100 Fun Facts About Big Time Rush

In the Big Time Rush pilot, what does Kendall do that wins him a record deal?

Sings an insulting song. James is the one trying out; when he is turned down, Kendall leaps onto the producer's desk and lets rip, and it is Kendall, not James, who is offered the deal.

Which sport do the four friends in Big Time Rush play before a producer turns them into a boy band?

Hockey. They are teammates, not musicians, when the series starts: only James wants to be a pop star, and the other three just come along to back him up.

In Big Time Rush, which state do the four boys leave behind for Hollywood?

Minnesota. In the first season's finale the record company's boss cancels their album and tour, drops the band and sends all four back home.

In Big Time Rush, who is the hot-tempered producer who turns the four boys into a band?

Gustavo Rocque. Stephen Kramer Glickman played him, and the character has outlived the show: a fan came to one 2022 concert made up as the furious producer, and in 2025 Glickman joined the band's tour himself.

In Big Time Rush, what is the name of the producer's long-suffering assistant?

Kelly Wainwright. Tanya Chisholm played the calm half of the partnership, the go-between who keeps her boss's rages in check and still gets the boys to do what he wants.

Which Big Time Rush member was the last of the four to be cast?

Kendall Schmidt. The other three had already filmed a whole pilot with a different actor as their leader when the network swapped him in at the last minute and built Kendall Knight around him.

Which of the four boys in Big Time Rush is the brains of the group and its voice of reason?

Logan Mitchell. The show's creator shaped each boy around the actor playing him, and all four characters carry their actors' first names; Logan Henderson's became the group's thinker.

What is the name of Kendall Knight's scheming little sister in Big Time Rush?

Katie. Ciara Bravo played her as a pint-sized blackmailer and gambler with a better head for business than anyone around her, which is why the boys so often need her for their plans.

In Big Time Rush, what is the Hollywood home for young performers where the boys live?

The Palm Woods. Child performers still have to go to school, so the complex has a one-room classroom of its own, and the boys must fit lessons around recording and dance rehearsals.

In Big Time Rush, which actress and singer from North Carolina becomes Kendall's girlfriend?

Jo Taylor. Katelyn Tarver played her, and fans still call the couple 'Jendall'; Tarver walked on stage at one of the band's 2022 reunion shows and toured with them as a support act in 2025.

In Big Time Rush, which dramatic method actress is Logan's on-and-off girlfriend?

Camille Roberts. Erin Sanders played her as an actress who lives every part: rehearsing for a spy film in one episode, she takes things too far and robs the building manager's office.

In Big Time Rush, which rocker arrives in season 2 and ends the series dating James?

Lucy Stone. Malese Jow played her, and James was not her only suitor: in a 2012 episode Kendall has to choose between her and his returning girlfriend, and Lucy loses.

Which 1960s TV show did creator Scott Fellows cite as his inspiration for Big Time Rush?

The Monkees. Like that show, it cast four actors as a made-up band and then sent them out to record and tour as a real one, which went on to put three albums in the Billboard top 20.

Which Nickelodeon show had Scott Fellows created before Big Time Rush?

Ned's Declassified. Carlos Pena had guest-starred in it, so Fellows already knew one of his four future leads; Pena had just started drama school and had to be talked into sending an audition tape.

Before Big Time Rush, Logan Henderson's one notable screen credit was a small part in which TV series?

Friday Night Lights. The Texan went from that bit part to an audition in his home state, part of a nationwide search for four leads, and then waited more than a year to hear he had the role.

Which character from another Nickelodeon show turns up in the Big Time Rush special Big Time Beach Party?

Patchy the Pirate. Tom Kenny, SpongeBob's voice, plays the live-action pirate; Carlos and Logan help him dig up a buried treasure, then have to hand it over to pay for the damage the hunt caused.

Nickelodeon launched Big Time Rush by scheduling it straight after which of its hit shows?

iCarly. The lead-in worked: the January 2010 premiere followed an iCarly special and drew 6.8 million viewers, at the time the biggest debut for any live-action Nickelodeon series.

On which TV show did Big Time Rush announce their 2022 comeback tour?

Good Morning America. They sang an unreleased single on the show that morning, and the Forever Tour they announced, their first in eight years, ran to 41 cities across the US and Canada.

What was the title of the Big Time Rush series finale in 2013?

Big Time Dreams. It aired on July 25, 2013, with the band up for a prize at the fictional Tween Choice Awards; they toured for a few more months and then stepped away from the band until 2021.

Which New York venue did Big Time Rush headline on their 2022 comeback tour?

Madison Square Garden. Nearly a decade after their last arena tour they filled it with no TV network or major label behind them, having won the right to go on using their own name.

Which real-life celebrity plays himself in Big Time Rush as a pocket-grill salesman?

Fabio. He first turns up when Kendall and his little sister set out to find their mother a famous date for a dance, and he came back as himself in later seasons.

What was the title of Big Time Rush's debut album, released in October 2010?

BTR. It entered the Billboard 200 at number three and stayed on the chart for 57 weeks, helped by a TV show that had already played most of its songs to millions of viewers.

Which American Idol winner guest-starred on Big Time Rush and sang 'Count On You' with the band?

Jordin Sparks. She plays herself in a 2010 episode in which the producer orders the boys to keep away from her, convinced they are bad luck; their duet still made it onto the band's first album.

Which rapper features on the single version of Big Time Rush's 'Boyfriend'?

Snoop Dogg. The album track had no guest at all; the band hinted at 'someone special' for the radio version, and Snoop then welcomed them into his futuristic nightclub for the video.

Which Big Time Rush song was the first to reach the Billboard Hot 100?

Halfway There. It slipped onto the chart at number 93 for a single week in May 2010, five months before the band had an album out, on downloads driven by its airing in the TV show.

What was Big Time Rush's second studio album, released in November 2011?

Elevate. The four had been singing songs written by other people; for this album they were allowed a hand in the writing, sharing credits with the professionals on several tracks.

Which hitmaker co-wrote and produced Big Time Rush's 'Music Sounds Better with U'?

Ryan Tedder. The OneRepublic frontman recorded the band in the basement studio of his Colorado home and built the track around the chorus of Stardust's 1998 club hit of almost the same name.

Which up-and-coming British boy band opened for Big Time Rush on ten dates of their 2012 tour?

One Direction. They joined a week into the tour as the support act, and the series later sent up the boom that followed: in a 2013 episode British boy bands take over the music business and the boys fear their career is over.

Which pop star did Big Time Rush open for in Mexico in October 2011?

Justin Bieber. They played two sold-out nights with him in Mexico City and then flew straight on to begin shooting their first TV film.

Whose songs do Big Time Rush perform throughout their 2012 TV film, Big Time Movie?

The Beatles. The band covered six of their songs for the film and admitted to nerves about it: the aim, James Maslow said, was to pay homage to the greatest band in history, not to copy them.

In which city is Big Time Rush's 2012 TV film, Big Time Movie, set?

London. It is the first stop of the band's world tour, and a bag mix-up at the airport there lands them with a stolen gadget and puts British secret agents and a billionaire's henchmen on their trail.

What does the stolen gadget at the centre of Big Time Movie's plot do?

Reverses gravity. It reaches the band in a backpack swapped for Kendall's at the airport, and it ends the film latched onto the villain's back, floating him helplessly up into the sky.

What does Big Time Movie villain Sir Atticus plan to do with the stolen device?

Knock the moon out of orbit. The airline mogul means to do it with a laser powered by the device, and the disasters that follow are supposed to frighten every nation on Earth into surrendering to him.

Where was Big Time Movie actually filmed in the autumn of 2011?

Vancouver. The cast spent October and November there, cooking themselves a first Canadian Thanksgiving dinner between shooting days, while the story they were filming is set an ocean away.

What was Big Time Rush's third studio album, released in June 2013?

24/Seven. It went to number one on iTunes and number four on the Billboard 200, but the TV series ended only weeks after its release, and it turned out to be the band's last album for ten years.

Which Nickelodeon star co-headlined the 2013 Summer Break Tour with Big Time Rush?

Victoria Justice. The Victorious star and the band played some 40 American cities together that summer, and nine years later she walked on as a surprise guest at their reunion show in Los Angeles.

Which duo did Big Time Rush's Kendall revive when the TV series ended in 2013?

Heffron Drive. He and guitarist Dustin Belt formed it in 2008 and named it after the Burbank street they both happened to live on, then shelved it for four years once the TV show came calling.

On which TV contest did Big Time Rush's James Maslow finish fourth in 2014?

Dancing with the Stars. He joined the cast just as the band was winding up its last tour, and a year later bandmate Carlos followed him onto the show, where one of his rivals was his own wife.

Which character does Big Time Rush's Carlos voice in the animated series The Loud House?

Bobby Santiago. The part outgrew the show: in 2019 Bobby and his family were given a spin-off series of their own, The Casagrandes, and Carlos went on voicing him there.

Which actress did Big Time Rush's Carlos Pena marry in 2014?

Alexa Vega. The Spy Kids star played his character's first real girlfriend in the series finale while the two were dating, and after the wedding each took the other's name to become a PenaVega.

What prompted Big Time Rush's first reunion video?

The COVID-19 lockdown. In April 2020 the four posted a message to fans from their separate homes, then sang an acoustic song together over video call, and the response helped set their comeback in motion.

What was Big Time Rush's 2021 comeback single, their first release in eight years?

Call It Like I See It. It came out hours before their first show since 2014, and it was theirs in a way the old songs never were: written by the four and released with no network or major label behind it.

What is the title of Big Time Rush's fourth album, released in June 2023?

Another Life. It was their first album in ten years and the first on their own label, which they named Bought the Rights after winning control of the band's name and music from Nickelodeon.

What is the name of Big Time Rush's 2025 tour, which promised every song from the TV series?

In Real Life Worldwide Tour. The band that began as a TV fiction took two of the show's co-stars on the road for the first time: the actors who played the producer and Kendall's girlfriend.

Which accessory is Carlos Garcia rarely seen without in Big Time Rush?

A helmet. He wears it for no apparent reason, and Kendall reckons he is not very tough without it; the actor still keeps it at home and has joked about putting it back on for the band's concerts.

Big Time Rush's two comeback shows in December 2021 were in New York and which other city?

Chicago. The band says an agent advised against booking even those two nights, for fear of empty seats; both sold out in three minutes.

Which artist's Christmas hit did Big Time Rush cover on their 2010 Holiday Bundle EP?

Mariah Carey. In the show's Christmas special the label boss keeps the boys in Los Angeles until they record a holiday EP with famous guests, so they gatecrash Miranda Cosgrove's TV taping and talk her into the duet.

Nickelodeon teamed up with which record label to release Big Time Rush's music?

Columbia Records. Getting free took time: the four spent about two years negotiating with the label and the network before their comeback, and they now own the band's name and music themselves.

Who plays Jennifer Knight, the mother who looks after all four boys in Big Time Rush?

Challen Cates. Her Mrs Knight is the only parent who makes the move to Los Angeles, so one mother and her young daughter end up sharing an apartment with four teenage pop hopefuls.

At which awards show did Big Time Rush win Favorite Music Group in 2012?

Kids' Choice Awards. The TV-made band beat The Black Eyed Peas, Lady Antebellum and LMFAO to the orange blimp, a prize Kendall said he had wanted ever since watching the show as a child.

In the Big Time Rush episode Big Time Demos, who or what turns out to pick the record label's demos?

A chimpanzee makes the choice, so the boys try to bribe it into picking their songs before they are sent back home.

Which pop star recorded the early demo that became Big Time Rush's Windows Down, then sold the track to the band?

Kesha planned the song for her own album Warrior, then sold the instrumental to Big Time Rush, who had it rewritten as Windows Down.

In the Big Time Rush episode Backstage Rush, the boys try to beat a costume-change record held by which boy band?

NSYNC hold the backstage record the boys chase on the last day of their tour, while a French inspector hunts Carlos over a cricket he took out of France.

In Big Time Rush, Logan is only a nickname: which birth name did James's mother dislike so much it was dropped?

Hortense is his real first name, but James's mother told the boys to call him Logan, and since nobody says no to her the name stuck.

Which actress guest-stars in Big Time Rush as Brooke Diamond, the cosmetics-mogul mother of James?

Lisa Rinna appears in Big Time Moms, arriving to take James home and groom him to run the family company.

In Big Time Rush's Big Time Break-Up, Kendall's girlfriend leaves Hollywood to film for three years in which country?

New Zealand is where the film shoots, and she is only free to go because her TV contract lets her leave for a part in a major motion picture.

Which Nickelodeon sitcom star sings a festive duet with Big Time Rush in the special Big Time Christmas?

Miranda Cosgrove sings one of two celebrity duets on a seasonal EP that the band's corporate boss demands just hours before the boys are due to fly home.

In the Big Time Rush special Big Time Beach Party, James decides the surfer girl who rescued him is secretly what?

A mermaid is his theory about Annie, who saved him while surfing at the Malibu beach house party the band won by scoring a number one hit.

Stephen Kramer Glickman, the producer in Big Time Rush, played which title role in early Broadway workshops?

Shrek was his part in the musical's original Broadway workshops and readings in 2007, before Brian d'Arcy James was cast for the stage run.

Erin Sanders, a Big Time Rush regular, first found fame as science genius Quinn Pensky on which Nickelodeon show?

Zoey 101 cast her at 13 as Quinn Pensky, the school's resident science genius, a role she returned to in a 2023 sequel film.

The hook of Big Time Rush's 2012 single Windows Down is sampled from a 1997 hit by which English rock band?

Blur supply the hook, lifted from Song 2, which is why Damon Albarn and his three bandmates are credited as co-writers of a boy band single.

Big Time Rush creator Scott Fellows also created which animated series, revived by Netflix in 2021?

Johnny Test began on Kids' WB before moving to Cartoon Network, and Fellows followed it with a second cartoon, Supernoobs, in 2015.

Which CHiPs star plays the policeman father of Carlos in Big Time Rush, sending up his own famous role?

Erik Estrada makes a surprise visit in Big Time Break as Officer Garcia, who turns fierce whenever anyone messes with his son.

In Big Time Rush's Halloween special, James is a vampire and Kendall a werewolf: which monster is Logan?

A zombie is Logan's role, and he keeps losing his limbs to Lightning, the celebrity dog who lives in the same building.

In Big Time Party, what do the Big Time Rush boys rename their party to get around a threat of eviction?

A social gathering breaks no rule, but the guest list explodes when Carlos mistakenly invites every contact in his phone.

In Big Time Rush season 3, paparazzi and crazed fans force the boys to move to which Los Angeles neighbourhood?

Bel-Air proves too confining for the boys, who dislike their ritzy new lifestyle and plot a return to their old apartment.

In Big Time Rush, which strict, money-loving character manages the building where the boys live?

Mr. Bitters, played by David Anthony Higgins, tries to impose unfair rules on his residents but is usually outsmarted by the boys.

Tanya Chisholm, the assistant in Big Time Rush, played dancer Jackie in which Disney Channel movie?

High School Musical 2 cast her as Jackie, the main Sharpette and the only one of the group to appear in the film's main credits.

As a nine-year-old, Big Time Rush's Kendall was Haley Joel Osment's stand-in on which Steven Spielberg film?

A.I. Artificial Intelligence hired him as one of two body doubles for Osment, and Spielberg and the cast surprised him with a birthday cake on set.

While still in high school, Big Time Rush's Carlos appeared in adverts and on the packaging for which toy?

Super Soaker put his image on the box of its water guns, years before he sent in the tape that won him a place in the band.

What was the name of Big Time Rush's 2022 reunion tour, the band's first in eight years?

The Forever Tour promoted a run of standalone singles the band released that year, including a re-recording of their old song Paralyzed.

In Big Time Rush, which demanding CEO runs the corporation that owns the record label and keeps threatening the band?

Arthur Griffin heads RCMCBT Global Net Sanyoid, a conglomerate whose biggest product, a later episode reveals, is the foam cup.

In Big Time Rush, what is the name of the producer's bodyguard, strong enough to lift all four boys at once?

Freight Train is announced by a train whistle on the soundtrack whenever he appears, though he has a kind and caring heart.

In Big Time Rush, which rival record producer, played by Phil LaMarr, sends a live skunk to wreck his enemy's studio?

Hawk is the main antagonist of the first season, and he later steals the only hard drive holding the band's second album.

In 2018, Big Time Rush's James finished sixth on the first American edition of which reality show?

Celebrity Big Brother kept him in the house until day 24, when he was evicted and finished the season in sixth place.

In Big Time Rush, what do the boys call the condition that turns James orange from too much tanning spray?

Hollywood fever spreads from James to Carlos and Logan, leaving Kendall to get his friends back to normal on his own.

In Big Time Rush, Kendall's girlfriend lands a part in which fictional teen TV series, opposite Jett Stetson?

New Town High requires her to kiss her co-star on screen, and Kendall's attempts to sabotage the scene almost cost him the relationship.

Which track from Big Time Rush's debut album did Carlos and Logan help to write, as heard in Big Time Songwriters?

Oh Yeah mirrors the episode's plot, in which the boys split into two camps and fight over rival songs titled Oh and Yeah.

Which song was released in September 2010 as the lead single from Big Time Rush's debut album?

Til I Forget About You has a video in which Carlos presses a camcorder button that makes everyone at a country club rock out.

Which singer from the British Virgin Islands features on Big Time Rush's 2011 song If I Ruled the World?

Iyaz joined the band on a track first titled Rule the World, which was the first taste of their second album.

Which singer was the opening act for the first five dates of Big Time Rush's 2012 Better with U Tour?

JoJo warmed up the crowd from opening night in Las Vegas, on a tour that later took the band to Toronto.

Where did Big Time Rush's Carlos first meet the actress he went on to marry in January 2014?

A Bible study brought the couple together in 2012, and she later guest-starred in the show's final episode as his character's new girlfriend.

In the Big Time Rush series finale, the band foil a plot to brainwash the audience at which ceremony?

The Tween Choice Awards, in their 24th year, had booked the band to close the show before the boys uncovered the scheme.

In Big Time Rush's Big Time Tests, one of the boys takes Carlos along as a lucky charm to which exam?

The MCAT outing leaves James at home obsessing over relationship quizzes, while a product-testing lab takes over the record label's offices.

What did Big Time Rush name the independent label behind their 2023 album, a pun on the band's initials?

Bought the Rights, working with BMG, put out the band's first studio album in almost a decade.

Which actress guest-stars in Big Time Rush as Heather Fox, the model Carlos had a crush on at camp?

Elizabeth Gillies plays the model whose note for Carlos was thrown away years earlier by James, who secretly liked her too.

In Big Time Rush, which teen heartthrob, played by Curt Hansen, do Kendall's mother and sister chase for an autograph?

Dak Zevon is the teen hunk whose autograph the pair are determined to get in Big Time Photo Shoot, and he returns later in the first season.

In Big Time Wedding, Big Time Rush score a number one record in which fictional country, whose king then visits?

Kerplankistan's king plans for his daughter to marry one of the band, and James inadvertently proposes to her.

In Big Time Photo Shoot, the Big Time Rush producer gets community service for vandalising which film star's mailbox?

Matthew McConaughey had his mailbox vandalised, and the punishment leaves the parent company's CEO to run the shoot with a space matador theme.

Which magazine's 2012 poll, with over 800,000 votes cast, named Big Time Rush the best boy band in the world?

Parade put the band on its cover that August after they beat the Wanted and other rivals in the poll.

In the Earth Day episode of Big Time Rush, which animal do Carlos and James decide to put in every apartment?

A cow is their fallback plan in Green Time Rush, hatched after they find every other idea for the class contest already taken.

The hour-long pilot of Big Time Rush, first shown in November 2009, is titled Big Time what?

Big Time Audition drew 3.6 million viewers as a one-hour preview, weeks before the series officially launched in January 2010.

In Big Time Cartoon, a fall from a ladder leaves Buddha Bob convinced he is which Fairly OddParents character?

Cosmo is an in-joke: Daran Norris, who plays Buddha Bob, voices that very character in the real cartoon, so Bob decides he can grant wishes.

Big Time Rush's Carlos was studying musical theatre at which college when his manager urged him to try out?

Boston Conservatory had only just enrolled him, and he was reluctant to send in a tape, but the role was his almost two years later.

Which Nickelodeon game show did Big Time Rush's Carlos host in 2014, soon after the band went on hiatus?

Webheads launched that June, three months after the band finished touring and went on hiatus to pursue solo careers.

Big Time Rush was filmed on Stage 27 of which film studio's lot?

Paramount hosted the series on its Hollywood lot from August 2009, when filming began just three months before the premiere.

What was the title of the 2017 debut solo single by Big Time Rush's Logan, the start of a darker sound?

Sleepwalker ended a break of several years from performing and introduced what he called a dark grunge pop sound.

Ciara Bravo, who plays Kendall's sister in Big Time Rush, went on to star in which Fox series?

Red Band Society followed her Nickelodeon years, and she had earlier voiced Giselita in the animated film Open Season 3.

Which pop duo appear on Song for You, a track from Big Time Rush's third studio album?

Karmin appear on the standard edition, while rapper Jake Miller features on a bonus track on the deluxe version.

Which Big Time Rush video references boy bands of past decades, from the Temptations to the Jackson 5?

Like Nobody's Around nods to a hit group from each era between the 1940s and the 2000s, and the song came free with pre-orders of the third album.