Big Time Rush: Difference between revisions

* [[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''.

'''Kelly and Gustavo:''' "Exactly." }}

* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: In ''Big Time Jobs'', Bitters says that the band "destroyed the Palmwoods computerized registration system, 2 lamps, 3 vases - and my pants!".

* [[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.

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Kendall can be your best friend, or your worse nightmare.

* [[Bishonen]]: All of the boys display some of this, but James especially oozes bishie. He's very well aware of it and flaunts it for all it's worth.

* [[Big "What?"]]: Also used too.

* [[Bloodless Carnage]]: Lampshaded in "Big Time Girlfriends".

'''Bitters:''' Sorry, no blood - Palm Woods rule. }}

* [[Book Ends]]: The series opens with the boys running away from a bunch of screaming girls, James claiming that the next time this happens, it will be when he's famous. {{spoiler|The boys running away from screaming fangirls is the last thing we see them doing in season one.}}

* [[Boy Band]]: Natch.

* [[Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick]]: Griffin invokes twice this in ''Welcome Back Big Time''.

'''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''.

* [[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.

'''Carlos''': When you leave the house, [[Toy Story|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.

** Griffin, of the Eccentric Millionaire-type.

::: For clarification, Lolo is a ''chimpanzee.'' And even ''he'' [[Face Palm|face palmed]] at that one.

* [[Completely Missing the Point]]: Gustavo - In the pilot, Kendall responds to Gustavo saying James had no talent by turning this against Gustavo, pointing out his last hit was ten years ago. Gustavo indignantly replies that his last hit ''wasn't'' ten years ago, ''it was nine''.

* [[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".

'''James''': You ''bet'' I did. }}

** And again by James in 'Big Time Crush'.

*** Yet again in "Big Time Beach Party"

'''James''': [[Continuity Nod|You ''bet'' I did.]] }}

*** Once more in "Big Time Superheroes."

'''All''': You bet he did. }}

* [[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]].

* [[Friendship Moment]]: Plenty of these throughout the series. Some notable moments:

** James throwing away the phone number of sweet and georgeous Heather Fox to make Carlos feel better in "Big Time Secret."

** James again in "Big Time Break," turning down a role in a television show because Camille didn't get the part with him.

** Pretty much the entire "Big Time Single" episode, where, after Kendall's girlfriend {{spoiler|moves to New Zealand}}, the other three guys get girlfriends just so they can get dumped, feel Kendall's pain, and be able to empathize with him. Made better by the fact that James and Carlos are so distraught by their break ups that Logan ''and'' still-upset Kendall must help pull them back together.

* [[Gender Bender]]: In ''Big Time Halloween'', [[Applied Phlebotinum|'too much pageant queen']] causes [[Mad Scientist|Gustavo's]] 'boy-band-inator' to turn Carlos into [[Even the Guys Want Him|a very cute]] [[Eye Candy|'Carla'.]]

* [[Gilligan Cut]]: Happens from time to time. An example being in ''Big Time Superheroes'':

'''Gustavo:''' Okay. How do we get back into Hawk Records?! }}

* [[Girl Group]]: Cat's Crew

** Pretty much anyone Katie comes into contact with - and usually befriends or allies with - is much older than her. This includes Freight Train, Gustavo (to an extent), and James.

* [[I Remember It Like It Was Yesterday]]: In ''Big Time Terror'':

'''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 attempt--Camille stops him--and he replies that he calls a do-over, and Kendall replies he can't. Then Kendall tries to go after Jo, but Freight Train carries him away and the roles are reversed.

* [[A Lady on Each Arm]]: Griffin, in the pilot.

* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: There was this nice little gem;

'''Every Single Background Character:''' YES!!!!!!!! }}

** The episode Big Time Girlfriends. Bitters and Katie follow the guys around, acting like their love lives are a soap opera.

* [[Large Ham]]: In-universe, Camille.

** Out of universe, Gustavo.

* [[Laser-Guided Karma]]: Atticus Moon gets it big time when {{spoiler|Katie gets the Beetle on his back and causes him to float up into the sky.}}

* [[Laugh Track]]: Averted. [[iCarly]] and [[Victorious]] are certainly fun shows, but unlike Dan Schneider, at least Scott Fellows knows that it isn't necessary to put emphasis on a funny moment.

** In "Big Time Fan", the boys refer to their best friend's destructive and clumsy habits (like busting an elbow during a game of marbles)

** In 'Big Time Beach Party':

Griffin: You guys catch and destroy my clone and I give you all jetpacks? }}

* [[Not What It Looks Like]]: Poor, poor Kendall...

** In all the episodes where "something goes wrong" meaning every single episode.

** Lampshaded by Logan in ''Big Time Concert''

* [[Rule of Funny]]: Fighting it out tooth-and-nail with [[Zany Scheme]] as the engine that runs this show.

* [[Running Gag]]: Several.

* [[Teen Genius]]: Logan

* [[Tempting Fate]]: Kelly does this in ''Big Time Demos''.

''<[[Unspoken Plan Guarantee|Cut to Lolo in the studio, with Logan & James in disguises and Kendall, Carlos and Gustavo all wearing heist gear]].>''<br />

'''Kelly:''' I was kidding! }}

** Don't forget this gem.

''<cut to next scene in the make-shift classroom and Chris Masters has written his name on the chalkboard and ripped his shirt at Big Time Rush>'' }}

* [[That Came Out Wrong]]: And ''how'', in ''Big Time Crush''.

'''Kendall:''' "Wow, did that come out wrong!" }}

* [[This Means War]]: "Big Time Live" saw Kendall start quoting the <s>[[Looney Tunes|Bugs Bunny]]</s> [[Marx Brothers|Groucho Marx]] [[Older Than They Think|line]], with the rest of the band joining on the second half of the line.

'''Kendall, James, Carlos and Logan''': This means war! }}

* [[Those Two Guys]]: Abdul and Jessica, Griffin's {nearly) ever-present assistants.

* [[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''.

Gustavo and Kelly: Ahhh.... }}

* [[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.

* [[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''. Kelly--understandably--is pissed off since Logan dismissed the idea of asking.

* [[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:

'''Gustavo''': No you're not...you're Gustavo. }}

** And even so, Gustavo was playing as the girl, so technically Kelly wouldn't be able to punch him.

* [[Wouldn't Hit a Girl]]: As evidenced in "Big Time Girl Group".

** 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.