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In the film, Miss Spider goes because she's a Mama Bear through and through, and she has her string as a safety line. However, there is a very good reason: James is the ONLY one in the group who can swim. It might seem a little odd that in the book, James was the only one to go after Centipede when he falls into the ocean.Why? Because he's already lost his mother and father and doesn't want another family member to die. In the book, film, and musical, James is willing to risk his life to help Centipede (he falls off the peach in both the book and musical and goes after a compass in the film) despite being a young child.And the song is concluded by both James and the Bugs' mutual understanding that good food (namely the peach) is something to be very grateful for. The bugs are sharing what they've had before, and it's no better. James knows what it means to have nothing but gross food, like those fish heads his aunts served him. It seems a bit random to have a musical number about all the weird things the bugs have eaten, but it becomes Fridge-Heartwarming when one realizes it's a bonding moment between James and the bugs.The mechanical shark spits out the same plates of disgusting fish heads Spiker and Sponge fed him, and threatens to prevent his escape to a better life just as they do in the film's conclusion.

The same magic that makes James' wishes come true - traveling to New York, having a large group of friends that also act as a caring, surrogate family - also brings to life his fears.Why is it that the other bugs and James are so ready to believe that the Centipede is the world-traveling adventurer he says he is? He's the only non-European among them-as an American insect among Europeans, he's already the one most likely to have traveled the farthest out of all of them.