Picnic is the fifth episode featured in the Salad Fingers series.
Plot[]
Salad Fingers speaks into an apparently broken and disconnected phone, asking the operator to connect him with his "old pal Charlie", so he can invite his friend to a picnic, but only garbled noises are heard. Whilst describing the picnic fare, Salad Fingers rubs his stomach in hunger, then claims to have been rudely disconnected. Hubert Cumberdale is on one of the fingers of Salad's other hand, but he seems dismayed to see him. Instead of referring to him as Hubert, he instead unexpectedly calls him "Barbara Logan-Price", and gives him a "friend-hat", which is a miniature captain's hat.
In the next scene, Salad Fingers wears a bridal veil and dress while talking to himself in a mirror, complimenting his own appearance before tearing up. He then goes outside for his picnic (without the bridal outfit), which is attended by a strange crow and a little girl with scars on her face, a filthy, stained pink dress, and poofy orange hair. Salad Fingers asks the orange-haired girl a question and answers it for her (as he seems to think that only he can speak), ending with "replied Mable". Salad Fingers calls her his new playmate and compliments Mable on her dress. As he does, Marjory Stewart-Baxter is seen looking out the window, presumably jealous. Salad Fingers offers "Mable" some "Pease Pudding", which he feeds to her with a dirty, rusty spoon. The crow then swoops down and steals Salad Fingers' spoon.
The little girl giggles and says that the crow must like spoons too. The shock of Mable speaking to him in English, and not via his own voice, drives Salad Fingers into temporary insanity; hallucinating, hearing screeching, distorted noises, and seeing the girl (complete with empty eye sockets) saying: "What's wrong, Mr. Fingers? Do you not like my mouth-words?"
Character Appearances[]
Debut[]
Trivia[]
- The crow has also appeared in Firth’s other animation projects.
- This episode marks the only time where Salad Fingers doesn’t recognize Hubert Cumberdale.
Gallery[]
| Salad Fingers Episodes |
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| Spoons • Friends • Nettles • Cage • Picnic • Present • Shore Leave • Cupboard • Letter • Birthday • Glass Brother • Market • Post Man • Harvest |