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Salad Fingers
Genre	Psychological horror
Created by	David Firth Christian Webb[1]
Written by	David Firth Christian Webb (co-author) Jimmy Hollis (co-writer)
Directed by	David Firth
Voices of	David Firth
Country of origin	Great britain
Original linguistic communication	English
Production
Animator	David Firth
Release
Original release	9 May 2004 (2004-05-09) – nowadays

Salad Fingers is a British adult-animated psychological horror spider web series created by David Firth in 2004.^[two] The cartoon revolves around the eponymous Salad Fingers, a thin, greenish, mentally troubled man who inhabits a desolate earth. As of March 2022, there have been thirteen episodes published on YouTube and Newgrounds, one of them being a brusque. Since its debut, Salad Fingers has amassed a cult following and has been described equally a viral phenomenon.

Concept [edit]

Salad Fingers was conceived as an in-joke. 1 24-hour interval, while Firth was playing the guitar, his friend and frequent collaborator Christian Webb commented that he had "salad fingers", referring to the fashion Firth played the C-chord.^[3]

Firth has cited the works of David Lynch, South Park, Tim Burton, The League of Gentlemen and Chris Morris every bit sources of inspiration.^[1] At that place are similarities between the novel Tideland by Mitch Cullin and the moving-picture show Tideland by Terry Gilliam.^[four]

Music [edit]

The music featured in the background is "Beware the Friendly Stranger" from the Boards of Canada album Geogaddi. The dark music that appears when Salad Fingers is scared is really Firth playing the guitar, but slowed downwards and reversed.

Other music included in Salad Fingers episodes includes piece of work credited to Brian Eno, Sigur Rós, Aphex Twin (in particular, the rail 'Rhubarb' from Selected Ambient Works Volume Ii), and Lustmord.^[one] David Firth oftentimes inserts references to Aphex Twin in his flash cartoons; for example, the Aphex Twin logo tin be found on the telephone in Salad Fingers episode five and mentions the song Audax Pulverization in episode 11, which was released nether the alias Polygon Window.^[5]

Characters [edit]

Salad Fingers [edit]

The chief grapheme is a bald hunchbacked humanoid figure with light greenish pare, red eyes and no nose or ears, who speaks with a distorted Northern English accent. His long, strangely-shaped fingers are his near notable feature and the source of his name. His fingers were the focus of the first episode of the series, where he is shown obtaining pleasure from rubbing rusty metallic items such every bit spoons, a doorbell panel, and a kettle (which he famously claims to be almost orgasmic). Salad Fingers' demeanor is naive and almost artless, unable or unwilling to distinguish between living beings and inanimate objects, and is frequently institute talking to various inert beings (notably his finger puppets and, in two cases, a human corpse). Furthermore, he ofttimes assigns such objects names and appears to believe that they can communicate with him straight, sometimes voicing their perceived thoughts himself. He lives solitary in a small shack containing an oven, sleeping room, a crawl space he calls the "safety closet", radio, phone, chair and table. Salad Fingers appears to be masochistic, as he tin be seen taking pleasure from impaling his finger on a nail, rubbing stinging nettles on himself or receiving pleasure later inadvertently stepping into a bear trap. His talents include playing the flute (although he holds it incorrectly, implying that he can't actually play) and speaking French. He also seems able to utilize Morse code, as shown in episode nine, where he must inform others of a strange illness he has (which he refers to as ruddy fever). He is quite clear, still, he often spouts peculiar English sayings and phrases in situations where they practise not fit or even seem relevant. Information technology is assumed that Salad Fingers lives in the Britain, due to his English language accent and mentioning of real places in the UK such equally Croxley Green and Cowdenbeath.

Salad Fingers has various habits, including a regular measurement of the distance between his business firm and a tree, tasting of the dirt ("floor-sugar"), and listening to his radio. Sometimes he also displays raspy asthmatic breathing when he becomes mesmerized by something or experiences extreme pleasure. The name "Salad Fingers" was invented past Firth's co-writer, Christian "Crust" Webb, who described Firth every bit having salad fingers while playing the guitar.^[1] Despite living in a desolate identify and his deranged appearance, Salad Fingers regularly come beyond as polite and good-natured,^[1] and has never shown signs of being hostile or murderous. Firth says Salad Fingers' distinct voice was inspired by that of his grandmother and Michael Jackson'southward speaking vocalization.

Finger puppets [edit]

These characters are finger puppets who, after their introduction in episode 2, take just been missing in episode 4 of the series. They often appear in Salad Fingers' fantasies as life-sized beings.

Hubert Cumberdale [edit]

According to Salad Fingers, Hubert Cumberdale tastes like "soot and poo." In episode five, Hubert Cumberdale is temporarily renamed Barbara Logan-Price (and given a "friend lid" which is really a Navy cap). In episode eight, Salad Fingers refers to Cumberdale as a "dirty immigrant" subsequently dropping him in a sleeping room pot. In episode eleven, Salad Fingers makes Hubert Cumberdale "grow up" by sewing pieces of human flesh to him, subsequently which he can walk and speak on his own. Salad Fingers calls him his "flesh male child." In episode twelve, he has reverted to his original appearance, though he can still move around on his own and fetch objects.

Marjory Stewart-Baxter [edit]

Marjory Stewart-Baxter tastes like "sunshine dust." In episode nine, Salad Fingers talks to Stewart-Baxter equally if she is his partner and the mother of their child.

Jeremy Fisher [edit]

Jeremy Fisher is thought to exist named subsequently the Beatrix Potter book The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher.^[6] Salad Fingers has also referred to Jeremy Fisher as having been out fighting "The Peachy War." In episode 6, Salad Fingers kills off Jeremy Fisher in a moment of forgetfulness later accusing him of "tailgating his daughter."

Harry/Milford Cubicle [edit]

Actualization in episode three, Cubicle is an aggressive, armless human mutant who wears an apron identifying him as existence employed at a "BBQ". Though his name tag reads "Harry" and indicates that he is "Happy to assist", Salad Fingers calls him Milford Cubicle. He bleeds to death later repeatedly banging his head on Salad Fingers' door. Salad Fingers then finds him, drags him inside his house and hangs him on a meat hook, believing him to exist alive and witting. He is seen to have the flesh torn from his torso (or peradventure rotted away due to the length of time his corpse has been hanging) in Episode x and finally ends that episode as a skeleton, his flesh turned into a hat which was given every bit a gift to Salad Fingers.

Bordois [edit]

Actualization in episode four, Bordois is a woodlouse which Salad Fingers accidentally kills by attempting to pet her. Although he refers to her as "little sis", Salad Fingers makes sexual remarks to Bordois, saying "Your trunk is and so much fun." Once he squishes her, he says "Yous've gone flat, little sister. And y'all're all gooey. I shan't play with you again until you lot've had a wash."

Aunty Bainbridge [edit]

Appearing in episode one and episode ix, it is a yellow bug-eyed person with a green shirt who owns many rusty objects (which Salad Fingers strokes) and a small house. While Salad Fingers calls it Aunty Bainbridge in the ninth episode, he also calls it a "young kid" in the first, indicating that he does not, in fact, know it at all. This is farther evidenced when it backs abroad from Salad Fingers when he tries to hug it in the ninth episode. The only sound it makes is a sharp scream, so it is hard to tell whether this is a person and if so, what its gender is.

Mable [edit]

Appearing in episode five, Mable is a scuffed, grubby, scarred immature daughter who goes to a picnic with Salad Fingers. She is the first grapheme other than Salad Fingers who can communicate in English, and she is the first person other than Salad Fingers to actually speak— something that seems to daze and dismay Salad Fingers. When she sees Salad Fingers looking at her in shock, she asks "What's wrong?", and subsequently Salad Fingers is shown hallucinating her with her optics gouged out asking him, "What's wrong, Mr. Fingers? Practice you not like my mouth-words?"

Tony [edit]

A large-eyed, grotesque, minor mutant brute who falls in love with Salad Fingers in episode four. Information technology has a large stitch across its forehead, and every bit such, many^{[ who? ]} refer to it equally "Sew together-caput".^{[ citation needed ]} This character was originally created by Jimi Hollis, who refers to it as the "issues-eyed kid".^{[ citation needed ]} Information technology uses a comport trap and a grubby tap to capture Salad Fingers, then cages him and proposes with a band topped with a human molar.

Kenneth [edit]

Kenneth is a bisected rotting human corpse which Salad Fingers addresses equally his younger brother. Salad Fingers finds him in a ditch.

Roger [edit]

Appearing in episode eight, Roger is a broken radio that speaks in a robotic, aggressive manner and scares Salad Fingers into the closet twice. Roger, co-ordinate to Salad Fingers, must exist given 'sustenance' (in the form of small dark-brown pellets). This distress caused by his radio has him eating his hair collection.

Horace Horsecollar [edit]

A toy horse with which Salad Fingers indulges his senses.

Penny Pigtails [edit]

A character Salad Fingers' imagination created while hiding from Roger in the safety closet. She is zilch merely Salad Fingers' hand "walking" across the ledge. Salad Fingers imagines that she is denied raspberry jam by a market trader, who bases his actions on the grounds that her legs are "too long" and "fabricated of cotton", which upsets him greatly.

Mr. Branches [edit]

A tree 21 yards from the business firm. Salad Fingers measures this altitude, and and so comments to the tree that it'south "barely shuffled an inch all week" — implying that it moves (or, at least, he perceives it to) and that he regularly keeps rails of this measurement. In episode nine, Salad Fingers bites one of its branches, causing it to weep in pain (with Salad Fingers imagining it with a face). It begs Salad Fingers, whom [it] refers to as 'Daddy', to be let inside in the vocalism of a young child, but is told that it has to "grow out of [its] branches" offset. Mr. Branches so proceeds to tightly wrap its branch around Salad Fingers' tum.

Yvonne [edit]

A black slimy object that Salad Fingers "gives birth to" out of the front of his stomach in episode nine. The object may be a tumour that has caused Salad Fingers' sickness as he feels better afterward 'giving birth' to her. He cradles her and reads her a poem, during which he names it "Baby Yvonne" and tells information technology that it has its mother'south optics, when in fact it has no human features at all. Unhappy with information technology, Salad Fingers decides to give it to Aunty Bainbridge, but ends upwards forgetting that it'southward his daughter. He and so gain to make clean Aunty Bainbridge's window with it, believing information technology to be a sponge. Later "washing" the window (when in fact he actually leaves it dirtier than before past covering it with blackness residue), Salad Fingers takes a "lunch break" and is seen eating a large submarine sandwich with a coffee cup nearby.

Dr. Papanak [edit]

A puppet Salad Fingers finds in some rubbish in Episode x, over which he has considerably less control than any other puppet. He is seen (if only in Salad Fingers' mind) to sprout knives and slaughter a horse.

Drinking glass Mother [edit]

A haggard one-time woman who lives in Salad Fingers' mirror. She is shown to be abusive towards Salad Fingers, often verbally assaulting him, equally well as forcing him to eat some sort of concoction that makes him sick.

Glass Brother [edit]

A reflection of Salad Fingers that lives with Glass Mother. He has drill-teeth as shown when Salad Fingers enters the reflection world in the night of Episode 11. He steals Salad's "Real boy" (Hubert Cumberdale) through a hand-mirror that Salad Fingers owns.

Mark Dimaline [edit]

An elongated bald caput that sprouts out of the footing, with eyes that popular out on stalks through distorted heart-sockets and a long black natural language. To appointment he has only appeared in the episode "Market", where he is instantly recognised by Salad Fingers equally a regular visitor. Unusually he speaks English, though his voice is heavily distorted. Despite this Salad Fingers does not announced to exist as horrified at his ability to speak as he was with Mable.

Wet Legs [edit]

This is another reflection of Salad Fingers that is seen in the pool outside of his house. Moisture Legs is shown in episode xi. The first fourth dimension we see "him", Salad Fingers is trying to get past him and into the puddle, but Wet Legs won't let him through. Afterwards in the episode, it's night time and Salad Fingers is able to go into the pool to retrieve his Real Mankind Boy (aka Hubert Cumberdale.)

Unnamed characters [edit]

• A immature, relatively normal-looking child, wearing a varsity-blazon jacket whom Salad Fingers appears to have accidentally cooked live in an oven in episode ii.
• Salad Fingers has a crow "visit" for his picnic. Salad Fingers also mentions he has an "old pal" named "Charlie" too as a girl, though neither of them are seen.
• Many humanoids resembling Salad Fingers, but with a unique face deformity. They all appear in episode x where they attend Hubert Cumberdale's Birthday.
• A heavily mutilated, rotting domestic dog corpse who Salad Fingers courts briefly in episode 12.
• A canis familiaris with the caput of a baby who lives in a expressionless tree and is the parent of the domestic dog corpse in episode 12.

Episodes [edit]

Episodes range from 2–14 minutes in length. The narratives themselves are quite oneiric, accept almost all spoken dialogue transcribed with on-screen squiggly text, and disjointed plot structures.

Episode 1 – Spoons [edit]

• Release date: 9 May 2004

This episode introduces Salad Fingers and his dearest of touching various rusty objects. He explains how touching any grade of rust stimulates him ("The feeling of rust against my salad fingers is about orgasmic"), and that he holds a particular dearest of spoons. Salad Fingers walks to the house of a strange immature boy to see if he has any rusty spoons; the kid screeches two times, at which point Salad Fingers leaves, after asking to caress a rusty kettle that is on a table beside him.

Episode 2 – Friends [edit]

• Release appointment: 15 July 2004

Salad Fingers has a go-together with his "friends"—finger puppets—whom Salad Fingers introduces as Hubert Cumberdale, Marjory Stewart-Baxter and Jeremy Fisher. He appears to believe that his "friends" are real. Wondering what his friends taste like, he briefly inserts them into his oral cavity, exclaiming that Marjory Stewart-Baxter tastes like "sunshine dust", while Hubert Cumberdale tastes like "soot and poo". Salad Fingers so tells them that he has a fish cooking in the oven and speaks a nonsensical phrase in French: "Allô Nabilah, Annotate t'appelles-tu? Qu'est-ce qu'il y a?" This roughly translates to: "Hello Nabilah, What's your name? What's upwardly (or What's the matter)?" In the adjacent scene, a frightened child responds to Salad Fingers's call for help. Salad Fingers cannot accomplish the fish cooking in his oven and asks the child to become it for him. As the kid reaches into the oven, Salad Fingers sees a rusty nail jutting out of the wall and reaches to caress it, causing the oven door to close with the kid nonetheless inside. Salad Fingers then impales his finger on the spike and begins bleeding, blissfully maxim "I similar it when the blood-red water comes out." Salad Fingers turns pale and passes out. Apparently dreaming, Salad Fingers walks through a large meat locker singing "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" to himself. While inside, he meets a total-size Hubert Cumberdale, who screams a distorted electronic dissonance at him. When Salad Fingers awakens he sits in a puddle of his own claret. The oven smokes as Salad Fingers states, "That fish smells about done," presumably forgetting the fact that it was the smoke from the child trapped in the oven that he'd forgotten virtually when 'dozing off'.

Episode 3 – Nettles [edit]

• Release engagement: 1 August 2004

Salad Fingers is playing with nettles and has irritated blisters all over his hands. He so comes across an empty perambulator, which he refers to equally a "nettle carrier" and and so leaves with it. A deformed armless human wearing an frock labelled "BBQ" appears and chases after Salad Fingers, screaming and blathering unintelligibly. Salad Fingers is sitting on the floor at his home and brushing the nettle over his nipple, which makes him lactate, and says "It seems... Nettles... have made the milk... drop out... from inside my teat!", when the armless man runs to Salad Fingers' house and begins to bang his head on the door. Salad Fingers daydreams of "happy times" (in which he and a life-sized version of the Hubert Cumberdale boob are getting hair-dried). Eventually, Salad Fingers comes outside and finds the man expressionless on the floor. He names the human "Milford Cubicle", despite the man's proper name tag reading "Harry". Believing that the man is live, Salad Fingers drags "Milford" within and hangs him on a meat hook on the wall. Salad Fingers then plays a merry tune on the flute, showing odd dexterity for having his manus covered in nettle sores. He then offers "Milford" a "warm glass of milk", which presumably is the milk that came out of his teat when he milked himself using the nettles.

Episode 4 – Cage [edit]

• Release appointment: 20 Baronial 2004

Salad Fingers wears a beret and declares that he is going to try to detect France. However, he is oddly frightened past a mutated boy with disproportionately large eyeballs that has been "watching him for a while". Salad Fingers becomes uncomfortable with the child's proximity and begins to exit. The boy, who speaks just in growls and grunts, approaches Salad Fingers, having plain fallen in love with him. Salad Fingers holds out his hand to stop the boy from coming closer, but the boy licks his hand, much to Salad Fingers' cloy and fear. Inside his house, Salad Fingers sees a grey woodlouse coming out from a pigsty in the wall. He addresses the bug as "Bordois" and his "little sis". After request what "she" has been collecting, he acts every bit though the bug gives him a response. Salad Fingers announces his enjoyment in the bug's torso and goes to touch it, accidentally crushing it and looking at it in marvel which turns to cloy. He then says to Bordois that she's "gone flat" and become "all gooey", and that he "shalln't play with [her] over again, until [she's] had a wash." Salad Fingers and then hears a knock on the door, which he opens to find a "grubby tap" fastened to a string on the footing. Salad Fingers becomes excited about this "gift" and begins to fantasize about taps. He attempts to fetch information technology, but it is drawn away on the string as bait. He is caught in a carry trap which causes him to lose claret and consciousness while savouring the sensation blissfully. He wakes up in a cage, and enjoys rubbing the rusted bars. The grotesque boy approaches the muzzle and holds out a ring (on which is mounted a human tooth) as if proposing marriage. Salad Fingers becomes distraught, states "I don't like this game" and announces that he is "going home now". This angers the boy, who makes a racket that sounds like "You're my married woman now." A rope appears, hanging downwards from the ceiling, which Salad Fingers pulls to depict downward a drapery. When the curtain lifts, the male child, seeing that Salad Fingers has disappeared, begins to weep. The episode closes with Salad Fingers, wearing his beret, flying abroad gleefully on a giant tap, presumably to France.

Episode 5 – Picnic [edit]

• Release appointment: 25 November 2004
• Credits: Designed, animated, voiced and written by David Firth. Additional writing and the vocalisation of Mable by Christian "Crust" Pickup (who also plays MC Devvo). Music past Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin and David Firth.

Salad Fingers talks to an plainly cleaved and disconnected phone, asking the operator to connect him to his "old pal Charlie" and so he tin can invite him to a picnic, but just garbled noises are heard. Whilst describing the picnic fare, Salad Fingers rubs his stomach in hunger, then claims to take been rudely disconnected. Hubert Cumberdale is on i of the fingers on Salad Fingers' other hand, but he seems dismayed to see him. Instead of referring to him every bit Hubert, he calls him "Barbara Logan-Price", and gives him a "friend-hat", which is a miniature captain's hat.

In the next scene, Salad Fingers wears a bridal train and talks to himself in a mirror, declaring "You expect so beautiful" with Rhubarb by Aphex Twin playing in the groundwork. He then goes outside for his picnic, which is attended past a strange crow (which appears in other David Firth cartoons) that makes garbled noises and a little daughter with scars on her face, a filthy, stained pink dress and orange pilus. Salad Fingers asks the orange-haired girl a question and answers it for her (as he seems to think that only he tin speak), catastrophe with "replied Mable". Salad Fingers calls her his new playmate and compliments her on her dress, and as he does this, Marjory Stewart-Baxter is seen in the window, jealous. Salad Fingers offers "Mable" some "Pease Pudding", which he feeds to her with a dirty, rusty spoon. The crow and then swoops down and steals Salad Fingers'due south spoon.

Salad Fingers and the little girl giggle and she says that the crow must like spoons too. The shock of the girl speaking to him, thus meaning the girl is indeed real, not a figment of his imagination, drives Salad Fingers to temporary insanity, hallucinating, hearing screeching, distorted noises, and seeing the girl (complete with empty centre sockets in forepart of a vortex) proverb, "What'south incorrect, Mr. Fingers? Do you not like my mouth-words? Naughty mouth".

Episode vi – Present [edit]

• Release date: 24 July 2005
• Credits: Drawn, animated and voiced past David Firth. Written by David Firth and Christian "Crust" Pickup. Music by Boards of Canada, Chris Gladwin and David Firth.

The episode begins with Salad Fingers walking about his house. He sees Hubert Cumberdale on top of a cupboard, and instructs the finger puppet to come down at once. Hubert turns into a black, viscous, and apparently caustic fluid and oozes downward the cupboard. A silhouette is then seen walking through the house; it is the Jeremy Fisher puppet. Salad Fingers remarks that he thought Jeremy was out "fighting the Cracking War". Jeremy Fisher/Salad Fingers responds in garbled gibberish which Fingers tin can't understand, musing that Fisher seems "to have adopted a foreign dialect."

Some other perspective shot shows Jeremy Fisher (now with artillery) handing Salad Fingers a toy horse. Salad Fingers is pleased with the present, and remarks on the pleasing texture. He and then eats Jeremy Fisher and immediately forgets, wondering "Where have you gotten to?" He begins to play with the toy horse while making "neigh" sounds, walks exterior with information technology, and goes to an abandoned toilet with which he initiates a conversation. Suddenly, the mood changes and the music becomes sinister; he grows concerned and he begins defending himself, saying "You've got the wrong bloke, squire." He then flushes the toilet to "wash those bad thoughts away".

Upon arriving abode, Salad Fingers gasps and sees himself sitting within. The Salad Fingers within appears to be hallucinating, seeing the "outside" Salad Fingers as a life-size Jeremy Fisher. The "inside" Salad Fingers speaks in a slightly different voice and also has rougher text showing what he is saying. The conversation starts off just like the earlier 1 with Jeremy Fisher, merely goes on to include accusations that Jeremy Fisher has been "tailgating [his] daughter with aspirations of deflowering her rose". This appears to be the other "side" of the conversation Salad Fingers had into the toilet.

The within Salad Fingers is now seen with the Jeremy Fisher finger puppet. Fisher never responds verbally, simply at ane betoken unfastens a clasp over his oral cavity from which green ooze bubbling and drips to the floor. Salad Fingers caresses Fisher'southward hair and remarks that he never did "sample the delights of your flavor", a reference to when he tasted his other ii "friends" Hubert Cumberdale and Marjory Stewart-Baxter in episode two. He begins putting the finger puppet in his mouth, merely the scene quickly changes to a bloody scene of the "within" Salad Fingers eating the "exterior" Salad Fingers' head/brains, suggesting that Salad Fingers is really experiencing the personalities he invents. The episode ends with an external shot of the house panning dorsum to reveal the toilet, peradventure implying a sinister connection, or past trauma involving the fixture.

Episode seven – Shore Leave [edit]

• Release appointment: 28 January 2006
• Credits: Drawn, animated and voiced by David Firth. Written past David Firth, Christian Pickup and Jimi Mwng. Music past Boards of Canada, Chris Gladwin and Brian Eno.

As Salad Fingers is earthworks holes outside with his finger puppets, he finds the decomposing torso of an old corpse. Salad Fingers immediately "recognizes" the cadaver every bit "Kenneth," his "younger brother" who is back from the previously mentioned "Great War" on shore leave. Salad Fingers pulls the dismembered corpse out of the hole, maxim it was rude of him to exit for "the Keen State of war" without him, but promises to describe him a hot bath.

Salad Fingers prepares a dinner of sand for his guest, proverb "I—hope yous similar... SAND". At ane point Kenneth slumps forward, prompting Salad Fingers to suppose that he's sleepy and props Kenneth upward by inserting a "wooden paring-rail" into his empty socket. He also spills some tea, which resembles the black caustic goo from the previous episode, on Kenneth'south hand. Salad Fingers tells Kenneth of his life, keeping busy with "every shift I tin can... [and] sing[ing] at all the functions".

It is now evening, and Salad Fingers is with Kenneth exterior near the same hole he found him in. He cries over the fact that Kenneth has to go "dorsum to the ghastly trenches". He salutes Kenneth and sings "We'll Meet Again" for him, afterwards exclaiming "I but ask that our creator return you unspoilt from the barbarous paw of war". He and so kicks Kenneth dorsum into the hole. A dreamlike sequence follows in which Salad Fingers sings the same song on a stage in front of an audition of a theatre. After singing a few strains, he complains to the pianist that the key is incorrect, walks off the stage, and the screen fades to black.

In this episode Salad Fingers mentions the Scottish town of Cowdenbeath, indicating he is aware of real-life places.

Episode 8 – Cupboard [edit]

• Release engagement: 22 September 2007
• Credits: Drawn, animated and voiced by David Firth. Written by David Firth and Christian "Crust" Pickup. Music by Boards of Canada, Lustmord and dyzv0r

Salad Fingers is sitting in his armchair, trying to tune his radio which he calls "Roger." If he is lucky, Salad Fingers says he may chance upon a circulate from "Croxley", which then happens to be a small town in Hertfordshire. "Croxleyheath" too occurs in Shore Leave. Later on feeding Roger his "sustenance" (which seems to be marbles, peas, rocks or beans), it begins to emit a foreign, piercing frequency. A gurgling audio comes from Salad Fingers' own stomach, insinuating upset in reaction to the "unpleasant frequencies" coming from the radio. He decides to await out the tormenting event in his "safety cupboard."

When in the cupboard, Salad Fingers begins to antipodal with his hands. One mitt enacts "Penny Pigtails," the other a market vendor. The "market vendor" refuses to sell raspberry jam to "Penny Pigtails" on the grounds that her legs are "made of cotton" and "far as well long" (an event that Salad Fingers finds most upsetting). Later on Salad Fingers cries for a bit, "Penny Pigtails" discovers a long strand of pilus, which Salad Fingers rubs over his eyeball, apparently causing him great pleasure although it makes his eye cerise and inflamed. After emerging from the closet, he tapes the hair to a wall with four other hairs of assorted colours that he has collected. Salad Fingers speaks to the hairs, calling them "beautiple" and "a gay little quintette". Next, he goes to bed with the Hubert Cumberdale boob. Before going to sleep, Salad Fingers sings "Three in the Bed," and instructs Hubert Cumberdale to "roll over"; as a result, the finger puppet is sent off the bed into a bowl of a filthy, brown substance (probable a chamberpot). Salad Fingers orders Hubert Cumberdale to "scrub that muck off at one time!" as he doesn't want whatsoever "dirty immigrants" in his firm.

Later that dark, the radio begins to emit foreign sounds again and wakes up Salad Fingers. Salad Fingers approaches it warily and threatens Roger with expulsion from the house. The radio replies it was rude of Salad to accept his hair. The radio speaks in a static vocalization, instructing Salad Fingers to render its hair, as well as to tidy the house. Salad Fingers declares that he "shan't, tin can't and won't", on the grounds that it isn't "his turn" and that it is an extremely unpleasant job. The radio continues to torment him, causing him to eat all of the hairs from his quintet, tape and all, and return to his cupboard in tears.

Episode nine – Letter [edit]

• Release date: 26 May 2011^[7]
• Credits: Directed, drawn, blithe and voiced by David Firth. Written past David Firth and Christian "Crust" Pickup. Music by Markus Fjellström.

Salad Fingers is holding a piece of torn newspaper, imagining it is a letter from the Great State of war (presumably from his "brother") and reading information technology aloud to himself. Equally he reads, a tentacular branch snakes in through the door to Salad Fingers' bedroom. Salad Fingers picks up the co-operative and bites off the tip, resulting in something sobbing "Daddy, that actually hurt!" off-screen. Salad Fingers goes to the window and sees the branch-tentacle beingness retracted into the tree outside. He walks out to the tree, calling it "Mr. Branches" and has a conversation with it near its injury, plain forgetting it was he himself that bit it. The tree cries, calling Salad Fingers "Daddy" and request to be permit inside, simply Salad Fingers refuses until it "grows out of those branches". The tree wraps a branch effectually Salad Fingers' waist.

Salad Fingers wakes up in his room, very pale and his stomach growling. Salad Fingers worries that he may exist dying and taps out an South.O.Southward. on the metallic fire grate beside him. Of a sudden a strange gooey blackness mass bursts out of his stomach, causing him to pass out. This mass, and the goo that surrounds Salad Fingers on a puddle on his bed, bears a strong resemblance to the 'tea' in 'Shore Exit', and the goo that Hubert Cumberdale turns into in 'Present'.

When he wakes up, he is overjoyed, and believes he has given birth to a daughter whom he names Yvonne. Sitting in a wheelchair and actualization to experience better despite his wound, he pulls back the pare of ane finger revealing a strange solid tip and dips it in ink to write a "letter," or at to the lowest degree what he thinks is 1, since he reads it aloud, consisting merely of scribbles. It says he cannot attend the Groovy State of war every bit he is still feeling "under the weather condition". He keeps Yvonne (which appears to be wrapped in a parcel of newspapers) down in a pit and tells her off for not doing her exercises. When Yvonne refuses to respond to Salad Fingers' coaching, he addresses Marjory Stewart-Baxter, expressing his thwarting in 'their' child.

The scene then switches back to Salad Fingers lying on the floor, stake, with his stomach still wounded, and seems to be pumping air into his breast, suggesting that he's relapsed into illness. He tells Yvonne he may exist too sick to care for her and speaks for her as he unremarkably does for his other inanimate characters, saying "That'southward a shame; you were doing a first-rate chore". He and so taps another bulletin on the burn grate, requesting a home for "a meddlesome child".

Salad Fingers is and then outside in his wheelchair with Yvonne in a saucepan, looking healthier over again, telling her that "skillful erstwhile Aunty Bainbridge" has agreed to look after her. He arrives at the house from episode 1, where the small, yellowish-skinned humanlike creature with big eyes lives. Salad Fingers refers to the creature as "Aunty Bainbridge" and asks for a hug, only the creature takes a step back and makes an odd wailing noise, as it did in 'spoons'. Salad Fingers recalls some memories of Aunty Bainbridge "all in faded days".

Salad Fingers so appears to forget his reason for visiting, and, noticing the saucepan of black ooze on his lap, claims he has come up to clean the windows, patently forgetting who/what Yvonne is. Using the packet/Yvonne, he smears the windows with blackness ooze every bit the xanthous creature looks on. Job done, Salad Fingers begins to eat a sandwich, while Aunty Bainbridge returns to the business firm.

Episode 10 – Birthday [edit]

• Release date: 24 November 2013
• Credits: Written, directed, drawn, blithe and voiced by David Firth with additional attribution to Christian Webb and Jimlad Hollis

Salad Fingers is making preparations for Hubert Cumberdale's birthday. He addresses "Milford Cubicle", even so hanging from the meat hook he was placed upon in Episode 3, trying to persuade the at present-heavily rust-covered corpse to take a bathroom for Hubert Cumberdale'southward birthday. A knock on the door leads Salad Fingers outside, but to encounter a long, thick metal pole stretching upward farther than the centre can run into. Perplexed and irritated by the pole, which he attempts to question, he goes back indoors and causes Milford to fall from his hook while berating him. He reveals the ability to widen his irises and cause his teeth to move, making a music boxlike melody, by moving his paw at the side of his caput as though turning a handle. When this fails to rouse his lifeless friend, he decides to exit the firm, leaving "Horace Horsecollar", the toy horse that appeared in Episode 6, "in charge".

The scene cuts to Salad Fingers walking through a misty woods full of leafless trees, revealing the search for a medico equally his motive to Hubert Cumberdale. He finds a vessel, perhaps a skip or broken pram, total of rubbish and starts rummaging around inside it. He finds a grotesque doctor puppet, which is cocky-animated and growling with gnashing teeth, that has bent hooks and springs for hands. He refers to the puppet as "Dr. Papanak", and lies downward on a large slab resembling a tombstone for an examination (seemingly forgetting that the doctor was meant to examine "Milford Cubicle"). Salad Fingers initially seems to relish the examination, until Dr. Papanak bites into the side of his head. He throws the puppet away in fear, only for information technology to sprout knives and latch onto a nearby horse closely resembling "Horace Horsecollar". Dr. Papanak tears away savagely at the equus caballus's side. Salad Fingers's fear fades abroad on seeing this; he tries to comfort the equus caballus, acknowledging that the physician is hurting information technology, but tells information technology to try and be all the same whilst the physician eats its blood. The horse is shown weeping a tear down its face up but makes no move or resistance.

The scene fades out, and returns to Salad Fingers, awake and still lying on the tombstone. The forest is now leafy, and an entire new tree has sprouted upward through a fissure in the slab between Salad Finger'southward legs. Salad Fingers looks older, is unshaven, and his wearing apparel are partially torn and muddied. He speculates that he has been comatose "for half dozen Mondays". There is no sign of the horse or of Dr. Papanak, although Hubert Cumberdale is seen lying on the basis, as well peculiarly aged, and surrounded by twigs. Salad Fingers returns habitation (the groovy pole is missing) to find multiple horses in his firm, including i that resembles the horse attacked past Dr. Papanak and which has had its wound patched shut. Accusing his toy equus caballus Horace of inviting as well many guests, he searches through his cupboards and drawers to find many horses improbably crammed in, and is distressed to observe Milford Cubicle as a skeleton. He drives the horses out, imagining them to have eaten him, just to encounter the mysterious pole he had seen earlier exterior his house has returned.

While accusing the pole of being involved in the previous events, Salad Fingers loses focus when he spots, a picayune way away from him, a grouping of people gathered around a table. Referring to them as "the whole platoon" (some other ambiguous state of war reference), he approaches to reveal that each of the five guests is a deformed version of himself (not looking aged and unshaven as he does), each eating brains and bodily organs while groaning or performing repetitive and deranged actions. At this indicate, he appears to forget that the party was for Hubert, and nervously assumes the birthday seat for himself. Suddenly, the pole lowers itself into the basis to reveal a wrapped upward nowadays on the tiptop of information technology, which he excitedly unwraps; only one of the clone-guests looks at him while he does this. He opens the present and finds a hat made from what is clearly Milford Cubicle. His BBQ apron, face, and skin can exist clearly seen on it. He says "I shall wear it from here to the grave. What a truly special twenty-four hour period." He puts it on while atmospheric music plays. The camera so begins to zoom back, until the screen slowly fades to black.

Notes: On 28 June 2013 Firth posted on his site Fatty-Pie that a "make new episode of Salad Fingers" would become available upon listening to the latest episode of his sound sketch Waller FM. The name of the episode was revealed past Firth himself in a YouTube interview.^[viii]

Episode eleven – Glass Brother [edit]

• Release date: 30 Jan 2019
• Credits: Written, directed, drawn, blithe and voiced past David Firth.

Salad Fingers on bag, 2008

Salad Fingers appears sitting on the ground, talking to his brother through a mirror. He reveals to the brother his collection of pinkie puppets, and finds out that Marjory Stewart-Baxter didn't get a haircut. Equally punishment, Salad Fingers starts biting the puppet's hair off until he starts to asphyxiate, dropping everything to the ground. Hes also asks Hubert Cumberdale if he finds the situation agreeable, and congratulates Jeremy Fisher as the best behaved, announcing that he volition exist first in the bathtub tonight. Underneath Hubert Cumberdale, tears start to appear, as Salad Fingers says that he never will go a real boy.

Salad Fingers and then goes to his home, taking Hubert Cumbertale to his desk. Salad Fingers starts nettling human being mankind onto Hubert Cumberdale's torso. One time finished, Salad Fingers announces that he created a new and improved Hubert Cumberdale. Hubert ends upwardly coming live, standing on its feet proverb information technology is fix for life. Salad Fingers falls in honey with the improved Hubert and holds it in his hands, as Hubert says he'due south a big boy now. Salad Fingers and then puts Hubert to bed. Salad Fingers goes to a mirror to speak with his blood brother again, as their female parent appears sitting in the chair behind them. Salad Fingers then gets ordered to bring his female parent a basin of nutrient. Since Salad Fingers is unable to give her the food through the mirror, the brother claims that Salad Fingers wants their mother to starve.

Salad Fingers goes outside with Hubert, where he speaks with his brother again, this fourth dimension through a water puddle on the basis. Later on, Salad Fingers is seen cooking, while his female parent is ordering him how to cook though a mirror. Once finished, Salad Fingers is forced by the mother to eat the icky food he cooked. Afterwards eating the food, Salad Fingers ends up throwing up, lying on the footing barely awake. Hubert also comes around, intimating that he volition make clean up. While Salad Fingers has his mirror speaking to his brother, the brother finds out nigh the improved Hubert, which Salad Fingers describes equally his own "Mankind Boy, the most cute boy in the world". The brother ends upwardly pushing his mitt through the mirror, grabbing Hubert and stealing information technology from Salad Fingers, which shocks and saddens Salad Fingers.

In the center of the night, Salad Fingers goes outside and enters another dimension through a puddle of water. He ends up in an upside downwardly dark world inside the upside down house finding his blood brother asleep, and Hubert within of a jar. As Salad Fingers is about to catch the jar, his brother wakes up and opens his mouth, revealing his teeth to be made out of rusty nails. The mother appears, breaking the mirror and laughing. Salad Fingers sees a black substance on the ground, throws the jar into information technology, then throws himself in.

Salad Fingers' blood brother pushes his hand inside also, merely Salad Fingers blocks information technology with his own manus. As the mother starts shouting at Salad Fingers though the little mirror, Salad Fingers starts breaking it into pieces, as his mother keeps shouting and calling Salad Fingers names. Salad Fingers starts punching the drinking glass until his fingers drain. Hubert Cumberdale appears next to Salad Fingers, and Salad Fingers takes him and rubs its caput against the broken glass. Salad Fingers grabs Hubert, and licks the glass off from his caput.

In the finish, Salad Fingers takes a fiddling slice of the glass, in which the mother is nevertheless yelling deranged obscenities at him. He rubs his blood confronting the glass, and places the glass with the claret in a modest chest.

Episode 12 – Postman [edit]

• Release date: seven March 2022
• Credits: Written, directed, drawn, animated and voiced by David Firth; Story contributions: Christian Webb & James Hollis; Sound design: Rob Wingfield; Voice of Hubert Cumberdale: Cachet

Salad Fingers is a postman delivering letters to places such every bit a tree, a molehill and a drain. After delivering a bundle of blackened bones to a dead tree stump, he returns to the "post role" (actually a rusted and heavily damaged department of a machine side panel). There he sees a heavily mutilated corpse of a dog, who he apparently sees as a beautiful girl and initiates a courtship. Hubert Cumberdale briefly appears before their beginning engagement and is reprimanded for "tagging along". In response, Hubert's face up morphs into i with more realistic eyes and a mouth and asks "Why must yous proceed so many secrets, Mr Fingers".

Salad Fingers takes the corpse (which is non named in the episode) for dinner and asks information technology about itself, which the corpse replies by breathing out a green gas. Salad Fingers speaks lovingly to the corpse while a number of light-green tentacles sprout from the basis around his feet and crawl up his legs, causing him to moan with pleasure. The corpse's head slumps down and Salad Fingers pushes up the corner of its rima oris remarking "You're not fully dressed without a grin". A montage of the two characters on diverse dates plays, then Salad Fingers of a sudden wakes up in bed adjacent to the corpse exclaiming that something isn't right, before crying that the corpse is "half [his] age". An unseen creature scratches at his forepart door while he laments, and the corpse says something unintelligible in a distorted phonation. A letter is pushed under the door, which Salad Fingers reads silently.

Salad Fingers carries the corpse to the dead tree stump shown at the start of the episode, and sadly breaks off the relationship. The tree stump shudders, and a second dog, this one with a baby's head crudely attached to its cervix stump, emerges. Salad Fingers laments that the corpse "won't be the adjacent Mrs Fingers" while the baby-head dog drags it back into the tree stump.

Shorts [edit]

Brusque i – Marketplace [edit]

• Release date: 1 Oct 2021
• Credits: Written, directed, fatigued, animated and voiced past David Firth.

Salad Fingers has set up up a marketplace stall and is trying to attract customers with a trader'south telephone call. His products include "Bentley Bars", which announced to exist blackened bones, pickled cheeks, and burnt peas. He also draws attending to a pile of "dingy images" and pulls out a tattered photograph of an sometime boot, caressing it and challenge the boot was his mother. Anticipating a crowd, he pulls out Hubert Cumberdale, inexplicably reverted to his one-time appearance, and tosses him onto the ground abreast the stall to meet and greet.

At that place is a low rumbling sound and an elongated head with distorted middle sockets and holes for nostrils pops upwards out of the footing in front of the stall. Two eyeballs on stalks sally and stare at Salad Fingers, who immediately recognises the figure and dismissively greets him as Mark Dimaline. Salad Fingers sarcastically asks him if he will really exist buying anything, suggesting that he appears regularly simply never purchases anything. Mark Dimaline asks for a glass of h2o in a heavily distorted vocalization, unusually speaking English language rather than the usual incoherent screams that most characters produce. Salad Fingers accuses Mark of "taking advantage of [his] expert nature" and Hubert Cumberdale places a drinking glass of water in front of Mark, who shoots out a black, ophidian-like tongue and drags the water, drinking glass and all, inside his mouth before disappearing back into the basis.

Suddenly a crow swoops down and grabs several green slug-like items from a tray on top of the stall. Salad Fingers calls it a "common thief" and points to it equally it flies away while telling an imaginary constabulary officer to arrest it. The crow is joined past two others who eat the stolen items while Salad Fingers reprimands them, maxim he "shouldn't wish [their] mothers would approve of such pilfering". He then says that fortunately he has some "reserve stock", before lifting his shirt and trigger-happy off a piece of his own skin, revealing that the green slugs are in fact pieces of his ain flesh. Salad Fingers resumes his trader's call every bit the episode ends.

Screenings [edit]

The get-go seven episodes of Salad Fingers were shown dorsum-to-back in Australia at the 2007 Sydney Hugger-mugger Film Festival at the Mill Theatre during the "Re-Blitheness" session.^[ix]

Originally scheduled for summer of 2020, only delayed due to the COVID-nineteen pandemic,^[10] the Salad Fingers Bout started on Baronial 8, 2021, and it is a screening of every episode of Salad Fingers and then far. Firth is currently doing Q&A at the tour.^{[xi] [12]}

Reception [edit]

Salad Fingers has become the discipline of a cult following and has generated a number of memes, having "captured the comically demented and strange underbelly of the internet" according to Elijah Watson of The Daily Dot.^[xiii] The serial' characters, themes, and setting accept spawned extensive discussions and theories online.^[13] In 2005, the San Francisco Chronicle ranked it amidst its "Elevation 10" pop culture phenomena.^[14]

Jon Mendelsohn of Comic Volume Resources observes that the series has "terrified audiences" by ways of its "post-apocalyptic setting and crypticness" and compared it to the television series Twin Peaks.^[xv] In reference to its bear on online at the time of its release, Emma Garland of Vice notes that the serial "speedily went viral before 'going viral' was a affair", causing both fear and fascination in its viewers, and calls it "ane of the bleakest comedies to always come out of the UK".^[sixteen]

See also [edit]

• Making Fiends
• Don't Hug Me I'm Scared
• Marble Hornets

References [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b c d e} "Interview with Salad Fingers Creator David Firth". Semantikon. August 2004. Retrieved 20 October 2016.
2. ^ Gaudino, Elena (viii December 2005). "Salad Fingers Stream of Consciousness Entertains Viewers". The Daily Campus. Archived from the original on 8 July 2011. Retrieved twenty Oct 2016.
3. ^ Bing. "David Firth – Heroes of Animation with Bing". YouTube. Event occurs at 18:52. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
4. ^ "Salad Fingers vs Tideland". FeroxLog. ane April 2007. Archived from the original on 23 July 2011. Retrieved xx October 2016.
5. ^ "Polygon Window Discography". Discogs. 28 May 2021. {{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-condition (link)
6. ^ "Salad Fingers". LivePress Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on 3 July 2009. Retrieved 20 October 2016.
7. ^ @DAVID_FIRTH (26 May 2011). "Salad Fingers 9 will peradventure exist released tomorrow if all goes to plan" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
8. ^ Bing. "David Firth : Heroes of Animation with Bing". YouTube. Upshot occurs at 17:forty. Retrieved 21 October 2016.
9. ^ "Sydney Cloak-and-dagger Film Festival 2007 Program" (PDF). The Sydney Clandestine Picture show Festival. 2007. p. x. Retrieved 20 October 2016.
10. ^ Phillipson, Daisy (26 Feb 2020). "David Firth Is Taking Salad Fingers On A Bout Across The UK". LADBible . Retrieved 24 Baronial 2021.
11. ^ Salad Fingers Tour + Q&A with creator David Firth
12. ^ @DAVID_FIRTH (16 August 2021). "Some Aug / Sept dates. Tickets..." (Tweet) – via Twitter.
13. ^ ^{a b} Watson, Elijah (xxx November 2018). "'Salad Fingers' was viral before viral was a affair—and it's returning". The Daily Dot . Retrieved 23 March 2022.
14. ^ Chonin, Neva (25 December 2005). "2005 In Review: Pop Culture". San Francisco Chronicle . Retrieved 23 March 2022.
15. ^ Mendelsohn, Jon (2 May 2020). "Don't Hug Me I'm Scared Endures Considering of Its Brilliant Execution". Comic Book Resources . Retrieved 23 March 2022.
16. ^ Garland, Emma (xvi July 2018). "Happy Birthday, Salad Fingers". Vice . Retrieved 23 March 2022.

External links [edit]

• Official website
• Salad Fingers at IMDb

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