History WebAnimation / SaladFingers

** A similar situation recurs in Episode 13, "Harvest". [[spoiler: Salad Fingers somehow becomes the TrulySingleParent to a doppelganger of himself. By the end of the episode, the doppelganger boils the original alive and serves his corpse at the "grand feast". The original samples the taste of his own flesh while being boiled.]]

* TrulySingleParent: In Episode 13, "Harvest", Salad Fingers grows a "Miniature Mr. Fingers", also called "Boyfingers", out of his back. This offspring is clone-like, being nearly identical to Salad Fingers and seeming to share memories with him, having "walked [his] dreams for decades". Salad Fingers raises Boyfingers as a sort of successor— [[spoiler: with the episode climaxing with an apparently voluntary (though still horrifying) KillAndReplace]].

* WhamShot: Episode 13, "Harvest" is initially unusually laid-back, and, though surreal, mostly free of horror elements... [[spoiler: right up until the shot of Boyfingers ready to smash in Salad Fingers' skull with a rock]].

* TrulySingleParent: In Episode 13, "Harvest", Salad Fingers grows a "Miniature Mr. Fingers", also called "Boy Fingers", out of his back. This offspring is clone-like, being nearly identical to Salad Fingers and seeming to share memories with him, having "walked [his] dreams for decades". Salad Fingers raises Boy Fingers as a sort of successor— [[spoiler: with the episode climaxing with an apparently voluntary (though still horrifying) KillAndReplace]].

* WhamShot: Episode 13, "Harvest" is initially unusually laid-back, and, though surreal, mostly free of horror elements... [[spoiler: right up until the shot of Boy Fingers ready to smash in Salad Fingers' skull with a rock]].

* BloodierAndGorier: The last three episodes involve a lot more blood than the episodes before them.
* BottleEpisode: Episode eight, "Cupboard", entirely takes place within the confines of Salad Fingers' home.

* CompanionCube: Several. The finger puppets Hubert Cumberdale, Jeremy Fisher, and Marjory Stewart-Baxter. Also, Horace Horsecollar (a toy horse) in the sixth episode, Kenneth (a mummified corpse) in the seventh, Roger (a radio) in the eighth, and Yvonne (a slimy black infant-sized mass) in the ninth. There's also [[ConsultingMisterPuppet Dr. Papanak]] in the tenth episode. [[spoiler:And then he's ''[[AnimateInanimateObject not]]''!]]

* SuddenAnatomy: Salad Fingers's fingers occasionally turn normal in later episodes when needed.

* WhamEpisode: Episode 7: Salad Fingers eats a clone, Episode 10: Salad Fingers is reunited with his "platoon", and gets a hat which he's content with.

* SilentPartner: Salad Fingers' [[spoiler:copies]] don't talk or even acknowledge him.

* {{Autocannibalism}}: This happens in Episode 6, "Present" and is depicted on that episode's YouTube thumbnail. [[MindScrew Or maybe not]]. Its not very clear just what is going on, only that Salad Fingers likes his doppelganger's [[BrainFood brains]].

* {{Autocannibalism}}: This happens in one episode. [[MindScrew Or maybe not]]. Its not very clear just what is going on, only that Salad Fingers likes his doppelganger's [[BrainFood brains]].
%%** Also happens at the end of [[spoiler:episode 13.]]

* AfterTheEnd: A common interpretation of the setting.

* ArmlessBiped: Milford Cubicle in the third episode.

** Also happens at the end of [[spoiler:episode 13.]]
* BlackHumor: Lapses into this occasionally.%%{{Blipvert}}

* BrownNote: Roger the radio uses these to upset Salad Finger's insides.
* CallBack: [[spoiler:Milford Cubicle's corpse is still hanging in the wall]] in "Birthday".

* ClipArtAnimation: [[Creator/{{Disney}} Horace Horsecollar]], the rusty taps, and various other objects.

* CompanionCube: Several. The finger puppets Hubert Cumberdale, Jeremy Fisher, and Marjory Stewart-Baxter. Also, Horace Horsecollar (a toy horse) in the sixth episode, Kenneth (a mummified corpse) in the seventh, Roger (a radio) in the eighth, and Yvonne (a slimy black infant-sized mass) in the ninth.
** There's also [[ConsultingMisterPuppet Dr. Papanak]] in the tenth episode. [[spoiler:And then he's ''[[AnimateInanimateObject not]]''!]]

* CreepyLongFingers: He's not called Salad Fingers for nothing, you know.
* {{Crossdresser}}: Salad Fingers does this on occasion for no apparent reason. At least, it's ''probably'' crossdressing.

* DerangedAnimation: Oh basically the ''entire series''.

* {{Fetish}}: Spoons, rust, hypovolemia, and nettles are apparently this to Salad Fingers.
* FreakOut: Salad Fingers, on a regular basis. Such as when Mable speaks to him in episode 5, or when [[ItMakesSenseInContext he's at the toilet]] in episode 6.
** Regarding the freakout in episode five, an interesting way to look at it (and likely the genuine one): [[spoiler:Salad Fingers either only imagines the noises that he hears, or makes them himself. Because he is insane, he feels like he's completely deserted and all alone. He had gotten used to hearing no other voices except his own since all the other characters can only articulate screaming and animalistic noises. When Mable speaks, it sends him into a panic attack because he hasn't heard any other voices but his own for a long time, which causes him to snap back into reality and realize she is a normal, ''real'' human being and not a hallucination or a monster. You'll notice that after this episode, all the other episodes include Salad Fingers crying, having bad memories, feeling lonely, and being afraid. Mable's voice is what snaps him out of it]].
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: One theory as to why Salad Fingers is so mentally disturbed.
* {{Gonk}}: Basically every character. See below.

*** The only characters that come even ''close'' to averting this are Mable from episode 5, which is to say she looks recognizably human, and the child from episode 2 [[spoiler:who Salad Fingers accidentally shuts into his oven and cooks]] who also looks human and is even wearing a varsity letterman jacket.

* HeroicBSOD: The ending of [[spoiler:episode 5.]]
* HighPressureBlood: In episode 2, when Salad Fingers stabs one of his fingers with a nail in the wall, he bleeds himself unconscious within seconds.

* ImAHumanitarian: Salad Fingers eats Jeremy Fisher (who turns out to be ''[[{{Mindscrew}} himself]]'') in one of his FreakOut moments.

** In episode 5, the creepy crow gags in disgust when Salad Fingers feeds the little girl "pease pudding" using a rusty spoon taken out of a pouch made up of ''pieces of human skin sewn together.''
*** Some even believe it says "Fuck you" in a distorted voice; there ''is'' a "fuh" sound in there, but YMMV on whether that is the message.

* {{Leitmotif}}: "Beware the Friendly Stranger" by Music/BoardsOfCanada.

* MrImagination: Salad Fingers.

* TheNicknamer: Salad Fingers, to ''everything.''

* ObliviouslyEvil: Salad Fingers tends to kill people (and animals, and puppets) without even noticing.
** The "people" part is debatable. The only humans who have died in the series have been the boy who got stuck in the oven while Salad Fingers was passed out, and the man who died from banging his head on the door. Salad Fingers can't really be said to have killed either of them, though he's certainly ''oblivious'' enough to be capable of this.
* OhCrap: Taken to far beyond merely unrealistic proportions in [[spoiler:episode 5, after a crow steals his spoon.]]
* OurMonstersAreWeird: Only two creatures in this series are normal humans.

* ScareChord: By Hubert Cumberdale in the meat locker scene in episode 2. Also by baby Yvonne's "birth" in episode 9.

* SilentPartner: Salad Fingers's three finger puppets, as well as Horace Horsecollar.
** Salad Fingers' [[spoiler:copies]] don't talk or even acknowledge him.
* ShoutOut: Salad Fingers' telephone has the Music/AphexTwin logo on it, and Aphex Twin's song "Avril 14th" can be heard at the end of episode 4.

* SplitPersonality: Salad Fingers has quite a few of them.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-J9UhqwHfQ This video]] tries to explain them.

* SurrealHorror: Complete with split personality and ImagineSpot moments.

* TitleDrop: The first episode.
* TooDumbToLive: The armless guy in episode 3 who runs after Salad Fingers after he takes a baby carriage. Since he doesn't have hands, he bangs on Salad Fingers' door with his head, ''even though he still has his legs''. By the time Salad Fingers investigates the noises, he dies of blood loss.

* TroubledFetalPosition:
** Salad Fingers does this as well as cry in the cupboard when Roger assaults him with {{Brown Note}}s.
** Also he does this during a FreakOut after a little girl speaks to him.
* TheUnintelligible: Almost everyone except Salad Fingers.
** In fact, when one character actually speaks to him, he is profoundly disturbed. "What's wrong? Do you not like my mouth-words?"

** To be fair, other than those two kids themselves, Salad Fingers is the ''least'' creepy creature we see roaming the wasteland.

* WhamLine: "As it's Hubert's birthday, it would be rather polite if you took a hot bath... [[spoiler:[[TheBusCameBack Milford Cubicle]]]]."

* WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises: Happens to Salad Fingers' eyes whenever he's [[FreakOut Freaking Out]].

--> "Today I'm going to try and find France, because I've always wanted to go there."

* DerangedAnimation

** [[spoiler: Salad Fingers is cooked and eaten by the younger Salad Fingers at the end of "Harvest"]].

* KillAndReplace: [[spoiler: Happens to Salad Fingers in the episode "Harvest" by another Salad Fingers that grew on his back]].

* RedEyesTakeWarning: Salad Fingers'.

** Salad Fingers's [[spoiler:copies]] don't talk or even acknowledge him.

* WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises: Happens to Salad Fingers's eyes whenever he's [[FreakOut Freaking Out]].

* KillAndReplace: Happens to Salad Fingers in the episode "Harvest" by another Salad Fingers that grew on his back.

** Episode 11 was actually designed to be this too, by WordOfGod. David Firth specifically explained that his intentions with this episode was to prove that the show was a FauxSymbolism series. This decision was due to his dislike of the "Salad Fingers Explained" video by ''WebVideo/GameTheory'': he posted on social media that the conclusions reached by this video were not at all what he aimed to do with his creation, and that the (then to be released) episode 11 would debunk the video's so-called "solving" of the series.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Salad Fingers rubbing his hands up and down the rusty jail cell window bars is clearly supposed to evoke him masturbating, as is his touching the rusty teapot or pricking his finger on a hook.

** Episode 9, "Letter". [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] as this episode came after a three-year hiatus.

* CallBack: [[spoiler: Milford Cubicle's corpse is still hanging in the wall]] in "Birthday".

** There's also [[ConsultingMisterPuppet Dr. Papanak]] in the tenth episode. [[spoiler: And then he's ''[[AnimateInanimateObject not]]''!]]

* DarkerAndEdgier: Episode 6 has Salad Fingers eating a clone as well as Episode 10 of ''Salad Fingers''. It features a carnivorous puppet cutting a hole into a horse with its claws, [[spoiler: Milford Cubicle's corpse]] returns only to have the remains consumed, leaving the skeleton behind, and lastly [[spoiler: five other Salad Fingers-like beings were eating his remains]]. Salad Fingers's mannerisms are also slightly darker this time around as well. Episode 11 has the theme of toxic family relationships.

*** The only characters that come even ''close'' to averting this are Mable from episode 5, which is to say she looks recognizably human, and the child from episode 2 [[spoiler: who Salad Fingers accidentally shuts into his oven and cooks]] who also looks human and is even wearing a varsity letterman jacket.

* HeroicBSOD: The ending of [[spoiler: episode 5.]]

** Everything that happens after [[spoiler: the pole]] shows up in Episode 10.

* OhCrap: Taken to far beyond merely unrealistic proportions in [[spoiler: episode 5, after a crow steals his spoon.]]

** Salad Fingers's [[spoiler: copies]] don't talk or even aknowledge him.

** Salad Fingers does this as well as cry in the cupboard when Roger assaults him with [[BrownNote Brown Notes]].

** Episode 11 ends with Salad Fingers [[spoiler: rescuing Hubert Cumberdale, besting Glass Mother, and smashing the mirror through which she could berate him. He puts one small shard in a trinket box, and as he closes it, Glass Mother offers this last threat: '''"Just wait till your father gets home!"''']]

* BreatherEpisode: After the emotionally intense "Glass Brother", which delves into the subject of abuse and toxic relationships, the following episode, "Post Man" is rather tame by comparison, going back to the series' roots of simpler animation and an ambiguous narrative.

* DarkerAndEdgier: Episode 10 of ''Salad Fingers''. It features a carnivorous puppet cutting a hole into a horse with its claws, [[spoiler: Milford Cubicle's corpse]] returns only to have the remains consumed, leaving the skeleton behind, and lastly [[spoiler: five other Salad Fingers-like beings were eating his remains]]. Salad Fingers's mannerisms are also slightly darker this time around as well.

* SurrealHorror