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Episode 1 - Spoons
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 amalgation 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. Episode 2 - Friends
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 Hook s. 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, suggesting the child was roasted alive. Episode 3 - Nettles
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 meat 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 carrige (as there is on a few objects in later episodes) Episode 4 - Cage
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 "following 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 consciousness. 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
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 reciever, 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 out of the window, 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. 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 and 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?". Episode 6 - Present 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, vicious 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'. 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 {Link without Title} daughter with aspirations of de-flowering her Rose ". Jeremy Fisher pops the pin out of his mouth and a green liquid oozes out. The inside Salad Fingers is now seen with the Jeremy Fisher finger puppet and remarks that he never did "sample the delights of Fisher's flavour" (see Episode 2). He begins putting the finger-puppet in his mouth but the scene quickly changes to 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. Episode 7 - Shore Leave 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. 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 {Link without Title} 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 Summer s 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 . He Salute s 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. Episode Links |
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