Row, Row, Row Your Boat

I often rowed at camp. (I wasn't really "into" swimming.) Maybe because most of the other campers were in the "swimming" lake, not the rowing one, nobody ever told me that you're supposed to row backwards. I always went forwards.

The only person I remember seeing rowing before I started was someone in a Marx Brothers comedy called "Horsefeathers". She was going backwards, but it was a comedy, right?