Salad Fingers 13: Harvest

Salad Fingers is facing a food shortage due to a failed crop. His only hope is to pray to Grandmother Growth.
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[@davidfirth]

I'm looking at the analytics and SO MANY OF YOU AREN'T SUBSCRIBED! :( Anyway thanks for watching this one. Do please head over to my merch store. It (as well as the Patreods) keeps this channel going and allow me to be unrestricted in my creative endeavours. (They don't let you do this on TV) WE HAVE MASKS FOR HALLOWEEN saladfingersstore.com/

[@Joshydoggy11]

Why isn’t this pinned?

[@casualclosed]

hooray!

[@SB-hq3gb]

Why r you ruining your series by selling out

[@kecukraftwork1988]

​@@SB-hq3gbHow exactly is selling your own merch a form of selling out? If you exclude the merch part of the video, at what point was the content of the episode itself impacted negatively by the merch?

[@onionero]

Oh no! I didn't remember unsubscribing from David Firth... or subscribing for that matter... I kinda thought I always was subscribed for some reason.

[@mr.sandman3619]

salad fingers is the only series where the main character is cooked alive and eaten and it's one of the more calm episodes

[@yuarentlucky]

Glass brother was intense asf.

[@Dogpool]

Pretty clear this is a cycle. The previous mr fingers ate the last one as well. It’s a joyous occasion

[@saltyfish7626]

​@@Dogpool Just your theory tho.

[@Dogpool]

@@saltyfish7626 yeah but since it’s mine it’s the right one

[@toastee5421]

based@@Dogpool

[@froggod6484]

Can’t believe this series is still going strong after 19 years, this is my childhood

[@BobaBottom]

Surreal, uncanny, beautiful. It's been a great childhood

[@TheTimbs_]

I think it was a bit longer than 16 years

[@DraftyDaftyHubertOHare]

19 years*

[@sebastians_kitten]

it's actually been 19 years! it started in 2004.

[@mitchyb7070]

Man us early KZbin kids had such a strange childhood 😂 and now the new age KZbin kids have ElsaGate style strange childhoods

[@tetsuolionheart9611]

What I love most about Salad Fingers as a character is just how unashamedly British he is in his vocabulary and use of idioms. Makes me smile.

[@christopherlyndsay8611]

Truly his most terrifying trait

[@edpocalyps]

also in his mouth

[@LPMagiz]

Looks aswell.

[@FeenieVonKarma]

​@@LPMagiz Oh boy! I've never heard that one before!

[@FeenieVonKarma]

​@@edpocalyps Never heard THAT one either! lmao

[@eyweiuai]

this episode makes me wonder how many times this has happened, how many times we've watched episodes and seen a different Salad Fingers than in the episode before

[@user-sl8dg8ph9v]

I recall a previous episode where he's eating off the top of his own duplicate skull, so......I share in your wonderings.

[@ahabduennschitz7670]

Not once. Salad Fingers eating himself is just a Metaphor for him overcoming his Trauma. Its just fitting that such a disturbing Scene is actually meant to be a happy ending

[@eyweiuai]

@@ahabduennschitz7670 has that been confirmed?

[@meloncholy428]

​@@eyweiuai No, just one of many fan theories

[@InaEsin]

@@meloncholy428 Mr. Firth himself said that Salad Fingers was more about nightmares, if memory serves. How many times I would redrum that alligator (going all of negative six miles per hour), only to have it STILL chasing me, night after night...that sonofabitch plagued my nightmares for well over a decade. Then it was plane crashes happening near me, but all the debris (jetsam?) would fly...and THOSE pieces would find me (no matter where I hid) and redrum me. That went on for a good decade as well, maybe longer. Point of it is this: ANYTHING is feasible in the land of nightmares.

[@josemaria8177]

Seeing a new Salad Fingers episode fills you up with equal parts happiness and fear

[@itsjeninMass]

Yes.

[@liethaboy]

Facts bro is spitting straight facts

[@Oxijinn_]

this is accurate

[@lainebloxham7176]

100%

[@seansmith6255]

And goo

[@aubergineman3205]

"Mother says I'm the tastiest boy in the park" this series knows how to perfectly combine humor and creepy factor. That line is both hilarious and disturbing!

[@giugnotorvo]

and foreshadowing of what is about to come.

[@aubergineman3205]

@@giugnotorvo yep!

[@haleywilson520]

Makes me think all this is a regular part of the Salad Fingers life cycle lmao

[@aubergineman3205]

@@haleywilson520 yeah. Grows twin out back, raises twin, twin cook and eats him, twin becomes the new salad.

[@0-_-O-_-0]

Its insane to think that like 90% of people who will watch this were kids /teens when we first found out about salad fingers, time flies huh

[@CalisCool]

Now we're grown asf

[@ruqayyahqadri8180]

​@@ZuccTheAlien32

[@Xzudo]

I'm 11 just found out about this in love

[@jayla7661]

Started when i was 9 now I'm 15 😅

[@lazzarusbaxter3305]

I see with 13 years ...and now i am a mother with 24 years

[@N0rmanTheGhost]

"I am delicious." Bro says that with certainty

[@bunnylord-fz4do]

That’s probably one of my favourite things he said in this episode

[@Error-akalollipopswife]

We love a man with confidence 🥰

[@MishiTheCannibal]

Ñ

[@MishiTheCannibal]

Ñ

[@juanpedro3848]

@@MishiTheCannibal vos sos boludo o te entrenas?

[@Zizumia]

It's amazing how David can make even the English language sound foreign

[@wodensblot]

Salad speaks like a decrepit Nun from Yorkshire - the accent is as English as it gets

[@Tripster369]

You're just American

[@Tripster369]

@@hawkeblum7595 soonstress is an old word for seamstress. Squirtybox is just another of many words used in the series to vaguely imply some form of abuse... or is it?

[@SunDevilAJ]

@@Tripster369 average European

[@Odinford]

Its more English words common in the 1940s if you had an old English grandma you could tell where hes getting the inspiration

[@TheNixonian]

Rest in Pieces Mr Fingers. Your legacy of scaring the shit out of me will go on through to my children, as your son carries on the torch.

[@undisclosedidentity9893]

He isn’t dead, he just ate himself and turned back into Salad Fingers. He cannot be destroyed

[@dr.robotnik3684]

​@@undisclosedidentity9893he is a perpetual.

[@ToxicFruitSnack]

🥗 fingers is immortal

[@silverwolvez]

I actually have a feeling that this might be one of the last few episodes... and salad fingers has been doing this for however long hes existed, aging reproducing, dying, over and over... wrapping up the existence of salad fingers next episode or the one after

[@Quiznackle]

I think this is like in "Present" when he is going through a hallucinogenic episode... none of this is actually happening as he sees it, or if it is when an "alternate" Salad Fingers eats him he just turns into himself again, like recycling. So in any future episodes it will probably still be the same Salad Fingers

[@TVClaireBear]

Not only can Salad Fingers get pregnant, he always delivers.

[@0_dearghealach_083]

... Excuse me?

[@S-CB-SL-Animations]

WTF?!?!

[@221Baker_Street]

what do you mean.

[@RKW48]

These replies shows who’s the true salad fingers fans are.

[@Isabell-ink]

Yvonne :(

[@northernghostbat]

I love that Salad calls people sunshine, it's adorable

[@Odinford]

He is representing a character im sure in those moments, but yes verry feminine

[@pd9935]

That’s how people talk in England

[@ghosthealthgames]

Salad Fingers really does deserve all the love it gets, some of my favorite internet horror out there. Nothing else has quite the same atmosphere. Edit: I get it, not all of you consider it a horror series.

[@PerspectiveEngineer]

Atmosphere it's perfect

[@crimesforkibble6912]

I really don't find it horrifying in any way just bizarre

[@necrosadotor]

i think it's funny

[@waleedalam7927]

Well, really at this point it's not even horror. It's more of a psychological thriller. I don't feel fear when I watch it lol, mostly just confusion and fascination for the atmosphere.

[@DodgyDaveGTX]

I guess you've never been to Yorkshire then 😉

[@AshtonFitness]

A very small but very niche thing I've loved about your animations throughout the years is the squelching/slimy sounds you use. They're always so crisp, disgusting, and perfectly subtle

[@Ash-sk7ip]

Ahh, the cotton mouth type noises

[@honsesl]

I love these videos for how they are!

[@daikaijuzilla]

The old Salad Fingers we’ve all been watching since 2004 has passed his torch… very sad but also it’s nice to see him go down providing life to his new prodigy with a sense of peace 💚 Old chap’s had a long life, he deserves to rest now

[@jackporter2251]

RIP the goat

[@ennayanne]

but he's died before, it's not like this is anything out of the ordinary

[@xsm5525]

maybe yeah. who knows - as a plot twist, there might be a scene just passed 9:35 we don't see where the OG saladfingers quickly rises from that bath and bonks 'boyfingers' (or whatever his name was) on the head with that trumpet! lol and it's the OG salad fingers eating the new one.

[@ennayanne]

@@xsm5525maybe he got out of the bath and turned into david firth and the rest of the episode is actually an animation that he made

[@jackporter2251]

@@xsm5525No.

[@jackhoward10]

I think Boy Mr Fingers is definitely a split of his personality, and his new personality killing the old one is a sign of him starting over. Unfortunately, in his mind of utter delusion, he's just stuck in the same cycle of loneliness and talking to inanimate objects

[@solidagold115]

Yeah, but at least it could be a good first step. Do I think he will ever recover from it? No. Do I think this would be the ultimate end of the series, where he maybe leaves his bunker for the first time and actually gets to see other humans? Yes, absolutely. I want him to overcome all his trauma in his psychotic world and I want to see him as a real person!

[@EvilLordCanas]

The outcome was sadly inevitable since we can't have more than one Salad Fingers in this series, one of them had to die. Looks like his "son" took over the mantle.

[@ThisDoeb]

I think it's his life cycle. An earlier episode ended with one eating another's head. Or maybe it's like trying to make sense of a fever dream.

[@EvilLordCanas]

@@ThisDoeb Salad Fingers might reproduce asexually which is why the offspring is just a direct clone of him.

[@neverstepd7]

So, this explains that other episode where he is just eating himself, and that other episode where a bunch of salad fingers are eating flesh and metal thingy gives the main one a hat

[@d4rkpr1nc39]

​@@EvilLordCanasThat's...umm...wow now I'm slightly scared of how the fuck his mom managed to give birth to him. Specially if true, he is an impossible one to give birth to. (We never see the dad though so I could be wrong)

[@Mlotshaw1]

I would venture to think he's talking about life death and rebirth, this is probably not the first time this has occurred but rather a cycle

[@DragoSpawn]

It’s fair to say that 13 episodes into a series and not knowing what’s going on only makes it so much better

[@themadpandahatterress1751]

14 episodes. He has 2 episode 13s

[@nulsoph]

@@themadpandahatterress1751 15* He has a video titled Market which is labelled as episode 14 by KZbin.

[@wadayatalkinbeet]

I comprehend these man made horrors perfectly fine

[@WurstHans666]

S1 E13 ... S1!!! S2 is coming

[@Doober43Music]

@@WurstHans666 I wouldn't make that assumption, lots of shows have only 1 season.

[@NovaRhodes]

Fun Fact: The puppet “Melvin Wishcake” was going to a fourth puppet alongside Hubert, Marjory and Jeremy in episode 2 but then the creator realized Mr Fingers only has 3 fingers on each hand

[@Jason-eo1rh]

Citation if you want me to believe you.

[@LadyOfTheEdits]

That's interesting

[@丫o]

​@@Jason-eo1rh They don't.

[@Groovysmokes23]

@@Jason-eo1rhno one cares if you do or not

[@vivimos_en_una_sociedad7758]

where are you getting this information from? is this legit or a joke

[@leaf143]

I think the recurring themes of self cannibalism and consumption are a symbolization of salad fingers destroying and recreating himself, while also either supressing or wanting to integrate with his past self/put it to rest. I'm only theorizing this because i honestly had similar feelings to this (in the sense of wanting to destroy past versions through recreating myself at a certain point. Maybe to the extent of wishing to completely extinguish my old existence, not eating myself tho lol)

[@magicmoonart]

I dare say my former self was almost perfect and I wish I could be them again

[@solidagold115]

First time it was successful for him I think.

[@PookieChiio]

David must have the widest vocabulary in the world. Salad Fingers never ceases to amaze me.

[@MillillioN]

At least he kept the name simple, it could have been Cucumiform Fingers 😂

[@freedomofspeech2867]

He's just Bi' 'ish.

[@Hmon160]

is the american education system failing that severely that the dialogue in this is considered high comprehension?

[@PookieChiio]

@@Hmon160 Yeah... 💀 I mean I don't know really, english isn't my first language, that's why I'm so amazed by this man's speech.

[@user-mg7wh8zq6v]

​@@Hmon160bro immediately assumed he's american 😭

[@cutehulhu3864]

I've never seen an episode of salad fingers that has made me feel better after watching, and this one is no different. Thank you for making me feel deeply uncomfortable once again. Brilliant.

[@kilrizzy]

lol so true

[@Jonathan-rv4lj]

Matpat needs to revisit Salad Fingers

[@Nova-vk5qb]

I think the last few episodes have been so purposefully random in order to throw off any theorists. David himself said there's no backstory iirc

[@lucaniku297]

Glad I'm not the only one who will never get used to him

[@user-sg4xh5nm9o]

i know its your opinion but this episode is terrible

[@banditboogaloo]

The last words of the original Salad Fingers. "Give my regards to the Colonel."

[@The_silver_tie]

It's the most salad fingers thing to say.

[@Saki-Malo]

We’ve seen different versions of salad fingers. The original likely died a long time ago

[@ThePowerLover]

@@Saki-Malo There is no "original".

[@EEEEEEEE]

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[@tjg750]

Even though he was made of salad, he still loved KFC Well the company didn’t exist yet but you get it

[@jambmmmm]

“DEAR LADY ESKANDALE YOUR AWFUL APPENDIX DIED YESTERDAY PLARP PLARP PLARP”

[@Smiling_demon-e7v]

I must ask that you hush pipe down sunshine one set of sentences is quite enough >:(

[@sunman-6giy25]

@@Smiling_demon-e7v walk fasterrrr >:(

[@Smiling_demon-e7v]

Yes you’re precisely right I seem to loss motion

[@Smiling_demon-e7v]

*a couple hours later now it’s nighttime and Mr. Rusty Spoonman is sleeping*

[@lewismcdonald985]

*A miniature clone detaches from his body and goes to the end of the bed, He wakes up to this*

[@reitakizawa]

im not even going to pretend i understand the grand storyline here but im always calmed and entertained when a new salad fingers episode comes out

[@niyiu3547]

I think, Salad Fingers is the representation of someone, who lost everything and descended into madness while being all alone. We see the world from his mad point of view and understanding.

[@itsjeninMass]

The episode is about the harvest. In the past, we Believe, is the crops failed, there was to be a sacrifice.

[@Vaporvision]

There is no grand storyline, don't worry. It's like one off episodes.

[@HellSoy420]

Storyline?

[@Faux_Fox_]

@@niyiu3547or it's a funny webseries about a green dude & his myriad of demanding patrons

[@MemesandI505]

I like how when salad was being eaten, he actually sounded like a nice crunchy salad

[@kirstiecollett5013]

Lol

[@toad_of_the_sky]

Reminds me of some nice steamed cabbage

[@helluvademon3936]

This comment deserved that 420 likes

[@Castlecrasher2]

They are called salad fingers for a reason

[@kirstiecollett5013]

@@Castlecrasher2 why did you say it rudely he is just saying what he thinks

[@terrathelunatic]

This is honestly a huge growth episode for Salad Fingers. As he gives birth to a new version of himself and destroys the old, hopefully our new adventures with Boyfingers brings him lots of healing and growth.

[@jons5478]

If you rewatch Episode 6, this isn't even the first time he has eaten himself

[@MrDevintcoleman]

There’s definitely more world building in this one than in most. That salad fingers is somehow eternal through this ritual after all the other people went under the ground. Also, I got major chills when it cut to the edge of the world.

[@redsoldier3884]

@@MrDevintcolemanhe’s definitely stuck in some odd loop,where he grows a new self every I guess harvest

[@xavis_dad]

The obfuscations of a sop. Disregard boyfingers shenanigans, as we all consume our undesirable trimmings. We must keep tidy.

[@Pichustrikesback]

4:00 I love this part, the eyes lost in space, the little voice and the slap in the face.

[@somethingtwice2297]

I don't appreciate how this episode legitimately made me hungry.

[@riccardoo2317]

what the fuck lmfao

[@monsieurnugai]

Neither do i

[@lavasharkandboygirl9716]

We are so desensitised to this shit it’s almost sad

[@walrusman6000]

I have to say, i don't think salad fingers is actually dead. This is far from the first time hes eaten himself, and I think its probably some kind of symbolism.

[@R462venom]

I see it like a rebirth similar to a phoenix

[@FlakFlinger]

Or metabolism

[@sneezydeezymcdeluxe7015]

I was going to say it seems like fingers could have gone through this process several times, so all the previous episodes could potentially be of different fingers. Mind blown.

[@notwell3605]

it really depends on if this is reality or just symbolism or even both

[@CrummyJoker]

You also have to remember that Salad Fingers isn't exactly a reliable narrator.

[@tomasalexandrugrigore5770]

19 years have passed, but the legend never stopped making new Salad Fingers episodes, neither have they ceased to disturb me.

[@jackporter2251]

turns me on tbh

[@SNOOKDACAT]

Rest in peace, salid fingers 2007-2023

[@ahabduennschitz7670]

*salid fungers

[@Fr_Atomic27]

He's still alive

[@Sandw1ch_Official]

This episode explains that in each episode there is another salad fingers

[@x289x]

I think he died twice, one time in “present” and the second in “harvest” (i think

[@Mr.Scrungles]

He died in the episode where he saw himself at Jeremy and ate himself

[@KommissarKong]

That jumpcut from being cooked to being soulless and disgusting food was just perfect. Worth the effort!

[@NuclearDuckie02]

For a second I couldn't see his pupils, making it even more horrifying

[@MisterC123456]

Its interesting how him being eaten is just...natural to him. Its just a thing that happens. And seeing how what grew out of him already knows everything there is to know (walked his dreams for decades), its not even that consequential, he still is basically the "original" Salad Fingers. Makes me wonder how many different Salad Fingerses we've been following so far.

[@Screeno1993]

He's died before, and eaten himself before xD

[@jetrifle4209]

Please find something to do

[@Jofinity]

@@jetrifle4209^ guy who is looking through the comments on a salad fingers episode

[@jetrifle4209]

@@Jofinity same goes for that trash channel kid

[@LibraryofAcousticMagic3240]

@@Jofinity chuckleworthy

[@KerriB]

I can't decide if Salad Fingers' voice is calming or unnerving. It's somehow both at the same time 😭

[@kojinaoftheinvertedeye810]

I get the feeling, thats me when I see Salad Fingers as both innocent and demented.

[@reandoessomething9933]

The voice itself is calming but the things he says is unnerving

[@NeverAgain.BeNiceToPeople.]

Like how The Shining can be relaxing

[@iinkstain]

its a creepy voice that gives asmr

[@brightheart799]

I love Salad Fingers so much. I've never saw him as creepy, I see him as adorable. He would prolly kill me, but I'd give him the biggest hugs.

[@lorilayo6511]

Same😊

[@brightheart799]

@@lorilayo6511 I know this may be a bit random, but thank you for responding when you did. I've been a little down, and I love to watch salad fingers when I'm down.

[@WeegeeNumbah1]

He wouldn’t kill you, he’s too nice, he would probably invite you over for tea and I nice chat then leave you on your merry way

[@Neoduck60]

@@WeegeeNumbah1he’d probably do something on accident

[@brightheart799]

@@WeegeeNumbah1 I more mean accidentally lol. Salad fingers is a cutie, but he's definitely easy distracted.

[@schtuff.8207]

Having a grandmother with dementia now, Salad Fingers hits different, especially newer episodes which are more heavy and less comedic. Its aged and darkened with time, as is surely David's intent as life continues for him as well.

[@CrummyJoker]

Comedic? Which episode is comedic?

[@eligma4399]

​@@CrummyJokerthe early ones for sure were supposed to be funny

[@DeaconBlues117]

@@eligma4399 The early ones _were_ funny. Then, I think in ep 4, Salad Fingers heard someone else's voice for the first time in like forever, realized he wasn't imagining the little girl, and things spun out of control fast. Edit: I correct myself, a rewatch shows me it was episode 5, "Picnic".

[@penroze]

Am I alone in thinking the later episodes are funnier than the originals? I was laughing when Fingers got bashed over the head with a rock and then greeted it honourably before passing out. Also when he played the bugle as he sank into the water

[@CrummyJoker]

@@eligma4399 ​ @eligma4399 Like the 2nd episode where Salad Fingers lures a child into his house, traps him into the oven and later it's implied he ate the child? Or the 3rd episode where he hungs a corpse by a meat hook and plays it the flute. Or the fourth episode where he has a literal stalker that traps him in jail. Yea hilaarious......

[@Registro4AM]

Beautifully disturbing. I love how since ever, each episode leaves that strange feeling of void, like a middle point between not knowing shit of what's going on and understanding everything all at the same time. I'm happy the Salad Fingers is back (even if he was eaten by himself). Cheers from Argentina.

[@Stella.22g]

Alto gusto te tenés, muy buena esta serie

[@baronrogers806]

How surreal is it that David firth is still making amazing content 20+ years on?

[@QwertyGamer356]

We grow up with salad fingers, he literally gave birth in this episode!

[@jackporter2251]

they grow up so fast!

[@yazir736]

He gave birth in episode 9 to tho I think that was the farthest thing from a fucking baby as could ever be made.

[@Screeno1993]

​@@yazir736I thought it was literally a giant turd. That he was clearly constipated for ages so much that the shit he produced was that big .

[@Man-From-Another-Place]

I don't see how that's surreal.

[@joschkazimdars]

A heart warming story about a father and his son.

[@easysnakeoven9052]

I was feeling so crummy today and this suddenly appearing in my sub box cheered my horrid loving heart right up. Thank you Mr Firth

[@mephisto_xp]

dude same

[@theferretofchaos5404]

Hope your alright man keep going you got this

[@sxxkico]

honestly no matter how creepy, bloody, or anything.. I will literally love salad fingers with all my heart he just makes me happy.

[@retsz]

It’s been 19(?) years now and somehow David still manages to ramp up the crazy factor. Every episode I watch leaves me just as shocked as the first one did when I was still a kid.

[@k-yo]

I love how his fingers got really detailed anatomy-wise!

[@JavaDoodles]

I love this dude

[@TheOnlyGigachad]

First here bro, and no one better shame me

[@dabom2173]

@@TheOnlyGigachadwhy would you claim a person’s comment 😶

[@TheOnlyGigachad]

@@dabom2173 😶

[@AJ-vr9hf]

Yo how much did your account cost? Ohhh nvm he’s one of those Shorts creatures

[@le0ismyp00kie]

Who doesn’t??

[@covereye5731]

I often found Salad Fingers more hypnotic comforting and humorous, but this episode had the uncomfortable edge to it for me.

[@edybocman76]

Same

[@Jayxe]

You mean the flashback of him eating his own skull was pleasant and comforting to you??

[@jayebullock8002]

It was the fact that he effectively cooked his own body and ate it for me@@Jayxe

[@notwell3605]

tbh for me it was the opposite, this episode in particular was quite relaxing and comforting to me

[@kmbdbob]

The boiling alive thing and what comes with it did the shock thing for me. @@Jayxe

[@BriaBri]

Ok i’m already cooking up a theory for this episode hear me out it’s gonna be long: So I think it’s kinda obvious that this episode revolves around the themes of death a rebirth. I personally think this is how salad is able to survive in this wasteland. He literally feeds off of himself. At the beginning of the episode we see him complaining about the “grand feast” being a disaster. I think the grand feast was supposed to be the rebirth of multiple salads and the “mother of life and builder of salads body” needs flesh to do that. I think that’s the reason why salad put that finger puppet that was wrapped in what looks like rotten human skin, into the ground for her to feed on. I also think the birthday episode has some play in this. The end of the episode showed multiple corrupted versions of salad and those were probably past versions of salad that had already got eaten. And he was gifted a hat made out of that dead human body that he was storing. That’s probably also why he was mad at the horses because he thought they had eaten all of his flesh away. He needed that flesh to feed and it was gifted to him on his birthday. So after salad gave the rotting finger puppet to the “mother of life”, instead of her showing up “grandmother growth” sprouts up. After salad gave whatever human flesh he had left with him, the mother of life probably couldn’t produce another salad with that little amount of flesh, so grandmother growth steps in. Playing off of the idea that salad eats other versions of himself, i can imagine he’s starving since the “grand feast” was a disaster. So grandmother growth grows a new version of salad inside the current one so the current salad could feed the new one. And the current salad probably knows his fate by now. Also “Lady Etheridge” is probably a replacement for death, as “boyfingers” i’m gonna call him, says that he can see her on the horizon. Meaning death is approaching. That could also explain why salad says “Oh boyfingers, how am I to teach you my trade in such limited moments” right after. He’s building up boyfingers to be a perfect replacement for him after he is consumed. He doesn’t put up a fight when he being cooked alive and even says “It’s all in your hands now” So yea this is probably how he “reproduces” Thanks for coming to my ted talk :)

[@johnharvey5412]

His limited time to spend with his son before his death, is a genuinely tragic moment.

[@wibblywobblysineline509]

One feature I think is really interesting masculine pronouns/inferences referring to salad fingers as masculine when historically salad fingers has referred themselves as a her, receiving a dowry or so forth. While hinted at for several episodes, here I feel it is now explicit: Salad Fingers is not representing a character, Salad Fingers represents the "Fingers" family and the abuse that occurs wherein. Here he seems to represent the father and the son, but in others she can represent the mother or grandmother. To me, Salad Fingers is utilising horror and a fictional setting to explore real-life horror, Harvest seems to be about growing old, having children and fear of being "replaced", whereas, for example, Glass Brother was more specifically about familial abuse and its mental effects.

[@fernandoangelessoto9301]

Is Boyfingers even real?

[@harry6438]

5:10 I have no idea why this made me laugh so hard

[@nameless.402]

bulo

[@Hemusta-Official]

Well, you're a daring soonstress aren't you?

[@Dandiest094]

It's always sad that Hubert's always getting bullied

[@mademoisellenseven]

He also was the real little boy, the real flesh boy… maybe it’s a love/hate relationship.

[@lexieierodriguez6095]

Hubert is salad fingers/ he talks to him like how people to talk to him it’s a double entendre

[@shaylen1495]

justice for hubert cumberdale.

[@walterwalter4430]

hubert sold me fentynel outside of tesco

[@mahyar3451]

​@walterwalter4430 this ain't Instagram 😭

[@FlowerSunAndRainEnjoyer]

I know people say Salad Fingers is unsettling and makes them uncomfortable, but has an almost warm feeling to me. I'm not the only one who thinks this. I just wonder why. Maybe it's because it's not loud? It has a very subdued nature to it, with there rarely ever being a true moment of panic or fear.

[@darkcornersuk]

I thought I was the only one..

[@martinetch7]

I feel the same

[@daisyjoy242]

I very found salad fingers unsettling, I just found it as us watching the daily routine of salad fingers

[@orangestreetlamp]

It's really nice how quiet it is. When I first binged the series I fell asleep multiple times because it was basically ASMR to me. I am particularily delighted for this episode because it has zero loud sound

[@sukizofurenia]

true, honestly !!

[@NIMM_VOID]

so salad is like a crop himself, sprouting another body and consuming the original to grow limp and wheezy, like a beautiful caterpillar who goes into a cocoon to emerge as a beautiful caterpillar. how lovely. how desolate. how applicable to my own life. cheers, as they say.

[@FaerieWampus]

I love your view on this. I got sad when Mr.Fingers was in the cooking pot. I knew it was not the original Fingers. I was afraid he was gone 😔 and that we were stuck with an imposter. But your view on it being more along the lines of metamorphosis makes me glad and that is what I would like to believe too 💚

[@Jason-eo1rh]

Everyone in Hot Topic thinks that's deep.

[@thescarletcultist113]

Maybe when the new salad fingers ate the old salad fingers, he absorbed the knowledge basically swapping bodies?

[@joop2005j]

@@FaerieWampus i mean, its not the first time hes eaten himself. so how many imposters are there?

[@FaerieWampus]

@@joop2005j I thought those were his relatives, are you talking about the birthday episode? If you have a different theory on who they were I would love to hear it!!

[@blindmown]

If I was the "mother of life" and I heard Salad fingers talking about me and my teats like that, I'd never let the little bastard die.

[@buttercreamfrosting3869]

This show has more consistency than any other piece of relevant television ever created. It's like, once in a while, I sort of forget about salad fingers, then it suddenly hits me like a rusty spoon and I find myself back here

[@wretneck]

the more the series goes on the more i’m convinced this takes place on the surface of some cadaver or carrion. The best thing David should do is never answer where this world is

[@QueenAmour8888]

Now that you mention it, it looks like salad fingers can actually be some type of microorganism on a skin maybe

[@dirk1592]

@@QueenAmour8888 i love this theory!

[@CheetahFoxx]

I just figured it was just some place like Chipping Norton or Scotland

[@PayAttentionToThePatterns]

It’s all happening in your closet.

[@OldQueer]

My girlfriend is into latex and has been asking me to get a mask for a while. Thank you for the inspirational merch, David, she'll be over the moon.

[@tvirus9369]

She'll love it!

[@wavyslugs]

..... COUGH okay

[@AbrasiousProductions]

this is both kinda hot and disturbing, you've peaked my curiosity sir.

[@moonlightmando7163]

Hol’ up

[@liethaboy]

She is into latex or latex is into her💀

[@eminkilicaslan8945]

"Mother says I am the tastiest boy in the park." This line hit like a train. Edit: This reply section is a Twitter thread now

[@EEEEEEEE]

E‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎

[@divine555]

Am i the only one who had a uh... Different.. idea when he said that?

[@fnafkill3r]

@@divine555 uh.. i like to uh... talk like this.... uh.. whenever i type on my keyboard, i uh... have to include the s-stutters and uh.. talk like i would in real life like im super... nervous

[@mr.insanity4248]

Damn why the hate bruh ​@@fnafkill3r

[@fnafkill3r]

@@mr.insanity4248 why not? its hella annoying and i hate it when kids type like that. its the internet bro. im not gonna just ignore it and be nice to protect his feelings lmfao. welcome to the future ig, everyone's a giant snowflake lmfao

[@Nickthebrick8]

This series saw an entire generation grow. It is absolutely amazing that new episodes are still coming out.

[@JackBz]

Really loved this episode. Appreciated the (I think?) new lore tidbits such as the sands where Salad Fingers lives being surrounded by a massive canyon/pit. I also LOVE how fucking disturbing this one ended up being. The imagery of Salad Fingers eating that bit of his own flesh and it coming off so easily. Lord. Wonder how far in a cycle this is or if the original Salad Fingers is truly dead.

[@imightbeweasel2014]

I got the feeling he was going to eat the little one but then decided not to for some reason. And I'm guessing he knew the little one would eat him instead. Or at least suspected he would when there wasn't any food.

[@ennayanne]

a cycle? this isn't dark souls lol

[@Sleepypuppy092]

Dam for some weird reason I hope not .

[@Cubicflow]

@@ennayanne it's pretty obvious this isn't the first time it happened in his life

[@JackBz]

@@ennayanne I mean, he did birth an identical version of himself with his memories that ended up eating him. I think we're meant to wonder if it's happened before! There's also been other episodes with multiple salad fingers. The question of if it's always been the same salad fingers in every episode is valid

[@wralford]

It seems that Mr. Saladfingers will live on indefinitely!

[@alstinson]

This is either just as good as it's ever been, if not better than it's ever been! Trippy, surreal, horrifying; fathomable, yet completely surreal.

[@vood00killer]

I just LOVE how all your characters, Salad Fingers first of all, are always very sophisticated and soft spoken despite being demented and potentially dangerous to one's well-being :)

[@LiveForTheEnd]

I don't think he is *potentially* dangerous LOLOL Remember when he baked that poor kid in an earlier episode?

[@vood00killer]

​@@LiveForTheEnd well... yeah, he's actually outright homicidal.

[@LiveForTheEnd]

@@vood00killer oh god, yeah, very much so... but that's why we love him

[@kuriraion5580]

I kinda like how older fingers looks more like the older design of himself whilst mini fingers looks cleaner and his design resembles the newer fingers!

[@Utonian21]

Him playing taps while sinking into the pot was unexpectedly hilarious

[@brandonthesteele]

That got a good laugh out of me

[@CxsmicRxse]

Yall can't tell me that dude's voice isn't the most relaxing thing ever

[@annabel8003]

went from having nightmares about this series as a small child (my older brothers showed it to me) to re watching the series now that im older and i look forward to each new upload. you’re the best david ❤

[@leonardticsay8046]

Your brothers are the worst.

[@RuriSkyPrince]

Bartholomew has been acting quite a fool lately 😑

[@Golden4craft]

It's always good to see you again mr. Fingers

[@mimi-qc9nk]

I love how soft mr boyfingers eats mr fingers yet its so calm

[@Romanticoutlaw]

I was raised on salad fingers in the golden age of the internet, and it's still coming. It's one of the last standing gods of the Old Internet, it and your work in general. It means a lot to me that you made another episode, mr. firth, though I hope you don't only make it for us at this point. Whenever it becomes time to say farewell, I'll accept it with dignity.

[@altusshow7574]

Fft, I won't. I'm not leaving this series behind without kicking and screaming. Create for us, little creator boy. We are your gods and we demand tribute.

[@themaestro2572]

Rest in peace, Melvin Wishcake. You were a good man who sacrificed so much during the Great War, singlehandely liberating France on your own, and saving Salad Fingers from an Ottoman firing squad all with hand and leg tied behind your back.

[@Nova-vk5qb]

And salad has the audacity to call him a rotten friend.

[@lewismcdonald985]

​@@Nova-vk5qb He probably sold him out to the ottoman spies, like how Mark Dimaline cheated Salad out of his money in 1955.

[@CorneliusBogfrollupFitzgerald]

I hope David doesn’t feel like he’s in a pigeon hold because of salad fingers. I like his other art too.

[@lastofthemouchers8873]

In a pigeon hold? Do you mean pigeon holed? Such an odd , very firthian image

[@elmenosfunable2001]

@@lastofthemouchers8873 the pigeons are holding him at beakpoint we need to save him

[@jeremytitus9519]

@@elmenosfunable2001no, they hold them in the pillowy softness of their gently cooing bosoms. They are so warm, so welcome; he is disinclined to depart from them, and rejoin the world.

[@complex2live]

Same

[@LikaLaruku]

I think he only does 1 Salad Fingers a year.

[@Wasssup3232]

The hard cut to boyfingers being chopped up on the serving plate hits hard.

[@l-e-m-o-n8276]

Huh, that wasn't boyfingers.

[@l-e-m-o-n8276]

How did your bot mind not see that?

[@CrossOutLapDog]

@@l-e-m-o-n8276he was joking bro ☠️☠️

[@Buffalo872]

Salad fingers

[@marianamariana4040]

Throught all the episodes of "Salad Fingers" I remarced the very poetic and expressive way that he talks. An amazing series,hope it will continue. Thank you to David for giving us this masterpiece!

[@kyriblanc]

This may be creepy but it’s actually very wholesome and saddening at the same time because Salad fingers is still a father and he wants the best for his child

[@nolikeys155]

DAMNNNN AMEN I COULDNT HAVE SAID IT BETTER MYSELF🤩💋👨‍🦯🕺🥗

[@mollyliz.236]

I think he is enacting how his father and mother treated him. I also think Hubert Cunberdale is his real name.

[@obi-nh9eh]

​@@nolikeys155bro?!?!?!

[@moiouimoi3858]

@@mollyliz.236yep, I think that too. In one of the first episodes, we can see him in a wedding dress as a woman. And in the episode where Hubert is fleshed, and with the mirror reflecting Salad Fingers says to him that : « you’ll never be a real boy ». And the surgery to be a « real boy ». So I think that they are the same and a trans man.

[@chocolatesquirrel2002]

@@moiouimoi3858 him being trans would explain alot lmao

[@artrabum]

This show has been my biggest inspiration as an animator. Would be grateful one day to have something pop off half as much as salad fingers did. Keep up the good work !

[@fearanarchy]

9:35 "make sure you have your bathing bugle.. it would be improper to be unprepared"

[@stebbs664]

this is a masterpiece, we are so proud of you for how far you have come with this series, give yourself a pat on the back

[@downhero0]

you hadn't even watched it yet

[@stebbs664]

@@downhero0 i have seen the whole thing, dont assume

[@jellyfishfingernail]

@@downhero0most of us have watched it on newgrounds before it got released on youtube

[@handsome_man69]

I have herpes. Burns like hell

[@no-cov-jabpureblood4959]

Deus vult. Have a nice day.

[@clampity]

This new episode is everything I expected it to be: weird, concerning, and absolutely brilliant

[@wej0w]

Thanks for continueing this animated series for what seems now like an eternity. Without ever dropping the quality or simply trying to milk it, rather the contrary as quality and lenght have always been increasing while never losing the the eerily adorable atmosphere that made this series. I hope all your works supports you well financially.

[@IntrovertedLoLo]

Drop the “e” add “ing”

[@IntrovertedLoLo]

Continuing

[@Cubicflow]

yes@@IntrovertedLoLo

[@croeser8044]

You make us laugh, you make us cry. You make us live, you make us die. Love your work David Firth

[@hannahbarrett6074]

i am simultaneously confused, disturbed and entertained. well done david! another great episode.

[@AssassinKillua15]

Salad Fingers is still way more normal than alot of other stuff you'll find one youtube

[@toddburgess5056]

Oh ? 😲

[@TheOddMindofSamBo]

It’s possibly the most normal David Firth series tbh

[@rockyfluffy9681]

9:25 Winning an argument but they start crying be like:

[@scorpiouskrimson]

I'm wondering if this will actually change the series going forward... or if it'll be another Flesh Boy situation where it's never acknowledged again...

[@davidfirth]

The flesh probably just fell off or rotted or something.

[@Buffalo872]

​@@davidfirthplease bring back Hubert as a (real boy)

[@jaysoo3564]

I hope this series never ends.

[@SILLYGOOFERYDEMON566]

Me too bro 😞

[@tls559]

Yeah

[@VelocciYT]

Everyone, rest all of your rusty spoons down for our boy Mr Fingers

[@snowballsniper4506]

1st on stream omegalul

[@Ithilcreatures]

Yes, I rest my rusty spoons down for Salad fingers.

[@ChrisOnMission1]

"Mother says I'm the tastiest boy in the park." Jesus.

[@GamingWithNikolas]

FBI OPEN UP!

[@jessicacrider813]

I dont regret watching this. I just regret watching it while trying to eat dinner😂

[@malikaiforest3080]

That was an unexpectedly emotional episode.

[@lexiedovahkiin]

So Salad Fingers can never be destroyed, not even through food shortage, nice narrative. As always, you art is amazing to me. I still wear my Salad Fingers slippers (with extra socks). I have my eyes on a hoodie or two this year.

[@Amyisntcreative]

I’m glad to see it still has the eerie, creepy charm to it years later. It’s one of those things where you’re uncomfortable yet you still continue to watch it 💀

[@miva1685]

typh pfp?

[@Enk64]

I wouldn't be surprised if this is what happens in between each episode. 😆 (Love it)

[@icarorodrigues8501]

the power of merch is absolute, it can revive any series 😂

[@Slidje]

Maybe if the shop wasn't ran by idiots. They messed up my order, sent me the wrong hoodie, gave me the wrong return address and then refused to send a replacement when my return didn't arrive.

[@icarorodrigues8501]

@@Slidje that sounds rough, hope you get your cash back. I undertand it because I would totally buy a salad fingers plushie, I love the series, but I'll reconsider that now

[@liethaboy]

@slidje 😮

[@heHefuny]

My dad got me some salad fingers merch, he's the best

[@theorangeheadedfella]

proof@@Slidje

[@samezidrovibes]

From the bottom of my gallows I am grateful you still create Salad Fingers. A gruesome one, but the circle of Salad Fingers is a wild one.

[@SILLYGOOFERYDEMON566]

Same, I can understand that its goin to be a season 2 before this or aren't they?

[@johnalanh.mp4]

Salad Fingers is one of the spookiest and softest creatures I’ve come to stumble across as a kid, so happy to see him again like an old friend!

[@TheLambdaTeam]

So it appears Salad Fingers actually tried to leave the Barrens. Since he has the habit of counting his footsteps, he could easily pinpoint the location where the wasteland ends in a gigantic chasm. The gigantic chasm must be located either at the west or east. I have no idea who "The Nasty-Master" is tho.

[@Nico_2202]

9:37 well that’s just lovely

[@thecircusunderground]

Truly is a lovely site

[@CorriTopaz]

Scrum-diddily-umptious

[@B0bby_V]

delicacy

[@Nico_2202]

@@B0bby_V yummy yummy prion disease

[@glo3629]

That's good

[@chrisfromsouthaus2735]

I was a high school senior when the first episode was published. This year, my eldest son, who also enjoys SF, is a high school senior. This series is intergenerational!

[@carona184]

I can't believe this was just an hour ago, 19 years later this still is so well made!

[@free.president]

Why 19? First video was uploaded 16 years ago

[@UMBR.]

@@free.president First episode was released in 2004.

[@Purplisntacolor]

@@free.presidentthey were released in new grounds first

[@free.president]

Thank you all for the answers, guys