Salad Fingers is a popular Flash cartoon series created by David Firth. The cartoon gained rapid popularity in 2005 as an internet phenomenon. Although largely ignored by mainstream media, Salad Fingers has become a well known 2-d cartoon to an increasingly internet based society.

Contents:
1 Summary
2 Characters
3 Episodes
3.1 Episode 1 - Spoons
3.2 Episode 2 - Friends
3.3 Episode 3 - Nettles
3.4 Episode 4 - Cage
3.5 Episode 5 - Picnic
3.6 Episode 6 - Present
3.7 Episode 7 - Shore Leave
4 References
5 External links
5.1 Episodes
5.2 Sounds
5.3 David Firth



Summary:

In the surreal cartoons, the eponymous Salad Fingers inhabits a sparse and desolate world where he obsesses in the "delightful" feeling of the textures of various objects on his "salad fingers" (his fingers are long, green, and strangely shaped). He especially enjoys rusty articles (particularly spoons); he also enjoys blood (or as he calls it, "the red water"), "grubby" water taps, and nettles (the sting of which he finds pleasurable), and loves meeting new people. When Salad Fingers speaks, his fluctuating, gentle monologues draw the viewer into a bizarre world and appears in loopy text on the screen.

Boards of Canada perform the main music, featuring the song "Beware the Friendly Stranger". The dark music in the soundtrack that appears when Salad Fingers is scared is actually Firth playing the guitar, slowed down and reversed. Other music included in Salad Fingers episodes includes work credited to Brian Eno and Aphex Twin. David Firth frequently inserts references to Aphex Twin in his flash cartoons; for example, the Aphex Twin logo can be found on the telephone in Salad Fingers episode five.


Characters:

Salad Fingers uses the phone in Episode 5
Salad Fingers greeting his finger puppet friends. Left to right: Jeremy Fisher, Marjory Stewart-Baxter, and Hubert Cumberdale.Salad Fingers
The main character; he is a green man with a hunch on his back. His long, green fingers are sensitive to rough surfaces. Salad Fingers will stimulate himself by rubbing his fingers on such things as rusty objects, metal bars, and nettles, which he uses for self-urtication which he claims to be orgasmic. Salad Fingers appears unable to tell whether something is alive or not, frequently talking to and providing internal monologues for inanimate objects (such as finger puppets, a tree, an abandoned toilet, and a toy horse), which he often names. He lives alone in a small shack with the number 22 on the door. Episodes variously reveal that he can play the flute and speak French.
Hubert Cumberdale, Marjory Stewart-Baxter, and Jeremy Fisher
Finger puppets who appear variously in episodes two, three, five, six, and seven. They often appear in Salad Fingers's fantasies as life sized beings. Salad Fingers also enjoys "tasting" these puppets, claiming they "taste like soot and poo" or "sunshine dust".
Harry/Milford Cubicle
Appearing in episode three, Cubicle is a human-like armless being who wears an apron identifying him as being employed at a "BBQ". Though his nametag reads "Harry", Salad Fingers calls him Milford Cubicle.
Bordois
Appearing in episode four, Bordois is a woodlouse which Salad Fingers accidentally kills by attempting to pet her. He refers to this bug as "little sister". Once he squishes her, he comically says "I shalln't play with you again until you have a wash."
Mable
Appearing in episode five, Mable is a young girl who goes to a picnic with Salad Fingers. She is the first character other than Salad Fingers who can communicate in English, and she was the first person to actually speak other than Salad Fingers.
Kenneth
A decomposing corpse found in a hole near Salad Fingers's house; Salad Fingers claims that it is his brother, "back from The Great War", and invites him in for dinner.
Salad Fingers also ramblingly mentions having an "old pal Charlie" and a daughter, though neither of them a