List of Big Time Rush episodes

 

The following is a list of episodes for the television series Big Time Rush (also known as BTR) starring Kendall Schmidt James Maslow Carlos PenaVega andLogan Henderson and co-starring Ciara Bravo Tanya Chisholm and Stephen Kramer Glickman. As of August 21 2013 a total of 74 episodes have aired.

Season		Episodes	Originally aired		DVD release
			Season premiere	Season finale	Volume 1	Volume 2
	1	20	November 28, 2009	August 20, 2010	March 29, 2011	June 21, 2011
	2	29	September 25, 2010	January 28, 2012	N/A	N/A
	3	12	March 3, 2012	November 12, 2012	N/A	N/A
	4	13	May 2, 2013	July 25, 2013	N/A	N/A

Season 1: 2009–2010.

• Season 1 consisted of 20 episodes.
• Kendall Schmidt James Maslow Carlos Pena Jr. Logan Henderson and Stephen Kramer Glickman were present for all episodes.
• Ciara Bravo was absent for one episode.

Season #	Episode #	Episode title	Director	Writer(s)	U.S. viewers (millions)	Premiere date	Production code
1-2	1-2	"Big Time Audition"	Savage Steve Holland	Scott Fellows	3.45	November 28, 2009	101-102
Four hockey players from Minnesota go to an audition so James can become a famous pop star. but they all end up auditioning. When Kendall gets mad at the record producer, Gustavo (Stephen Kramer Glickman), for turning James down, he jumps on the table and starts to sing "the giant turd song" to the producer. To his surprise, the producer picks Kendall to go to L.A. due to his fiery personality but Kendall only agrees if Gustavo brings all the guys and makes them a singing group. He eventually agrees. However in LA, Gustavo had three days to turn them into a successful boy band in order to win the approval of the CEO. However the boys are terrible at dancing, singing, and cooperating. After goofing off and getting firing, the boys go back and work hard, performing "Big Time Rush" to a pleased CEO who wants them to produce a demo CD in three months.
3	3	"Big Time School of Rocque"	Savage Steve Holland	David Schiff	6.8	January 18, 2010	104
The boys get a dose of reality when Kelly tells them they have to go to school at least four hours every day while they live in Los Angeles. While the boys want to go to the fun Palm Woods school, they learn that Gustavo has arranged to have their school located at the recording studio, so they are never far from his grip. The boys do whatever is necessary to take down the "School of Rocque" and go to the Palm Woods school. Meanwhile, an attempt from Mrs. Knight to home school Katie (Ciara Bravo) fails, so she tries to get Katie to act in a commercial to gain entrance in the Palm Woods, with the help of Mr. Bitters. Note: this is is the most successful episode in the whole season.
4	4	"Big Time Crib"	David Kendall	Scott Fellows	N/A	January 22, 2010	103
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 The Palm Woods to move all the cool games and gadgets from the set to their apartment instead.
5	5	"Big Time Bad Boy"	Joe Menendez	Lazar Saric	3.8	January 29, 2010	105
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.
6	6	"Big Time Love Song"	Jon Rosenbaum	Scott Fellows	3.7	February 5, 2010	106
The guys chase the same girl named Jo, causing the band to fight. Meanwhile, James gets an allergic reaction to a body spray and Kelly (Tanya Chisholm) attempts to make him get an allergy shot, Gustavo gets a new personal helper named Freight Train, Katie has to write a report on her biggest hero and writes about Gustavo so she does not have to read anything, and Griffin wants a slow love song for the next song, but Gustavo cannot seem to figure out how to make the song work.
7	7	"Big Time Mansion"	Joe Menendez	Jed Spingarn	N/A	February 12, 2010	107
When Gustavo goes away for a few days to check out a new boyband called "The Windmills", the guys "mansion sit" for him much to Gustavo's dismay. After much discussion with Kelly, Gustavo allows the boys to "mansion sit" but they must follow his rules or else they are fired. Once at the mansion the guys think it will be an easy task, but what seems like a task they can handle soon turns into a "big time disaster" as things don't go according to plan. Meanwhile with Kendall and the guys away, Mrs Knight starts to fell less needed by her children, so Katie decides to help her mother out by pretending to be sick.
8	8	"Big Time Photo Shoot"	Jonathan Judge	Ron Holsey	N/A	February 26, 2010	108
The boys are at the Palm Woods, severely injured. Camille asked them why they look so beat up if they just got their picture in Pop Tiger. The boys show their entire flashback from beginning to end: The boys were having their very first photo shoot as Big Time Rush. However, with Gustavo and Kelly doing community service for vandalizing Matthew McConaughey's mailbox, Griffin took over and makes them "space matadors with stuffy puppies". A simple photo shoot becomes a race for time and the perfect shot. Meanwhile, Katie and her mom are determined to get an autograph from teen hunk Dak Zevon, and Mrs. Knight starts to go a little nuts when the security guards are mean to Katie, so she (Mrs. Knight) gets all the fans of Dak and tries to barricade the door to Dak's recording room. Note: Kendall was supposed to push James softly, but instead he was bounced against the kitchen counter. As a result of this stunt, James Maslow has a scar on his left elbow.
9	9	"Big Time Break"	Paul Lazarus	Lazar Saric	3.9	March 5, 2010	109
The boys are relieved to finally be able to spend some time apart after finding out that Gustavo is taking the day off. Logan is determined to get into a math lecture taught by Phoebe Nachee, but is disappointed when he finds out that the lecture is at an all girls school. Carlos panics when he realizes his helmet is missing, but gets a surprise visit from his father, a policeman, who accompanies him on the mission to retrieve his helmet. James decides to spend his day off trying to set off his acting career with the help of Camille. Kendall is desperate to spend time with his crush, Jo, but is discouraged when she continuously reminds him she has a boyfriend. However, when Katie finds out that Jo does not have a boyfriend, she tells Kendall, and he is determined to get the truth out of her.
10	10	"Big Time Demos"	Henry Chan	Scott Fellows	3.1	March 19, 2010	110
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 CDs 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.
11	11	"Big Time Party"	Jon Rosenbaum	Dave Schiff	3.4	April 2, 2010	111
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.
12	12	"Big Time Jobs"	David Kendall	Ron Holsey	N/A	April 16, 2010	113
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.
13	13	"Big Time Blogger"	Savage Steve Holland	Dave Schiff	2.6	April 23, 2010	116
The boys must impress a well-known blogger, Deke whose words can control their career. They are going to be spending a "Day with Deke" very soon, so Gustavo hires people to train the boys to have a good "Day with Deke". When the interview starts, 5 minutes later, Deke writes a bad review, and the boys must figure out how to change his mind about them for a good review before he posts it through a series of traps. Meanwhile, Gustavo gets a "Scuttlebutter" account and sends out a Scutbut that he hate Brussels, the capital of Belgium. (He meant to type that he hates Brussel Sprouts)
14	14	"Big Time Terror"	Savage Steve Holland	Scott Fellows	4.0	May 8, 2010	114
Gustavo's mansion becomes flooded, so he decides to live with the boys at the Palm Woods until it's unflooded. However, the boys want him to leave as soon as possible and will do whatever it takes to make him leave. Meanwhile, Carlos and Mr. Bitters are trying to prove that there is a ghost in the Palm Woods, while Logan is there to prove him wrong.
15	15	"Big Time Dance"	Fred Savage	Lazar Saric	4.7	June 4, 2010	115
The kids at the Palm Woods are organizing their first school dance, and the boys of Big Time Rush have secured the perfect location, Gustavo's recording studio. However there is a catch, the guys have to perform one of their songs during the evening. Now on top of having to get the perfect date, the guys have the added pressure of giving their first performance in front of a live audience. Kendall and Katie attempt to find their mom a perfect date, during which Kendall forgets to ask Jo to the dance, instead asking her to do preparations for the dance. The Jennifers all take Carlos under different personas after rejecting all the guys who asked them including Carlos (Carlos being the coolest, but still out of their league) and a nerdy kid. Logan tries to find the courage to ask Camille, but keeps failing miserably. James in his attempts to help out Logan accidentally asks out numerous girls including Rachael.
16	16	"Big Time Sparks"	Stewart Schill	Jed Spingarn	N/A	June 18, 2010	117
The boys are told to stay away from Jordin Sparks while she stays at the Palm Woods and records a new song at Rocque Records. As they try to protect her, they only give her bad luck, eventually pushing her down a well and when Kendall tries to help her, Jo catches him and thinks he is cheating on her.
17	17	"Big Time Fever"	Jonathan Judge	Jed Spingarn	3.1	June 26, 2010	112
A heatwave strikes Hollywood and James starts to use tanning spray that's supposedly "mangerine" to the point of his skin looking orange. The boys find out that James has "Hollywood Fever" from Camille and when Gustavo sees this, he tells Kendall, Logan, and Carlos to fix James, or he will fire and replace him. Kendall, Logan, and Carlos go on a mission to get rid of the his tanning spray by chasing him around with water-guns. While on the mission, Carlos finds out that one of the Jennifers went away so he joins their group and also catches Hollywood fever. Meanwhile, while Logan looks for James in Palm Woods Park, he runs into Guitar Dude who gives him a set of bongos and tells him to chill out, catching the fever and losing his uptight edge in the process.
18	18	"Big Time Video"	Jonathan Judge	Ron Holsey	N/A	July 31, 2010	118
The boys learn that Camille is leaving the Palm Woods unless she gets a part in an acting job, and must help her, eventually promising everyone a part in their upcoming music video. But Gustavo said Camille cannot be in the video, and Big Time Rush tell everyone that they can be in the video. They gotta figure out how to get everyone in the video, and Marcos tries to direct the music video but Gustavo will not let him. They stole Mr. Bitter's car for the video themselves, including all the people they promise and Marcos is directing, and the video's amazing. Gustavo asks Mr. Bitters to sell his car, and makes it Big Time Rush Mobile.
19-20	19-20	"Big Time Concert"	Savage Steve Holland	Scott Fellows and Lazar Saric	3.3	August 20, 2010	119-120
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.

Season 2: 2010–2012

This season has 29 episodes.

• Tanya Chisholm joins the main cast.
• Kendall Schmidt, James Maslow, Carlos Pena, Jr., Logan Henderson, and Ciara Bravo were present for all episodes.
• Tanya Chisholm and Stephen Kramer Glickman were absent for one episode.

Season #	Episode #	Episode title	Director	Writer(s)	U.S. viewers (millions)	Premiere date	Production code
21	1	"Welcome Back, Big Time"	Scott Fellows	Scott Fellows	4.0	September 25, 2010	201
The boys come back triumphant and tired from their six-week tour, and must catch up on all the schoolwork that they missed because of the tour, in order to maintain their grade averages and attend Rocktoberfest . Kendall and Jo's relationship is put to the test when she lands a part in a new television series, New Town High, and must make out with the male lead, Jett Stetson. Then, Jo tells Kendall that he should forget about her. At the concert BTR sings "Til' I Forget About You" and Jo holds a sign saying "I heart Kendall"
22	2	"Big Time Fans"	Jonathan Judge	Lazar Saric	N/A	October 1, 2010	202
The boys get a visit from their clumsy hometown friend, Jenny Tinkler, who happens to be an awesome singer but the world's biggest klutz. The boys get stuck in the middle of helping her dream come true. Meanwhile, James is giving his #1 fan some advice, one of his fans steal his identity and locks James in the basement, but Katie forces him to tell her where James was being held.
23	3	"Big Time Girlfriends"	Stewart Schill	Jed Spingarn	5.0	October 11, 2010	203
Logan and Camille are finally a couple but while James helps Camille prepare for a movie audition, they get so caught up in the moment, they accidentally kiss, much to Logan's dismay, and Logan and James get into a big fight. This predicament puts their friendship and Logan and Camille's relationship in jeopardy. Meanwhile, Gustavo hires an actress to pretend to be Carlos' first girlfriend so he can learn about heartbreak and sing better in the "Break-up" song Gustavo wants them to sing and Kendall and Jo's busy schedules keep them from seeing each other.
24	4	"Big Time Live"	Mort Nathan	Mark Fellows & Keith Wagner	3.1	October 15, 2010	204
The boys are making their first TV appearance on the local morning show A.M. LA. When it looks like BTR will be bumped from the schedule due to requiring cuts, the guys prove that they will do whatever it takes to make their TV debut happen. Meanwhile, Katie becomes addicted to a DS game, that battles a shebeast, and Gustavo and Kelly are being tested by Griffin, to see if they will keep their studio location. However, Griffin seems to rig it and repeatedly gives them D's, making things look bleak.
25	5	"Big Time Halloween"	Paul Lazarus	Jessica Gao	3.1	October 22, 2010	205
It’s Halloween in Palm Woodsylvania and the monstrous personas of Big Time Rush come to light: James is a vampire, Logan is a zombie who keeps losing his limbs, Carlos is Franken-Carlos and Kendall is a werewolf who is trying to hide his real identity from Jo. James is in love with a vampire slayer (Jeanine Mason) who tries to slay him (in vampire form), and Logan has to devise a plan to keep Lightning from biting his body parts off. Meanwhile, Griffin tells Gustavo that the boys cannot perform on his "Big Night of Fright" unless he turns them into "normals." Gustavo then tests his "Hot Boy Band Machine", which snowballs into a problem.
26	6	"Big Time Sneakers"	Johnathan Judge	Scott Fellows	2.8	November 5, 2010	206
James and Logan try to buy and resell sneakers. Meanwhile, Jo's publicist wants the press to think that she is dating her co-star Jett, Kendall and Jo must hide their relationship, and doing so requires many different disguises when Kendall just wants to go to the zoo with Jo. Also, Carlos and Katie name themselves Robin and Hoodie, and try to find other ways to get their favorite fruit snacks, fruit smackers after Bitters makes the price insanely high so everyone cannot afford to buy them.
27	7	"Big Time Pranks"	Savage Steve Holland	Lazar Saric	3.8	November 19, 2010	207
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.
28-29	8-9	"Big Time Christmas"	Savage Steve Holland	Mark Fellows & Keith Wagner (Part 1) Scott Fellows (Part 2)	5.0	December 4, 2010	209-210
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.
30	10	"Big Time Guru"	Jonathan Judge	Jed Spingarn	3.8	January 8, 2011	208
Gustavo is really angry at Big Time Rush and he chases them into the Palmwoods. Big Time Rush ask for help from Buddha Bob, and he does the Himalayan monkey pinch on Gustavo and he becomes so mellow that he writes a horrible song for the New Town High soundtrack. Kelly and Kendall team up to help Gustavo return to his regular, angry self. Meanwhile, Logan downloads a Swagger app on his phone, which increases Logan's swagger and decreases James', causing James to almost "die" from dangerously low swagger counts. Carlos takes advice from a parrot, and when he is about to go on a date with a girl, the parrot tells him he has 24 hours to live, horrifying him and leaving him to live in the bathroom (Panic Room) of the apartment. The boys must now do whatever it takes to get back control of Big Time Rush, and make Gustavo get back to normal before the New Town High producers come and find that he has not written a good song.
31	11	"Big Time Crush"	Carlos Gonzalez	Lazar Saric	3.9	February 5, 2011	212
Kendall and Jo help Carlos find a date, and Logan flirts with a new girl, Peggy, while he is still confused about his feelings for Camille. James wants to help Katie get closer to her new crush, Kyle, but becomes like an overprotective brother instead. Logan wants to get back together with Camille, but she goes on a date with Steve, and at the end all the boys are alone when they go see a movie they planned to see with their dates.
32-33	12-13	"Big Time Beach Party"	Savage Steve Holland	Jed Spingarn & Jessica Gao	4.2	February 21, 2011	214-215
The boys made a deal with Griffin, if they got a number 1 record, they can go to have a beach party with the other Palm Woods in his beach house in Malibu. When Kendall arrives alone since Jo had to go to reshoot a scene in her show a crazy fan girl, Sandy tries to 'steal' Kendall from Jo, claiming that she is his girlfriend and Sandy posts pictures of both of them, making Jo very jealous and forcing Kendall asking help from the Jennifers which fails. Meanwhile, after surfing, James is saved by a girl, Annie (Gage Golightly) who he believes is a mermaid, and with Camille's help he tries to prove it but also falls in love with her. And Logan and Carlos (who realized the only way to impress the Jennifers was to buy a beach house) search for gold, they find Patchy the Pirate (Tom Kenny) and together they try to find the buried treasure of Scratchy the Pirate by following his many clues. While Katie attempts to become Russell Brand's manager and Mrs Knight attempts to attack the boys with sun lotion.
34	14	"Big Time Songwriters"	Jonathan Judge	Jessica Gao	3.5	March 5, 2011	211
When Griffin is releasing the BTR deluxe edition album. Gustavo has to hire songwriters but they end up fighting and cannot write the song. So Gustavo writes the song himself. Kendall, James, Carlos, and Logan want to write their own song, Gustavo doesn't agree with them so the boys want Katie to open a health spa in the Palmwoods so they can write the song while Camille and Buddha Bob keep Gustavo busy. In the song writing process, Kendall and Carlos write a song named "Oh" while James and Logan prefer their song called "Yeah", this creates a fight between the members of the group. After the fight, they realize the song can collaborate and form "Oh" and "Yeah", the song then becomes Oh Yeah and is approved by Griffin.
35	15	"Big Time Reality"	Jonathan Judge	Mark Fellows & Keith Wagner	N/A	March 26, 2011	216
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.
36	16	"Big Time Girl Group"	Jon Rosenbaum	Scott Fellows	5.7	April 9, 2011	213
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.
37	17	"Green Time Rush"	Savage Steve Holland	Jessica Gao	3.5	April 22, 2011	219
In a class competition to win one week of no school, things do not go well as Kendall is partnered up with Jett - his big time enemy. Logan ends up with the school bully in which everyone's hopes were gone because everyone wanted to be Logan's partner. Carlos and James partner up but have trouble with figuring out what green project considering that there ideas were taken. Meanwhile, Logan is forced to do all the work for his project. When the bully helps with the roof of the project, he tells Logan that his brain does not work very well around people. Kendall's first green idea, does not work, due to being dangerous. James and Carlos decide to put a cow in every single apartment by cutting down on gas consumption, dairy, and elevator use. On the day of the project, Kendall and Jett still do not have an idea. Kendall finally gets an idea to put Jett in a box, due to Jett being an energy waster. Surprisingly, Kendall and Jett won the week off school. Much to Kendall and Jett's dismay, the two must speak to the governor, thus having to spend an extra week together.
38	18	"Big Time Moms"	Savage Steve Holland	Scott Fellows	N/A	May 7, 2011	217
James' mom, nicknamed the "Estee Lauder of the Midwest" for her successful cosmetics line, arrives at the Palm Woods to bring James home and groom him to take over the family company. The guys have to act fast to save the band, and figure out how to stand up to a woman not used to being told "no".
39	19	"Big Time Prom Kings"	Scott Fellows	Scott Fellows	3.8	May 21, 2011	221
The Palm Woods school is having its annual prom and Kendall, James, Carlos and Logan are all determined to win the title of Prom King and each will do whatever it takes to win. Carlos takes one of the Jennifers, but thinking he took the wrong date, Carlos dumps her, therefore the Jennifers team up again to destroy him. Kendall has to sneak Jo out of her apartment on being grounded, but they both get caught later on by her dad. Logan is jealous when Camille is going to prom with another guy so he tries to make sure James will be Prom King and queen with his date. But James ends up being hunted by three body guards, when trying to get Aubrey Stewart from "The Vampire Stories Chronicles Saga Trilogy". James and Logan both end up winning Prom King and Queen. Logan wins King, while James wins Queen.
40	20	"Big Time Break-Up"	Stewart Schill	Lazar Saric	3.6	June 25, 2011	218
Jo is 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.
41	21	"Big Time Single"	Savage Steve Holland	Mark Fellows & Keith Wagner	3.1	July 23, 2011	225
The guys help Kendall cheer up after his big break up with Jo, in order for him to get prepared for the band's new super huge summer single. When Kendall counters their efforts by saying that they'll never know what he's going through because they've never had their hearts broken, they decide to fix that. So James, Carlos, and Logan each date a girl from the Palmwoods for a few minutes and then try to break up with them to know what it's like. James dates the Jennifers and Logan dates Camille. When Kendall finally cheers up, James is upset because Jennifer broke up with him instead of vice versa, ruining his perfect "never been dumped" record. Carlos is upset because he only spent 12 minutes dating 'red shirted girl' and it was "the best 12 minutes of his life." Meanwhile, Gustavo has writers block while trying to write the band’s summer single that has to “rule the world.”
42	22	"Big Time Wedding"	Stewart Schill	Jed Spingarn	3.2	August 20, 2011	220
The King and Princess of Kerplankistan, the country where Big Time Rush got a #1 record, visit America. However the King plans to have his daughter wed to one of them. James doesn't want to marry her but asks her if he was the one she would've picked, and as he does he gives her a rose, not knowing that such a gesture is a marriage proposal in Kerplankistan. The boys unsuccessfully try to free James. During the wedding, Kendall, Logan, and Carlos enlist the help of the King's 'dirt boy', who is the one the princess really loves, to try to destroy the wedding, for the sake of the band. Meanwhile, Katie discovers that Buddha Bob is actually an immigrant from Canada and that he is about to be sent back; thus, she convinces her mother marry him so he can stay. Along the way, Mrs. Knight discovers that Buddha Bob would be an okay husband. In this episode we find out that Buddah Bob's last name is Poopsalot. However it turns out Mr. Bitters was not longer qualified to give weddings, so it is not official.
43	23	"Big Time Rocker"	Carlos Gonzales	Jessica Gao	2.9	September 24, 2011	223
When an eighteen-year-old rocker named Lucy Stone moves into the Palm Woods, James and Carlos compete with each other to see who she will chose as her boyfriend. Meanwhile, Kendall teams up with Gustavo and Kelly to prove to Lucy that Big Time Rush 'rocks' by showing her a rocking new song. Logan becomes obsessed with Camille's new role in an upcoming movie, 'Spy High'; however, while he is helping her rehearse, she takes things too far when she steals all the money from the safe in Bitters' office. In the end Lucy agrees to date both of them, but gets them to break up with her in order to put them in the 'friend zone'. After telling Lucy BTR is going to be on the morning news, BTR, with Gustavo and Kelly, park a huge bus in the middle of a busy downtown intersection and perform their new song "Paralyzed" on the top of the bus, which makes breaking news.
44	24	"Big Time Strike"	Jonathan Judge	Lazar Saric	2.5	October 10, 2011	224
The boys take a stand against Gustavo and refrain from recording a song for their follow-up album because of his harsh management style (such as electric shocks), which they call "striking it to the man". With the help of Katie, the boys write a list of requests (such as ice-cream machines and hot tubs) to Gustavo in exchange for ending their strike, but Gustavo doesn't accept, so the conflict continues. Meanwhile, Mrs. Knight is also striking because Katie says being a mom is an easy job, which leaves Katie to do all the household chores. Gustavo tries to hold auditions to get a new band to sing the song and modify the vocals to sound like BTR. However the boys fend them off from the studio. The boys then plan to upload a music video on the web to get their fans behind their cause; Logan says they can't because Gustavo has the rights to all their songs, but Kendall recalls the one song he doesn't own. So, the boys make a video for "The Giant Turd Song", but when they see how terrible it is, they choose not to upload it. Finally, Katie admits that being a mom is hard work and the boys seek help from Mrs. Knight to reach an agreement with Gustavo. Gustavo and the boys agree, thanks to Mrs. Knight who pressured him into fulfilling some of their demands like giving breaks. Thus the boys sing the new song to Griffin who congratulates them all for the good work. However Griffin then orders them to write a new song at that moment without a break. None of them agree, so they shock Griffin instead, who agrees to give them a break.
45	25	"Big Time Contest"	Joe Menendez	Mark Fellows & Keith Wagner	3.0	October 15, 2011	222
Four BTR fans win a contest in 'Pop Tiger' magazine to spend a day with one of the guys from Big Time Rush. Kendall's date is a demanding young boy, Bobby, who begins to crush on Katie. After Bobby runs away when Katie tells him to get lost, Kendall, Gustavo and Katie search the Palm Woods for him before finding him in their apartment. Logan's date is an outgoing older woman, Bruna, who's never heard of them before. After breaking up their date after a morning of taxes, Logan changes his mind and end up driving her around LA. James constantly switches dates (Jennette and Tiffany) with Carlos as he continually feels the other girl is better. At the final party, Katie lets Bobby dance with her, Bruna invites her young niece, Muriela, to be Logan's date instead, and both Jennette and Tiffany go with Carlos. James spends his time at the buffe.
46	26	"Big Time Superheroes"	Savage Steve Holland	Scott Fellows	2.6	October 29, 2011	226
Hawk steals Big Time Rush's only hard-drive of their second album, the boys, Gustavo and Kelly try to get it back. They go to Hawk Records to retrieve their songs but they end up getting caught and are sent to jail. Fortunately, Kelly manages to bail them out, but they are warned that if they are seen anywhere near Hawk Records, they will be sent to jail again - with no chance of bail. Thus, the boys decide to take on super-hero personas so that technically 'they' will not be near Hawk Records. James becomes 'Bandana Man', Kendall becomes 'The Slapshot', a hockey-based superhero, Carlos becomes 'El Hombre Del Flaming Space Rock Man' (his 'Meteor Man' alter-ego from the first season), Logan becomes 'The Surgeon!', and Gustavo becomes Super Gustavo. Although Kelly decides to become 'Bowlhead'; she was totally against the idea and couldn't find anything better in the pile. Jennifer, Bob, & Katie become Clog Busters.
47	27	"Big Time Secret"	Jonathan Judge	Scott Fellows & Dan Serafin	N/A	November 5, 2011	227
When Lucy decides to play a game called "What's the worst thing you've ever done to a person in this room that they don't know about?", James admits to Carlos that he threw away a note that Heather Fox, Elizabeth Gilles, Carlos' camp crush, gave to him which said she liked Carlos because James also liked her at the time. Obligated under the 'Best Friend Code', James finds out Heather is at Colossal Studios filming a commercial. After briefly talking, they agree to catchup. They end up hosting a Camp Wonky Donky day at the Palm Woods for the three of them. Meanwhile, Lucy notices Kendall and Camille sneaking off together and assumes they are dating which freaks Logan out. Also, after Mrs Knight brings a plate full of snicker doodles to the studio, Gustavo and Kelly become obsessed with trying to get the recipe, which Mrs Knight proclaims is a family secret for those over 21. In the end, Heather, as she leaves, gives Carlos a note saying she likes James, which he decides to give to James. Mrs. Knight reveals the recipe is really a pre-made mixture from the store and some sugar. Kendall and Camille have been learning to figureskate, but due to their 'figureskating code' as hockeyplayers, he wanted to keep it a secret. The boys find out and support his efforts, but Kendall and Camille just end up becoming badly hurt at the competition. After another game of truth or dare, the episode ends with the gang chasing angrily after Carlos who had picked truth.
48	28	"Big Time Interview"	Savage Steve Holland	Jessica Gao, Mark Fellows & Keith Wagner	2.4	November 19, 2011	229
The boys sit down for a major Hollywood interview. They go back to their greatest moments and reveal pictures and secrets.
49	29	"Big Time Move"	Savage Steve Holland	Lazar Saric	3.2	Januarary 28 2012	228
The Boys have their biggest fight ever over a video game and James, Carlos and Logan move out. Now Kendall has to get them back together before it is too late.

Season 3: 2012

• This season has 12 episodes.

• It is the shortest season of Big Time Rush.

Season #	Episode #	Episode title	Director	Writer(s)	U.S. viewers (millions)	Premiere date	Production code
50	1	"Backstage Rush"	Stewart Schill	Scott Fellows	2.3	May 12, 2012	301
The guys are on their last day of "All Over the World Tour" and they want to learn how to change costume faster so they can break a changing record. Meanwhile, Carlos is accused of smuggling for bringing a cricket from France, Logan tries to finish a book by the end of the day and Kelly tries to inform everyone that the trampoline used in the show is faulty.
51	2	"Big Time Returns"	Scott Fellows	Scott Fellows	2.3	June 25, 2012	302
The guys return home from their tour as celebrities, but their priorities remain the same: relaxing and meeting girls. Meanwhile, Griffin pressures Carlos to pick his top song prior to a radio interview.
52	3	"Bel Air Rush"	David Kendall	Mark Fellows & Keith Wagner	2.9	July 2, 2012	303
Because of the insane fame rise of Big Time Rush poperazzi starts driving Big Time Rush insane so Gustavo is forced to move the boys to a mansion in Bel Air only to find out that they can never move out. This episode is a crossover episode with The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
53	4	"Big Time Double Date"	Joe Menendez	Jed Spingarn	2.1	July 9, 2012	304
Carlos and Jennifer (3) are on a date. Katie and James team up and attack a waiter to try to help Carlos so he doesn't ruin his date with Jennifer by James becoming their waiter. Carlos discover him and makes him leave by throwing him on a table and pushing him away. Meanwhile Lucy's parents come to visit and Kendall must help her hide that she is a rockstar and has dyed her hair from them. Logan is jealous when Jett asks Camille out, so he finds a date over the internet who is a female version of him. All the boys go to the same restaurant with their dates while Gustavo is there too, trying to normalize his blood pressure by staying away from the dogs.
54	5	"Big Time Merchandise"	Carlos Gonzalez	Jed Spingarn	1.4	July 16, 2012	305
Big Time Rush gets their own action figures, but they soon find out that those action figures can embarrass them like no one has ever done before.
55	6	"Big Time Surprise"	Julian Petrillo	Scott Fellows	2.9	July 23, 2012	306
Kendall has to deal with Lucy's ex-boyfriend Beau
56	7	"Big Time Decision"	Johnathan Judge	Lazar Saric & Jed Spingam	2.4	September 12, 2012	307
Kendall must choose between Jo and Lucy; Carlos and James' friendship is tested.
57	8	"Big Time Babysitting"	Jonathan Judge	Dan Serafin	2.8	October 13, 2	308
Kendall and Logan must take care of rock legend Babylace.
58	9	"Big Time Gold"	Nisha Ganatra	Mark Fellows & Keith Wagner	2.6	October 20, 2012	311
Camille finds a necklace and believes that Logan bought it for her, when it's really Kendall's birthday gift for Jo. James and Carlos are determined to hear their golden record, which is actually just an old repainted record.
59	10	"Big Time Camping"	David Kendall	Lazar Saric	2.5	October 27, 2012	309
The guys go camping with The Jennifers and Camille and Jo.
60	11	"Big Time Rescue"	Joe Menendez	Lazar Saric	2.6	November 3, 2012	310
James and Logan volunteer at a dog shelter and end up adopting 8 dogs. Meanwhile, Kendall is trying to rescue Carlos from his unhealthy relationship with blonde Jennifer with the help of Jo.
61	12	"Big Time Bloopers"	Scott Fellows	Dan Serafin	2.5	November 10, 2012	312
The boys mistakenly ruin the tape with their last episode, so they quickly set up a blooper episode hosted by Stephen Kramer Glickman and Ciara Bravo. Stephen Glickman and Ciara Bravo introduce bloopers and outtakes from the series.

Season 4: 2013

On August 6, 2012, Nickelodeon renewed Big Time Rush for a 12-episode fourth season.

Season #	Episode #	Episode title	Director	Writer(s)	U.S. viewers (millions)	Premiere date	Production code
62	1	"Big Time Invasion"	Savage Steve Holland	Scott Fellows	1.9	May 2, 2013	401
The boys try to stop the invasion of a British boy band; the boys hire a manager to help Gustavo; a rift forms between the band members.
63	2	"Big Time Scandal"	Savage Steve Holland	Lazar Saric	1.9	May 9, 2013	402
Lucy releases her album about being dumped by Kendall; James creates an Internet rumor that he and Cher Lloyd are recording a duet. Meanwhile, Carlos and Logan get into scandals with an old women whom they were helping but the cameras make it look like they were causing her harm.
64	3	"Big Time Lies"	Jonathan Judge	Dan Serafin	1.6	May 16, 2013	403
Kendall tries to keep Jo from knowing that he was with Lucy; Logan lies about being sick so he doesn't have to go to Camille's play; Carlos and James tell a lie to cover their destruction of Gustavo's office.
65	4	"Big Time Bonus"	Stewart Schill	Mark Fellows & Keith Wagner	1.9	May 23, 2013	404
Griffin gives the boys a 20,000 dollar bonus and wants them to prove him they will spend them with responsibility. Kendall wants to invest them on oranges, but he accidentally buys a truck of oranges, James buys a snake to impress Lucy, but it turns out she doesn't like snakes and then he loses the snake, Carlos buys a personal assistant and Logan can't resist tipping people. In the end, they all run out of money, but they buy jelly beans with their last dollar, the jelly beans attract James's snake, they sell the snake for one hundred dollars, and with that, they hire Carlos's assistant for one more hour and tells them to sell the oranges to his old boss. Finally, they have all 20,000 dollars back and show them to Griffin, who is proven to be the orange buyer.
66	5	"Big Time Cameo"	Savage Steve Holland	Jed Spingarn	1.7	May 30, 2013	405
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. But Dara's evil stepmother always controls her life, and decides what she will eat and say and who she will date, so Carlos can't kiss her. Along with Kendall, they create a plan for make them to kiss. Meanwhile, James and Logan try to sneak in Yo Gabba Gabba's stage for eat their snacks and Gustavo, Kelly and Katie try to come up with a better script for Big Time Rush's cameo. In the end, they force the stepmother to let Dara live her life and kiss Carlos, and sing "Confetti Falling", and James and Logan make a cameo on Yo Gabba Gabba and they let them eat snacks.
67	6	"Big Time Tour Bus"	Carlos Pena Jr.	Scott Fellows	1.7	July 6, 2013	411
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, as the other 3 BTR say they can't roommate with Logan and he gets offfended, while Kendall finds out a bunch of BTR hater sites and wants to change their opinion about BTR. Meanwhile, Victoria Justice keeps the crowd busy til BTR come and Mrs. Knight and Katie are also stuck in traffic. In the end, Kendall learns that the only way to deal with haters is to ignore them, James learns that Logan is a really good roommate and they all film a "Crazy for U" music video and finally arrive to the concert.
68	7	"Big Time Pranks II"	Jonathan Judge	Lazar Saric	1.9	June 13, 2013	406
Palm Woods' prank wars kick off again, and this time the kids battle the adults. Logan pranks himself out and becomes "The Prankster Gangster", supplying prank tools to the kids. First, the kids beat the adults, but after Griffin brings black ops and Mrs. Knight and Gustavo get confetti launchers for Logan, the game is hard. In the end, Mrs. Knight wins and decides to continue the day of Pranks next year.
69	8	"Big Time Rides"	Savage Steve Holland	Keith Wagner	2.2	June 20, 2013	407
James buys a motorcycle to try to impress Lucy; Kendall teaches Jo how to drive a stick-shift; Carlos and Logan hold on to a childhood treasure.
70	9	"Big Time Tests"	Savage Steve Holland	Mark Fellows	1.9	June 27, 2013	408
Logan brings Carlos along to the MCAT test as his good luck charm; James becomes obsessed with relationship quizzes.
71	10	"Big Time Cartoon"	Jonathan Judge	Scott Fellows	1.9	July 4, 2013	409
The boys have been approached by two huge companies that are interested in expanding the BTR brand a little farther. They have two options of choosing between getting their own cartoon or their own video game and seem really excited about doing the video game, but they would have to cancel the concert to Hawaii on the private jet and wear on green ball suits. After hearing about the cartoon they end up changing their minds and do the video game instead. After getting locked out of the studio, they get themselves into a big mix up with the people in downtown LA making them think that their aliens. They finally decide to do the cartoon which turns out pretty well. Meanwhile, back at the Palm Woods while watching The Fairly OddParents, Buddha Bob ends up falling off his ladder and thinks that he's Cosmo and that he can grant wishes. It's up to Katie and Mrs. Knight to bring back his memory by calling in Dr. Hollywood and he ends up hitting Buddha Bob in his head with a frying pan.
72	11	"Big Time Breakout"	Jonathan Judge	Nate Knetchel	2.0	July 11, 2013	410
At a party at Rocque Records, celebrating the release of their third studio album, Griffin asks the boys about which one of them is going to leave Big Time Rush and break out. Carlos wants to become a big Broadway hit, Logan becomes a game show host, James has intentions of becoming a solo singer with his new album, Break Out Dreams, and Kendall just really wants the band to come back together.
73-74	12-13	"Big Time Dreams"	Savage Steve Holland	Scott Fellows & Lazar Sarix	2.4	July 18, 2013	412-413
The guys are invited to the 24th Tween Choice Awards, where the boy banders are nominated and booked to close the show. But before the foursome can take the stage, they uncover an evil plot to brainwash everyone in the audience. So BTR have to take down the bad guys and make sure the show rolls on as scheduled. It is the series finale.