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[=TheMidnightFrogs=] are a [=YouTube=] [[TheAbridgedSeries abridging]] team, best known for their ''Webvideo/SgtFrogAbridged'' series. They were most active from 2010-2016 before going into hiatus, but they are sporadically active again as of 2019. The team is currently headed by Creator/ThornBrain with [=JigglyJacob=] and Mugiwara Yoshi.

The team was founded New Year's Day 2010 by Yoshi, Thorn, and [=DragonFatman=]. The members fluctuated rapidly during the first year, and in 2011 the core trio stabilized into Yoshi, Thorn and [=BigTUnit1/Travis=] for the next few years. [=JigglyJacob=] became the fourth lead in 2015 through writing on ''SFA'', and Travis formally left the team in 2017 after a long period of being too busy to take part in projects. Other honorary team members have also included voice actors Tiana, Revy Moonshine, codeblackhayate, [=InfamousGentleman=], Sawtooth, Dobuchu, Spacerkid, and team artist/mascot Teddy.

Yoshi retired from writing for ''SFA'' in 2012, and the team underwent an extended hiatus in 2014 that ended in April 2015 for the purposes of finishing ''SFA'' Season 3. They made a parody of ''Anime/PokemonOrigins'' called ''WebVideo/HowICaughtYourMother'', after being spurned on by Creator/TeamFourStar's TIBA abridging contest; despite the desire to continue the series, they quietly went into hiatus by the end of the year. As of 2017, the team had informally dissolved, but they made a surprise return for ''SFA'''s 10th anniversary in 2020 with ''The Sgt Frog Abridged Movie'', and the door is open for more abridging projects if they find the time.

Along with the above, the team created four Franchise/{{Pokemon}} one-shot abridged videos,[[note]]one of them a remake of the first one-shot[[/note]] a short-lived ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' abridged series, six AprilFoolsDay videos, a long-running podcast, and many supplemental videos for ''SFA''.

Other projects by [=TheMidnightFrogs=] include their Lets Play channel LetsPlay/TheStrawhatNO,[[note]]Thorn, Yoshi, Jacob, and formerly Travis[[/note]] side AbridgedSeries ''WebVideo/JettersAbridged'',[[note]]Thorn, Travis, and codeblackhayate, based on the ''Anime/BombermanJetters'' anime[[/note]] Thorn's {{Fan Webcomic|s}} ''Webcomic/TheLegendOfZeldaBookOfTheTraitor''; and her music on [[http://thornbrain.bandcamp.com BandCamp]].

The team's voice actors are also involved in many other projects: former voice actor Revy Moonshine is a founding member of [[WebVideo/MobileSuitGundamAbridged Gutted Wren Studios]] and wrote their ''Patlabor'' abridged movie, [=InfamousGentleman=] writes film reviews under Infamous Films, and Sawtooth is a New England [[http://djsawtooth.bandcamp.com/ musician and DJ]]. Tiana, codeblackhayate and Travis all voice act professionally, and their resumes are much too big to list.

The team's website is [[http://themidnightfrogs.wikia.com/ here]]. Tropes related to the ''WebVideo/SgtFrogAbridged'' series should go on its page.

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!!Major works by this team:[[index]]
* ''WebVideo/SgtFrogAbridged'' - (February 16, 2010 - December 31, 2015) - Finished
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM93KDhG_Ss The Sgt Frog Abridged Movie]]'' - (February 16, 2020)
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L7z7HtUGqo Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Abridged]]'' - (June 14, 2010) - One-shot[[/index]]
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4N2F8_DU8c Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Abridged: Fire Red Version]]'' - (June 14, 2014; TheRemake) - One-shot[[index]]
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZogsgkr5Ho Best Wishes Abridged]]'' - (November 25, 2010) - One-shot[[/index]]
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYad2LfVlxI Other People's Wedding Videos Abridged]]'' - (AprilFoolsDay, 2011) - One-shot[[index]]
* ''WebVideo/TamersAbridged'' - (January 9, 2014 - August 31, 2014) - Canceled but may be revived
* ''WebVideo/{{SAHNIK}}'' - [[/index]](AprilFoolsDay, 2014)[[index]]
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWfkutZvS6o KAYAK]]'' - [[/index]](AprilFoolsDay, 2021)[[index]]
* ''WebVideo/HowICaughtYourMother'' - (June 30, 2016) - One-shot but may continue

!!!Solo and sister works:
* ''WebVideo/JettersAbridged'' - (Team Bulge Bomb; April 2, 2011 - February 14, 2014)
* ''WebVideo/TheAudioLogsOfDrSquid'' - (Laserbucks Productions; April 13, 2012 - September 29, 2013)
* ''[[http://askdeepdashandcrazytwilight.tumblr.com/ Ask Deep Dash and Crazy Twilight]]'' - (Mugiwara Yoshi solo; April 21, 2012 - 2018)
* ''Podcast/AskGiroDoroSFA'' - ([=ThornBrain=] solo; June 25, 2012 - January 5, 2020)[[/index]]

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!!This team provides examples of:
* TheAbridgedSeries: Of ''Manga/SgtFrog'', ''Anime/DigimonTamers'', and ''Anime/PokemonOrigins'' on the main channel, ''Anime/BombermanJetters'' on the Team Bulge Bomb side account, and one-shots of ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' and ''Anime/SonicX''.
* {{Absurdism}}: While ''SFA'' has a plot, most of the team's videos and writing are based around abstract silliness. ''WebVideo/{{SAHNIK}}'' and ''PMDA/PMDA: Fire Red'' in particular are utterly meaningless, written more to have fun with nonsense and [[BaitAndSwitch misdirecting viewers]] than to have a point. ''SAHNIK'''s sequel, ''KAYAK'', jumps the line into SurrealHumor.
* ADayInTheLimelight: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLauoNPXLdJ4bbc7jzzlMrN3RzOU1HcOMx Meet the Frogs]]'' was an interview series made to do this for the then-voice actors on the team.
* AprilFoolsDay: The team made a joke video to celebrate this day every year from 2010 to 2014: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfkJDmYvtGY Paper Abridged]]'', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYad2LfVlxI Other People's Wedding Videos Abridged]]'', ''Literature/{{Crash}} [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNRqKa5-Gzo Abridged]]'', ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTtKXUQTMU4 Sgt Frog Abridged - Episode 1 Remastered]]''[[note]]Episode 1 with the character voices switched[[/note]], and ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dF1b2_qn8vc SAHNIK]]''[[note]]Parody of Anime/SonicX Episode 1, based on Thorn and Yoshi's many Sonic-related inside jokes[[/note]]. 2015's April Fool's video was on LetsPlay/TheStrawhatNO. After the team came out of hiatus in 2020, ''SAHNIK'' got a surprise sequel on April Fool's 2021 called ''KAYAK''.
* BreadEggsMilkSquick: Sawtooth starts listing off things they should do before Thorn goes back home in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy_eDcD8-Tc&t=18m24s Bosto- er... Lowell 2013]]'':
-->"We'll have a slumber party! We can... roast marshmallows, and... paint nails, and play vidjya games, and do each other's taxes, and eat pancakes, start a family, go to church on Sunday, go to college, eat family...!"
* CanonDiscontinuity: In their formative December 2009 days, they recorded their first song parody: "[[MissingEpisode Tamama's Titties]]", based on Music/TheBeatles' "Yellow Submarine". It was never released, and over time they decided it was too bad to be made public. To emphasize how much of an OldShame it is, Thorn considered uploading it to her archive channel, and Yoshi outright told her not to. Eventually subverted in May 2014: Thorn uploaded it to her archive channel after deciding to dissolve [=TheMidnightFrogs=]. She reversed the dissolution two days later but kept the song publicly available.
* FunWithAcronyms: Starting with ''Tamers Abridged'', the team sometimes use a fictional TV station, WTMF-49, as a framing device for their parodies. The TMF means [=TheMidnightFrogs=], and the W is used as a station code in the eastern United States where most of [=TheMidnightFrogs=] are located. Thorn also likes to think that the name stands for "[[MindScrew What the motherfuck?]]".
* GagDub: ''Other People's Wedding Videos Abridged'', of a random wedding video from [=YouTube=].
* HilariousOuttakes: Gag Reels were released at various points during each ''SFA'' season, and they sometimes also contained outtakes from their side projects or spinoffs: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttA46-7u0s0 Reel 1]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP0rjV91H0s Reel 2]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tpdG7E70Ak Reel 3]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiwggIz6o64 Reel 4]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0POdf_-A3w Reel 5]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucT0xXigRys Reel 6]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbOdDW2FjHE Reel 7]].
* IHaveManyNames: Some of the team members have used multiple usernames during the team's life:
** Mugiwara Yoshi was originally known as [=SMSYoshi=] in the team's early days, and he was credited as simply "Yoshi" in the original ''SFA'' pilot due to wanting to change the username but not knowing to what. He also started going by "[=MugiStraw=]" in the mid-[=2010s=].
** Sawtooth also went by Vorhias and [=MrVorhias=] before coming out as trans.
** [=InfamousGentleman=] was formerly credited as [=Jpace92=], but the credit was switched when he began making new content under the former.
** Jiggly Jacob originally went by [=TheSmashBro=] and thesupersmashbro before permanently changing aliases. His [=YouTube=] account is still permalinked as [=TheSmashBro=].
** Dobuchu was originally credited as her [=YouTube=] username Narusasu, but the credit was switched at her approval when Thorn realized she was probably better known for voice acting under the former.
* InJoke:
** Thorn made [[http://themidnightfrogs.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Inside_Jokes several pages on the website]] dedicated to these. Most of them are from the formative December 2009 - February 2010 period.
** ''WebVideo/{{SAHNIK}}'' is based mostly on Thorn and Yoshi's Sonic-related inside jokes, plus some other in-jokes from LetsPlay/TheStrawhatNO. ''KAYAK'' is the same but for their LetsPlay of ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes''.
* MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext: The warning on the site article for [[http://themidnightfrogs.wikia.com/wiki/Kemama Kemama]], an InJoke between Thorn and Yoshi that found its way to ''SFA'' five years later, says exactly this. [[MindScrew For good reason]].
* ManOfAThousandVoices: Thorn and Travis play the most characters with the most different voices.
* MundaneMadeAwesome: ''Paper Abridged'', which starts with an excited intro before showing Thorn simply folding a piece of paper.
* OneSteveLimit: On the "[[http://themidnightfrogs.wikia.com/wiki/Got_Married,_Didn%27t_Want_To Got Married, Didn't Want To]]" podcast, Jacob tells a story of this being averted several times at once in school:
--> "My name is James Jacob Russell. In this class there was another kid named James, a kid named Jacob, and a kid named Russell."
* {{Podcast}}: ''[[http://themidnightfrogs.wikia.com/wiki/TheMidnightFrogs_Podcast TheMidnightFrogs Podcast]]'', which is used to discuss recent releases from the team and goof off. The podcast was originally an offshoot of the team's first podcast, ''[[http://themidnightfrogs.wikia.com/wiki/Fatty_Time Fatty Time]]'', which covered a broad range of topics while having very little structure. They also argued a ''lot''.
* TheRemake:
** The first three episodes of ''SFA'' were remade in the interim between Seasons 1 and 2. The originals were renamed 1R, 2R and 3R, and later they were set to unlisted so that they wouldn't be treated as canonical by new viewers.
** ''Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Abridged'' was remade for its fourth birthday as a ''Fire Red Version'', rewritten and revoiced entirely from the ground up.
* RoadTripPlot: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy_eDcD8-Tc Bosto- er... Lowell 2013]]'', which is Thorn, Sawtooth and their friends driving to an arcade a state over and goofing off. It's technically the blog for Thorn's trip to Boston that year, but as she puts it in the video:
-->"I haven't recorded anything for the last two days, [[BrutalHonesty because I couldn't be assed]]."
* ShoutOut: ''[[WebVideo/{{SAHNIK}} KAYAK]]'' was originally titled ''Other People's Wedding Videos Abridged - Episode 3: [[Music/EltonJohn Crocodile Rock]]''.
* SpinOff:
** LetsPlay/TheStrawhatNO: Thorn, Yoshi and Travis's LetsPlay channel.
** Team Bulge Bomb, the creators of ''WebVideo/JettersAbridged'', are [=TheMidnightFrogs=] condensed to Thorn, Travis, and codeblackhayate. Tiana also appeared in an episode.
* SurrealHumor: Most of their videos contain some elements of surrealism alongside the above-mentioned {{absurdism}}. ''KAYAK'' is especially surreal: the Chaotix get increasingly detached from reality as it goes on, Chris's line is just his one line from ''SAHNIK'' chopped and rearranged into the style of ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'', Charmy and Vector sing about how [[NoodleIncident Charmy was a fungus on one of Vector's testicles "and now I'm your son]]", and it [[spoiler:has a [[SurprisinglyCreepyMoment surprisingly creepy ending]]]].
* TakeThat: Their old and obscure video "Really Shit Drawings of a Japanese Pokemon Thing by MYTB ROCK ON HOMIES" was this to ''Sgt Frog'' parody video maker BMNC and her fans. Thorn later apologized publicly for it.
* TheirFirstTime: During the "[[http://themidnightfrogs.wikia.com/wiki/Sadly_Making_Out_in_Boston Sadly Making Out in Boston]]" podcast, Thorn and her then-girlfriend Olivia mention how their first time having sex included Olivia kicking Thorn in the head and Thorn knocking Olivia's head repeatedly against the wall.
* VisualPun: ''Paper Abridged'' has Thorn folding a piece of paper, literally abridging it.
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