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* [[Actor Allusion]]: [[Daran Norris|Buddha Bob]] is the good-natured janitor who also gets to be the boys' mentor figure time by time. With a proper haircut and shave, he will remind anyone of another janitor from [[Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide|Polk Middle School]].

** In ''Big Time Wedding'', the man from immigration headquarters removes his glasses in a familiar fashion (like a certain [[Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide|Vice Principal]]...) He even persecutes the same janitor character like he did in their previous show.

'''BTR:''' "Who's Tanyon Labelle?"<br />

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

* [[Artistic License Geography]]: Apparently, they don't know the difference between Illinois/Chicago, and Missouri.

* [[As Himself]]: A lot of their guest stars play as themselves, notably [[Russell Brand]], [[Miranda Cosgrove]], [[Snoop Dogg]], Jordin Sparks, Ed Begley Jr., Nicole Scherzinger and even Fabio Lanzoni.

*** And picked up by Mercedes Griffin exactly ''one'' second after she declared she'd "never love again."

* [[Big No]]: Used by Gustavo when things go wrong.

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

{{quote| '''Logan:''' Broadswords at eleven!<br />

* [[Bound and Gagged]]: Jett by Kendall in ''Green Time Rush'' {{spoiler|and by doing so, the two won the environment challenge for school.}}

* [[Boy Band]]: Natch.

{{quote| '''Griffin:''' A little wheeling, a little dealing... and poison.<br />

'''Griffin:''' Remember: Big Time Rush, Rocktober... poison. }}

* [[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.}}

** This is lampshaded--of all times--at the Yard Squirrel Christmas short in 'Big Time Christmas'. In Butch Hartman style, BTR are squirrels...but James is the only one with eyelashes.

* [[Dueling Shows]]: Disney XD's ''[[I'm in The Band]]''.

** The Minnesota auditions segment shows almost everything you need to know about Gustavo and Kelly.

** Mrs. Knight and Katie also quickly establish their personalities in their very first scene.

** 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|Face Palms]].

* [[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.

** "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 Looking Privates|And they were wearing generic camoflauge gear.]]

*** 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...

** [[The Hero]]: Kendall

** [[The Lancer]]: James

* [[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''] for the events of ''Big Time Concert''.

** Phlegmatic (the "middle of the road" kind): Kendall

** Choleric: James

** Melancholic OR the other kind of phlegmatic: Logan

** Sanguine: Carlos

* [[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."

* [[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.

** But in ''Big Time Fan'' James is convinced that Katie has a crush on him (Katie downright says she doesn't have one).

** This is almost epitomized (in a platonic way) when Katie and Freight Train work together in ''Big Time Jobs''.

'''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.

* [[Jaw Drop]]: Parodied as part of a running gag in ''Big Time Rocker''.

* [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold]]: Gustavo. Arguably Bitters, especially as of Big Time Christmas.

** Out of universe, Gustavo.

{{quote| '''Gustavo''': Amazing. You forgot to write, I'm AMAZING!}}

* [[Laugh Track]]: Averted. [[I Carly]] 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.

* [[Leaning On the Fourth Wall]]

* [[Mama Bear]]: In Big Time School of Rocque, Mrs. Knight starts fighting another girl's mom when she insulted Katie.

* [[Married to The Job|Married to the Show]]: The guys usually bring this up when asked about their love lives during interviews. An interviewer actually called them out on this answer.

* [[Moment Killer]]: Kendall comments on how nice it is to finally be alone with Jo...[[Ho Yay|and then Logan runs in]].

* [[Mooks]]: The yellow-jacketed security guards that seem to be everywhere.

* [[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''.

* [[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.<br />