History WebVideo / SgtFrogAbridged

Series creator Yoshi stepped down as writer after Episode 16, giving creative control to Thorn. The series ended after Season 2 in November 2012, until Thorn decided to bring it back for a third season, starting with ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stL2tTdHZ1U Sgt Frog Abridged: Reset]]''. Season 3 and the episodic series concluded for real on New Year's Eve 2015, with Thorn redirecting his focus to LetsPlay/TheStrawhatNO and ''WebVideo/JettersAbridged'' from thereon. There will only be new ''SFA'' content when the writers want to do something with it, though there are plans to abridge the third ''Keroro'' movie and to possibly do shorts.

* UsefulNotes/AmericanAccents: Pururu is given [=LillyLivers=]' natural Brooklyn accent.

* BritishAccents: Dororo has a hint of posh British in his voice.

* CastFullOfWriters:
** Thorn and Yoshi are the writers and lead voice actors, the latter retiring from writing after Season 2.
** Episodes 6 and 24 were co-written with Natsumi's VA [=LillyLivers=].
** Travis voiced various minor characters before becoming recurring co-writer with Episode 9.
** Episode 22 was co-written with Kululu's VA [=InfamousGentleman=]. 22 and 23, both centered on HQ, were also co-written by HQ's VA Jiggly Jacob, who continued on as a co-writer through the rest of the series.

* CutawayGag: Keroro wonders where Tamama is in Episode 13. It cuts away to her neck-deep in candy and screaming in terror.

-->"''My love for you is like a broken femur/I scream for help but you ignore me''\\
(Later, a crash is heard) "''AGH, MY FEMUR! Natsumiiiiii...!''

''SFA'' has a {{Spin Off}}/{{Sequel}} audio Q&A blog called ''Podcast/AskGiroDoroSFA'', starring Giroro and Dororo. The series is confirmed to be in a SharedUniverse with ''WebVideo/TheAudioLogsOfDrSquid''. It is also a sister series to [=TheMidnightFrogs'=] ''Tamers Abridged'' and to Thorn and Travis's ''WebVideo/JettersAbridged'', though they remain mum on if any of them share a universe. Tropes related to Creator/TheMidnightFrogs themselves go on their page.

* FluffyTheTerrible: Keroro's "Evil Digestive Monster" is named Frank.

** The first half of Episode 5 introduces Angol Mois, while the second half has the platoon follow her human {{doppelganger}} around and she causes trouble.

** Implied that it could happen with Keroro and Tamama's baby, Kemama, when Keroro quickly gets fed up with taking care of him. [[spoiler:Kemama [[ItMakesSenseInContext transforms into a giant bird and flies away]] before it can happen.]]
--->'''Keroro''': "So, I'm gonna jettison him into space. He can be Franchise/{{Superman}}! ''Somewhere else''!"

** [[JerkAss Keroro]] calling Dororo an ass.

** Keroro, and he only gets more so as the series progresses - abusing his friends, cheating on his partner, infinite selfishness. Character Development between Seasons 2 and 3 mitigates it slightly: he's still a jerk with a huge ego, but he's more aware of it and knows how and when to apologize.
** Kululu in every iteration doesn't care about anyone or his job.
* KilledOffForReal: Momoka at the end of Episode 13. Subverted when she's resurrected for Episode 22. See [[Trivia/SgtFrogAbridged McLeaned]] for the out-of-universe reason she did not appear in-between those episodes.

* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: After Keroro slams his fist against a solid stone wall, his only reaction is calmly stating "Huh... I just broke my hand."

** Characters often call Dororo something that starts with the letter "D" (Dorito), is a "Dor" pun (Door Knocker, Doorbell), or is completely unlike his name (Hangnail, Laryngitis).

** Shurara gives bizarre nicknames to the platoon in Episode 20 while showing off his "Tic-Tac-Toe of Hate". Giroro is "Grumpy [=McScarface=]", Kululu is "Specky [=McCreamCorn=]", Tamama is "Sputnik [=McBreathtablet=]", etc. He hates Keroro too much to give him a nickname.
* ManIFeelLikeAWoman: Subversion. Tamama was probably always a girl, but she's so stupid that she only realizes this upon suddenly discovering her vagina.

* MildlyMilitary: The platoon in the first season, due to Keroro being a moron. By Season 2 they don't even try to pretend that they're still in the military. They get forced back into it for Season 3, but still make little effort to take over Earth or act militant.

** The cartoon the platoon develop in Episode 8 is [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqScg8PLFqg&t=6m52s bafflingly minimalist]], leaving the platoon in StunnedSilence.

* MonsterOfTheWeek: Season 3 consists of members of the Shurara Corps (plus one episode with HQ) taking on the platoon. Shurara himself serves as the ArcVillain before facing the platoon himself in the finale.

** To ''Tamers Abridged'':
*** In Episode 21, Fuyuki makes the same laugh as Kazu while running away from Dokuku.

*** Dororo mentions that Giroro cried at the end of ''Film/TheTerminator'', which doubles as a reference to an offhand line from ''Series/GoodEats''.

** Giroro's crush on Natsumi was a recurring joke through Season 1, and its last appearance was as a focal point in the first segment of Episode 10. Giroro turned his affections toward [[YaoiGuys Dororo]] almost immediately after in Season 2, though this was foreshadowed a few times. The sudden drop gets addressed in Episode 18: the emotional stress of courting Natsumi with no success made Giroro lose interest, and Dororo happened to be in the right place at the right time.
-->'''Giroro''': "You know what? Forget it. I like cock now."
** Alisa and Fuyuki were made a couple in Episode 13 and, aside from a brief joke in Episode 16, was never referenced again. This is because the series was shortened drastically, and none of the remaining episodes included Alisa.
* TheAbridgedSeries: Not the first or only abridging of ''Manga/SgtFrog'', but by far the most successful. The comedic style and story diverges greatly from the original, changing the series from a parody to a new series of its own by Season 2, to the point that the source video and some audio is all that remains. It's also one of the few abridged series to have a conclusive ending.

** Todd's Toilets.

* CanonDiscontinuity: The original first three episodes were remade in the interim between Seasons 1 and 2. Episodes 1 and 2 were remade to make them better and more in-line with the writing style and quality, and Episode 3 was remade to fix some plotholes that resulted from the first two remakes.

** In Episode 25, it's revealed that many members of the Shurara Corps were somehow killed by Keroro. ''How'' this happened is not always apparent.
---> "Frozen in the tundra, check. Called him a nerd and he blew up, that could be anybody. Beat him in a staring contest, never forgave me...? Mekeke- what the hell, I only shared a burrito with him! ''"Threw shade on him"''?! What the fuck are these people?!"

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: "Keroro Love Fighters" in Episode 15. Offscreen Moment of Chaos, if you prefer.
* OhCisco: {{The Stinger}}s are usually this.

* OverlyLongGag: Implied twice when Giroro gives Natsumi power armor in Episode 17:
** The device comes with an answering machine full of 300 messages from Giroro. While only a few are heard in Episode 17, Episode 18 opens with her listening to message ''297'', and it's still the same day. 298 and 299 play in the background for the rest of the scene.
** Message 300 is a protracted song Giroro wrote for Natsumi which inexplicably narrates her battle scene. The episode cuts back to Natsumi listening to more of the song at various points, with Giroro audibly losing the will to keep trying to win over her heart. The message finally ends after several minutes with Giroro deciding "You know what? Forget it. I like cock now."

* RapidFireComedy

* TheRemake: The current Episodes 1, 2 and 3 are remakes of old episodes which are now titled 1R, 2R and 3R. The old versions are unlisted on [=YouTube=], and [[CreatorBacklash the team treat them in the series like they didn't happen]].

** Characters "getting back at each other" in ways that don't make sense.
---> '''Koyuki''': "You'll never get away with this!"\\
'''Viper''': "Loser says what-what? [[TakeThat Ha! Viper 2, you 0]]!"

** Keroro's "AGH!" laugh

*** The first Post-Credits is a mocking parody of "Wiggle" by Music/JasonDerulo, a sideways reference to Jiggly Jacob's live gaming streams wherein Thorn would play the hook on his Stylophone when Jacob succeeded or failed spectacularly at a task.

*** Shurara laughing manically and then shouting "Stop laughing!!!" is a reference to "These Hands" by Music/TheDamned.

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: The series goes with the "Kululu" spelling and pronunciation of said character's name, they usually emphasize the second syllable in Giroro's name, and they spell the "Sgt" in the series' title without a period.

* TheStinger: Every episode features two brief clips after the credits. They usually follow up a joke or situation earlier in the episode or fill up a plothole. They also served as {{Sequel Hook}}s from Season 2 onward.

* SuspiciouslyAproposMusic: Giroro wrote a song for Natsumi which ended up being played over her fight scene in Episode 18. It inexplicably details exactly what is happening on-screen, despite being written and recorded months previously, when he still had a crush on her.

* TangledFamilyTree: The Viper family. It seems straightforward at first: Viper, his father, his wife, their kids. But then in Episode 19 we meet his "Mom-Son" and "[[ItMakesSenseInContext Dad-Train]]". In Episode 25 we find out that [[spoiler:Shurara is another son]], and possibly hundreds of thousands of other children exist.

* WellDoneSonGuy: Tororo reveals in episode 17 that [[spoiler:Kululu is this to him.]]

** Shurara [[ZizZaggedTrope zig-zags]] this trope. His first appearance is him threatening his subordinate, and much of his screentime is spent putting someone through the wringer. However he's a hilariously unstable LargeHam, is strangely LiteralMinded, and his backstory is ridiculous. [[spoiler:He also has a realistic snake head under his helmet, which provides much {{bathos}} when it's revealed]]. Any scene with him is just as likely to be played comically as it is for drama.

''Sgt Frog Abridged'' is TheAbridgedSeries of ''Manga/SgtFrog'' by Creator/TheMidnightFrogs, originally created by Mugiwara Yoshi and currently headed by [=ThornBrain=].

*** The giant Shurara helmet yells "Oh Mommy! Whyyyyy?!" in the same way as Mrs. Puff says "Oh Spongebob! Whyyyyy?!" in ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants''.
*** Dororo mentions that Giroro cried at the end of ''Film/TheTerminator'', a reference to an offhand line from ''Series/GoodEats''.

* BrilliantButLazy: Kululu has the skills and resources to build large mechs for the platoon's use or to tape a whole planet back together, but he rarely ever does anything. It takes him three hours to build a drill when he had thirty minutes, yet it takes him mere minutes to cannibalize Shurara's mech for the platoon's own personal Gundam. After the events of Season 1, the platoon are mostly glad that Kululu keeps to himself and stays out of the way.
* BritishAccents: Dororo has a hint of British in his voice.

*** Keroro took Mois to a "dollar store" when she was a child; Future Kululu's base is a dollar store.

** The Todd's Toilets balloon from Episode 1 reappears in Episodes 17 and 18.

* CrossdressingVoices: InUniverse, Giroro "[[BlatantLies attempts]]" this himself by pretending to be Sumomo in Episode 6. It's not revealed if it works at all, but they try again the next day with a device that makes him sound like Sumomo.

** Fuyuki appeared briefly in the first two of Creator/TheMidnightFrogs' Pokemon one-shots

* DemotedToExtra: Mois, due to her voice actor often being busy early in the series, and to the writers getting anything they could have really gotten out of the character in her first episode. She still has the occasional line, and the season finales feature her more prominently, but generally the writers don't have a use for her.

* TheEnd: The final screen of Episode 18. [[SequelHook A question mark appears shortly after]]. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Then a "Yes"]]. DoubleSubverted when the series came back for a third season.]]

* HalloweenEpisode: Episode [[ThirteenIsUnlucky 13]].

* HereWeGoAgain: ''SFA: Reset'' undid the events of Episodes 16-18 that prevented the series from realistically continuing, [[spoiler:including the killing of everyone in the universe]]. With it undone, the series could bring in new people who [[MythArc hate Keroro and want him dead]]. [[spoiler:Cue Shurara's introduction.]]

--->'''Keroro''': "So, I'm gonna jettison him into space. He can be Franchise/{{Superman}}, ''somewhere else''!"

* KnightOfCerebus: Subverted with the Garuru Platoon. Garuru's deep, dramatic, threatening voice; Zoruru's nightmarish attitude; and the platoon being the series' first genuine threat take the show into darker territories than before. However, Garuru clearly does ''not'' take himself seriously, Zoruru is too mentally messed up to be effectively scary all the time, and Taruru and Tororo are essentially useless.

* MetaOrigin: By the end of the series, the respective {{Freudian Excuse}}s of Keroro, Dororo [[spoiler:and Shurara]] are tied back to Viper, the promiscuous space pirate who frequently abandons his children.

** Shurara's face is completely covered by his helmet.
** Giruru, who is entirely liquid, does not have a visible mouth. Dokuku and Robobo both have visible mouths, but they don't appear to speak out of them.

* PutOnABus: Momoka for most of Season 1 due to voice actor problems. TheBusCameBack in the season finale after a new VA was found, until [[KilledOffForReal the writers decided to]] [[YourHeadAsplode get rid of her again]] ForTheLulz in Episode 13. She gets resurrected in Episode 22.

* {{Retcon}}: The MythArc of the series' antagonists trying to kill Keroro because they hate him so much was not fully formed until ''SFA: Reset'' and the beginning of Season 3. The series started as roughly NegativeContinuity, but Future Kululu in Episode 10, the Episode 1-3 remakes, and a mixture of ArcWelding and ContinuityCreep developed the surrounding story retroactively.
* RevisitingTheRoots: Downplayed example. Thorn felt that Episodes 8 and 9 were too self-aware, stilted and lacking in ideas. He and Yoshi then wrote Episode 10 with the intention of returning to the more relaxed and ridiculous writing of Episodes 4-7.

* SharedUniverse: With ''WebVideo/TheAudioLogsOfDrSquid''. ''Dr Squid'''s Galactic Observation Dominion is referenced in Episode 18, and Keroro makes a cameo in ''Dr. Squid'' Episode 10.

** Editor [=ThornBrain=] hides the covers of his favorite music albums in the background, usually 5 per episode. Several episodes were dedicated to specific artists including Music/{{Sparks}}, Music/TheyMightBeGiants, Music/{{Chrome}}, Music/TheBirthdayParty, Music/{{REM}}, Music/TheFall, Music/TheDamned, Music/PrimalScream, and Music/FaithNoMore and Music/MrBungle.

** Characters occasionally sing or quote lines from songs, including "Let's Hear it for the Boy" by Deniece Williams, "Hairdresser on Fire" by Music/{{Morrissey}}, "Baby, Come Back" by Player, and "Apex Predator - Easy Meat" by Music/NapalmDeath. [[spoiler:The very last scene of the series is Solid Snake, Raiden, and all three versions of Revolver Ocelot singing "O, Do Not Forsake Me" by Music/TheyMightBeGiants.]]

* SincerestFormOfFlattery: The series inspired at least two other (now defunct) ''Manga/SgtFrog'' abridged series, according to those series' creators: Bokegaeru Productions' ''Sgt Frog: The Other Abridged Series'' and [=AbridgeShion's=] ''Keroro Abridged''.

** Keroro gives a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to [[spoiler:Shurara]] in the series finale that is actually SelfDeprecation for the sake of Keroro apologizing and ending the bad blood between them.

* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: Inverted in Episode 18. Keroro saying "Please" is a sign that he's finally changing out of his usual JerkAss self.

** Unnamed Parody of "Pepper" by Music/ButtholeSurfers. Set to be released after [=SFA25=].

* SuspiciouslyAproposMusic: Giroro wrote a song for Natsumi which ended up being played over her fight scene in Episode 18. It inexplicably details exactly what is happening on-screen, despite being written and recorded months before while he still had a crush on her.

* TangledFamilyTree: The Viper family. It seems straightforward at first: Viper, his father, his wife, their kids. But then in Episode 19 we meet his "Mom-Son" and "[[ItMakesSenseInContext Dad-Train]]". In Episode 25 we find out that [[spoiler:Shurara]] and possibly hundreds of thousands of other children exist.

** Future Kululu's time travelling powers are because of his mustache. That's as far as anyone will ever know.

"You can't do a haunting without a Putaunting. Ahoihoi."

* CerebusRetcon: [[spoiler:Fuyuki's monologue]] in Episode 18 is this for the entire series. Watching Keroro be a JerkAss to his friends may be funny, but the scene reveals just what negative effect this has on everyone around him.

* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Viper family is central to the backstories and {{Freudian Excuse}}s of several characters, particularly Dororo [[spoiler:and Keroro]]. Viper himself is a highly promiscuous space pirate, resulting in more children than the viewer sees, and he tended to be a DisappearedDad for his possibly-illegitimate son Dororo due to both jail time and choice. He and Dororo sold [[spoiler:Dororo's little brother Keroro]] to buy Dororo a Christmas present, but it was instead spent on Viper's bail money, all despite the family being noticeably rich. Dororo's mom paid no attention to him, instead paying local children to hang out with him, and she went through multiple marriages before returning to Viper. By the time the entire family finally reconciles, Dororo [[spoiler:and Keroro]] are middle-aged, it's the latter-third of the series, and [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext we meet Viper's Mom-Son and Dad-Train]].

* BrilliantButLazy: Kululu has the skills and resources to build large mechs for the platoon's use, which he rarely ever does. It takes him three hours to build a drill when he had thirty minutes, yet it takes him mere minutes to cannibalize Shurara's mech for the platoon's own personal Gundam.

* MythArc: The overarching plot of the series, and the reason the platoon are on Earth in the first place, is that Keroro is useless, and [[DisproportionateRetribution people want to kill him because of it]].

* SelfDeprecation: Dororo does this occasionally, fitting considering he has the most (and most blatant) issues.

** Characters occasionally sing or quote lines from songs, including "Let's Hear it for the Boy" by Deniece Williams, "Hairdresser on Fire" by Music/{{Morrissey}}, "Baby, Come Back" by Player, and "Apex Predator - Easy Meat" by Music/NapalmDeath.

* SincerityMode: In Episode 21, Keroro and Natsumi briefly put aside their sarcasm and vitriol after she teaches him to take care of his newborn son.

* TangledFamilyTree: The Viper family. It seems straightforward at first: Viper, his father, his wife, their kids. But then in Episode 19 we meet his "Mom-Son" and "[[ItMakesSenseInContext Dad-Train]]"...

** Season 1 ends with Tamama revealing that he is really a girl and [=HQ=] leaving a message revealing that they're sending someone out to get rid of Keroro.
** Episode 11 ends with Pururu contacting Garuru, revealing that she is a double agent sent to find the platoon's weaknesses.
** Episode 12 has HQ calling to send out a bioweapon to take out the platoon.
** The Kiruru counter appears at the end of Episode 13 with the platoon trying to figure out what it's for.

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Fuyuki gives one to [[spoiler:Keroro]] in the series finale. Though the change is subtle, [[spoiler:Keroro]] [[BreakThemByTalking does start to pull out of his Jerk Ass state as a result]].
* ReassignedToAntarctica: The first divergence from the original series is that Keroro's superiors are fully aware of how useless he is, and he and his platoon get sent to Earth as this trope. The fact they accomplished nothing in all of Season 1 leads HQ to send the Garuru Platoon to kill them in Season 2.

** Mois, whose only personality trait now is her devotion to Keroro. See also DemotedToExtra.

** In Episode 23, Natsumi's life is so burdened by the frogs that she doesn't know what fun is, let alone how to pronounce it. Fuyuki [[ComicallyMissingThePoint helpfully tells her]] that "It's 'fjord'; it's how you cross rivers". The next episode, she finally has a good day and remarks as such with "What a wonderful day of fjord."

* TheAbridgedSeries: Not the first abridging of ''Manga/SgtFrog'', but by far the most successful. It became one of the few abridged series to have a conclusive ending on November 2012, before Thorn reversed the decision and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QeRYCOL16cQ extended it for a third season]].