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David Firth is a talented animator and voice actor. If you are into some bizarre creepy animation, Salad Fingers is for you.

David Firth is one of the best cartoonists of all time! I will admit that I personally don't think this is his best work. I still love it! This series tells the story of Salad Fingers, a really weird guy living in an empty wasteland. There is implied to be a war of some kind. Maybe what we're seeing is the aftermath of a nuclear apocalypse.

There's never an exact explanation as to exactly what is going on. Maybe the name implies that the character himself is made of lettuce? I mean, he's certainly green! It can get dark and surreal, but you should be used to it given the nature of Firth's cartoons. The animation and creativity often gets better every episode. With few characters, it still knows how to set up a good story. ***1/2

Salad Fingers is about a green humanoid creature who gets up to some unusual Hijinks.

Salad Finger is an animated web series made by David Firth..

It takes place in an empty,spooky wasteland at an unknown time. The series is great and very spooky. The animation is great and makes this series more scary and lively.

The characters are all interesting and creepy. The design of them are gross and odd. The Voice acting is great and I love it.

I would recommend this to someone used to seeing gross stuff and interested in horror.

Rather self explanatory here, this stuck with me. This wasteland type setting feels like an inside look into my own head. Always full, but always empty. The encounters Mr. Fingers here has feel so similar to my own interactions, in a few ways. I literally can't talk to people. I feel like I can't understand them, and I like to make up their responses in my own head. To compensate The lack of plot is fun. Some later episodes do follow a plot, sure, but the early ones really don't. It's just Mr. Fingers enjoying life. And I really love that.

I don't have a favorite episode, but I always love coming back and watching it all.

The reviewer at the bottom of this list had it right. Salad Fingers is great mood. But what does it actually show? The world it portrays is a world of ONLY the Shadow; The Shadow and isolation - nothing more. But this is a purge: it does not show the truth of the world: only Miyazaki does that. Spirited Away does it best.

A world of only shadow appeals only to those who blind themselves to light.

*** I still give this 7 for the mood and for nostalgic reasons. I like it when the red water comes out.

**** I refer to the Shadow as Jung described it; that hidden, darker aspect of the unconscious.

I really just dont know what to rate this. i can't tell if its good... or bad... or neither... im just so confused.

Another reviewer wrote, "it really does open your mind to what the world is coming to, what we're doing to the Earth, and in time what we could do to ourselves if we succeed in perishing our world. People who appreciate art, and appreciate a profound storyline will enjoy Salad Fingers: contrary to the belief it's an absurd cartoon with little meaning."

Art is a slippery concept. There are artistic elements here: the character quirks and gentle psychosis of salad fingers, the dream-like, minimalist animation. But mere creation of a mood does not, in my mind, rise to the level of art. I don't mean to condemn the attempt with my low rating. Experiments must be made. But this is a failed experiment, and because it lacks any structure, conventional narrative, or beauty, there's nothing left to like after that failure. There is no profound storyline. Salad Fingers does not speak to human experience, not even the experience of delusional psychotics. There is no reasonable, interesting, apparent interpretation of the events, no way to make sense of it. (And don't tell me that "not making sense is its sense!" Kafka did that right. This is not Kafka.) It's a bunch of random creepy stuff thrown together, made independently without any story or plan.