Falls family

**The Falls family** is a fictional family in the *Jungle Cruise*.

## Description

The Falls family is a fairly wealthy colonial family largely based in regions of the British Empire. They founded and passed-on the Jungle Navigation Company, an international colonial company based along the supernatural *Jungle Rivers of Adventureland* and which was infamous for negligence and corruption.

## Members

* **Alberta Falls**: Alberta Falls was an Indian-British woman who inherited the JNC after her grandfather's disappearance and established the, "Jungle Cruise" in 1931.
* **Dr. Albert Falls, Sr.**: Dr. Albert Falls was a Victorian colonial explorer who founded the JNC and who was a member of the colonist organizations the *Royal Anthropological and Diverse Adventures Society* and *Society of Explorers and Adventurers*. Falls disappeared in the year 1928.
* **Albert Falls, Jr.**: Albert II was an English historian who was son of Dr. Albert Falls and Victoria Marie Falls.
* **Captain Rowan D. Falls**: Captain Rowan D. Falls was captain of the Mark Twain Riverboat in the Big Thunder region of Arizona during the 1850s. Rowan was murdered by town-founder Henry Ravenswood when Rowan tried to court the magnate's daughter.
* **Siobhan "Puffin" Murphy**: Siobhan Murphy was grand-niece of Dr. Albert Falls and Victoria Marie Falls. She was an eccentric Irish ornithologist during the 1930s.
* **Sneh Falls**: Sneh Falls was the wife of Albert Falls, Jr. and an Indian painter.
* **Victoria Marie Falls**: Victoria Marie Falls was wife of Dr. Albert Falls and a colonial explorer who ran the JNC in her husband's absence.

## History

### Development history

#### Creation & Changes

Dr. Albert Falls was created by Jungle Cruise cast-members as a one-off joke. In the original incarnation of the Jungle Cruise, Schweitzer Falls were named for the historic theologist and physician Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965) . When the Jungle Cruise shifted to a more comedic tone, cast-members subverted the joke by claiming that the falls were named instead for, "Dr. Albert Falls".

In the 1990s, the Albert Falls gag was made part of the Jungle Cruise's official script. In 2015, Falls was reimagined as an actual character in the park's backstory for the Skipper Canteen. Said restaurant also created many other members of the family including Alberta Falls. The family was integrated into the Jungle Cruise in a 2021 refurbishment with the addition of Siobhan Murphy.

#### Controversy

The Falls family and its members have been criticized for being colonizer propaganda which romanticizes British Colonialism in regions historically exploited and oppressed by the British along with their jungle capitalism connecting to the *trinité coloniale* (French: colonial trinity).

## Appearances

### Attractions

#### Club 33

Tickets belonging to Albert Falls and Sneh Falls were located in the menus for, "Tiki Takeover".

#### Jungle Cruise

Alberta Falls and Dr. Albert Falls are major (unseen/absentee) characters in the American versions of the Jungle Cruise. Silhouette profiles of several Falls family members are located in Alberta's office.

#### Phantom Manor

Captain Rowan D. Falls is a character from this attraction.

#### Skipper Canteen

This dining-service is set in the former Falls estate, turned into a restaurant by Alberta. One of the areas is the Falls family parlour where the Falls clan lived and which features mementos of their lives. In the library are the books: *Married Into the Jungle* by Victoria Marie Falls, *Born Into the Jungle* by Albert Falls, Jr., and *Married to Someone Born in the Jungle* by Sneh Falls along with several books by Doctor Albert. A meal-item in the Skipper Canteen is the, "Falls Family Falafel".

### Film

#### Jungle Cruise

A spearhead labelled, "A. Falls" appears in the collection of the misogynistic *Royal Anthropological and Diverse Adventures Society*. This artifact was recovered by Falls on an unsuccessful mission to locate the Tree of Life. The item is stolen by Lily Houghton who uses it to navigate her way to the Tree of Life in competition with the evil Prince Joachim who the society aimed at selling the arrowhead to.

## Trivia

* The Falls couple being named Victoria & Albert is likely a reference to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

## References

1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU4LZcpl0pY