History YMMV / SgtFrogAbridged

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Saburo's original voice actor, [=DFatman=], intended to voice him as a drunk. When Fatman was kicked out of the team, Thorn and Yoshi decided to leave Saburo mute for RuleOfFunny, until Episode 18 when he was very briefly voiced by [=MrFailGame=]... who later died from alcohol-related problems.

* HarsherInHindsight: In ''SFA: Reset'', Keroro notes that [[CharacterDevelopment his attitude has changed]] after having "a rough talk with a friend", the exact thing that nearly ended Thorn and Yoshi's working relationship a year later, though their argument also led to real-life character development for Thorn.

* ValuesDissonance: The writing of the first two seasons is often "collar-tuggy" by the writers' own admissions, including BlackComedyRape and casual slurs slung about from people without NWordPrivileges, all of which were largely acceptable and commonplace in [=YouTube=] comedy videos at the time. Thorn also notes that, if she had been remotely educated about UsefulNotes/{{transgender}} lives, issues, and dysphoria early in the series, Giroro and Tamama's (and even Joriri's) characters and arcs would not have turned out how they did, but she and much of the internet were not so well-informed until well into the [=2010s=].

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Episode 11's "It's okay to like both men and women".

* HilariousInHindsight: The writers made all of the characters [[EveryoneIsBi defaulted to bisexual]] unless stated otherwise, and Giroro was also made a WholesomeCrossdresser. Writer [=ThornBrain=] initially came out during production of Episode 11 as a bisexual (later pansexual) transvestite herself, admitting she was only starting to realize this about herself around the time Giroro was made a crossdresser. In early 2020, she admitted that if she were better informed about {{transgender}} lives, issues, and dysphoria early in the series, Giroro and Tamama's (and even Joriri's) characters and arcs would not have turned out how they did, but she and much of the internet were poorly informed then. Go figure, she'd wrestled with her gender identity for the entirety of the [=2010s=], eventually coming out in January 2021 as a transwoman.

* ValuesDissonance: The writing of the first two seasons is often "collar-tuggy" by the writers' own admissions, including BlackComedyRape and casual slurs slung about from people without NWordPrivileges, all of which were largely acceptable and commonplace in [=YouTube=] comedy videos at the time. Thorn also notes that, if she had been remotely educated about {{transgender}} lives, issues, and dysphoria early in the series, Giroro and Tamama's (and even Joriri's) characters and arcs would not have turned out how they did, but she and much of the internet were not so well-informed until well into the [=2010s=].

* AssPull: Most of the second half of Episode 10. [=ThornBrain=] admitted that she [[http://themidnightfrogs.wikia.com/wiki/Sgt_Frog_Abridged_-_Episode_10#Additional_Trivia "made it up as she went along"]]. Subverted when Episodes 1-3 were remade shortly after, wherein they made sure to foreshadow it. See the ChekhovsGag entry for what in the episode ''was'' planned ahead.

* HoYay:
** The series made Keroro and Tamama a couple. [[spoiler:Subverted after Episode 10, when it is discovered that Tamama is actually a girl]].
** Giroro and Dororo. Dororo hits on Giroro at the end of Episode 6, they have a semi-serious bit of bonding at the end of Episode 7, and they are noticeably closer friends by Episode 11. Then in the Post-Credits to Episode 14, [[spoiler:Dororo asks Giroro to marry him]]. [[spoiler:And then ''TheyDo'' get married in Episode 15. Giroro even says "We've been fucking behind your backs for ''months!''"]]

* AssPull: Most of the second half of Episode 10. [=ThornBrain=] admitted that she [[http://themidnightfrogs.wikia.com/wiki/Sgt_Frog_Abridged_-_Episode_10#Additional_Trivia "made it up as he went along"]]. Subverted when Episodes 1-3 were remade shortly after, wherein they made sure to foreshadow it. See the ChekhovsGag entry for what in the episode ''was'' planned ahead.

* AssPull: Most of the second half of Episode 10. [=ThornBrain=] admitted that he [[http://themidnightfrogs.wikia.com/wiki/Sgt_Frog_Abridged_-_Episode_10#Additional_Trivia "made it up as he went along"]]. Subverted when Episodes 1-3 were remade shortly after, wherein they made sure to foreshadow it. See the ChekhovsGag entry for what in the episode ''was'' planned ahead.

** Kululu for Thorn in Season 3. Thorn didn't like Kululu much for most of the series, but for Season 3, since Kululu no longer cared about what was happening and didn't seem to do anything of purpose, Thorn and his co-writers were able to do ridiculous things with him. "[[ItMakesSenseInContext Pineapple boats]]" alone made him one of Thorn's favourite characters for that season.

* HilariousInHindsight: The writers made all of the characters [[EveryoneIsBi defaulted to bisexual]] unless stated otherwise, and Giroro was also made a WholesomeCrossdresser. Writer [=ThornBrain=] came out during production of Episode 11 as a bisexual transvestite (later pansexual and nonbinary), which he was only starting to realize around the time Giroro was made a crossdresser.

** [[CreatorBacklash Writer Thorn considers Episode 13 to be the series' low-point]], and although the episodes after were good, he thinks Episode 17 was when SFA finally dug back out of it and truly get its spark back. This was mainly due to him and Yoshi jumping ahead and planning for 17, and the resulting excitement for such a later episode left them with no ideas or motivation for 13. It took them three tries to find an episode they could work with, and the resulting script was dry and unimpressive. Yoshi and Travis generally agree that 13 was "kinda bad", whereas all three (and many viewers) agree that 17 was one of the series' best episodes.

* ValuesDissonance: The writing of the first two seasons is often "collar-tuggy" by the writers' own admissions, including casual slurs slung about from people without NWordPrivileges and BlackComedyRape, all of which were largely acceptable and commonplace in [=YouTube=] comedy videos at the time. Thorn also notes that, if he had been remotely educated about {{transgender}} lives, issues, and dysphoria early in the series, Giroro and Tamama's (and even Joriri's) characters and arcs would not have turned out the ways they did, but he and much of the internet were not so well-informed until well into the [=2010s=].
* ViewerGenderConfusion: Even Tamama didn't know she was a girl. This came about as a result of ''Writer'' Gender Confusion: for the first several months of the team's existence, Thorn kept thinking Tamama was a girl. By Episode 3, he and Yoshi just decided to make it that way.

* ProductionNickname: Before Todd Sirkowski of Todd's Toilets was made Fuyuki and Natsumi's father, the Episode 2 script named their father trapped in the basement "Haru", after the FanNickname given to their absent father in the original series.