7.4/1047 votes#1 - Turtle on Its Back
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 2/10/2013
For a bar to fail on Bourbon Street in New Orleans it takes a special kind of incompetence.
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6.9/1041 votes#2 - Rock N Roaches
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 2/17/2013
Jon Taffer descends on a grotesque goth and rock bar in Austin, TX. Tasteless performances and cockroach infestations are the least of his problems as he spars with the worst bar owner to date.
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7.1/1044 votes#3 - Bro's Got to Geaux!
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 2/24/2013
Jon schools the owner of a beat-up college bar with a reputation for serving underage drinkers.
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6.9/1041 votes#4 - Tears for Beers
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 3/3/2013
A too-hip-for-its-own-good bar in Austin may need a hip replacement if it is to survive.
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6.9/1042 votes#5 - Empty Pockets
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 3/10/2013
A Denver pool hall owned by a proud immigrant gets help.
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6.4/1041 votes#6 - Jon T, He Don't Like It
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 3/17/2013
The formerly rocking Kasbah Lounge in Aurora, Colorado, which has fallen on hard times, is made over.
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6.7/1038 votes#7 - In a Pinch
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 3/24/2013
The locals are up in arms over a controversial lobster-tank game at a blue-collar watering hole.
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7.0/1040 votes#8 - Karaoke Katastrophe
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 3/31/2013
Jon makes over one of the country's first karaoke bars, dealing with outdated decor, a hot-under-the-collar chef and an owner who's oblivious to what's going on in his place, and a hoarder to boot.
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7.0/1039 votes#9 - A Horse Walks Into a Bar
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 4/7/2013
Horses defecating inside this Arizona bar are the least of Jon Taffer’s problems. He must contend with drunk owners, a family in turmoil, and a bank foreclosure if he hopes to save this business.
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6.5/1031 votes#10 - Meat Sauna
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 4/14/2013
Bad ventilation cause hot, moist burger smoke to fill Scottsdale’s least funny comedy club. Jon Taffer arrives to clear the air and use proven bar techniques to create bigger laughs and bigger profits for the troubled owners
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7.1/1032 votes#11 - Don't Mess With Taffer's Wife
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 7/7/2013
An aggressive Las Vegas bar owner tries to pick up Nicole Taffer, sending Jon into a rage. Can he set this owner’s wandering eyes straight and save a once famous blues bar without coming to blows first?
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7.0/1040 votes#12 - Don't Judge a Booze by its Bottle
Season 3 Episode 12 - Aired 7/14/2013
North Carolina’s Cashmere Nightclub has a bad name, poor décor and an embarrassing manager, but when Jon learns that they are refilling premium liquor bottles with cheap booze, all hell breaks loose.
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6.7/1033 votes#13 - Two Flew Over the Handlebars
Season 3 Episode 13 - Aired 7/21/2013
Two buxom sisters have driven their biker bar in Pawcatuck, Connecticut into a ditch. Can Jon get these party women to stop binge drinking and focus on the real assets of their bar?
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6.9/1039 votes#14 - There's No Crying in the Bar Business
Season 3 Episode 14 - Aired 7/28/2013
Jon heads to a Georgia sports bar and encounters an owner who’s incessant crying seems to prevent her noticing the massive employee theft issue occurring right under her nose.
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7.2/1039 votes#15 - Play Some Janet Jackson!
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 8/4/2013
Las Vegas' first gay nightclub, Gipsy, is months from closing its doors thanks to its verbally abusive and over intoxicated owner.
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6.8/1043 votes#16 - Characters Assassination
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 8/11/2013
A poor concept is among the problems hampering a North Carolina bar run by a family of Yankees.
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6.7/1034 votes#17 - Corking the Bunghole
Season 3 Episode 17 - Aired 8/18/2013
13 miles from Fort Bragg, Cliques suffers from a juvenile name and a repugnant reputation. Jon puts a bar's owners through a personal bar boot camp to attract the local military personnel.
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6.5/1033 votes#18 - A Bar Full of Bull
Season 3 Episode 18 - Aired 8/25/2013
Jon tries to help two siblings from wasting their father's retirement with a rickety mechanical bull in a New England bar.
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6.4/1032 votes#19 - Beer and Loathing in Las Vegas
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 9/8/2013
Jon visits a struggling blue-collar joint in Las Vegas, where he deals with the strained friendship between the two classically trained chefs who own and operate it.
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6.9/1032 votes#20 - Barely Above Water
Season 3 Episode 20 - Aired 9/15/2013
Taffer makes two bars out of one in an attempt to save both a beachfront bar in Warwick, Rhode Island, and the owner’s marriage.
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6.7/1036 votes#21 - Crappy Cantina
Season 3 Episode 21 - Aired 10/6/2013
Jon steps in to help two brothers whose ill-conceived idea for a death-metal concert bar has drained their parents' retirement fund.
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7.2/1038 votes#22 - Jon of the Dead
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 10/13/2013
Jon has a few shocks to deliver to two former members of the music industry who have opened a horror-themed bar that is dying on its feet.
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7.5/1039 votes#23 - Grandpa Got Run Over by His Grandkids
Season 3 Episode 23 - Aired 10/20/2013
Jon tries to turn around a Las Vegas establishment owned by a man whose family is wasting his money.
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6.8/1035 votes#24 - Hurricane Jon vs Hurricane Sandy
Season 3 Episode 24 - Aired 10/27/2013
Jon races to repair the battered Bungalow Bar in Rockaway Beach after it felt the full force of Hurricane Sandy.
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7.3/1035 votes#25 - Drunk & Dirty Dolls
Season 3 Episode 25 - Aired 11/3/2013
After a near-fatal heart attack, Artie, the owner of Alibi in Las Vegas, lost his zeal for the work, and it's up to Jon to help him get it back.
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The Best Episodes of Bar Rescue Season 3
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Season 3 Ratings Summary
"Turtle on Its Back" is the best rated episode of "Bar Rescue" season 3. It scored 7.4/10 based on 47 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 2/10/2013. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "Rock N Roaches".