Season 2! THE SEASON THAT WOULD NOT DIE.
Welcome Back Big Time
I want to like this episode because James hangs out with Camille and Logan is hilarious teamed up with Kelly and Gustavo, but the Kendall/Jo plotline infuriates me. Though Jett is great, so there's that.
Interesting how so many of these venues across the country look like Times Square. HMMMMMMM.
"Hey, has anyone even noticed Kendall might be dead?"
Logan does NOT want Camille to tackle him. James thinks that is the only appropriate way for someone to greet him. I'M JUST SAYING.
"And that guy? Is way better looking than you." HA!
"I trust her, right?" "I wouldn't. 'Cause that guy is way better looking than you." HA AGAIN!
AND THEN THEY'RE LIKE "WHY CAN WE HEAR THE MUSICAL STINGER" LOLOLOLOLOL
TEEN NCSI. LI'L LEE ROTH. This show is hilarious.
"I didn't hang out with you guys until I found out how crazy you are with your firepit jams and parties and general youthful antics." Hee, and also I love that Camille is too good for them and knows it.
MAKE OUT.
"Big Time Rush on K-Rock's Roctoberfest? How?" "Oh, with a little wheeling, a little dealing...and poison."
"Remember: Big Time Rush, Rocktober, poison."
Annnnnnd then Jett hits on Kendall.
"By the way, I am way better looking than you."
"We'll tell her it was a Rocktober miracle! And she will believe me because she is stupid."
"Nine hundred years ago the Pilgrims came to this great land of ours in search of freedom. The freedom TO ROCK!"
"That's it: we gotta throw a party." "We gotta get unitards!" "Don't do that."
"Can a watermelon power a device to make perfect toast?" "It didn't make toast." "Exactly! That was my hypothesis: watermelons can't make toast." "That is a horrible science project." "I'm only going for a C+!" Ahahaha and also Logan loves toast so much.
"Does Bleach Effect Plant Growth?" I choose to believe Logan/the writers used the wrong effect/affect on purpose to make it seem like Kendall actually did the report.
"Kendall Knight? C+. James Diamond? C+. Carlos Garcia? B." "I'm smarter than you guys!"
I really hate that Jo has to make the grand gesture here. KENDALL FUCKED UP REPEATEDLY. A VOICE MAIL DOES NOT MAKE THAT OKAY.
LOGAN YOU ARE SUCH A TERRIBLE DANCER. <333
Awww, Jo/Camille hugs!
Big Time Fans
Another episode that's not super notable, but extremely hilarious all the way through. I love how the different plot strands resolve so neatly at the end, and I love the callback to the pilot with Jenny.
BOYS DON'T EAT MAIL MEATLOAF. IT HAS HALLUCINOGENS AND BODILY DETRITUS IN IT.
Pretty sure crazed fans wouldn't track them down to become famous, though. Pretty sure they would be tracking them down to make out with them.
HE IS SO CUTE.
"Is bad stuff over?" SWEETIE PIE.
"She's a lot less clumsy than I remember." HEE HEE HEE.
"But remember the second grade, when she broke my arm playing marbles? Or the fifth grade, when she gave me the first paper cut in history that required surgery. And then: eighth grade. Lab partners." "It took almost a year for your hair to grow back." I feel like it's usually Logan with the traumatic memories, so this is interesting. AND HILARIOUS.
"I'm your biggest fan!" "I don't think so. Many of my fans are well over five feet." OH JAMES, NEVER STOP BEING DUMB.
YES. YES FOREVER.
"Awesomeness is 15 percent tan, 40 percent good attitude, 20 percent bad attitude, and 50 percent imported hair care products." "That's 125 percent." "You bet it is."
I'm assuming the slightly different hair and OOC wardrobe (I'm looking at you, Logan and James) is meant to signify "two years ago"? Whatever, it's adorable.
"Awesomeness takes perspiration and inspiration, which is why I always work out in front of my heroes."
ILU JAMES.
Hello, sir. Also, lolz at Katie boxing at the gym. YOU'RE TWELVE, CHILD.
Why is there so much paper in the ducts?
I find Gustavo's reliance on Logan to handle smart person problems really adorable.
"We wanted to be professional hockey players..." And Carlos is nodding along as if that's true. NO, CARLOS, YOU WANT TO BE A SUPERHERO. I love that both of them forgot that Kendall's dream isn't Carlos's. Unhealthy, maybe, but totally in character.
THEY GOT LOGAN A JUMPSUIT WITH HIS NAME ON IT.
"You can't kick us out because we have the lease...thing...stuff." Ohhh 17-year-old trying to argue about leases. <3
"I'm three feet taller than you!" "I'm gonna wear a lot of socks!" "Darn, I taught you too well."
"THEY HAVEN'T INVENTED A DOG CAGE THAT CAN HOLD JAMES DIAMOND!"
Katie, I don't think James knows there aren't caribou in Antarctica.
I like that it's basically understood that James will go solo at some point. Because come on.
JAMES AND CARLOS EATING DOG BISCUITS TOGETHER. SHOW YOU ARE MY SHOW.
"Eh, we 'ated Johnny. 'E made me smash guitars." "He made me speak with a British accent."
"Come on, Jenny! Let's go get permission from your mum!" FAVORITE LINE.
Big Time Girlfriends
THIS EPISODE. THIS EPISODE YOU GUYS. It's perfection all the way through. I mean, obviously I love the fact that JAMES AND CAMILLE TOTALLY MAKE OUT WITH EACH OTHER'S FACES, but the whole thing is great! Carlos and Sasha are fantastic, and Kendall and Jo are cute again! Yay!
I get this song stuck in my head too. "And right from the start/ You had to break my heart/ AND NOW I CAN'T FIND ALL THE PIECES, YEAH!"
"New stop fight button works." HEE.
WHO PUT A TOWEL ON THE PALM TREE AND GAVE IT A SMOOTHIE? Also lol those guys in the background.
lololol Carlos does the breath spray thing with an empty hand. Oh, Carlitos.
"Hey! Wanna help me run lines for my audition?" "Can't. I'm going to the Solar Winds of Venus exhibit at the Planetarium. You wanna come with?" LOGAN SHE JUST SAID SHE WAS BUSY. TERRIBLE BOYFRIEND.
"I play a princessbot for falls for this super handsome hair model spy prince." I WANT TO SEE THIS MOVIE.
"I don't care if she's a robot! I'm in love with her." "Good for you!"
"The pink one's mine." I love this. Not because I think this is ~*~OMG SEKRIT GAY CODING~*~ or anything - I read Kendall as about 97% straight. Boys can like pink! Like, it's a joke because it's not the expected response, but it's also like, cool, Kendall likes pink, whatever.
"I'm Carlos. I like summer breezes, winter snowstorms, and seeing cats get what's coming to them." HEE.
"We mustn't! You're a hair model prince who's spying on my country and I'm a robot."
"If it's so wrong, then why were you programmed to love?"
"But what about the bomb?!"
I LIKE THIS SCENE A LOT, YOU GUYS. I mean, it's also EXTREMELY HILARIOUS, but ugh, ugh, UGH, the CHEMISTRY IS EXPLODING OFF THE TV SCREEN, I CAN'T EVEN. GET MARRIED, YOU TWO.
"Is that Carlos...in slow motion?"
"Don't tell me that you hired an actress to make Carlos fall in love with her so she would break his heart so that he could perform better on the breakup song." "Is that wrong?"
Kelly's faces are great.
It is my firm headcanon that James is forever vulnerable to Camille's tears, even when she is obviously faking. <333
"Great. I don't know why I don't book more acting parts." BEST.
Hey James, Logan's just chilling here with his dildo. I'M SORRY BUT THAT ROCKET IS INAPPROPRIATE.
Logan's face of disgust and outrage when James tells him he used Logan's toothbrush is HILARIOUS.
THIS EPISODE'S PACING IS SO GOOD.
"Yeah, but Carlos is really in love with me. So far he's given me a seven page love poem, a bouquet of corn dogs, and a coupon book for Carlos hugs."
Carlos is the best one and I WANT THAT COUPON BOOK.
"Just be the worst girlfriend ever. Be bossy, spend all of his money on shoes, cry about everything, and hate all of his best guy friends." Gustavo's romantic history in a nutshell?
Their faces in this scene are so great.
"BROADSWORDS AT DAWN!" "Isn't dawn really early?" "BROADSWORDS AT ELEVEN!"
"Turns out I love shoe shopping!" Again, this show is so great because boys can like "girl" things and girls can like "boy" things and it ain't no thang. Show you are my show!
"I don't know! I just cry all the time and for no reason at all!" lololol
"Let's get you some shoes!" This is going to be Carlos/Mercedes foreplay, I decree it.
AND KENDALL KISSES KATIE'S HEAD D'AWWW. Also really enjoying Katie and Bitters' friendship in this episode.
CARLOS IS SUCH A SWEETIE PIE I LOVE HIM SO MUUUUUUCH
"Camille, 96% of all first romances end in breakups. You kissing James gives us the perfect opportunity for us to get ours out of the way now." That is not a boy who cares about kissing this girl. Lordy.
I'm sorry, but the chemistry in this scene just pales in comparison to James and Camille. I mean, I'm obviously biased, but with James and Camille it's palpable. These two are just cute.
TUNNEL OF JUST FRIENDS
Big Time Live
This is for serious one of my all-time favorite episodes, mostly because it is straight-up Animaniacs from start to finish. Perfectly timed comedic havoc against a mean adult = FAVORITE.
"Why do early morning shows have to shoot so early in the morning?" STICK A PIN IN THAT.
Oh Ed Begley Jr. Never stop doing random guest appearances on this show!
"But being on live TV is number seven on my list of things to do before I'm 20." "You...don't have a list." Logan is so embarrassed for you right now, James.
"What they don't need to see is a stupid boy band." "Vocal group is a term that could also be used." LOLOLOLZ okay but the Backstreet Boys spent like SEVEN YEARS trying to convince people to call them a "vocal harmony group" ("Just like Boys II Men!") so I'll just be over here laughing forever.
"Why they have to shoot early morning shows so early in the morning?" KENDALL IS GUSTAVO'S DADDY.
Okay, no one tell Carlos that RCM/CBT Globalnet Sanyoid has a mutant power research division, because he will be trying to break in and get superpowers immediately.
Oh, boys.
TUMBLEWEED.
"Of course you realize..." "THIS MEANS WAR!" KENDALL KNIGHT = BUGS BUNNY. <333 (And yes, I realize Bugs was not the first person to make that joke.)
"Okay. Operation Cut Out Time From AM LA So Big Time Rush Can Perform on Live TV is underway." "That's a really long operation name!" "How about something cool like 'Operation Winter Blitz'?" "It's catchier, but it's not winter!" "Just move out!" I love how INCREDIBLY SERIOUSLY they take this. BOYS.
"The governor issued an apology to voters yesterday following the recent discovery that he is, in fact, a terrible governor." Schwarzenegger was still governor when this aired. LOLZ.
"Hey there, you!"
"Great news! We shaved a whole minute off your show." "De nada." It's their utter unrepentance that kills me. Again, the Animaniacs principle in action: if you are mean, we will make your life a living hell in the most fun way possible as just and fitting cartoon punishment. So NEVER BE MEAN.
I tell you what: if I was watching a morning news show and saw a boy band running around causing havoc with the weather report and such, I would buy EVERY SONG THAT BAND EVER RECORDED.
TEAM KATIE FTW. And they ALL call her "baby sister!" UGH, RIGHT IN THE FEELS.
Gustavo and Kelly can never fist bump too much for me. ALL THE FIST BUMPS.
"Number 11: Slap a Pharaoh. Check!"
"WE...should run again." "Yep!" BEST SHOW.
"That was a trust fall, Gustavo."
YOU ARE STRAIGHT-UP LOONEY TUNES, BOYS. THE ROADRUNNER IS ABOUT TO COME RACING THROUGH THIS SCENE. *squeezes face in glee*
I love that Carlos unleashes Rachel Ray, Emeril, and Martha Stewart imitations in 15 seconds. LOVE.
YES, LOGAN. I WILL BUY WHATEVER YOU TELL ME TO BUY.
I just. You guys, I can't. The timing of this sequence - the insane pace of these shenanigans - fills my heart with more love than I can express. It's so zany! Show you are my show!
"And these organic saws can cut through the toughest studio floors!"
"Be a weatherman? Check!"
Annnnd then Katie murders someone. Whoops.
Annnnd Katie murders someone else. Whoops again.
I love how perfect their roles are. Of course James is a weatherman! Of course Logan is the financial analyst! Of course Carlos is the chef! And of COURSE Kendall is behind the scenes directing everything. Perfect.
There is no way sales would go up thanks to a note held by Logan. Sorry, Logan.
PERFECT EPISODE.