james bartley lived in the belly of a whale.
who lived in the belly of a whale?
james bartley
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leela becomes obsessed with killing the whale to take revenge for eating the statue and delaying their return to earth in time for the memorial, and grows increasingly insane with each failed effort. the whale eventually devours the planet express ship and swallows the crew alive (with the exception of zoidberg, who again returns to earth in an escape pod). inside the whale, leela encounters the captain of the first crew, lando tucker, fused to the inside of the whale's belly. lando explains that the whale feeds on obsession, luring obsessive space captains into the tetrahedron to feed itself. leela is fused to the whale's belly like lando, but her overwhelming obsession with completing her delivery grants her control over the whale, allowing her to bring it to the planet express building in time for the memorial. she forces the whale to release everyone and everything it has swallowed, including the statue and the first crew. despite acknowledging that the space whale is not a monster, as it merely follows its instinct, everyone proceeds to kill the whale out of revenge for swallowing them.
möbius dick (futurama)