Salad Fingers
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| Genre |
Psychological horror Dark humour Animation |
| Created by |
David Firth Christian Webb |
| Developed by | Indira Lasley |
| Written by |
David Firth Christian Webb (co-writer) Jimmy Hollis (co-writer) |
| Voices of | David Firth |
| Composer(s) |
Boards of Canada Brian Eno Aphex Twin Chris Gladwin Lustmord Kris Kadwell |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of episodes | 10 |
| Release | |
| Original network | Newgrounds |
| Original release | 1 July 2004-Present |
| External links | |
| Website | |
David Firth
Salad Fingers is a British flash animation internet series created by David Firth in July 2004. It gained rapid internet popularity, such that the San Francisco Chronicle ranked it among the "Top 10" pop culture phenomena for 2005.
The cartoon revolves around the eponymous "Salad Fingers", a thin, green, mentally troubled being who inhabits a desolate world with three lifeless, scruffy finger puppets. The first seven episodes of Salad Fingers were shown back-to-back in Australia at the 2007 Sydney Underground Film Festival at the Factory Theatre, along with a variety of other animated short films, during the "Re-Animation" session.
Salad Fingers was first conceived as an in-joke when Firth was playing the guitar one day and his friend and frequent collaborator Christian Webb commented that he had "salad fingers," referring to the way Firth was playing the C chord.
Firth has cited the works of David Lynch, South Park, Tim Burton, The League of Gentlemen and Chris Morris as sources of inspiration. There are similarities between the novel Tideland by Mitch Cullin and the film Tideland by Terry Gilliam and Salad Fingers.
The eerie music featured in the background is the tune "Beware the Friendly Stranger" from the Boards of Canada album Geogaddi. The dark music in the soundtrack that appears when Salad Fingers is scared is actually Firth playing the guitar, but slowed down and reversed.
Other music included in Salad Fingers episodes includes work credited to Brian Eno, Sigur Rós, Aphex Twin (in particular, the track 'Rhubarb' from Selected Ambient Works Volume II) and Lustmord. 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.
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