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''Big Time Rush'' is a [[Nickelodeon]] [[Sitcom]] about a boy band created by Scott Fellows (You know? [[He Also Did|The dude behind]] ''[[Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide]]'' and ''[[Johnny Test]]''). Fairly standard fare, spiced up with fresh faces and decent music. Debuted in November, 2009 and is still ongoing.
Kendall, James, Carlos and Logan are four hockey players from small-town Minnesota. James dreams of becoming a pop star, so when Gustavo Rocque, the ridiculously stuck-up producer for Rocque Records, comes to their town looking for talent, he gets all of his friends to audition with him. Unfortunately, Gustavo hates him but loves Kendall, who doesn't do the whole rich and famous act. But, in the end, he agrees to record some demos in Los Angeles as long as Rocque takes his friends, too, and makes them a singing group. They find out they only have three days to become a passable band, and proceed to [[Hilarity Ensues|ensue hilarity]].
Now with its own [[Big Time Rush/Ho Yay|Ho Yay]] and [[Big Time Rush/Shout Out|Shout Out]] page.
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* [[Affectionate Parody]]
* [[Afraid of Needles]]: James.
* [[
* [[Air Vent Passageway]]: In ''Big Time Blogger''. Subverted in that the guys were nice to the blogger while he was in there, [[Pet the Dog|got him sparkling water]], and that he actually enjoyed his time in the vents.
** In "Big Time Reality," the boys discover the only place where the cameras can't see them is inside the air vents.
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* [[Angrish]]: The producer in ''Big Time Live''.
* [[Antidisestablishmentarianism]]: Said by Logan in the episode ''Big Time Blogger''.
* [[Animated Music Video]]: ''Big Time Christmas'' has the [[Art Shift]] song ''The Yard Squirrels'' with Snoop Dogg, featuring Butch Hartman's signature style of cartoons.
* [[Appeal to Obscurity]]: Used in ''Big Time Blogger''.
{{quote|'''Kelly:''' "If you have a bad day with Deke, you'll be bigger nobodies than Tanyon Labelle."
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* [[Baguette Beatdown]]: Kendall uses one to fight a soldier in ''Big Time Wedding''.
* [[Beta Couple]]: Logan/Camille
* [[Be Yourself]]: Kendall uses this as his way to get Jo. It predictably prevails over Carlos' bad boy look and Logan's sham of a British accent.
* [[Beef Bandage]]: In Big Time Photo Shoot. The episode revolves around their explaining the injuries.
{{quote|'''Camille:'''"Get to the part where you get your butts kicked and put meat on your faces!"}}
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'''Griffin:''' Remember: Big Time Rush, Rocktober... poison. }}
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Logan. When the guys are worried that Wayne Wayne will have someone kicked out of the band, James remarks that he thinks it'll be Logan... ''Whilst crouching right next to him''. Later, Gustavo and Griffin remark that they thought Logan would be the one kicked out of the band, ''Griffin going so far as to use the intercom so that Logan would hear him''.
** Logan was also sat on by Gustavo and ran over by a horde of fangirls. Boy can't catch a break.
** In ''Welcome Back Big Time'', Logan does several weeks of school work in a day - not just his own, but ''the rest of the group's too''. All James and Kendall do is something very minute so they could claim the work was their own, but Carlos ''just signs his name''.
*** Somehow their teacher doesn't put 2 and 2 together when Carlos's project includes ''a working laser''.
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** And in ''Big Time Beach Party'' Griffin notes that BTR's first number one single was in Kerplankistan. In ''Big Time Wedding'', the band is visited by the king from said country.
* [[The Cameo]]: Nicole Scherzinger in the pilot.
** In "Big Time Beach Party", Patchy the Pirate from [[SpongeBob SquarePants]] appears to lead a treasure hunt.
* [[Captain Ersatz]]: The producer from ''Big Time Live'' is pretty much a [[Jerkass]] version of [[30 Rock|Liz Lemon]].
* [[Cast Full of Pretty Boys]]
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* [[Child Prodigy]]: Katie, oh so much.
* [[Christmas Special]]: ''Big Time Christmas'' a two parter combined together to make a movie.
* [[Clingy Jealous Girl]]: Mercedes. She and Logan have only been "dating" for a week, so naturally, it's time to plan their one year anniversary.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Oh, Carlos.
{{quote|'''Kendall''': What have we learned since coming to LA?
'''Carlos''': When you leave the house, [[Toy Story (franchise)||your toys come alive!]] }}
** And Carlos has now cemented this as his role, when the boys end up {{spoiler|going back to Minnesota}} and pursue some other dreams. Logan wants to be a doctor, Kendall wants to be a hockey player, but Carlos? He wants to be a superhero called <s>Meteor Man</s> <s>Asteroid Boy</s> <s>El Fuego del Space Rock Thingy</s> something related to meteors, but presently unnamed.
** Logan can approach this territory at times, namely when he's completely freaking out.
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* [[Crossover]]: Surprisingly, with ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' in ''Big Time Beach Party''. Or at least a crossover with the live action segments, as Patchy the Pirate suddenly shows up to hang out with Carlos and Logan to find buried treasure.
* [[The Danza]]: Kendall is played by Kendall Schmidt, Logan by Logan Henderson, Carlos by Carlos Pena, and James by James Maslow.
* [[The Dandy]]: James.
* [[Dawson Casting]]: The guys are about
** Surprisingly, Ciara Bravo who plays Katie - She's ''[[Older Than They Look|fourteen]]'', but she's playing a 12 year old.
* [[Demoted to Extra]]: All of the cast members who appeared in the video for "The City Is Ours". Okay, so they are ''technically'' extras in the music video, but the video in the show features Camille, Jo, the Jennifers & Guitar Dude ''far'' more prominently that the actual full-length video that was released, which is more or less a longer edit of the one seen in the show.
* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: James and Carlos are the "Hollywood Super Party Kings of Hollywood".
{{quote|'''Logan''': You said "Hollywood" twice.
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* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: Contrary to how he was introduced in ''Big Time School of Roque'', Chris Masters has never held a championship in the WWE. May fall under [[They Just Didn't Care]].
** In ''Big Time Concert'', Kelly says that all of the original members of [[Destiny's Child]] had been replaced except Beyonce when Kelly Rowland survived all of the line-up changes as well.
* [[Disguised in Drag]]: When Logan crossdresses to get into an all-girl's school, he not only passes the "lobby test" but is hit on by a male actor only seconds after putting on the disguise.
** In another episode Kendall and Jo don disguises to avoid paparazzi, one of these disguises is Kendall as a girl and Jo as a guy.
*** In ''Big Time Crush'' Logan dresses up as a old lady in an attempt to help Carlos get a girlfriend, [[Epic Fail|which went horribly wrong...]] Later on, he meets up with a cute girl while in grandma disguise and THAT goes horribly wrong...
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* [[Distracted by the Sexy]]: Everyone and constantly so. One good example? [[Miranda Cosgrove]] in ''Big Time Christmas'': "[[Cast Full of Pretty Boys|Yeah, but - they're REALLY cute.]]"
* [[Do-It-Yourself Theme Tune]]: Song Title? Big Time Rush. Who sings it? Big Time Rush.
* [[Dope Slap]]: The boys, usually because one of them has gone off track.
* [[Downer Ending]]: ''Big Time Crush''. {{spoiler|All four of them end up not having dates to a romantic movie.}} Turns later into [[Ho Yay]] and [[Crowning Moment of Funny]] {{spoiler|when all of them agree to watch a kiddie movie about a unicorn instead.}}
* [[Dude Looks Like a Lady]]: James. [[What Do You Mean It's for Kids?|But this is a kids show, right?]]
** This is
* [[Dueling Shows]]: Disney XD's ''[[I'm in The Band]]''.
** And as of Season 2, ''[[Shake It Up]]''.
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** Camille and Griffin are fighting it out for ownership of this trope - Camille for her on-its-ear [[Meet Cute]] with the guys, and Griffin for his [[Manipulative Bastard|pitch-perfect]], [[Comedic Sociopathy|yet over-the-top]] [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]. Bonus points for siting down, having [[Those Two Guys|his assistants]] turn Gustavo's desk around so that ''he's'' sitting at it, having an assistant lower Gustavo's chair to emphasize the point of who's in charge, [[Evil Feels Good|having a pair of warm pants brought in to him]] - and then, after delivering the bad news, [[Refuge in Audacity|stops to savor the anguished sound]] of Gustavo's [[Big No|shriek of disbelief]].
* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Arguably all of the boys, but special mention goes to James - whilst helping Logan ask Camille to the dance, he wound up accidentally asking (at least) five girls to the dance and ''all of them'' said yes.
* [[Even the Dog Is Ashamed|Even The Chimp Is Ashamed]]: In ''Big Time Demos'', Griffin decides that he's going to reassign his hit-predicting chimpanzee to his company's missile defense division. Everyone looks at him like he's insane and then the chimp [[Face Palm
* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: Dirt Boy in ''Big Time Wedding''
* [[Evil Counterpart]]: [[Rule of Funny|Played for laughs]] with Cat's Crew in ''Big Time Girls Group''. Jett also serves as this for Kendall ([[Rule of Funny|and still played for laughs]]), as well as a [[Romantic False Lead]] for Jo.
* [[Evil Laugh]]: Bitters.
* [[Exact Words]]: Sometimes used to full effect in some episodes. In ''Big Time Beach Party'', the band gets to go to Griffin's beach house when they got a number one single (Griffin never mentioned where it had to be).<ref>
* [[Executive Meddling]]: An in-universe example with Griffin.
* [[Expy]]: Dak Zevon is Zac Efron.
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* [[Fan Service]]: In "Big Time Break" James flashed his washboard abs multiple times.
** For this Tropette, it was two different daydream sequences in "Big Time Party" where Logan imagines himself in a James Bond-esque spy movie, complete with a tuxedo.
** "Big Time Concert" really delivered. A notable occurrence is during Gustavo's extreme concert preperation which for no discernable reason involved the boys getting sprayed with water. While their mouths were wide open. [[Good
*** Shortly after, the boys were soaked again (the cause of which is unmemorable and totally not the point anyway). This wouldn't normally have been that interesting of a scene, but [[Eye Candy|James]] was, shall we say, not wearing a bra...
* [[Five-Man Band]]:
** [[The Hero]]: Kendall
** [[The Lancer]]: James
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*** We also occasionally get Katie as the [[Tagalong Kid]].
* [[Flowers for Algernon Syndrome]]: Parodied when James decides to steal Logan's smarts after Logan "steals" his swag. He has a huge montage where he solves complicated math problems on two humongous boards while Camille is looking on in shock, but when the montage is over, he doesn't know what any of it means and assumes it's a recipe for toast.
* [[Foreshadowing]]: The song [http://community.livejournal.com/metamusketeers/3339.html ''Shot in the Dark'']{{Dead link}} for the events of ''Big Time Concert''.
* [[Four-Girl Ensemble]]: More than a [[Five-Man Band]] (despite the fact that they are musicians) or a [[Four-Temperament Ensemble]] the boys are naive Carlos, wise leader Kendall, sexy James and mannish (or as close to it as singers are going to be) or serious Logan.
* [[Four-Temperament Ensemble]]: Kind of:
** Phlegmatic (the "middle of the road" kind): Kendall
** Choleric: James
** Melancholic OR the other kind of phlegmatic: Logan
** Sanguine: Carlos
* [[Freaky Fashion, Mild Mind]]: Lucy Stone has dyed red hair and dresses like a stereoptypical rocker chick, but is really quite friendly.
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''[Cut to the group at Rocque Records.]''
'''Gustavo:''' Okay. How do we get back into Hawk Records?! }}
* [[Girl Group]]: Cat's Crew
* [[Girl Posse]]: The Jennifers. Cat's Crew also qualifies.
* [[Groin Attack]]: Griffin received one. "KUMBAYA" indeed.
* [[Heroic BSOD]]: Played for laughs in ''Big Time Single'' during the time the boys are upset over their break-ups.
* [[Hidden Depths]]: What ultimately saves BTR in "Big Time Demos" is Mercedes statistically stating how Big Time Rush would become popular to the fanbase to her father.
** In ''Big Time Wedding'' Buddha Bob reveals that he's a great cook, mechanic, teller of make-believe stories and can re-tile a bathroom.
* [[High School Dance]]: In the episode 'Big Time Dance' the boys become the end-of-school dance committee.
* [[Hot Teacher]]: [[Tara Strong|Miss Collins]] in "Big Time School of Rocque".
* [[Hot Mom]]: Mrs. Knight (Challen Cates) is pretty easy on the eyes. She doesn't like wearing dresses, but rather prefers sneakers, track pants and jackets.
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(Kendall turns around with an oatmeal stain on his shirt.)
'''Kendall''': Yeah, because it happened like two minutes ago. }}
* [[Ironic Echo]]: In ''Big Time Girlfriend'', Carlos, Logan and Kendall try to win Jo's affections. After Carlos fails, Logan tries his
* [[It's All About Me]]: James.
* [[Jaw Drop]]: Parodied as part of a running gag in ''Big Time Rocker''.
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* [[Keet]]: Carlos.
* [[A Lady on Each Arm]]: Griffin, in the pilot.
* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: There was this nice little gem;
{{quote|'''Kendall:''' We'll just put them [the Jennifers, Jo, and Camille] in the background [of our music video], that's acting right?
'''Every Single Background Character:''' YES!!!!!!!! }}
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* [[Let's Just Be Friends]]: Invoked in ''Big Time Love Song'' when Jo states that she has a boyfriend and tells that she and BTR to be friends. But while BTR fight, Camille goes to Jo and states that she doesn't have one. Jo admits she said it cause she didn't want to deal with all the fighting everyday.
** In ''Big Time Rocker'' James and Carlos want to avert being in the Friend Zone with Lucy, but because of their actions, they get there.
* [[Little Miss Badass]]: Katie. SO much so. She's barely into puberty and she's already suckering the hotel staff out of their money and watches at Poker.
** When Mrs. Knight is bummed about Kendall growing up and remarks that she'll have to get used to an empty nest, Katie points out that ''she's sat right next to her mother'', who then retorts that Katie hasn't needed her since she learned to win at Five Card Stud.
** Let's not forget Green Time Rush; she used [[Puppy Dog Eyes]] to its fullest.
** How about Big Time Live? In that episode she drives a tanker truck and knocks out an evil producer with it.
* [[Little Miss Con Artist]]: Katie fakes her Mother's resume to get her a job at the Palmwoods.
** Also, Mollie from the episode Big Time Bad Boy.
* [[Little Miss Snarker]]: Again, Katie.
* [[Liz Lemon Job]]: Kelly. She is ostensibly Gustavo's assistant, but really her job is to corral the boys whenever they're needed, and also occasionally be Gustavo's [[Morality Pet]].
* [[Loophole Abuse]]: In "Big Time Fever" when Bitters tells Katie that she can't operate her snow cone stand on Palmwoods property, she places it on a platform suspended over the ground so that she's technically not ''on'' it.
** ''Big Time Beach Party'' - The boys try to cash in on Griffin saying that if they ever had a number one record, he'd let them use his beach house, but he points out that it was in Keplankistan. James immediately invokes this by pointing out that Griffin never said ''where'' the record had to be number one.
** Likewise in ''Big Time Wedding'',
* [[Love At First Sight]]: Used twice in the episode "Big Time Love Song", as well as in the pilot episode when the boys first meet [[Girl Posse|The Jennifers]].
* [[Magic Pants]]: In "Big Time Prom", despite the height difference between James and Camille, the clothes fit when they [[Clothing Switch|dress as each other]] in order for James to avoid his prom date's bodyguards.
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** Sadly, this troper knows that in ''Big Time Photo Shoot'', Katie mentions that she's 11.
** BTR should count too. James and Kendall are 21, Logan and Carlos are both 22.
* [[Only Sane Employee]]: Kelly.
** [[Only Sane Man]]: Kendall is more down to earth than the rest of the band. Somewhat.
* [[The Other Darrin]]: Spencer Locke was replaced by Kelli Goss as Jennifer 2 (the blonde one) when the former was filming ''[[Resident Evil: Afterlife]]''. While Locke whould return for the Jennifer role and Goss gets another background character role, the positions were reversed for the second half of Season 2.
* [[Overprotective Dad]]: Jo's dad, in ''Big Time Prom''. He's with the [[CIA]] - and Jo has been told [[Never Say That Again|not to talk about it]].
* [[Papa Wolf]]: In 'Big Time Girlfriends', James states to
** In Big Time Break, Carlos' dad staples Bitters' tie to the desk while they try to find Carlos' hockey helmet when Bitters won't let them see the security tapes. Also take note that the father is a policeman.
* [[Pass the Popcorn]]: In ''Big Time Songwriters'', the musicians are eating popcorn while the guys were fighting in the recording studio.
** Also in "Big Time Girlfriends" as Katie and Bitters observe the various Palm Woods romances as a soap opera.
* [[Playing Against Type]]: [[Liz Gillies]] appears in "Big Time Secret" and her character is actually really nice, which is unexpected considering her [[
* [[Porn Stache]]: In Big Time Beach Party, Kendall's fantasy has him with one.
** Although this was a parody of ''Magnum, P.I.'', with Kendall posing as Tom Selleck.
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* [[Promotion to Opening Titles]]: As of Season 2's ''Welcome Back Big Time'' Tanya Chisholm, who plays Kelly.
* [[Psychic Dreams for Everyone]]: In ''Big Time Movie'', Carlos's dream of saving the world comes (mostly) true.
* [[Punctuated!
* [[Puppy Dog Eyes]]: Katie is a master of this trope, specifically in ''Green Time Rush''.
* [[Reading the Stage Directions Out Loud]]: James.
* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: Jennifer 2's departure (which was also a plot point in an episode) was due to Spencer Locke reprising a role in the film ''[[Resident Evil: Afterlife]]''.
* [[Rich Bitch]]: Mercedes. Her dad is the fourth most powerful CEO in America.
* [[The Rock Star]]: Lucy Stone, but in a [[Subverted Trope|subversion]], she's fairly level-headed.
* [[Rousing Speech]]: Kendall, in almost all of the episodes whenever something goes wrong. He even does two or three in Big Time Bad Boy.
** In all the episodes where "something goes wrong" meaning every single episode.
** Lampshaded by Logan in ''Big Time Concert''
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** Gustavo calling the guys "dogs" and any variation of that he can think of.
** [[Girl Posse|The Jennifers]] [[Sexy Walk|slow motion walk]] by the Palmwoods Pool, accompanied [[Sorry I Left the BGM On|by ''The City is Ours'' playing in the background]].
** Katie getting one over on Bitters, who seems to treat it all as a Blood Feud.
** James childishly fighting with one of the other boys.
* [[Salt and Pepper]]: Gustavo and Kelly, subverted.
* [[Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl]]: Logan and Camille.
* [[Serious Business]]: Hockey. Kendall actually has a spit take when he finds that Jo isn't a fan, Carlos and James do the same thing when Kendall mentions it to them.
** For Carlos, it's corn dogs. {{spoiler|He ends up dumping a girl when she admitted she hated them.}}
* [[Scary Black Man]]: Freight Train. The man wears size 18 shoes and is 7 feet tall!
** Subverted, as he is eventually revealed to be a [[Gentle Giant]] when he tells the boys how 'touched' he'd be if someone sang him the song they were recording in ''Big Time Love Song'', and by the apparent soft spot he has for Katie in ''Big Time Jobs.'' Not to mention that he helps them out on many occasions.
* [[Sexy Santa Dress]]: Miranda's music video outfit in the Christmas episode.
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** The various television shows that featured [[S Club 7]].
** 2ge+ther, but ''only as far as the show being about a boy band''.
* [[Stage Mom]]: Poor Tyler, that kid in the juice commercials. He actually hides from his mother. Subverted by Mrs. Knight.
* [[Stunt Double]]
* [[Sweetheart Sipping]]: Invoked by Kendall in "Big Time Break," then subverted.
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* [[Tempting Fate]]: Kelly does this in ''Big Time Demos''.
{{quote|'''Kelly:''' What are you going to do, chimp-nap Lolo?
''<[[Unspoken Plan Guarantee|Cut to Lolo in the studio, with Logan & James in disguises and Kendall, Carlos and Gustavo all wearing heist gear]].>''
'''Kelly:''' I was kidding! }}
** Don't forget this gem.
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* [[Token Minority]]: Carlos.
* [[Tomboyish Name]]: Jo.
* [[Took a Level
* [[Trailers Always Spoil]]: The trailers for Big Time Concert show that the group gets kidnapped and locked in a room before their first big concert. Then shows the four singing with hundreds of fans around them on a stage.
** It's not like they weren't going to get there in the end. Standard kidnapping ending .
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* [[Trying Not to Cry]]: The government man in ''Big Time Wedding'' states this during Buddha Bob and Mrs. Knight's wedding.
* [[Twofer Token Minority]]: Kelly.
* [[Unusual Euphemism]]: "AWWW, HOCKEY PUCKS!"
* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: Kennedy, a producer who has it out for Big Time Rush and refuses to have them on her show (bumping them for no good reason, even when the show is running short) finally loses it at the end of the episode. She yells that she'd rather have blank air and be fired than let them be on her show while aiming laser pointers at them.
* [[The Voiceless]]: Just like in his previous work, there's Abdul and Jessica (Griffin's assistants). As usual this is lampshaded when Abdul speaks for the first time in ''Green Time Rush''.
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* [[We Want Our Jerk Back]]: Kelly and Kendall invoke this during ''Big Time Guru'', when they realize that a mellow Gustavo can't write a good song.
* [[What the Fu Are You Doing?]]: Carlos, in "Big Time Bad Boy," when he attempts to break a board over his head and knocks himself out. ''Twice''.
* [[Why Didn't You Just Say So?]]: Used by Carlos after Logan and Kelly struggle to get his helmet off for a photo shoot in ''Big Time Break Up''.
* [[Would Hit a Girl]]: In the prank episode, when Gustavo and Kelly are pretending to be each other, Gustavo laughs at Kelly's attempting to mock him, but she punches him, and he falls to the floor, followed by this:
{{quote|'''Kelly''': And you can't punch back, because I'm a girl.
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* [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl]]: As evidenced in "Big Time Girl Group".
{{quote|'''Logan''': Well, they're clearly younger than us and girls so beating them up isn't an option.}}
** Although that's not to say they don't consider it later, but the girls keep pointing this out to them.
* [[Yandere]]: Camille appears to be this to Logan.
** ''Appears to be''? The first time she's seen in season 2... Well, Camille breaks down a door, and runs across the room ''before leaping several feet & [[
* [[You Need to Get Laid]]: In ''Big Time Concert'' when Kendall, Logan & Carlos return to the Palmwoods, Logan and Kendall are embraced by Jo and Camille, whilst Carlos gets the same reaction from Lightning the Wonder Dog. He immediately remarks that after they get the band back together and get a new record deal, he ''really'' needs to get a girlfriend.
* [[Zany Scheme]]: Pretty much every episode.
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