History YMMV / SaladFingers

* IncestSubtext: In "Shore Leave," Salad Fingers appears to flirt with "Kenneth." Of course, it could just be SF being his {{Cloudcuckoolander}} self

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Where to begin...who, or what is Salad Fingers? A ShellShockedVeteran who experienced war? A survivor of the earth AfterTheEnd? A simply delusional madman who WentMadFromTheIsolation and looks ThroughTheEyesOfMadness? Nobody knows, except the creator himself.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Where to begin...who, or what is Salad Fingers? A ShellShockedVeteran who experienced war? A survivor of the earth AfterTheEnd? A simply delusional madman who looks ThroughTheEyesOfMadness? Nobody knows, except the creator himself.

** Come to think of it, every single character is in the dark depths of the valley.

* HellIsThatNoise: Hubert Cumberdales's unidentifiable screeching noise during SF's "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" dream.

* NightmareFuel: [[NightmareFuel/SaladFingers SEE HERE]].
* TearJerker: [[TearJerker/SaladFingers See here]].

* TearJerker:
** The eighth episode has the viewers feeling genuinely sad for Salad Fingers.
** Also the fourth episode after Salad Fingers rejects the "little boy"'s proposal, even if he's [[NightmareFuel creepy]] and a StalkerWithACrush.
** The episode where his brother Kenneth "returns from the great war." Actually, he's a decomposed half-corpse he found in the ground. Made even sadder when he puts him back in the hole and cries, saying "We'll meet again...don't know when...don't know where..."
** The horse crying while Dr. Papanak rips his flesh in "Birthday". Salad Fingers just tells him to stay still.
** Any time [[Music/AphexTwin ''Rhubarb'']] is played; it just makes [[GoMadFromTheIsolation Salad]] [[TheWoobie Fingers]] seem so... [[AfterTheEnd hopeless.]]

*** Even more screwy is the last shot of the episode, where the object is revealed to be [[spoiler: a sandwich. Which Fingers is now eating.]]

* ViewerGenderConfusion - Even the protagonist itself probably doesn't know.

** Any time [[AphexTwin ''Rhubarb'']] is played; it just makes [[GoMadFromTheIsolation Salad]] [[TheWoobie Fingers]] seem so... [[AfterTheEnd hopeless.]]

* NightmareFuel: Some of the extremely disturbing moments of the series include:
** The "Somewhere over the Rainbow" sequence in episode 2 "Friends."
*** Not to mention the oven scene. "That fish smells about done..."
** The screaming armless man wearing the BBQ apron in episode 3 "Nettles", who chases Salad Fingers home when he takes home a baby carriage. Because he doesn't have arms, he instead beats on Salad Finger's door [[TooDumbToLive with his head]]...& [[HoistByHisOwnPetard ends up eventually killing himself]]. He dies by the time Salad Fingers investigates the noises. [[spoiler: Salad Fingers hangs his corpse on a meathook once he finds it]]...
** The bug-eyed kid and his wedding ring in episode 4 "Cage". The ring is a human tooth on a band!
** Episode 5 "Picnic", particularly the ending.
** The MindScrew [[ImAHumanitarian Humanitarian]] of an ending of episode 6 "Present".
** One of the scariest things is seeing Salad Fingers make the shaky, nervous transition from one delusion to another; he goes from bringing "baby Yvonne" (a strange object that burst from his intestines) to "Auntie Bainbridge" (the shrieky child from the first episode) to washing "Auntie"'s windows... using what was once considered "baby Yvonne" as a cleaning tool.
** Mr. Branches. Remember that tree that was apparently advancing toward Salad Fingers' house? It's ''alive'' (or at least Fingers thinks it is). It speaks with the voice of a child, calling Fingers 'daddy', and it has a [[UncannyValley hideous face]]. [[spoiler:And when it gets angry, it squeezes Fingers' midsection until the aforementioned Yvonne comes out, along with a lot of black blood. Even if it's all in Salad Fingers' imagination, something caused those injuries.]]
** Salad playing his own teeth as a music box, while his eyes slowly grow larger and larger as the music speeds up. Doubles with NasueaFuel.
** Dr. Papanak. That is all.
** Salad Fingers "clones" at the dinner table just repeating motions while eating Milford Cubicle remains.

** Dr. Papanak.

** Dr. Papanak. That is all.

** The whole of episode 10.

** The screaming armless man wearing the BBQ apron in episode 3 "Nettles", who chases Salad Fingers home when he takes home a baby carriage. Because he doesn't have arms, he instead beats on Salad Finger's door [[TooDumbToLive with his head]]...& [[HoistByHisOwnPetard ends up eventually killing himself]]. Salad Fingers doesn't know he's dead once he goes outside & [[Squick hangs his body on a meathook]]...

** The screaming armless man wearing the BBQ apron in episode 3 "Nettles", who chases Salad Fingers home when he takes home a baby carriage.

** One of the scariest things is seeing Salad Fingers make the shaky, nervous transition from one delusion to another; he goes from bringing "baby Yvonne" (a strange object that burst from his intestines) to "Auntie Bainbridge" (the shrieky child from the first episode) to washing "Auntie"'s windows... using what was once considered "baby Yvonne" as a cleaning too.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: Some of the extremely disturbing moments of the series include:

* IncestSubtext: In "Shore Leave," Salad Fingers appears to flirt with "Kenneth." Of course, it could just be SF being his {{Cloudcuckoolander}} self
* NauseaFuel: It's everywhere, from Salad Fingers making his green hairy nipple lactate with a nettle, to him cannibalizing on his doppelganger's brains.
** The grub-shaped, unmoving thing that bursts from his guts in the ninth episode is made of this entirely.
*** Even more screwy is the last shot of the episode, where the object is revealed to be [[spoiler: a sandwich. Which Fingers is now eating.]]

* TheWoobie: A few people who watch this think Salad Fingers is just too creepy, others find him creepy but also endearing. The last episode, especially, as there's a scene where he's crying and some fans said they forgot he's scary because they felt bad for him.
* YourMileageMayVary

** Mr. Branches. Remember that tree that was apparently advancing toward Salad Fingers' house? It's ''alive''. It speaks with the voice of a child, calling Fingers 'daddy', and it has a [[UncannyValley hideous face]]. [[spoiler:And when it gets angry, it squeezes Fingers' midsection until the aforementioned Yvonne comes out, along with a lot of black blood.]]