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Salad Fingers
“A green man, a barren field, and a deep love of rusty spoons.”
- Featured era
- 2004
- Peak era
- 2004-2007
- Company
- David Firth
- Category
- Viral Videos
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Salad Fingers, episode one: "Spoons"
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About This Video
- From:
- David Firth
- Added:
- May 9, 2007
- Length:
- 1:51
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What Was It?
Salad Fingers is a British web series by animator David Firth about a thin, green creature with lettuce-like hands who wanders a bleak, empty landscape. Firth also voices him, and the voice is soft because he did not want to wake his parents while recording.
The first episode, "Spoons", went up on Newgrounds on July 1, 2004. In it, Salad Fingers explains how touching rust excites him and shows his particular love of spoons. It was unpopular at first, then took off once Newgrounds featured it on its front page. The Guardian later described it as one of the first animations to go "fully viral".
Firth made it in Flash, with music credited to artists such as Boards of Canada. He has said the series was never mapped out and was not meant to have a hidden meaning, though fans have built numerous theories.
Things You Probably Forgot
- Rusty spoons
- His finger puppet friends
- Waiting months, sometimes a year, for a new episode
- Boards of Canada drifting in the background
The Story
- 2004 "Spoons", the first episode, was released on Newgrounds on July 1.
- 2007 The first seven episodes were screened back to back at the Sydney Underground Film Festival.
- 2025 "Crows", the fourteenth episode, was released on September 1.
Its Legacy
Salad Fingers is still going, with a fourteenth episode released in 2025. It is remembered as a Flash classic and an early influence on what became known as weird YouTube.
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