Bar Rescue

Jon Taffer embarks on a cross-country tour of the worst drinking establishments in America. Bad drinks, wild staffs and wasted owners conspire against him and his experts as they give failing businesses one last shot at success.
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Episodes

  1. S5 E1 - The Perks of Being a Wallpaper
    August 6, 2016
    41min
    TV-PG
    Las Vegas's last classic dive bar with mob ties is about to close its doors due to an owner who's too busy being a nice guy to act like a wiseguy.
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  2. S5 E2 - Wheels of Misfortune
    August 13, 2016
    41min
    TV-PG
    In a desert town, Taffer collides with a hometown hero who operates a bar out of a roller rink, a local landmark that is one wipe-out away from crashing for good.
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  3. S5 E3 - Whipped Into Shape
    August 20, 2016
    42min
    TV-PG
    After gambling his life savings on a run down Las Vegas bar, a desperate owner rolls the dice on a fetish night in order to whip up new business. Will it be a decision he's quick to regret when Taffer takes over?
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  4. S5 E4 - Antisocial Media
    September 17, 2016
    41min
    TV-PG
    Taffer helps an owner whose social media mishaps have made him public enemy number one.
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  5. S5 E5 - How to Train Your Goldfish
    September 24, 2016
    41min
    TV-PG
    Nasty nachos & goldfish races are on the menu at this sports pub. But in a Bar Rescue first, a staffing crisis hits before the stress test, leaving the owners without any employees. Can Taffer right the ship before it drowns?
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  6. S5 E6 - Win, Lose or Brawl
    October 1, 2016
    41min
    TV-PG
    Taffer must fix an out-of-control staff and the owner's freeloading friends. But a violent physical fight threatens this sports bar's rescue potential.
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  7. S5 E7 - Listen Y'all it's Sabatoge
    October 8, 2016
    41min
    TV-PG
    New bar owners accuse their manager – and the bar's former owner – of sabotaging their business to steal it back.
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  8. S5 E8 - Gettin' Jigger With It
    October 15, 2016
    41min
    13+
    A historical landmark bar, divided in profits and responsibility, leave brother and sister bar owners at war with each other.
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  9. S5 E9 - Chase Lounge
    October 22, 2016
    41min
    TV-PG
    A lazy step-son fails to step into his new role as bar manager. And while his father can sell a car, it doesn't mean he can run a bar.
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  10. S5 E10 - Zero Drunk Thirty
    October 29, 2016
    41min
    TV-PG
    A military hero on the verge of being redeployed needs a rescue of his own, before he drinks away his profits and angers his bartender girlfriend past the point of no return.
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  11. S5 E11 - Ice, Mice, Baby
    November 5, 2016
    41min
    TV-PG
    A spoiled owner is gifted a nightclub by his father. Can Taffer save this mice-infested tourist bar before the owner gives away all his profits?
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  12. S5 E12 - Punk as a Drunk
    November 12, 2016
    41min
    TV-PG
    A former punk rocker hits bottom after being overwhelmed with tragedy. But his constant roughhousing with his employees draws Taffer's ire.
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  13. S5 E13 - Back to the Bar: Drunky McDrunkerton Returns
    September 3, 2016
    41min
    TV-PG
    Biker-gloves are off as Taffer confronts the leopard-print lovin' ladies of The Handlebar, while Janet Jackson-playing bartender Brandon, plate-throwing Ami, and The Brixton owner Tim return.
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  14. S5 E14 - Don't Tell Mom the Bar is Dead
    February 18, 2017
    42min
    TV-PG
    An abrasive owner takes advantage of his mom's generosity and risks a potential deal to take over this craft beer bar from his landlord.
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  15. S5 E15 - I Know What You Did Last Summit
    February 25, 2017
    42min
    TV-PG
    An absentee owner puts his marriage on the line by drinking away his financial sorrows and flirting with the female clientele. Can Taffer step in to save a crumbling relationship and a failed bar?
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  16. S5 E16 - Struck Out at the Dugout
    March 4, 2017
    42min
    TV-14
    Taffer faces his most resistive owner yet after a lackluster landlord falls into the sports bar business when a previous tenant refuses to pay rent of this World Series winning Chicago Cub's hangout.
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  17. S5 E17 - Back to the Bar: Brick & Barley Above Water
    September 14, 2013
    42min
    TV-PG
    Taffer confronts AJ from Brick & Barley over her blistering attitude and the civil strife with her daughters over the bar's uniforms while a combative owner comes clean about the failure of his bar after the rescue.
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  18. S5 E18 - All Twerk and No Pay Makes Taffer Shut It Down
    February 28, 2015
    42min
    TV-PG
    An owner twerks her way to tears when her bar gets out of step.
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  19. S5 E19 - Bar Over Troubled Water
    March 25, 2017
    42min
    TV-PG
    In this special episode, Taffer rescues a successful bar – the beacon of the community – that was destroyed by flooding in Louisiana.
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  20. S5 E20 - Desi, You Got Some 'Splainin' To Do
    April 1, 2017
    42min
    TV-PG
    After suffering a stroke, this bar owner is on the verge of losing his family legacy. Can Taffer save this bayou bar before it sinks?
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  21. S5 E21 - Back to the Bar: Hallelujah for Jon
    April 8, 2017
    42min
    TV-PG
    Former bar owners return to praise Taffer for turning around their businesses, including an owner once accused of embezzlement by his father, a vape-smoking dragon lady who crafted conflict in her St. Louis bar & more.
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  22. S5 E22 - Casually Tapped Out
    July 1, 2017
    42min
    TV-PG
    In Bar Rescue first, Taffer must resurrect a closed neighborhood bar by reigniting the passion of the burnt-out firefighter who owns it.
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  23. S5 E23 - Things That Go Pahrump in the Night
    July 15, 2017
    42min
    TV-PG
    Its a race against the clock when Jon Taffer heads to Pahrump where he must save the failing bar of a man who might lose his sight forever.
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  24. S5 E24 - Mother Doesn't Know Best
    July 22, 2017
    42min
    TV-PG
    Jon Taffer must convince the ultimate maternal figure to make her decisions like a business owner to save her struggling Las Vegas dive bar from closing its doors.
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  25. S5 E25 - Back to the Bar: Flying Fists and Bar Brawls
    July 29, 2017
    42min
    TV-PG
    It's all fists and fury when Taffer revisits the bars with the biggest fights, including the most dangerous brawl in Bar Rescue history at the bar who's owner is fighting foreclosure.
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Content advisory
Violencealcohol usefoul language
Subtitles
None available
Directors
Glenn GT TaylorJay Hunter
Producers
Haig JabourianMatthew C. AllynJohn PaulBrant Pinvidic
Cast
Jon TafferTom BonelloP.J. King
Studio
viacom
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