History WebVideo / SgtFrogAbridged

** In the movie, the platoon are attcked by Dark Keroro outside of Momoka's mansion. Cut to Mois watching a screen in the base and jumping out of her seat in shock, [[spoiler:only for it to turn out that she's actually watching an international soccer game and is mad that Germany are losing. She does eventually end up in the battlefield, but only because she was [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} trying to run to Munich on-foot to berate the team]]]].

* BaitAndSwitch: Early episodes set up some jokes as though they were going to be spouting memes. By Episode 7 they dropped any reference to memes entirely.

Series creator Yoshi stepped down as writer after Episode 16, giving creative control to Thorn, though he continued writing with Thorn and Travis to close out the season. The series ended after Season 2 in November 2012, until Thorn decided to bring it back for a third season, starting with ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stL2tTdHZ1U Sgt Frog Abridged: Reset]]''. Though multiple writers worked with Thorn throughout Season 3, [=JiggyJacob=] eventually settled in as her de facto co-writer by Episode 24. Season 3 and the episodic series concluded for real on New Year's Eve 2015, with Thorn redirecting her focus to LetsPlay/TheStrawhatNO and her personal projects from thereon. Creator/TheMidnightFrogs went into indefinite hiatus by 2017, but they made the surprise announcement in January 2020 of ''The Sgt Frog Abridged Movie'''s official release set for February 16, co-written by Thorn, Jacob and Travis. A second movie is in the works as thanks for fans [[https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-mikaela-with-her-transition helping Thorn with her money troubles after coming out as trans]], and a third and final movie is another potential milestone goal.

Series creator Yoshi stepped down as writer after Episode 16, giving creative control to Thorn, though he continued writing with Thorn and Travis to close out the season. The series ended after Season 2 in November 2012, until Thorn decided to bring it back for a third season, starting with ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stL2tTdHZ1U Sgt Frog Abridged: Reset]]''. Though multiple writers worked with Thorn throughout Season 3, [=JiggyJacob=] eventually settled in as her de facto co-writer by Episode 24. Season 3 and the episodic series concluded for real on New Year's Eve 2015, with Thorn redirecting her focus to LetsPlay/TheStrawhatNO and her personal projects from thereon. Creator/TheMidnightFrogs went into indefinite hiatus by 2017, but they made the surprise announcement in January 2020 of ''The Sgt Frog Abridged Movie'''s official release set for February 16, co-written by Thorn, Jacob and Travis.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: A delirious Keroro flies around the room crotch-first like a ragdoll in Episode 15. Or, at least, according to WordOfGod; all that's seen on-screen is Natsumi leaning sadly against the door, accidentally locking the other characters in with Keroro.

** [[DubNameChange Renaming the baby Kiruru, Mashiu, to "Kilili"]] is a shout out to a series of Manga/SgtFrog [[FanFiction fanfics]] starring a quintessential MarySue named Kilili. [=TheMidnightFrogs=] and their Skype friends made a habit of reading Kilili's stories aloud for a short time, [[TakeThat exaggerating the character into a Memetic]] BlackHoleSue.

** The team recorded a parody of Music/TheBeatles' "Yellow Submarine" in December 2009 called "'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZbbrC1HVOE Tamama's Titties]]'''". It was based on an in-joke involving Tamama with breasts, and though Thorn always had the file, [[OldShame she didn't release it to the public until 2014]]. It and the in-joke it was based on, however, did influence the direction the team would take with Keroro and Tamama's relationship.

''Sgt Frog Abridged'' is TheAbridgedSeries of ''Manga/SgtFrog'' by Creator/TheMidnightFrogs, originally created by Mugiwara Yoshi and [=ThornBrain=]. Yoshi and Thorn were the series primary writers for its first two seasons, joined frequently by [=BigTUnit1/Travis=] through Season 3, and the series is now co-lead by [=JigglyJacob=]. The series is hosted on [[https://www.youtube.com/user/TheMidnightFrogs TheMidnightFrogs' YouTube channel]].

* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Keroro, JerkAss supreme. Even when his DarkAndTroubledPast comes to light and he makes an effort to change, it doesnt last long.

* {{Bathos}}: Shurara and Keroro end the series solemnly and seriously. [[spoiler:Shurara has a realistic snake head that moves its mouth like a puppet.]]

** Lil' Keroro describes something as "shooty DeusExMachina" in Episode 7, which was previously used as "shitty DeusExMachina" in Episode 4, the previous flashback episode.
** In Episode 4, Dororo asks Koyuki if Earth ever stops having a full moon, which she flatly responds "no". In Episode 9, Dororo asks the platoon if any of them can actually read. Kululu flatly responds "no".
** Dororo seems to briefly lose his sight in Episode 6. When it is discovered in Episode 11 that he has every disease ever, Pururu asks if he can even see. He responds, [[CallBack "Usually"]].
** Giroro mentions (and shows) that flashbacks make him nauseous. Come Episode 11 he is around for both flashbacks, and his little weakness suddenly returns. In ''SFA: Reset'', as Keroro begins the HowWeGotHere flashback, Giroro proudly proclaims that he's "conquered it".

** In Episode 2 Fuyuki laments that girls aren't attracted to him with "What happened to my game...?" In Episode 13 Alisa kidnaps him, causing him to triumphantly shout "I got my game back!"
** Episode 14 has several nods to Episode 4, due in part to it being a flashback to the events leading up to 4.

** Dororo experiences a MushroomSamba in Episode 23, and one of the hallucinations around him is of Mukuro from Episode 14 once again falling down a waterfall.

** Momoka comes back to life during Robobo's attack in Episode 22. This is only because Paul resurrected her as a tank, while Robobo had everyone else fused with machinery. When Robobo's killed and everyone returns to normal, so does Momoka.

** Old, nonsensical hobo Joriri in Episode 11. He gives the young Keroro, Zeroro and Giroro advice, and although none of it makes sense, the boys are captivated by him. It's not until they've grown into adults that they realize how weird Joriri really was.

* 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. Travis often lobbied to give her more lines, but generally the writers didn't have a use for her.

* DisproportionateRetribution: The series' antagonists all want to kill Keroro because he's a useless {{Jerkass}}.

* DropInCharacter: Saburo, with his greatly diminished presence from the original series and [[CuteMute no voice]], just occasionally shows up for no reason.

** Season 1 as a whole is closer in concept to the original show than later seasons. The {{Myth Arc}}s of the people who hate Keroro and Viper's BigScrewedUpFamily are not set in stone yet, and the episodes mostly amount to DebutQueue for Episodes 1-5, then "the platoon does whatever" for 6-10.

** Dororo was mentally, emotionally, and often physically abused by Keroro and Giroro throughout his life, developing an obsession over them and becoming generally unstable. After he and Giroro began connecting, Dororo was finally able to break from his obsessions and issues to settle into a happy relationship.

** Shows up (properly this time) after the credits of Episode 25, though this time it's meant specifically for the episodic series.

* {{Flanderization}}: This series initially [[UpToEleven out-flanderized the anime]], [[DefiedTrope but the creators quickly made sure to develop their characters further and not to reduce them to single jokes]].
* {{Flashback}}: Episode 4 is a FlashbackCut, Episode 7 and Episode 14 are {{Whole Episode Flashback}}s, and ''SFA: Reset'' is a mixture of both.

* ImagineSpot: Episode 9 turns out to be a Tamama imagining if she was made the new sergeant after Keroro embarrasses himself in front of the platoon. She returns to reality after realizing it would end horribly.

* TheLastStraw: Momoka had several voice actors (and people contacted about voicing her that never made it in) before her first appearance in Episode 2R, at the time voiced by [=LillyLivers=] as a backup. The constant trouble the team had getting her a voice early-on is the reason they didn't look for another VA after Dobuchu moved to Japan following Momoka's death in Episode 13, effectively being TheLastStraw that broke her character's existence until Episode 22.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: The fourth wall has been broken a few times in the series, but the writers abandoned this over the course of Season 1, in stark contrast to the original series, [[NoFourthWall which wouldn't even exist if it had a fourth wall]].

* MemeticBadass: Invoked with Paul, whose ability to do literally anything regardless of its physical possibility is a joke at the Chuck Norris meme.

-->"But my lies are like my children! They grow really big and I lose track of them."

* 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. [[spoiler:Their information gets wiped from the military database in Season 3, leaving the platoon free to live by their own terms]].

* SchoolgirlLesbians: Though the original series features at least three distinct girls with a crush on Natsumi, ''SFA'' has every girl in her school obsessed with her, including the teachers.

* 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.

** Episode 4 included a ShoutOut to [[LetsPlay/ChipCheezum Chip And Ironicus]]' WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}} "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1oVnDboM10 WHO IS A POKEMON IN THIS CRAZY WORLD]]":

* 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''.

* UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist: Keroro, JerkAss supreme.

* VillainousBreakdown: Shurara becomes increasingly furious and unhinged as Season 3 progresses and more of his Corps [[spoiler:die]] to the Keroro platoon. When he becomes directly involved in Episode 25, he drops all pretense of being cool and threatening, instead letting out all of his hatred and madness in the platoon's direction.

* BaddieFlattery: Parodied to hell and back with Garuru complimenting ''everybody'' in Episodes 17 and 18, but especially [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes his brother]] [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Giroro]] and his supposedly WorthyOpponent Keroro. The former finds it unbearable, while the latter just finds it confusing.

The starting premise of the series was the same as [[Manga/SgtFrog the original]], [[ArcWelding until it developed its own story at the end of Season 1]] and [[{{Retcon}} the first three episodes]] [[TheRemake were remade]]. From these ''SFA'' formed a new premise where the platoon has been ReassignedToAntarctica because Keroro's superiors hate him and how useless he is. The entire series' MythArc is how much everyone hates Keroro and [[DisproportionateRetribution wants to kill him]], resulting in antagonists from his past, his colleagues, and even his friends and family.

''Sgt Frog Abridged'' is TheAbridgedSeries of ''Manga/SgtFrog'' by Creator/TheMidnightFrogs, originally created by Mugiwara Yoshi and currently headed by [=ThornBrain=]. Yoshi and Thorn were the series primary writers for its first two seasons, joined frequently by [=BigTUnit1/Travis=] starting with Episode 9. The series is hosted on [[https://www.youtube.com/user/TheMidnightFrogs TheMidnightFrogs' YouTube channel]].

Series creator Yoshi stepped down as writer after Episode 16, giving creative control to Thorn, though he continued writing with Thorn and Travis to close out the season. The series ended after Season 2 in November 2012, until Thorn decided to bring it back for a third season, starting with ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stL2tTdHZ1U Sgt Frog Abridged: Reset]]''. Though multiple writers worked with Thorn throughout Season 3, including Travis and Thorn's then-girlfriend Olivia, [=JiggyJacob=] eventually settled in as his de facto co-writer by Episode 24. Season 3 and the episodic series concluded for real on New Year's Eve 2015, with Thorn redirecting his focus to LetsPlay/TheStrawhatNO and his personal projects from thereon. Creator/TheMidnightFrogs went into indefinite hiatus by 2017, but they made the surprise announcement in January 2020 of ''The Sgt Frog Abridged Movie'''s official release set for February 16, co-written by Thorn, Jacob and Travis.

''SFA'' has a 20-episode {{Spin Off}} 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'=] ''WebVideo/TamersAbridged'', ''WebVideo/HowICaughtYourMother'', and to Thorn and Travis's ''WebVideo/JettersAbridged'', though none of them share a universe. Tropes related to Creator/TheMidnightFrogs themselves go on their page.

** Kululu's personality mellowed out after the first season, becoming more apathetic than {{Jerkass}}y. This was the personality the team originally intended for him during the series' planning stages, but when [[TheOtherDarrin InfamousGentleman became his VA]] they went the creepy jerk route. Then Future Kululu happened, and they steadily went back to making him apathetic.

** The culmination of Season 1 is this, by the writers' admission. Thorn only planned for the finale to have a few reveals to cap off the season, including giving a purpose to the constant appearances of [[ArcNumber 4 and 9]]. But when Future Kululu popped out of the brainstorming, a plot completely different from the original series was formed instead. The team went with it because it made a creepy amount of sense, though acknowledging that it didn't make ''complete'' sense.

** [[spoiler:Putata and Mekeke]] in Episode 20. Invoked for the former: Thorn found the original character, and how he and Travis where writing their version, so obnoxious that only an unceremonious death seemed appropriate.

** Episode 25 gives everyone and the series a proper ending, as an apology to the crew.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Tamama remarks to Keroro in Episode 23: "Sarge, I know our relationship's better, but professionally we're over." By the end of the episode, [[spoiler:the platoon is freed from the Keronian military]].

** Dororo's eyes sometimes do strange things. In Episode 6 they twitch uncontrollably the day after the first radio show, they can be seen following a bug crawling around Tamama's head in Episode 11 when adult Pururu is introduced, and they spin around inside his head in Episode 16 when Kilili is introduced.

* 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. He also thinks Episode 24 had a similar feel and atmosphere to Episode 5 for its focus on one of the sidelined female characters.

** 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/{{Pulp}} and Music/JarvisCocker, Music/PrimalScream, and Music/FaithNoMore and Music/MrBungle.
*** The one exception was Episode 18, which instead featured pictures of the team who won Creator/TheMidnightFrogs' 2011 Sgt Frog abridging contest.

*** The first Post-Credits is a mocking parody of "Wiggle" by Jason Derulo, 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.

** The team recorded a parody of Music/TheBeatles' "Yellow Submarine" in December 2009 called "'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZbbrC1HVOE Tamama's Titties]]'''". It was based on an in-joke involving Tamama with breasts, and though Thorn always had the file, [[OldShame he didn't release it to the public until 2014]]. It and the in-joke it was based on, however, did influence the direction the team would take with Keroro and Tamama's relationship.
** "'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r-V_wHf6TU Friendship]]'''" - Parody of "You've Got a Friend in Me" by Music/RandyNewman from ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory''. Parodies Newman's guttural singing voice by having the entire song be lyrically nonsensical and garbled. AKA: "Don't Hit Your Dick with a Brick".

** "'''Look at Your Boobs''': - Parody of "Part of Your World" from ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid''. Sung by Thorn as Giroro about his apparent gender dysphoria, wishing that he had breasts like Space Detective Poyon. Appeared in snippets in various ''SFA'' episodes but a full version was never completed.

** Keroro: "I'm a [[AmbiguouslyGay pipe]]-[[BiTheWay cleaner]]."

** Saburo is played as mute, or at least he never gets the chance to speak. Let's Player [=MrFailGame=] is listed in every Season 2 episode as a person or object that never speaks. [[spoiler:When Saburo finally gets an audible line in Episode 18, [[SuddenlyVoiced it's voiced by MrFailGame]]]].

* SuddenlyVoiced:

''Sgt Frog Abridged'' is TheAbridgedSeries of ''Manga/SgtFrog'' by Creator/TheMidnightFrogs, originally created by Mugiwara Yoshi and currently headed by [=ThornBrain=]. It is hosted on Website/YouTube on [[https://www.youtube.com/user/TheMidnightFrogs TheMidnightFrogs' channel]].

Viewers have noted that ''SFA'' is considerably different from ''Manga/SgtFrog'', and the series is known for being a well-made parody of a comedy, something that numerous people found to be a bad idea before they saw ''SFA''. The authors attribute this to taking the series in a different writing and story direction, as the writing focuses more on RapidFireComedy snark, absurdity, and surrealism than the original's referential humor. LGBT subjects are also occasionally examined, [[spoiler:culminating in Giroro and Dororo becoming a couple and eventually getting married]].

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 ''[[https://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 his personal projects from thereon. Creator/TheMidnightFrogs went into indefinite hiatus by 2017, but they made the surprise announcement in January 2020 of ''The Sgt Frog Abridged Movie'''s official release set for February 16.

''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'=] ''WebVideo/TamersAbridged'', ''WebVideo/HowICaughtYourMother'', 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.

** Alisa appeared and became Fuyuki's girlfriend in Episode 13, but aside from a brief joke in Episode 16, she and their relationship were never referenced again. This is because the series was shortened drastically from what Yoshi and Thorn had planned at the time, 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 diverge 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.

** All of Tamama's invasion plans in Episode 9 are two-to-three-word phrases that start with a hard "k" sound (Kangaroo Catapult, Cockblocking Cantaloupe, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick Colostomy Coffee Pot]]).

** Alisa and her father Black Nebula in Episode 13. Nebula releases the trapped platoon, who he was going to eat, if Fuyuki agreed to be Alisa's boyfriend, which he has no trouble accepting.

* AllThereInTheScript: Aki's husband stuck in the Hinatas' basement, [[spoiler:who was later confirmed to be Todd Sirkowski]], [[http://themidnightfrogs.wikia.com/wiki/Sgt_Frog_Abridged_-_Episode_2_(script) was originally written in the SFA2 script as "Haru"]], the FanNickname for the unseen Hinata patriarch in Manga/SgtFrog.[[invoked]]

** Shurara in Season 3, with the members of his corps being sent to the platoon as [[MonsterOfTheWeek villains of the week]].

* BigScrewedUpFamily: The Viper family is central to the backstories and {{Freudian Excuse}}s of several characters, particularly Dororo, [[spoiler:Keroro and Shurara]]. Viper himself is a highly promiscuous space pirate, resulting in so many thousands of children that a government website was established to keep track of them, and he was a DisappearedDad for all of them. Dororo is one of the few he had much of any involvement with as Dororo grew up, but he was still rarely around due to 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]]. [[spoiler:At the same time, we meet Shurara, yet another of Viper's bastard children, who was mothered by insane hobo Joriri and has severe hatred and resentment of Keroro thanks to his and Viper's reconciliation. The series finale revealed that Keroro also had a twin.]]

** Episode 14 opens with Dororo's blood splattered all over a wall. Koyuki acts [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight unsurprised]].

** Dororo experiences a MushroomSamba in Episode 23, and one of the hallucinations is of Mukuro from Episode 14 once again falling down a waterfall.

** Kululu is apparently on drugs in Episode 23, but he sent his "best shit on vacation" I.E. slipped them into Dororo's food before he left for a sabbatical. Cut to Dororo in the middle of a MushroomSamba.

** Fuyuki, Tamama, Aki, and Mois, though each has had their moments of clarity.
** Raiden in Season 2.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Episodes 1R and 2R were generic and derivative Abridged Series videos in comparison to the rest of the series, which has a better developed style. They were remade between Seasons 1 and 2 to bring them in-line with this style.

** Episode 25 gives everyone and the series a proper ending, as a apology to the crew.

** Viper poses a threat to the platoon at first in Episode 4, but simply being flabbergasted by Dororo causes him to give up. His later appearances are as a comically unsupportive dad to Dororo.

* HeelFaceTurn: Robobo in Episode 25. Shurara revives him as a giant mech, which he uses to fight the platoon. However between then and Shurara going mental and growing asteroid-sized, Kululu cannibalizes Robobo and turns him into a Keroro-Gundam, which the platoon use to rescue Shurara.
* 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]]. Cue Shurara's introduction.

** Keroro was [[spoiler:sold as a child, and not for very much money. He had to buy himself back]], and he ends up living in a clubhouse in the junkyard, all without learning who his real family is until adulthood.

--->'''Keroro''' (exhausted and voice cracking): "So, I'm gonna jettison him into space. He can be Franchise/{{Superman}}! ''Somewhere else''!"

** Kilili, the name bestowed on the baby Kiruru in Episode 16, comes from the a series of ''Sgt Frog'' fanfictions that Yoshi and his friends loved to read and mock. Kilili was an OC in the stories with many of the MarySueClassic characteristics.

** Episode 7 is a WholeEpisodeFlashback to Keroro, Giroro and Dororo (then-Zeroro) as kids going on a treasure hunt. The latter two's friendship gets some development, leading to them eventually getting together as a couple and then married. Their relationship is one of the linchpins of Season 2, and [[Podcast/AskGiroDoroSFA their character Q&A blog]] documents the lead-up to ''SFA: Reset'' and Season 3.
** The primary plot of Episode 13, a HalloweenEpisode where Fuyuki gets a girlfriend, is rarely referenced again and has little bearing on the main StoryArc. Just before the credits, a capsule with a timer crashes into the platoon's base, starting the arc that culminates in HQ and the Garuru Platoon attempting to kill them in the final three episodes of the season. The Kiruru inside the capsule, with help from Keroro, [[spoiler:also kills everyone in the universe]], setting up the necessity of ''SFA: Reset'' as a {{prequel}} to Season 3.

* LargeHam: Keroro, Kululu, Garuru, Shurara, and the occasional bit character, all to varying degrees.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: The fourth wall has been broken a few times in the series, but the writers prefer not to nowadays, in stark contrast to the original series, [[NoFourthWall which wouldn't even exist if it had a fourth wall]]. In the cases where they played it straight, [[CreatorBacklash they almost always regret the joke afterward]].

* LoggingOntoTheFourthWall: In Episode 25, Keroro finds and visits a forum, "Fuckeroro.edu", which is run by Shurara and dedicated to talking about how awful he is. [[http://fuckeroro.boards.net/ It's a real (albeit short-lived and minimalist) forum]] made with Proboards. Keroro also accesses "[=IFuckedViper.gov=]", but it's not a real site.

* NWordPrivileges: Averted. Keroro outright says "Nig-" in Episode 8.

** Alisa and Black Nebula in Episode 13. Alisa is a doll brought to life by amorphous alien Black Nebula, who treats her like a daughter. Alisa takes a liking to Fuyuki, and by the end of the episode they become a couple. Aside from an offhand line from Fuyuki in Episode 16, they're never seen or referenced again.[[note]]They were not intended to only show up once, but the series was reshuffled after Episode 13 proved difficult to write and the series was drastically shortened, leaving no future episodes where they appear.[[/note]]

** Narrator: "You may be fat, but you're ph-at where I come from."

** Keroro gives one to [[spoiler:Shurara, in a way that's intended positively - by acknowledging all of the bad ways they are same, Keroro sees that what he does to others is wrong and seeks to heal with Shurara]].

** Solid Snake is a straight example. Practically every one of his lines is a quote from ''Metal Gear Solid'' 1 and 2.
* 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 [[CanonDiscontinuity the team treat them in the series like they didn't happen]].

* RevolvingDoorCasting: Momoka in Season 1, who went through five different voice actors before she was killed off the following season [[{{Irony}} after finally getting a stable VA]]. She was resurrected in Season 3 with said stable VA returning.

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

** Pururu closes Episode 25 by [[spoiler:revealing that Keroro has a twin, teasing the Abridged Movie]].

* 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. The writers remain mum on if ''WebVideo/JettersAbridged'' shares its universe with ''SFA'', as ''Jetters'' is purposefully written to never reference ''SFA''.

** Kululu: "I'm gonna go watch Series/{{Matlock}}; I don't need this crap."

** "'''Look at Your Boobs''': - Parody of "Part of Your World" from ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid''. Sung by Thorn as Giroro about his transvestism and apparent gender dysphoria, wishing that he had breasts like Space Detective Poyon. Appeared in snippets in various ''SFA'' episodes long before the full version was written and released.
** Unnamed Parody of "Pepper" by Music/ButtholeSurfers. Set to be released after [=SFA25=], and it's to be about Shurara and [[spoiler:Joriri's]] relationship.

* 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 hundreds of thousands of other children exist.

--> "Jenny, Bob... Bob 2?"

** [=InfamousGentleman=]'s Kululu gradually became rougher and more sinister after his first appearance. Even his casual lines sound disdainful now.

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 ''[[https://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 his personal projects from thereon. Creator/TheMidnightFrogs went into indefinite hiatus by 2017 with little likelihood of returning.

** Kululu: "It's because there's time now. [[Series/TheTwilightZone Time enough at last!]] ''[{{Beat}}]'' [[LampshadeHanging It's a joke. LAUGH!]]"

* 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.

* AllOfThem: Pururu discovers in Episode 11 that Dororo has "everything", as in every disease ever. They're all benign and non-contagious ([[MadeOfExplodium supposedly]]), and she cannot understand why, while Dororo doesn't seem particularly fazed by it since he purposefully took in diseases from other people to try and make friends.
* AllThereInTheScript: Aki's husband stuck in the Hinatas' basement, [[spoiler:who was later confirmed to be Todd Sirkowski]], [[http://themidnightfrogs.wikia.com/wiki/Sgt_Frog_Abridged_-_Episode_2_(script) was originally written in the SFA2 script as "Haru"]], the FanNickname for the unseen Hinata patriarch in Manga/SgtFrog.

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

* QuietlyPerformingSisterShow: ''WebVideo/JettersAbridged'' and ''Tamers Abridged'' are this to ''SFA'': well liked and respected in their own right, but not nearly as popular.

''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'', ''WebVideo/HowICaughtYourMother'', 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.

'''Keroro:''' "NO- oh. Yeah, that's me. But isn't that why you like me?"\\
'''Pururu:''' "Why was the gay guy fired from his job?"\\
'''Keroro:''' "Because he was gay??"\\
'''Pururu:''' "BECAUSE HE SUCKED."

-->''Episode 11''

'''Keroro:''' "NO- oh. Yeah, that's me. But isn't that why you like me?"

* AllJustADream: Episode 9 turns out to be a daydream Tamama has after Keroro embarrasses himself in front of the platoon.

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. Creator/TheMidnightFrogs went into indefinite hiatus by 2017.