
Dren, the nerdy math teacher, as Lucy's Dad.
Production Posse: Half the people who have been on Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide are on this show, including Missy as Griffin's daughter Mercedes Carlos, who played the Spelling Bee champ Vice Principal Crubbs as a Secret Agent and Mr. Although Rob did do a couple of voice-only roles on the show as well, such as the coffee machine in "Big Time Jobs". With that said though, the characters they play are in line with their usual character types, like Tara as the boys' teacher (a reasonable authority figure). Playing with Character Type: Tara Strong, James Arnold Taylor, Dee Bradley Baker, Carlos Alazraqui, Rob Paulsen, and Phil LaMarr appear as live-action characters in contrast to their usual voice acting roles. Playing Against Type: Elizabeth Gillies appears in "Big Time Secret" and her character is actually really nice, which is unexpected considering her other roles. While Locke would return for the Jennifer role and Goss gets another background character role, the positions were reversed for the second half of Season 2. The Other Darrin: Spencer Locke was replaced by Kelli Goss as Jennifer 2 (the blonde one) when the former was filming Resident Evil: Afterlife. The fictional James has to learn to ride a bike, while the real-life James already knows how to. From the end of the pilot episode and continuing through the rest of the series, the actors' real talents were allowed to shine. Of course, in real life, the four actors all needed to be skilled singers and dancers already, or else they wouldn't have been cast in the roles in the first place. In the pilot episode Big Time Audition, the boys are depicted as having no aptitude whatsoever for singing or dancing, until they finally agree to buckle down and get serious about learning from Gustavo. It's not an egregious example as Ciara looked the age of her character. Surprisingly, Ciara Bravo who plays Katie was between the ages of 12-16 playing a character three years younger than herself. The guys are about 3-4 years older than the standard sophomore/junior high school age, as is Erin Sanders who plays Camille. Lucy's middle name is Elizabeth, which is Malese Jow's first name. Subverted with Logan, as Big Time Moms reveals his first name is actually Hortense. Kendall is played by Kendall Schmidt, Logan by Logan Henderson, Carlos by Carlos Pena, and James by James Maslow. Contractual Purity: Expected since they're on Nickelodeon.
Actor-Shared Background: Lucy's parents are shown to be Asian and White, just like her actress Malese Jow.note It was a misfire and Taylor had gotten too close. In reality, it was all four of the boys at the party and instead of Cher's car, they (almost) accidentally blew up Taylor Swift. "Big Time Scandal" has James tell Katie that he accidentally blew up Cher Lloyd's car with fireworks at a party.
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The real Carlos primarily did musical theater before the series started. In "Big Time Breakout", Griffin suggests that Carlos could go on to do Broadway.