The BEST episodes of Big Time Rush

Every episode of Big Time Rush ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Big Time Rush!

Big Time Rush is a series about friendship and brotherhood that chronicles the finding, making and breaking – of a potential chart-topping music group. Each of the guys brings something different to the group as they figure out their place in the crazy business of music and entertainment. A naturally gifted singer, Kendall never planned on becoming famous but definitely has the swagger of a music star. After seizing this opportunity of a lifetime, he leads his friends on an exciting comedy and music-filled journey. James has big dreams for himself and his pals and his confidence in their potential for success helps the other guys deal with the more difficult moments. Carlos looks at life as a big playground and this foray into music as an awesome ride that he is on with his buddies. The brains of the operation, Logan is the voice of reason and his sharp wit gives everyone the perspective they need to stay true to themselves and their goals. Life in the business is not easy and their antics often get them in trouble with the record label. From falling for the same girl to redecorating their apartment at the Palm Woods to misbehaving with a new school teacher at the recording studio -- the group learns that success comes with hard work and dedication – and the support of one another.

Last Updated: 3/9/2024Network: NickelodeonStatus: Ended
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Big Time Sparks
star
9.32
62 votes

#1 - Big Time Sparks

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 6/18/2010

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.

Directors: Stewart Schill
Writer: Jed Spingarn
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Welcome Back Big Time
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9.13
64 votes

#2 - Welcome Back Big Time

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/2010

The boys have come back from their concert tour only to find certain things at the Palm Woods altered. Meanwhile, Jo is seen macking with a new guy.

Directors: Scott Fellows
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Big Time Photo Shoot
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8.95
74 votes

#3 - Big Time Photo Shoot

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/26/2010

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.

Directors: Jonathan Judge
Writer: Ron Holsey
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Big Time Moms
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8.84
67 votes

#4 - Big Time Moms

Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 5/7/2011

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".

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Big Time Concert
star
8.67
39 votes

#5 - Big Time Concert

Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 8/20/2010

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

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Big Time Audition
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8.48
82 votes

#6 - Big Time Audition

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/28/2009

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.

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Big Time Guru
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8.41
83 votes

#7 - Big Time Guru

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/8/2011

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.

Directors: Jonathan Judge
Writer: Jed Spingarn
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Big Time Blogger
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8.37
35 votes

#8 - Big Time Blogger

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/23/2010

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)

Writer: Dave Schiff
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Backstage Rush
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8.35
43 votes

#9 - Backstage Rush

Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 5/12/2012

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.

Directors: Stewart Schill
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Big Time Dreams
star
8.31
26 votes

#10 - Big Time Dreams

Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 7/25/2013

It’s the Tween Choice Awards, and BTR is nominated and booked to close the show! However, their night is in jeopardy when the guys uncover an evil plan to brainwash the audience.

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Big Time Party
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8.30
37 votes

#11 - Big Time Party

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/2/2010

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.

Directors: Jon Rosenbaum
Writer: Dave Schiff
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Big Time Mansion
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8.26
50 votes

#12 - Big Time Mansion

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/12/2010

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.

Directors: Joe Menendez
Writer: Jed Spingarn
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Big Time Halloween
star
8.23
60 votes

#13 - Big Time Halloween

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/22/2010

Things become very strange around the Palm Woods during Halloween.

Directors: Paul Lazarus
Writer: Jessica Gao
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Big Time Terror
star
8.19
36 votes

#14 - Big Time Terror

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 5/8/2010

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.

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Big Time Demos
star
8.19
36 votes

#15 - Big Time Demos

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/19/2010

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.

Directors: Henry Chan
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Big Time Break Out
star
8.13
31 votes

#16 - Big Time Break Out

Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 7/18/2013

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.

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Big Time Invasion
star
8.13
32 votes

#17 - Big Time Invasion

Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 5/2/2013

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.

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Big Time Decision
star
8.11
66 votes

#18 - Big Time Decision

Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/29/2012

Kendall is unsure whether he has moved on with Lucy during Jo's absence, or whether he still has feelings for Jo. Meanwhile, Carlos has to make a choice to stand by either his best friend James, or his new benefactor Mr. Bitters, during a supposed zombie apocalypse.

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Big Time Crib
star
8.06
86 votes

#19 - Big Time Crib

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/22/2010

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 Palm Woods to move all the cool games and gadgets from the set to their apartment.

Directors: David Kendall
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Big Time Dance
star
8.06
36 votes

#20 - Big Time Dance

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 6/4/2010

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.

Directors: Fred Savage
Writer: Lazar Saric
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Big Time Babysitting
star
8.00
38 votes

#21 - Big Time Babysitting

Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/13/2012

Kendall and Logan have to take care of a rock legend before his Hall of Fame induction; James and Carlos are forced to watch Katie.

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Big Time Pranks II
star
8.00
35 votes

#22 - Big Time Pranks II

Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 6/13/2013

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.

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Big Time School of Rocque
star
8.00
56 votes

#23 - Big Time School of Rocque

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/18/2010

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.

Writer: Dave Schiff
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Big Time Love Song
star
7.97
79 votes

#24 - Big Time Love Song

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/5/2010

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.

Directors: Jon Rosenbaum
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Bel Air Rush
star
7.94
35 votes

#25 - Bel Air Rush

Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/2/2012

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.

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