Salad Fingers is a strange creature that lives in a small shack in the middle of a post-apocalyptic wasteland. He is severely mentally ill, possibly as a result of its isolation. From this loneliness, he is joined by friends Hubert Cumberdale, Marjory Sterwart Baxter and Milford Cubicle on a bizarre adventure of wild antics.
This episode introduces Salad Fingers and his love of touching rusty spoons and other various rusty objects
Salad Fingers has a get-together with his "friends"—finger puppets—whom Salad Fingers introduces as Hubert Cumberdale, Marjory Stewart-Baxter and Jeremy Fisher. He appears to believe that his "friends" are real, living beings
Salad Fingers is playing with nettles and has irritated blisters all over his hands. He then comes across an empty perambulator, which he calls a "nettle carrier" and then leaves with it.
Salad Fingers wears a beret and declares that he is going to try and find France. However, he is frightened by a mutated boy with disproportionately large eyeballs that has been "watching him for a while".
Salad Fingers talks to an apparently broken and disconnected phone, asking the operator to connect him to his "old pal Charlie" so he can invite him to a picnic, but only garbled noises are heard.
Salad Fingers is presented a present from puppet "Jeremy Fisher."
As Salad Fingers is digging holes outside with his finger puppets, occasionally tasting the sand (which he calls "floor sugar"), he finds the decomposing torso of an old corpse and decides to take it home with him.
To escape a strange, piercing frequency from a radio broadcast that Salad Fingers was listening to, he decides to wait out the tormenting event in his "safety cupboard."
Salad Fingers is holding a piece of torn newspaper, imagining it is a letter from the Great War (presumably from his "brother") and reading it aloud to himself.
Salad Fingers is making preparations for Hubert Cumberdale's birthday.
Salad Fingers decides it’s time for Hubert Cumberdale to become a real boy, so he turns it in a creepy creature made out of flesh.
Salad Fingers goes out on his local postal rounds - and then back to the "postal counting house."
Salad Fingers is attempting to grow crops for an upcoming feast.
The long running feud between Salad Fingers and the local crows escalates.