History Trivia / SgtFrogAbridged

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** Revy Moonshine, also from Gutted Wren, voiced Koyuki from Episode 4 to Episode 18 before stepping down prior to Episode 22. Thaichestnuts filled the role from then on.
** Ches also filled in for Teddy as the voice of Nuii from Episode 22 on.

* ScheduleSlip: Episodes 4 through 15 were released one-to-two months after each other. After Episode 15, there were often several months between new episodes, with Episodes 20 and 21 being a whole year apart from each other. Thorn intended to do an episode a month again following [=SFA21=] through to the season finale, but that too slipped when [=SFA22=] took longer to figure out than he'd hoped.

** Also Lil' Keroro's shocked expression in Episode 4 is simply a frame of him turning his head that Yoshi discovered by accident.
** Keroro brushing his toothbrush in the Episode 2 Post-Credits was a result of Yoshi mistyping "I'm going to brush my teeth" as "I'm going to brush brush my toothbrush" during scriptwriting for [=SFA2R=]. Thorn liked the idea of Keroro brushing his toothbrush, so it stayed. It was edited for 2R, but the entire line was later put into the remake.

** The writers intended to bring back Momoka after killing her off in Episode 13, but her voice actress Dobuchu moved to Japan shortly after the episode went up. As a result, they simply left her dead. Dobuchu returned to the US in 2013, allowing Momoka to return, but she wasn't revived until Episode 22 in August 2015.

** Viper only became Dororo's father when Yoshi joked about Viper's eyepatch being similar to Lil' Zeroro's mask. [[ThrowItIn They just ran with it]], and by Season 2 it was a recurring plot point and a key theme of the series.

** In Episode 2, Aki mentions that the guy who removed the ghost from the basement was "some guy from Florida", a reference to Kululu's voice actor, [=Jpace92=], a then-resident of Florida.

** [=LillyLivers=], codeblackhayate and [=BigTUnit1=] all voiced in multiple projects (internet and professional) before voicing in SFA.

** For a time, Thorn kept forgetting that Tamama was male and not female. He randomly came up with a joke that would reveal that Tamama really was a girl, and he and Yoshi decided to make it canon. After deciding this, they would occasionally make unintentional Freudian slips revealing this, but they simply pretended that they were still confused about Tamama's gender. Then Episode 10 rolls around...

* McLeaned: [[spoiler:Momoka.]] [[WordOfGod The writers would have happily brought her back]] after [[YourHeadAsplode explosively decapitating her]], but her voice actor moved to Japan shortly after the episode went up, so she stayed dead. Subverted in 2013, when her VA moved back to the US. See also WhatCouldHaveBeen below.

** Giroro, Kululu, Mois, and HQ all had voice actor change-ups after their characters had already appeared (to say nothing of the numerous voice actors hired to voice Dororo, Momoka, Omiyo, and Natsumi but were removed before they ever appeared in an episode).

** Teddy, a young friend and fanboy of the team, was made official team artist in December 2011 and drew the artwork that made up [[spoiler:Giroro & Dororo's wedding]] in Episode 15, the official SFA logo from Season 3 onward, and various other contributions.

* ScheduleSlip: Episodes 4 through 15 were released one-to-two months after each other. Afterward, there were often several months between new episodes, with Episodes 20 and 21 being a whole year apart from each other. Thorn intended to do an episode a month again following [=SFA21=], but that too slipped when [=SFA22=] took longer to figure out than he'd hoped.

** Keroro trips over himself trying to say a tongue twister in Episode 16. Yoshi was supposed to joke-flub the line; the take used was him messing up ''for real''.

** The writers intended to bring back Momoka after killing her off in Episode 13, but her voice actress Narusasu moved to Japan shortly after the episode went up. As a result, they simply left her dead. However, Narusasu returned to the US in 2013, so Momoka has the chance to return as well.
* TheWikiRule: [[http://themidnightfrogs.wikia.com TheMidnightFrogs Wiki]] is the team's official website run by Thorn, but it's made with Wikia, so it applies.

* WrittenByCastMember: Thorn and Yoshi[[note]]Retired from writing after Episode 16[[/note]] are the writers and lead voice actors. Episode 6 was co-written with Natsumi's VA [=LillyLivers=], and Travis voiced various minor characters before becoming co-writer with Episode 9.

** The creators openly disowned the original Episode 1. They remade [=SFA1=] to make it funnier, more in-line with their current writing style, and to make it in-canon with the current continuity. They don't think very fondly of Episode 2R either, and they remade it as well.

** ''Not'' the case in regards to ending the series. Thorn had every intention of ending the series for good. He just simply changed his mind.

** Jiggly Jacob, a self-professed fanboy of Creator/TheMidnightFrogs and the creator of his own (now defunct) Manga/SgtFrog AbridgedSeries (read FollowTheLeader), was made the voice of HQ. He became an honorary team member after ''SFA: Reset''.
** Tempe, a young friend and fanboy of the team, was made official team artist in December 2011 and drew the artwork that made up [[spoiler:Giroro & Dororo's wedding]] in Episode 15, the official SFA logo from Season 3 onward, and various other contributions.

* ScheduleSlip: Episodes 4 through 15 were released one-to-two months after each other. Afterward, there were often several months between new episodes, with Episodes 20 and 21 being a whole year apart from each other. Thorn intended to do an episode a month again following SFA21, but that too slipped when SFA22 took longer to figure out than he'd hoped.

** For a time, Thorn kept forgetting that Tamama was male and not female. [[spoiler:He randomly came up with a joke that would reveal that Tamama really was a girl, and he and Yoshi decided to make it canon. After deciding this,]] they would occasionally make unintentional Freudian slips revealing this, but they simply pretended that they were still confused about Tamama's gender. [[spoiler:Then Episode 10 rolls around...]]

* RealitySubtext: Subversion. Writer Thorn came out during production of Episode 11 as a bisexual transvestite, but [[WordOfGod he states]] that he has always been an [=LGBT=] activist, so the series' examinations of sexuality were likely to happen anyway. He does however acknowledge that making [[EveryoneIsBi all of the characters bisexual]] and making Giroro a CrossDresser is HilariousInHindsight.
* ShipperOnDeck: The reason Giroro and Dororo were made a couple: because Thorn ships them.

* UnCanceled: Originally ended November 2012, with the creators seeming prepared to never look back. Three months and a failed attempt to start another AbridgedSeries later, Thorn was more than happy to bring it back and do it again.

** There was talk briefly during the series' early days of it becoming part of Creator/WingerDingerProductions, due to [=LillyLivers'=] association with the project. This was shortly before [=WingerDinger=] was hacked and subsequently abandoned, so nothing became of it.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://themidnightfrogs.wikia.com TheMidnightFrogs Wiki]]. Actually the team's official website run by Thorn, but it's made with Wikia, so it technically applies.

** In an even stranger example, [[spoiler:the climax to Episode 10 with Future Kululu]] is what happens when Thorn takes numerous disparate elements from the first season and decides to tie them together. He and Yoshi barely planned for the climax prior to scriptwriting, and Episode 10 in fact had the most planning of any episode up to that point.
** Viper only became Dororo's father when Yoshi joked about Viper's eyepatch being similar to Lil' Zeroro's mask. [[ThrowItIn They just ran with it]].
** Happened again when writing for Keroro's monologue in Episode 18. The intention was for him to [[FreudianExcuse blame his parents]] for all the troubles in his life; after two minutes of thinking about what could apply to that, [[spoiler:it turned into a reveal that Keroro is Dororo's little brother]].

*** TheLastStraw: On the subject of Momoka, she 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 Episode 13, effectively being TheLastStraw that broke her character's existence.

** They refer to the original first two episodes as "[=SFA1R=]" and "[=SFA2R=]", the "R" standing for "Retconned".
** Thorn is also fairly unhappy with Episode 8, and he, Yoshi and Travis consider Episode 13 to be their worst. 13 is set to be remade on Halloween 2014, but Yoshi and Travis still like 8, so it will not be remade.

** Sumomo and an animator in Episode 8 were voiced by [=1KidsEntertainment=], best known for ''WebVideo/PokemonTheBridgedSeries''.
** [=1Kids'=] cohort xJerry64x also makes a cameo as an animator in Episode 8. [[RelationshipVoiceActor Same scene as 1Kids, too]].

* TalkingToHimself: [=ThornBrain=] voices approximately a third of the cast, including major, minor, and bit characters. Most obvious in Episode 7, where the credits list Yoshi and [=BigTUnit1=], followed by:

** [=TheSmashBro=], a self-professed fanboy of Creator/TheMidnightFrogs and the creator of his own (now defunct) Manga/SgtFrog AbridgedSeries (read FollowTheLeader), was made the voice of HQ. He became an honorary team member after ''SFA: Reset''.

** LampshadeHanging: Giroro's voice change is joked about in the Episode 3R stinger as him getting over laryngitis and [[ActorAllusion losing 300 excess pounds]]. Kululu says a similar thing in Episode 10 by saying his voice change was him getting over a chest cold.
** Because the first few episodes were retconned, [[HandWave every voice actor change was also retconned out of the series]].
* TheOtherMarty: [=ThePS2God=], the original voice of Momoka, Omiyo and Dororo, had recorded lines for Episode 2(R) before being kicked from the project. However the then-script ended up not fitting with the source video, so his recordings were scrapped.

** There was talk briefly during the series' early days of it becoming part of WingerDingerProductions, due to [=LillyLivers'=] association with the project. This was shortly before [=WingerDinger=] was hacked and subsequently abandoned, so nothing became of it.

** Subverted May 25, 2014. Creator/TheMidnightFrogs dissolved, taking SFA with it again.

*** TheLastStrawt: On the subject of Momoka, she 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 Episode 13, effectively being TheLastStraw that broke her character's existence.

*** WaferThinMint: On the subject of Momoka, she 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 Episode 13, effectively being the final straw that broke her character's existence.

** Thorn is also fairly unhappy with Episodes 8 and 13. Not enough to retcon and remake them, obviously (though as of reviving the series, they're not off-limits anymore).

** For a time, Thorn kept forgetting that Tamama was male and not female[[spoiler:; after coming up with a joke that would reveal that Tamama really was a girl, he and Yoshi decided to make it canon]]. After deciding this, they would occasionally make unintentional Freudian slips revealing this, but they simply pretended that they were still confused about Tamama's gender. [[spoiler:Then Episode 10 rolls around...]]

* McLeaned: [[spoiler:Momoka.]] [[WordOfGod The writers would have happily brought her back]] after [[YourHeadAsplode explosively decapitating her]], but her voice actor moved to Japan shortly after the episode went up, so she stayed dead. See also WhatCouldHaveBeen below.

** Momoka was voiced by [=LillyLivers=] for her debut in 2R, but was voiced by Narusasu in Episode 10 onward. Narusasu would also do Momoka for the Episode 2 remake.

* TheOtherMarty: [=ThePS2God=], the original voice of Momoka, Omiyo and Dororo, had recorded lines for Episode 2(R) before being kicked from the project. However the then-script ended up not fitting the source video, so his recordings were scrapped.

** Tempe, a young friend and fanboy of the team, was made official team artist in December 2011 and drew the artwork that made up [[spoiler:Giroro & Dororo's wedding]] in Episode 15.

* UnCanceled: Originally ended November 2012, with the creators seeming prepared to never look back. Three months later, Thorn was more than happy to bring it back and do it again.

** The writers intended to bring back Momoka after killing her off in Episode 13, but her voice actress Narusasu moved to Japan shortly after the episode went up. As a result, they simply left her dead.
*** WaferThinMint: On the subject of Momoka, she 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 is the reason they didn't simply look for a new VA after Episode 13, effectively being the final straw that broke her character's existence.

** Happened again when writing for Keroro's monologue in Episode 18. The intention was for him to [[FreudianExcuse blame his parents]] for all the troubles in his life; after two minutes of thought, [[spoiler:it turned into a reveal that Keroro is Dororo's little brother]].
* WrittenByCastMember: Thorn and Yoshi are the writers and lead voice actors. Episode 6 was co-written with Natsumi's VA [=LillyLivers=], and Travis voiced various minor characters before becoming a recurring co-writer with Episode 9.

** [=TheSmashBro=], a self-professed fanboy of Creator/TheMidnightFrogs and the creator of his own (now defunct) Manga/KeroroGunsou AbridgedSeries (read FollowTheLeader), was made the voice of HQ.

* ShipperOnBoard: The reason Giroro and Dororo were made a couple: because Thorn ships them.

** Sumomo and an animator in Episode 8 were voiced by [=1KidsEntertainment=], best known for ''PokemonTheBridgedSeries''.

** Tempe, a young friend and fangirl of the team, was made official team artist in December 2011 and drew the artwork that made up [[spoiler:Giroro & Dororo's wedding]] in Episode 15.

** Sumomo, and an animator in Episode 8, were voiced by [=1KidsEntertainment=], best known for ''PokemonTheBridgedSeries''.

* McLeaned: [[spoiler:Momoka.]] [[WordOfGod The writers would have happily brought her back]] after [[YourHeadAsplode explosively decapitating her]], but her voice actor moved to Japan shortly after the episode went up, so she stayed dead. Narusasu was the first stable (and ostensibly the best) voice actor the team ever had for the character, making her move [[WaferThinMint the last in a long line of ways the character was cursed]].

** Momoka was voiced by [=LillyLivers=] for her debut in 2R, but was voiced by Narusasu in Episode 10. Narusasu would also do Momoka for the Episode 2 remake.

*** WaferThinMint: On the subject of Momoka, she had several voice actors (and people contacted about voicing her that never made it in) before her first appearance in Episode 2R (and she was given another voice actor when she finally reappeared in Episode 10). The constant trouble the team had getting her a voice is the reason they didn't simply look for a new VA after Episode 13, effectively being the final straw that broke her character's existence.