Reverend Goff is a character from the Jungle Cruise.
History[]
Biography[]
Reverend Goff was a christian missionary from Holland during the 1930s. At some point, he travelled to the jungle (likely of North Africa near the African Veldt of Adventureland) where he was part of the Jungle Mission. Around 1936, he left the jungle for Holland and sought to relocate two chimpanzees and a lion cub from the Mission Veterinary Clinic.
Development history[]
Reverend Goff is a tribute to Imagineer Harper Goff. In colonialism, missionary work is part of the trinité coloniale (French: colonial trinity) referring to the interests of colonial missionaries, businesses and of the state. Namely, it is considered to be a pivotal extension of cultural-genocide in Indigenous tribes and more often than not inadvertently creates the illness, agricultural and economic issues which it justifies its existence by fighting.
Appearances[]
Jungle Cruise[]
On the Global Broadcasting Service of Disneyland's Jungle Cruise, Nigel Greenwater mentions Goff returning to Holland with two chimpanzees and a lion cub.
Trivia[]
- There are several other in-universe Goffs referenced of unknown relation to the reverend. Most notable is Professor Harper Goff.
- It is possible that the Jungle Mission could be a partial tribute to the film The African Queen (1951) where central character Rose Sayer was a member of the Methodist Church of Great Britain.
- Other famous jungle-based missionaries connected to the Jungle Cruise include physicians David Livingstone and Albert Schweitzer.