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Flash series Salad Fingers plays with Horace Horsecollar in Episode 6. Salad Fingers Devised by David Firth Animated by David Firth Voiced by David Firth Launch date July 1, 2004 Website http://www.fat-pie.com Salad Fingers is a Flash cartoon series created by David Firth. Salad Fingers portrays a strange and progessively disturbing story. Contents 1 Summary 2 Characters 3 Attributes of Salad Fingers 4 Episode summaries 4.1 Episode 1 - Spoons 4.2 Episode 2 - Friends 4.3 Episode 3 - Nettles 4.4 Episode 4 - Cage 4.5 Episode 5 - Picnic 4.6 Episode 6 - Present 4.7 Episode 7 - Shore Leave 5 Glitches and Easter Eggs 6 References in other media 7 See also 8 External links 8.1 Episodes 8.2 Sounds 8.3 David Firth 8.4 Parodies Summary In the 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", most of which are rusty articles (particularly spoons). His other joys include blood, or as he calls it, "the red water", grubby taps and nettles, the sting of which he finds pleasurable. His fluctuating, gentle monologues serve to entice the viewer into a bizarre and surreal world. The main music is performed by Boards of Canada. The deep dark bassy music in the soundtrack that appears when Salad Fingers is scared is actually David Firth playing the guitar (slowed down and reversed). Other music included in Salad Fingers episodes includes Brian Eno and Aphex Twin. David Firth is notoriously known for inserting subliminal Aphex Twin contexts in his flash works. David Firth's "Locust Toybox" albums have been known to have some Aphex influence. Firth also uses symbols from Aphex Twin in his cartoons. For example the Aphex Twin logo can be found on the telephone in Salad Fingers 5 and on the clock on the wall in Spoilsbury Toast Boy. A theory website exists, offering various insights into Salad Finger's behavior. Viewers have expressed opinions on Salad Fingers [1], ranging from finding it hilariously funny (although the author maintains it is not intended to be), to finding it puerile and disgusting. Characters Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. Salad Fingers  The main character; a peculiar green man with a hunch on his back. He is single, and an extremely odd person. His long, green fingers are sensitive to rough surfaces. Salad Fingers will stimulate himself by rubbing his fingers on such objects as rusty nails, rusty tea kettles, metal jail-cell bars and nettles, which he uses for self-urtication. Salad Fingers is often heedless to the mortality of creatures / things and appears unable to tell whether something is alive or not. Salad Fingers lives alone in a small house / shack with the number 22 on the door and a working oven. He also has some ability in playing the flute and speaking French. Salad Fingers has a strange habit of providing narration for other characters rather than engaging in actual conversation, even if the characters are living beings capable of speech. The names he attributes to different "characters" often appear to be thought up on the spot or simply applied to non-existent characters. For example: Salad Fingers looks puzzled in episode five when he holds up the Hubert Cumberdale finger-puppet and appears to think up the name Barbara Logan-Price spontaneously to call him instead. Salad Fingers greeting his finger puppet friends. Left to right: Jeremy Fisher, Marjory Stewart-Baxter and Hubert Cumberdale (Episode 2). Hubert Cumberdale (Barbara Logan-Price)  A finger-puppet whom Salad Fingers "invites" to dinner (ep. 2). A special interest character, appearing in a couple of Salad Fingers' fantasies as a life sized being. According to Salad Fingers he tastes of "soot and poo". Marjory Stewart-Baxter  Finger-puppet whom Salad Fingers "invites" to dinner (ep. 2). Salad Fingers claims that she tastes like "sunshine dust." She has appeared in 3 episodes. Jeremy Fisher  Finger puppet whom Salad Fingers "invites" to dinner (ep. 2). He is the only character whom Salad Fingers does not taste in episode 2. In episode 6, Jeremy Fisher, referred to as Mr. Fisher, gives Salad Fingers Horace Horsecollar (ep. 6). In this episode, he speaks in a low-pitched, unintelligible voice and has a tack in his mouth covering a hole that contains some type of green liquid. At the end, when Mr. Fisher appears as a life-sized human, Salad Fingers accuses him of making lewd advances on his daughter and then apparently eats him (although when the view changes we see Salad Fingers eating a creature identical to himself). He was possibly named after Beatrix Potter's character Mr. Jeremy Fisher, but also bears a slight resemblance to Canadian folk singer Jeremy Fisher. Milford Cubicle (though his name-tag reads "Harry")  Appearing in episode three, Cubicle is a human-like armless being. He is presumably employed by "BBQ" (possibly meaning the DIY chain B&Q) as a three star "Happy to Help" assistant. Bordois  Appearing in episode four, Bordois is a woodlouse which Salad Fingers kills by accident by attempting to pet her. He then said that he would not play with her, seeing as how she was "gooey." (You've gone flat, little sister, and you're all gooey. I shalln't play with you again, until you've had a wash!) He calls her "little sister", and she lived in a hole below a rusty nail in Salad Fingers' house. Mable  Appearing in episode five, Mable is a young girl who happens to be the first guest at Salad Fingers' picnic. More importantly, she is the first character other than Salad Fingers who can communicate in English. However, Salad Fingers provided narration for her until she spoke herself. Once she speaks for herself, he becomes highly disturbed, sitting in a corner in the fetal position. Horace Horse Collar  A toy horse, with larger-than-usual round eyes, which Jeremy Fisher gives to Salad Fingers in Episode 6. It is named after the Disney character. Salad Fingers uses the phone in Episode 5 Kenneth  The torso, left arm, and head of a corpse found in a hole, strangley dug just outside of Salad Fingers' house, supposedly by Hubert Cumberdale, the finger puppet, in episode 7. Salad Fingers claims that it is his brother, "back from the great war" on shore leave. Mr. Branches  A dead tree outside of Salad Fingers' house in episode 7. Salad Fingers is seen measuring the distance that the tree has travelled from his house. Salad Fingers also mentions having an "old pal Charlie" and his daughter. As of episode 7, they have never been seen, or at least have never been identified as such. Given his past history of being slightly out of touch with reality, they may not even exist, merely making his comments more odd ramblings. Un-named characters include: A big-eyed child who has somewhat of a screech rather than talking. Salad Fingers visits the boy to "enquire about his spooons [sic]". (ep. 1) A young child wearing a jacket with the letter "M" on it, one of the few normal people seen in this series. Salad Fingers accidentally cooks him by forgetting him, and the fish, in the oven once he sees a rusty nail in the wall. (ep. 2) A creature who falls in love with Salad Fingers. This "little boy" is possibly called Tony, judging by the name of a Macromedia Flash file. It has been confirmed that he remains anonymously named. (ep. 4) A crow that steals a spoon from Salad Fingers, speaking in what seems to be the Devil's tongue, or talking backwards. (ep. 5) A toilet some distance from Salad Fingers' house which contains some sort of yellow-green liquid. Much like Mr. Branches, the toilet is an inanimate object which Salad Fingers personifies, speaking to it as though it were alive, although he could be talking to himself, in the reflection he sees. It should be noted that, later in that same episode, the conversation he has with "himself" lines up with the answers he gives to his reflection.(ep. 6) Spoilers end here. Attributes of Salad Fingers Salad Fingers' teeth often have alphabetical characters drawn on them. In some frames there are other characters (eg. "j") or even smilies. At first glance, Salad Fingers may appear to be a bald, green man wearing a dark green sweater and black trousers. However, he has many attributes which separate him from any normal human, assuming that Salad Fingers is human. His obviously large fingers, with only 3 at the end of each arm. The fingers vaguely resemble gherkins, perhaps because of him being named Salad Fingers. He can form a fist with each hand. Salad Fingers speaks English with a Northern English accent. He also speaks some words in French in one of the episodes. Speaking in a fairly accurate West African French Accent he says: "Alors: habille-la. Comment t'appelles-tu? Qu'est-ce qu'il y a?" in. This translates more or less as: "So: dress her. What's your name? What is there?" He has rotten, yellow teeth with green food gunk adorning them, as well as bloody gums. The teeth have different alphabetical characters written on them in different frames of the animation, but David Firth states that these are of no great significance. He appears to lack earlobes and a nose. He has blood-red irises, which, along with the pupil, shrink when frightened and enlarge when happy. He lacks facial hair, but he has hair on his chest, stomach and at the start of his fingers. Speech appears to terrify him. In Episode 5, Mable becomes the first character other than Salad Fingers to speak intelligibly, and this greatly disturbs him. Whether this is due to the actual speech or the shattering of his fantasy world is unknown. He seems to be masochistic, as he practices self-urtication with nettles and even says, "I like it when the red water comes out", referring to his blood after he impales his finger on a rusty nail. Whenever Salad Fingers is physically hurt (like when he plunges his finger into a nail or is eaten by an apparation of himself) he turns a palish-white color and dozes off into a bizarre dream. Episode summaries Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. Episode 1 - Spoons Release date: July 1, 2004 Credits: Drawn, animated and voiced by David Firth. Written by David Firth and Christian "Crust" Pickup. Music by Boards of Canada (in particular, the song "Beware the Friendly Stranger"). This episode introduces us to the Salad Fingers character and his love of touching rusty spoons. He explains how touching any form of rust, including spoons, a door bell panel and a kettle, stimulates him ("The feeling of rust on my salad fingers is almost orgasmic..."), and that he holds a particular love of spoons. Salad Fingers continues to look for the perfect spoon. On his short journey, he finds a house with a "young child" (note the presence of a half buried skull to the right of the screen as Salad Fingers walks towards the house). Salad Fingers asks about the child's spoons. The child makes a nightmarish amalgamation of noises, including a door creak and a high-pitched squeal, which Salad Fingers seems to understand as an invitation into the house. Inside the house, Salad Fingers starts breathing heavily, as if in anticipation of sexual stimulation, before repeating his enquiry about the child's spoons. The child "screams" again, which Salad Fingers again seems to understand and he decides to leave, after a quick caress of a rusty kettle. This episode stands out from the other episodes; the animation makes use of more abstract backgrounds (especially during close-ups of Salad Fingers), and the title character's voice is higher with a slight sing-song tone, as compared to the more subdued, gentle (yet still very disturbed) voice used in later episodes. Notable trivia: the man pictured in the child's house seems to move. Episode 2 - Friends Release date: July 15, 2004 Credits: Drawn, animated and voiced by David Firth. Written by David Firth and Christian "Crust" Pickup. Music by Boards of Canada and David Firth. The episode starts with Salad Fingers addressing the audience, telling us that he's having a little get-together with his friends who turn out to be finger puppets named Hubert Cumberdale, Marjory Stewart-Baxter and Jeremy Fisher. He appears to believe that his friends are real, live beings, suggesting that they say "Hello" to the audience. Salad Fingers then wonders what his friends taste like, which he finds out by briefly inserting them into his mouth. Salad Fingers says Marjory Stewart-Baxter tastes of "Sunshine Dust", which he finds pleasant. Salad Fingers then tastes Hubert Cumberdale and says he tastes of "soot and poo", which disgusts him. The next scene involves Salad Fingers calling for help and a young, frightened looking child comes to help. Salad Fingers asks the child to take a fish out of his oven which he cannot reach, whilst holding the door open. As the child is reaching, Salad Fingers sees a rusty nail jutting out of the wall and leaves the oven to stroke it, causing the door to close trapping the child inside. Salad Fingers then accidentally impales his finger on the spike and begins bleeding. Salad Fingers goes pale and falls over but appears to enjoy it, saying that he likes it when "the red water comes out". The blood loss causes him to enter a dream-like state inside a large refrigerator with animal carcasses on meat hooks. This room is never seen outside the dream, but the rusty spoon in the dream is still in his hand when he wakes up. This is similar to a Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem involving a man dreaming about picking a beautiful flower in heaven and waking up in the morning with the flower in his hand. Inside the dream, he sings Somewhere Over the Rainbow to himself. Salad Fingers sees a life-size Hubert Cumberdale in the fridge who opens his mouth emitting an odd screeching noise, similar to the "young child" in Episode 1. Salad Fingers then rubs and taps a rusty spoon on Hubert Cumberdale's head before waking up. When Salad Fingers wakes up the oven smokes and oozes, although he pays no attention to the fact he left the child in there. He states, "That fish smells about done now." Salad Finger's voice has lowered in octave, yet it is still lighter and higher than later episodes. Episode 3 - Nettles Release date: August 1, 2004 Credits: Drawn, animated and voiced by David Firth. Written by David Firth and Christian "Crust" Pickup. Music by Boards of Canada, Brian Eno and a yoga flute. Episode 3 opens with Salad Fingers playing with nettles and has irritated blisters all over his hands. He then comes across an empty baby carriage, that he does not recognize as being so, and calls it "Nettle Carrier". Salad Fingers places the nettles in the carriage and leaves. A man with no arms wearing an apron with the phrase "BBQ" on it comes onto the screen screaming unintelligibly and then chases after Salad Fingers. It is implied that the carriage belongs to him and he is angry because Salad Fingers took it. The next scene opens with the armless man outside Salad Fingers' house with Salad Fingers inside rubbing nettles on his nipples, causing him to lactate. The man bangs his head on Salad Finger's door repeatedly attempting to get in. Salad Fingers then says that nettles make him "think happy times" and a scene in his head in which he and life-size Hubert Cumberdale are having a hair perm is seen. Eventually Salad Fingers comes outside of his house to find the man unconscious/dead in a puddle of his own blood. He then names the man Milford Cubicle, despite the fact that his name tag reads "Harry". Salad Fingers then invites and drags Milford inside and hangs him on a coat hook on the wall. Salad Fingers begins to play the flute for Milford, and later offers him a glass of warm milk - presumably from his nettle-induced lactation. Note: There is some blood on the baby carriage (as there is on a few objects in later episodes) Episode 4 - Cage Release date: August 20, 2004 Credits: Drawn, animated and voiced by David Firth. Written by David Firth, Christian "Crust" Pickup, and Jimi Mwng. Additional character design by Jimi Mwng. Music by Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin and David Firth. Episode 4 begins with Salad Fingers wearing a beret and he declares that he is going to try and find France. However, he is put off by a boy with disproportionately large eyes that has been "watching him for a while". The boy only speaks in growls and eventually approaches Salad Fingers and licks his hand. You see that the child is in love with Salad Fingers as he emanates little symbolic hearts. Salad Fingers is alarmed at this, and leaves. The next scene opens with Salad Fingers talking to Bordois, the woodlouse, whom Salad Fingers refers to as "little sister". When he goes to pet Bordois, he ends up squishing her; this causes Salad Fingers to become angry, saying "I shan't play with you until you've had a wash". Salad Fingers hears a knock on the door, which he opens to find a grubby tap attached to a string on the ground. Salad Fingers finds this fortunate and begins to daydream about taps. He imagines himself flying on one and speaking to several others, saying he'd like to marry them all. Eventually he snaps out of it and attempts to fetch the tap which is being drawn away on the string like bait. He is led into a dense forested area and then caught in a bear trap which causes him to lose blood and consciousness while savoring the pain blissfully. Salad Fingers wakes up in a cage with rusty bars and rubs his hands on them for a while. He enjoys it and gets a glazed look in his eyes. The boy from the beginning of the episode then approaches the cage and holds out a ring comprised of a human tooth to Salad Fingers, as if proposing. Salad Fingers thinks the whole thing is a game and pulls a curtain down over the window of the cage; when the curtain is lifted, Salad Fingers has disappeared. The little boy begins to cry and the episode ends with Salad Fingers, wearing his beret, flying away on an oversized tap. Episode 5 - Picnic Release date: November 25, 2004 Credits: Designed, animated, voiced and written by David Firth. Additional writing and the voice of Mable by Christian "Crust" Pickup. Music by Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin and David Firth. At the beginning of episode 5, Salad Fingers is holding a broken phone with its cord detached from the base. As the camera pans toward the receiver, it is heard that the phone is emitting telephone static, despite being disconnected. Salad Fingers, who is seen talking to an operator even with the lack of connection, asks to be connected to his "old pal Charlie", so he can invite him to the picnic he is having. Salad Fingers tells the operator there will be "gypsy creams, derby scones and admiral's pie" at the picnic. Salad Fingers drops the phone after feeling something strange in his stomach region. Salad Fingers talks to himself, telling himself not to rub his "basket-belly", yet he ends with saying "said Mary Mandolin". When Salad Fingers picks up the phone again, he claims he has been disconnected. When Salad Fingers lifts up his hand, Hubert Cumberdale is on his finger and Salad Fingers appears to forget his name and makes up "Barbara Logan-Price" on the spot. He says he has made him/her a "friend hat" that looks like a sailor's hat. He then says to Barbara/Hubert: "There'll be fog on the shore tonight, Bosun." In the next scene, Salad Fingers is wearing a bridal train and talks to himself looking in a mirror, declaring "You look so beautiful" and crying (supposedly with happiness, although his manner and appearance suggests otherwise). He then goes outside where a tablecloth is laid out with various foods on it. A little girl with orange hair comes and joins him and a crow comes to perch on a wooden pole nearby (This crow has appeared in another animation by David Firth - entitled 'A Black and White Cartoon About Berries'. The crow's movements are almost exactly the same as they are in this episode although, it talks in the other animation). The crow twitches, and makes strange distorted cawing noises. The finger puppet Marjory Stewart-Baxter can be seen in the window of Salad Fingers' house appearing to be jealous over the attention that the orange-haired girl is receiving, although there is apparently no-one in the house to move her. While this is showing, Salad Fingers says in the background (without captions), "That's a pretty-looking frock, on your body... but it looks awfully dirty." Salad Fingers asks the orange-haired girl a question and answers it for her, ending with "replied Mable". Salad Fingers offers her some "Pease Pudding" and she nods. He feeds it to her with a rusty spoon he removes from a casing seemingly comprised of human flesh. The crow then swoops down and steals Salad Fingers' rusty spoon. The little girl giggles and says that the crow must like spoons too. Salad Fingers is shocked and traumatized by hearing the girl speak the same language as he begins to hallucinate, seeing the girl with no eyes in her eye sockets. She ends the episode during the hallucination with "What's wrong, Mr Fingers? Do you not like my mouth-words?". Note: Blood is also present in this episode, on Mabel's shirt. Episode 6 - Present Release date: July 24, 2005 Credits: Drawn, animated and voiced by 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 alone, sporting a previously unseen pair of black pants and brown shoes. He goes over to a cupboard and sees Hubert Cumberdale on top of it. He instructs the finger puppet to come down at once, which it does by turning into a black, viscous fluid and oozing down the cupboard. Salad Fingers remarks saying "You're just a sticky river." and touches it. The ooze appears to burn him slightly. A silhouette is then seen walking through the house and Salad Fingers asks if somebody is there. Then, the Jeremy Fisher puppet is supposedly walking through the house, but it turns out to be a close-up perspective shot because the puppet is, in fact, on Salad Fingers' finger. Salad Fingers is surprised, and says that he thought Jeremy was out "fighting the great war". Salad Fingers then makes some odd noises and replies to Jeremy Fisher saying "You seem to have adopted a strange dialect". Note: although the sounds made by Salad Fingers sound similar to a reversed speech sample, reversing it does not produce intelligible speech. Another perspective shot shows Jeremy Fisher (now with arms) handing Salad Fingers a toy horse. Salad Fingers is pleased with the present and says "my very own Horace Horsecollar". Salad Fingers also remarks on the pleasing texture of the toy. Salad Fingers suddenly looks confused, eats the Jeremy Fisher puppet and angrily asks "Where've you gotten to?" The next shot is of Salad Fingers playing with the toy horse, neighing and then remarking that it is "all ready for the big race". Salad Fingers then walks outside with Horace Horsecollar and goes to an isolated toilet a little way off from his house. He talks to something that is inside the toilet bowl, but the shot looks up at Salad Fingers and so the audience never sees what he is talking to; it may be his reflection. Salad Fingers says it has been a while since he last saw 'it's chops'. Suddenly, the mood changes and the music becomes sinister. His face becomes concerned and he begins defending himself saying "You've got the wrong bloke, squire". He then flushes the toilet saying "wash those bad thoughts away". Salad Fingers then tells Horace Horsecollar that he should take him home. Upon arriving at his house, Salad Fingers gasps and sees himself sitting inside. The Salad Fingers inside appears to be hallucinating, seeing the outside Salad Fingers as a life-size Jeremy Fisher (complete with arms and legs this time). The inside Salad Fingers speaks in a slighty different voice and also has rougher text showing what he is saying. The conversation starts off just like the earlier one with Jeremy Fisher, but goes on to include accusations that Jeremy Fisher has been "tailgating [his] daughter with aspirations of deflowering her rose". Jeremy Fisher pops the pin out of his mouth and a green liquid oozes out. It is important to realize that the conversation Salad Fingers had with the toilet makes more sense if the phrases that the duplicate says are considered to be the toilet's responses. The inside Salad Fingers is now seen with the Jeremy Fisher finger puppet and remarks that he never did "sample the delights of [Jeremy Fisher's] flavour" (see Episode 2). He begins putting the finger-puppet in his mouth but the scene quickly changes to a bloody scene of the inside Salad Fingers eating the outside Salad Fingers' head/brains. The episode ends without any further clues as to what was real and what wasn't. Note: Again, there is blood present - this time, on the toilet seat. This is the first episode which does not begin with Salad Fingers saying the word "Hello". Episode 7 - Shore Leave Release date: January 28, 2006 Credits: Drawn, animated and voiced by David Firth. Written by David Firth, Christian Pickup and Jimi Mwng. Music by Boards of Canada, Chris Gladwin and Brian Eno. This episode begins with Salad Fingers digging holes outside his house with Marjory Stewart-Baxter with a rusty spoon, which Salad Fingers uses to scoop the ground he digs into his mouth. Salad Fingers holds Marjory up to his ear (as if listening to her) and then remarks that "yes, the floor-sugar does taste rather queer in this area." A panning shot shows lots of holes have been dug in the surrounding area. Hubert Cumberdale is found beside a very deep hole, which contains the torso of an old, decayed corpse (missing both legs and an arm) that Salad Fingers immediately recognizes as "Kenneth", identifying him as his younger brother who is back from the previously mentioned "great war" on shore leave. Salad Fingers pulls the corpse out of the hole, saying it was "rude" of him to go to the "great war" without him, but promises to draw him a hot bath. The next scene shows Salad Fingers turning a cog which pulls a rope attached to Kenneth on a clothesline. This draws Kenneth out of a wardrobe, and we see him dressed in a beige suit. Salad Fingers appears to be impressed on how attractive he looks, warning to "lock up your daughters tonight" and wondering if Kenneth could tuck him in that night in a slightly homo-erotic fashion. Salad Fingers seems rather pleased that Kenneth is home, "ready to spread his wild oats." The next scene shows Salad Fingers has prepared a dinner of sand for his guest, saying "I -- hope you like... SAND." Kenneth's head continually falls to the table, so Salad Fingers prepares a "wooden dent-rail" to prop Kenneths head up from the table. Salad Fingers tells Kenneth of his life, "keeping busy with every shift [I] can pick up and singing at all the functions." Salad Fingers pours Kenneth some "ruby tea", but he pours the tea on Kenneth's hand, which seems to burn a bit. There is an inkling of aggression in this scene, suggesting it wasn't an accident when Salad Fingers states "I must've slipped". Salad Fingers tells Kenneth he has told Marjory of their "frolicking by the river-side many summers ago." Instead of this, a flashback shows only Salad Fingers measuring the distance from his front door to a tree outside, calling "Mr. Branches" (the tree) slow for "barely shuffling an inch all week." Salad Fingers then narrates for Kenneth (sliding forward with his outstretched arm on the table despite his prop), saying Kenneth would like another "vanilla crown" to eat, but Salad Fingers scolds him - again aggressively - because he hasn't yet finished his beef stroganoff. It is now evening, and Salad Fingers is with Kenneth outside near the same hole he found him in. He is crying over the fact that Kenneth has to go "back to the ghastly trenches", and wishes for what he refers to as "our creator" to return him "unspoilt" from the "cruel hand" of war (which is ironic given the fact that Salad Fingers doesn't realize Kenneth is a dead corpse). He salutes Kenneth and sings "We'll Meet Again" (composed by Hughie Charles) for him. He then kicks Kenneth back into the hole. Suddenly, as Salad Fingers is staring into the hole, reality warps and Salad Fingers is seen in the same bridal dress he wears in episode 5, on a stage in front of a large audience, singing the same song he did to Kenneth. He complains to his piano-playing accompanist, who appears to be hanging from strings, that they are in the wrong key. Salad Fingers walks offstage looking disheartened, while the music continues to play. It is of note that close inspection of the pianist's music reveals the numbers 222222 (in the upper left hand corner) and 22 (in the lower left-hand corner). These numbers may have no relevance but they do correspond with the "22" on the door of Salad Fingers' house. Upon even closer inspection the piano player outline appears to be that of Marjory Stewart-Baxter. Also, in another David Firth cartoon, Men From Up the Stairs, the main character is seen answering a phone which has the number two written on every key on the keypad. Spoilers end here. Glitches and Easter Eggs In all Salad Fingers episodes, there are usually some parts of images and objects (such as characters) that extend beyond the borders of the aspect ratio of the movie. One can only see this by viewing the movie as a stand-alone in the browser or player, by opening the actual .swf file rather than viewing the movie embedded in an HTML page (which would maintain the aspect ratio of the view). Because the movie will always dynamically size itself to be as big as possible within the dimensions of the browser window without distorting its aspect ratio, at any given time, one can view only the extraneous segments on the top and bottom OR on the left and right, depending on whether the horizontal or vertical dimension is the one constraining the movie's size. References in other media In the flash movie Final Fantasy Day Care (Episode 2) by Henry Jardim, Fighter and Black Mage go to a weapons shop. Fighter buys a legendary sword for $3.50, then Black Mage is charged 2000 gil (Final Fantasy currency) for a staff. He complains about how cheap Fighter's weapon was. Fighter is then shown rubbing his new sword against his fingers, chopping off one of them. Fighter then steals Salad Finger's line "I like it when the red water comes out" in a quiet, whispery voice, similar to his. Firth has written in his DeviantART journal that when Newgrounds creator Tom Fulp co-hosted Attack of the Show on G4 for a week, he also mentioned Salad Fingers. Firth keeps a track of magazines that have mentioned his work [2]. Salad Fingers has appeared in a Japanese magazine and was named the #12 of "Top 50 Internet Heroes" in FHM Estonia to name a few. At the end of the Burnt Face Man Episode 6, a small "Points of View" spoof link is visible. When clicked, a letter from a person voicing their dislike against that episode is seen and a small PS. at the end says they would like to see a Salad Fingers Movie. In the flash movie Decline Of Video Gaming 2, Dim(One of the creators of Decline)'s Creator Notes involves him saying '*Carresses a Rusty Kettle*. In the song Dunks Are Live, Dunks Are Dead, by 7L & Esoteric, Salad Fingers is mentioned briefly in the lyrics. See also David Firth External links Episodes Salad Fingers episode 1 - Spoons Salad Fingers episode 2 - Friends Salad Fingers episode 3 - Nettles Salad Fingers episode 4 - Cage Salad Fingers episode 5 - Picnic Salad Fingers episode 6 - Present Salad Fingers episode 7 - Shore Leave Sounds Salad Fingers Soundboards David Firth Creator's homepage Interview with David Firth Burnt Face Man - Another cartoon written by David Firth Parodies Banana Fingers - A parody Salland Findles Trimpbutes - Salad Fingers "tribute" by Jerry Jackson Nose Salad - By MiddleFingerRings Salad Fingers collection on Newgrounds Final Fantasy Day Care 2 - By Henry Jardim, Pigeon Grenade Studios Search Term: "Salad_Fingers" Categories: Lists of flash cartoon episodes | Flash cartoons

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