. Inga is lying in the hay and invites Fronkenstein to "roll in ze hay with me".

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* Lauchlan and Corbin of ''Literature/MixBeerWithLiquorAndYouWillGetSicker play this one straight, though they at least have the benefit of a couple of horse blankets.

* Sparhawk's squire, Kurik, in ''Literature/TheElenium'', hints that his eldest was conceived that way. A bit later, while they visit his family farm, he and his wife come back from an off screen rendezvous with Kurik muttering that the boys need to be better at getting the thistles out of the hey.

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* Happens in Creator/DHLawrence's ''Love Between the Haystacks''.

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** "In Staphorst Groeit Het Geluk" (1959) by J. Van Dorsten has a farmer couple falling in each other's arms on a hay barrack.
* Happens in Creator/DHLawrence's "Love Between the Haystacks".

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* Happened a lot in the Dutch TV series "Bartje" on BNN with Bart De Graaff, where the little farmer boy was always trying to get in the hay with the beautiful farmer's daughter from the nearby village.
* A GenreSavvy reference occurs in the Flemish TV series "Buiten De Zone" episode "Kitsch en Kunst", where the clichés of every typical Flemish farmer film are ridiculed.
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Also TruthInTelevision, as many young people who grew up on the countryside will tell you. Of all the possible locations for love making and/or hiding a hay barrack is the most obvious choice. It's soft, comfy and ticklish.

Usually they are fleeing from the wrath of an OverProtectiveDad of the girl, but rain, police, soldiers or nightfall can be opportune reasons as well. For some strange reason the person who searches them will be unable to find them, even though a bunch of hay might be the most logical hiding place ever! As he leaves the couple makes love to celebrate the fact that he couldn't find them.

This is especially a popular trope in erotic fiction, almost to the point of being [[DeadHorseTrope a tired cliché]].

* In HieronymusBosch's painting "The Hay Wain" a couple can be seen on top of the hay wain. The man is playing his instrument to seduce her.

* In Film/DesireUnderTheElms Sophia Loren and Anthony Perkins share a scene in this kind of setting.
* In Film/ThoseMagnificentMenInTheirFlyingMachines a French pilot has to make an emergency landing in a hay barrack in France. While a farmer is going to get help, which will cost him 30 minutes to get to the nearest farm, the pilot takes the FarmersDaughter with him in the hay barrack.
* In Film/YoungFrankenstein Eigor transports professor Fronkensteen to the castle by haywain. Inga is lying in the hay and invites Fronkenstein to "roll in ze hay with me".
* A group of soldiers in Film/SoldierOfOrange catches a couple having sex in a hay barrack.

** "In Staphorst Groeit Het Geluk" (1959) by J. Van Dorsten has a farmer couple falling in each others arms on a hay barrack.
* Happens in DHLawrence's "Love Between The Haystacks".

* The Flemish song "Vlaanderen Boven" by Raymond Van Het Groenewoud has the singer singing an ironic homage to the Belgian region Flanders. One line summarizes "waterzooi, het meisje in het hooi, de Vlaamse romantiek." ("waterzooi, the girl in the hay, the Flemish romanticism.") (Making love in a hay barrack is a popular plot device in many Flemish farmer novels and their subsequent film adaptations.)

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* A GenreSavy reference in the Flemish TV series "Buiten De Zone" episode "Kitsch en Kunst" where the clichés of every typical Flemish farmer film are ridiculed.

* JohnnyBravo once asked a girl to "roll in the hay" with him, to which she slapped him.
* TheSimpsons: Homer and Marge make love in a barn full of hay in the episode NaturalBornKissers.

* Happened a lot in the Dutch TV series "Bartje" on BBN with Bart De Graaff, where the little farmer boy was Always trying to get in the hay with the beautiful farmer's daughter from the nearby village.

* A lot of Flemish farmer novels have this kind of scene in them.

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Usually they are fleeing from the wrath of OverProtectiveDad of the girl, but rain, police, soldiers or nightfall can be opportune reasons as well. For some strange reason the person who searches them will be unable to find them, even though a bunch of hay might be the most logical hiding place ever! As he leaves the couple makes love to celebrate the fact that he couldn't find them.

A popular trope in many stories set on a farm. A young couple decides to make love while lying in a hay barrack in a barn or one in an open field. One of them (or both) can be the teenage son or [[FarmersDaughterdaughter of a farmer]], but it might also be a general couple who just happen to encounter a hay barrack while being on the countryside.

Usually they are fleeing from the wrath of the father of the girl, but rain, police, soldiers or nightfall can be opportune reasons as well. For some strange reason the person who searches them will be unable to find them, even though a bunch of hay might be the most logical hiding place ever! As he leaves the couple makes love to celebrate the fact that he couldn't find them.