The boys are scheduled to make their first TV appearance, but when it looks like they'll be bumped, they do whatever it takes to keep their spot.

The monstrous personas of Big Time Rush come to light: James is a sexy vampire, Logan is a zombie, Carlos is Franken-Carlos and Kendall is a werewolf.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Big Time Rush and the Palm Woods kids get to hang out at Griffin's beach house for the day. Carlos and Logan hunt for buried treasure, James falls for a pretty girl who he suspects is a mermaid and Kendall and Jo's relationship hits the skids.

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 doesnt 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 together and form "Oh" and "Yeah", the song then becomes Oh Yeah and is approved by Griffin.

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.

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

The gang is taking part in a classroom competition to make the Palm Woods more environmentally friendly. Things go wrong when Kendall and Logan end up with undesirable partners and Carlos and James' efforts to start an organic farm in the crib lead to a cow on the loose in the hallways.

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".

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.

Jo was 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.

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. While guys try to help Kendall cheer up he states that they'll never know what he's going through because they've never had their hearts broken. 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 its like to get their hearts broken after a short relationship. James date 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 shirt 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.”

James accidentally proposes to a girl and Logan, Kendall, and Carlos have to stop the wedding before it's too late.

A new rocker-chick neighbor blows the guys away. Carlos and James are desperate to date her, while Kendall tries to prove that BTR can rock too.

BTR refuses to record their second album after Gustavo is too hard on them, and the strike pits the band against their producer in a battle of wills.

A "Win a Date with BTR" contest held by a Teen Magazine goes all wrong with Logan's date an old lady, Kendall's date is a young boy only interested in his little sister. Carlos and James keeps swapping dates.

An early release of Hawk from prison proves to be a big mistake. A costumed Hawk, complete with large costumed henchmen, steals the hard drive that contains the only copy of the new album's masters. And only "The Supertastic Super-6" can save the day.

James works with Carlos to win over an old friend from camp who is now a super model. Logan and Lucy try to find out what the secret is between Kendall and Camille and why are they spending so much time together. Gustavo, Kelly and Katie try to learn Mrs Knight's secret cookie recipe.

Big Time Rush has dropped their second album, and a TV program has the guys making revealing comments about their lives inside and outside the band.

The boys have the fight of all fights and decide to move out. James ends up squatting in a cool retiree's apartment, Logan moves into a place right by the water, Carlos builds a cardboard house, and Kendall must fix things.