The best episodes of Big Time Rush
Ranked by viewer rating, highs first. Lit marks on the season rail place this list across the run. Vote on a placement to back it or contest it.
- 01
The guys, who desperately want to remain in L.A., have to pass the greenlight of their demos for that to happen, after Kelly tells them they will be forced to head back to Minnesota if they do not get their CD's greenlighted. Mercedes Griffin, Griffins daughter, comes and pretends to be the "secret someone who picks the demos". They soon find out that the demos are picked by a chimpanzee, so they try to bribe it to pick Big Time Rush. Meanwhile, Mrs. Knight tries to be assistant manager to stay at Palm Woods for Katie's sake.
- 02
In the eye of their first album release, Griffin, the head of the record label, cancels the album, tour, and concert, forcing them to return to Minnesota, which threatens to break up their life-long friendships. James gets mad and he's got 3 record deal, and joins Hawk, Gustavo's Arch-Rival. Gustavo has to pay back to Griffin $2,000,000 to get back Big Time Rush, and to get them to come back and to finally perform concert. They come back to the LA, and they cannot stay in the Palmwoods again, so they all start living in the Rocque Records "RocqueWoods". James does not want to come back to Big Time Rush so they open an audition for the new James, but they can find anyone and James comes back and they prepare for the concert
- 03
The boys are scheduled to make their first TV appearance, but when it looks like they'll be bumped, they do whatever it takes to keep their spot.
- 04
The boys hold their annual prank-day contest and the girls at Palm Woods want to participate, so it soon becomes a battle of boys vs. girls. Meanwhile, an awry prank-themed day with Gustavo and Kelly escalates into minor destruction and some violence. Logan becomes Dr. Hollywood's assistant for the day after his eyes got hurt because his own prank backfired on him. At the end, the prank war ended with Kendall and Katie as the champions.
- 05
When Gustavo begins working with a female pop group called the Kat's Crew, the boys of Big Time Rush get some jealousy when their new single "I Know You Know" is taken by the Kat's Crew. They start a war between each side (Big Time Rush & Kat's Crew), believing that Gustavo will forget about them and cancel Big Time Rush. The guys turn to "Boys in the Attic", Gustavo's first boy band, for some advice: they were also destroyed by a female group named "Angel Angels". In the end Gustavo decides to keep the guys and stop working with the Kat's Crew, but before the girls leave Rocque Records forever, Big Time Rush makes a song and a video with them. Meanwhile, Katie and Mrs. Knight and are trying to find good friends
- 06
Jo was offered a role in a major motion picture that shoots in New Zealand for 3 years. However, she lies to Kendall, saying that she is incapable of doing the movie due to her "New Town High " contract. But when Kendall and Katie check Jo's New Town High contract, it states that ", if offered a role in a major motion picture, she can get out of her contract. Much to Kendall's guilt, he tries to get Jo to break up with him by acting disgusting on their date. Jo then decides to take the role after Kendall convinces her. After her limo leaves, the boys realize that Kendall and Jo forgot their signature "Goodbye Kiss." The boys rush to the airport just before Jo's plane leaves for a proper goodbye.
- 07
James accidentally proposes to a girl and Logan, Kendall, and Carlos have to stop the wedding before it's too late.
- 08
A new rocker-chick neighbor blows the guys away. Carlos and James are desperate to date her, while Kendall tries to prove that BTR can rock too.
- 09
Big Time Rush has dropped their second album, and a TV program has the guys making revealing comments about their lives inside and outside the band.
- 10
On their last day of their "All Over the World Tour", the boys want to learn how to change costumes faster, so they can break a backstage record held by NSYNC. Logan wanted to finish a book before the tour ends and French Inspector Henri Duchamp was looking for Carlos after posting online that he took a cricket out of France. Meanwhile, Kelly must save the boys from a faulty stage trampoline, but she is trapped outside.
- 11
The boys mistakenly ruin the tape with their last episode, so they quickly set a blooper+outtakes episode hosted by Stephen Kramer Glickman as Gustavo Roque and Ciara Bravo as Katie Knight.
- 12
Gustavo books the boys to a lot of painful TV show cameos, but they decide to do no more cameos, until they get booked for "Coco.0", a show Carlos loves and has a pretty main character, Dara Larameigh.
- 13
Big Time Rush is on the way to their concert to San Diego, in tour buses, but they get stuck in traffic. Kendall is with Carlos, who is filming videos with his camera all the time and Logan is with James and they have roommate problems. Meanwhile, Victoria Justice keeps the crowd busy until Big Time Rush shows up and Mrs. Knight and Katie are also stuck in traffic.
- 14
Palm Woods' prank wars kick off again, and this time the kids battle the adults. Logan pranks himself out (again) and becomes "The Prankster Gangster", supplying prank tools to the kids.
- 15
It's the Tween Choice Awards, and BTR's night is in jeopardy when the guys uncover an evil plan to brainwash the audience. Now BTR must find a way to defeat the bad guy, save the show, and still make sure their dreams come true.
- 16
- 17
The boys are not thrilled with their boring apartment at the Palm Woods and hatch a plan to improve it when Gustavo creates a fun "fake" living area for them on a soundstage for an upcoming EPK shoot. The guys enlist the help of all their friends at Palm Woods to move all the cool games and gadgets from the set to their apartment.
- 18
The record company CEO thinks adding a fifth band member will broaden Big Time Rush's appeal and sticks the guys with a self-proclaimed "bad boy" named Wayne Wayne, who tries to inject dissension and tension within the group. Ultimately, Gustavo and the guys secretly band together to get him booted out of the band, in a "bad boy-off". Meanwhile, Mrs. Knight gets persuaded that there's an axe maniac on the loose, and forces Katie to play with a girl named Molly, who is later found to be a con actress that's 20 years old and tries to pass herself off as an 11-year-old girl driving in a high speed chase with cops, using Mrs. Knight's rental car, trying to get a job in Hollywood.
- 19
When the boys find out they are not invited to their own party at Rocque Records, they decide to throw their own in the Palm Woods, since Mrs. Knight and Katie are off to San Diego, even though Mr. Bitters does not allow it. They call the party a 'social gathering', since there is no rule forbidding them, and the boys agree on only inviting 3 friends each. Kendall invites Jo, as his 'guest-friend-person-thing', while James invites the 3 hottest girls on his phone. It is unknown who Logan invited. Carlos cannot decide and ends up inviting the first 3 contacts on his phone and one of them is 'All Contacts' (Carlos thought it was "Al Contacts", thus inviting his whole phone). During the "social gathering," everybody in Carlos phone is now in the party which causes a big problem. Soon, Bitters is hunting for their party, so Kendall and Jo try to stop him before the boys get "3 strikes" and are thrown out of the Palm Woods. Both Camille and Mercedes arrive at the party trying to spend some time with Logan which causes a problem for him.
- 20
The boys have been breaking things while having too much fun at the Palm Woods and Gustavo has had enough. Rather than covering for them, Gustavo decides to teach the guys a lesson by making them get jobs to pay off $2,000.30 for the damages. Gustavo puts the boys on Freight Train's "No-Swim list" so they cannot swim in the Palmwoods pool until they pay all of the money back. Carlos becomes Gustavo's production assistant, while James attempts to become a model with Katie as his manager. At first, Logan and Kendall were going to be sign spinners. However, they get fired and start a babysitting service, which was not as easy as they expected. Eventually, Kendall and Logan make the kids wash cars. When Carlos is getting a coffee for Gustavo using an automated coffee maker C.A.L. (very likely a parody of H.A.L.), it makes a coffee with foam, and when it asks Carlos if he wants more foam, C.A.L. keeps on squirting more and more foam until the kitchen is full of it and more and proclaims it wants to cover the Earth in foam. The boys eventually pay Gustavo back his money, but then, people come storming in asking who will pay for setting up an illegal daycare service in the Palm Woods, using Palm Woods rags and towels, James' wardrobe, the coffee machine, and foam removal. Gustavo gets angry and wrecks his studio. Griffin sees this and asks him to pay him back the exact same amount of money the boys get fined. The episode ends with Gustavo, Kelly, and the boys washing cars.
- 21
Big Time Rush and the Palm Woods kids get to hang out at Griffin's beach house for the day. Carlos and Logan hunt for buried treasure, James falls for a pretty girl who he suspects is a mermaid and Kendall and Jo's relationship hits the skids.
- 22
Big Time Rush are accused for scandals: Lucy Stone releases an album about a bad break-up with a guy who is rumored to be Kendall, Carlos tries to swat a bee and is accused by E! News for hitting grannies and Logan is accused for trying to rob a granny, which was really helping. Meanwhile, James spreads up a rumor about him doing a duet with Cher Lloyd.
- 23
The boys are excited to head back to Minnesota for the holidays, but hours before their flight, Griffin, the head of the record label, insists on them recording a Christmas EP, and will not let them leave until it's done. So it looks like they will be spending their first Christmas away from home. After making the first song, Griffin told them the other two songs must be celebrity duets. Then Big Time Rush trying to do the duet with Miranda Cosgrove in Have a Miranda's little Christmas and another duet with Snoop Dogg. Meanwhile, Mrs. Knight attempts to pack up presents and clothes so she does not have to pay a luggage fee and Katie attempts to give a Scrooge-esque Mr. Bitters some holiday cheer.
- 24
Griffin orders a reality show about the guys' lives, complete with the audience voting to eliminate one member of BTR. To stay interesting, Carlos and James resort to non-stop fighting, Logan and Camille fake a melodramatic relationship, and Kendall attempts to unplug all the cameras once and for all after one catches him off-guard at the Palm Woods pool. In order to get the show cancelled and keep the group together, the boys must try to prove to Griffin that a reality show is a bad idea.
- 25
James works with Carlos to win over an old friend from camp who is now a super model. Logan and Lucy try to find out what the secret is between Kendall and Camille and why are they spending so much time together. Gustavo, Kelly and Katie try to learn Mrs Knight's secret cookie recipe.
