The essential episodes of Big Time Rush
Watch these 15 in order and you've got Big Time Rush — each pick states its reason.
- 01
James, Carlos, Logan and Kendall get the opportunity of a lifetime when they are asked to head to Los Angeles and form a singing group. Once they are in Los Angeles, they must figure out a way to make Gustavo Rocque and Rocque Records happy in order to become a singing sensation.
- 02
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.
- 03
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
- 04
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.
- 05
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.
- 06
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
- 07
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.
- 08
James accidentally proposes to a girl and Logan, Kendall, and Carlos have to stop the wedding before it's too late.
- 09
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.
- 10
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.
- 11
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.
- 12
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.
- 13
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.
- 14
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.
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