Comments on: The twisted animation of David Firth.

The twisted animation of David Firth.

exlotuseater — Sat, 27 Nov 2004 22:16:13 -0800

"I'm having a little get together with some of my friends...." I found this bizarre and disturbing little flash-movie a few months ago. The first link is actually the second installment in what is now five episodes. There's more (including the first through the fifth) on his site. The music is phenomenal- bits of spookiness from sigur ros and aphex twin. When you're all done, there's an interview with the author regarding Salad Fingers here. People are still trying to figure out exactly who the character is and where he's from. If you look and listen carefully, there are literary references, anagrammed names, etc. If you liked Salad, you might also like "Hell"(non-flash)

By: Captaintripps

Captaintripps — Sat, 27 Nov 2004 22:26:36 -0800

Here I'm left wondering what will replace flash animation...

By: moonbird

moonbird — Sat, 27 Nov 2004 22:28:49 -0800

ranch goes great with salad fingers!

By: Tlogmer

Tlogmer — Sat, 27 Nov 2004 22:29:26 -0800

Jesus fucking christ. Thanks for giving me nightmares forever, exlotuseater.

By: jenovus

jenovus — Sat, 27 Nov 2004 22:30:06 -0800

I know I saw it listed at Weebls-Stuff, but I didn't watch it for whatever reason until now. Thank you?

By: exlotuseater

exlotuseater — Sat, 27 Nov 2004 22:37:53 -0800

sorry, Tlogmer. perhaps I should have put the caveat "bizarre and disturbing" in bold. forgive me, it's my first post.

By: Tlogmer

Tlogmer — Sat, 27 Nov 2004 22:50:11 -0800

Don't worry about it; that was (attemptedly) tongue-in-cheek. (Anyway, misunderstood ultra-obscure irony in your first post's comments == mefi baptism.)

By: joelf

joelf — Sat, 27 Nov 2004 22:58:22 -0800

Also the hilarious parody of salad fingers: banana fingers

By: neckro23

neckro23 — Sun, 28 Nov 2004 00:39:52 -0800

Salad Fingers is great. I also like his Burnt Face Man.

By: Kiell

Kiell — Sun, 28 Nov 2004 02:36:29 -0800

(Good one, Plinko.) Thanks exlotuseater, rather enjoying this. Let's not forget the fantastic Boards of Canada and their website (warning: shockwave v10, brilliant website). Their music features in various episodes of Salad Fingers and is well worth investigating - unless you're particularly suspicious of backwards-recorded references to the devil.

By: jenovus

jenovus — Sun, 28 Nov 2004 02:48:12 -0800

I rather prefer Burnt Face Man, partly because it's that time of night when Salad Fingers could conceivably give me nightmares, but partly because non-sequitur crime-fighting rox my sox. The crime-inal fellow gave BFM a SHORYUKEN, did he not? ... Nice.

By: Space Coyote

Space Coyote — Sun, 28 Nov 2004 02:57:03 -0800

I sent a link to salad fingers to a friend over MSN not realizing she had just recently eaten some mushrooms... I'm a bad person.

By: ChrisTN

ChrisTN — Sun, 28 Nov 2004 05:47:39 -0800

Who the hell makes walk-in ovens these days, anyway? [this is creepy]

By: robzster1977

robzster1977 — Sun, 28 Nov 2004 07:22:32 -0800

Check out the Fat-Pie episodes from the same guy. They're based on the town that both I and him come from.

By: Balisong

Balisong — Sun, 28 Nov 2004 08:34:19 -0800

I was turned on to Saladfingers about a month ago. Totally awesome!! Someone at FOX should give him a 1/2 hour show. Comedy Central? Cartoon network? (Adult Swim)? I like it when the red water comes out...... All four shorts are very worth a watch. Someone has gifted us with a grubby tap.

By: Sticherbeast

Sticherbeast — Sun, 28 Nov 2004 08:36:08 -0800

I was marvelling over the oddness of Salad Fingers, but then I tried out the Milkman cartoon on the same site. UHHHHHH.

By: adrober

adrober — Sun, 28 Nov 2004 08:37:37 -0800

I like it when the "red water" comes out... and when he starts speaking Spanish... and I liked his voicing and the animation. Only part that scared me was in the meat locker. Poor Hubert Cumberdale (?). Nice post!

By: Igor XA

Igor XA — Sun, 28 Nov 2004 09:13:15 -0800

did anyone else watch the hell video? what is that from? who did it?

By: Igor XA

Igor XA — Sun, 28 Nov 2004 09:29:58 -0800

ah, nevermind, i found it.

By: dazed_one

dazed_one — Sun, 28 Nov 2004 12:18:42 -0800

[this is good]

By: Bear

Bear — Sun, 28 Nov 2004 17:18:58 -0800

This gives me the same feeling as listening to a remix of Radiohead's "Climbing up the walls". Spooky -- I love it!

By: nTeleKy

nTeleKy — Tue, 30 Nov 2004 12:51:20 -0800

space cowboy - don't feel bad, I know someone that showed this to some teenage girls the first time they ate shrooms. I guess they handled it fine. There's a lot of really good stuff on the site. One of my favorites is Scribbler, which is somber/depressing rather than amusing. Apparently he drew it all by hand at first and redrew it in flash later. Spoilsbury Toast Boy and it's prequel are also quite good.