Salad Fingers turned 20 this week and there’s a new episode out to commemorate it

It pains me to say this, however it’s been 20 years since David Firth’s Salad Fingers made its debut and irrevocably altered the humor of the web. The primary episode of the online collection hit Newgrounds on July 1, 2004. To mark this milestone birthday, Firth dropped a 20th anniversary special earlier this week that sees the titular Salad Fingers taking a stroll down reminiscence lane, bringing us all the way in which again to these early moments that seared the phrase “I like rusty spoons” into the collective consciousness of a whole technology of web customers.

Issues gained’t be precisely as you bear in mind them, although. That is the way it all went down in keeping with Salad Fingers and, effectively, are we actually anticipating Salad Fingers to be a dependable narrator? The 7-minute video expands the lore a bit and revisits characters just like the shrieking “younger baby” (who has some clarifications to make concerning their id) and the disturbing finger puppet pals Hubert Cumberdale, Marjory Stewart-Baxter and Jeremy Fisher. In case you’ve adopted the collection through the years and made all of it the way in which to 2023’s “Harvest,” you’ll additionally acknowledge the completely horrifying Melvin Wishcake, who Salad Fingers refers to this time as “Manky Melvin, the pungent reject.”

I’ve obtained a comfortable spot in my coronary heart for this deranged cartoon, as I’m certain lots of you do, and this was an actual deal with. I’d simply should dive again in and rewatch the entire collection now, which is up to 13 episodes not counting this newest particular. Thanks for the (cursed) reminiscences, Salad Gregory Stuart Fingers.