7.2/1034 votes#1 - The Perks of Being a Wallpaper
Season 5 Episode 1 - Aired 8/7/2016
A classic dive bar with mob ties in Las Vegas is about to close its doors because of an owner who's busy being a nice guy rather than a wise guy.
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7.2/1030 votes#2 - Wheels of Misfortune
Season 5 Episode 2 - Aired 8/14/2016
In a desert town, Taffer collides with the owner of a bar in a roller rink, a local landmark close to closing for good.
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6.3/1031 votes#3 - Whipped Into Shape
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 8/21/2016
After gambling his life savings on a run down Las Vegas bar, a desperate owner tries out a fetish night to whip up new business.
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7.4/1035 votes#4 - Antisocial Media
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 9/18/2016
Taffer helps an owner whose social media mishaps have made him public enemy number one.
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6.9/1030 votes#5 - How to Train Your Goldfish
Season 5 Episode 5 - Aired 9/25/2016
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?
Director: N/A
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7.3/1030 votes#6 - Win, Lose or Brawl
Season 5 Episode 6 - Aired 10/2/2016
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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7.0/1023 votes#7 - Listen Y'all It's Sabotage
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 10/9/2016
New bar owners accuse their manager (and the bar's former owner) of sabotaging their business to try to steal it back. With no clear proof, Jon uses a stress test to determine who's right and who's wrong.
Director: N/A
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7.1/1031 votes#8 - Gettin' Jigger With It
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 10/16/2016
A historical landmark bar, divided in profits and responsibility, pits brother and sister against one another.
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6.7/1026 votes#9 - Chase Lounge
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 10/23/2016
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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7.3/1032 votes#10 - Zero Dark Drunky
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 10/30/2016
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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7.6/1034 votes#11 - Ice, Mice, Baby
Season 5 Episode 11 - Aired 11/6/2016
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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7.4/1028 votes#12 - Punk as a Drunk
Season 5 Episode 12 - Aired 11/13/2016
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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7.3/1025 votes#13 - Back To The Bar: Drunky Mcdrunkerton Returns
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 11/20/2016
The gloves are off as Taffer confronts the leopard-print loving ladies of The Handlebar; Janet Jackson-playing bartender Brandon, plate-throwing Ami, and The Brixton owner Tim return.
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7.0/1030 votes#14 - Don't Tell Mom the Bar is Dead
Season 5 Episode 14 - Aired 2/19/2017
An abrasive owner takes advantage of his mom's generosity to take over a craft beer bar from his landlord.
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7.1/1033 votes#15 - I Know What You Did Last Summit
Season 5 Episode 15 - Aired 2/26/2017
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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NaN/100 votes#16 - Struck Out at the Dugout
Season 5 Episode 16 - Aired 3/5/2017
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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- NaN/100 votes
#17 - Back to the Bar: Brick & Barley Above Water
Season 5 Episode 17 - Aired 3/12/2017
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.
Director: N/A
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7.7/1028 votes#18 - All Twerk and No Pay Makes Taffer Shut It Down
Season 5 Episode 18 - Aired 3/19/2017
An owner twerks her way to tears when her bar gets out of step
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7.5/1025 votes#19 - Bar Over Troubled Water
Season 5 Episode 19 - Aired 3/26/2017
In this special episode, Taffer rescues a successful bar – the beacon of the community – that was destroyed by a recent hurricane in Baton Rouge
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7.9/1021 votes#20 - Desi, You Got Some 'Splainin' To Do
Season 5 Episode 20 - Aired 4/2/2017
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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- 7.4/1014 votes
#21 - Back to the Bar: Hallelujah for Jon
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 4/9/2017
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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7.9/1022 votes#22 - Casually Tapped Out
Season 5 Episode 22 - Aired 7/2/2017
Taffer tries to resurrect a closed neighborhood bar by reigniting the passion of the burnt out firefighter who owns it.
Director: N/A
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8.1/1026 votes#23 - Things That Go Pahrump in the Night
Season 5 Episode 23 - Aired 7/16/2017
It's a race against the clock when Jon Taffer heads to Pahrump, where he must save the failing bar owned by a man who might lose his sight forever.
Director: N/A
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7.4/1021 votes#24 - Mother Doesn't Know Best
Season 5 Episode 24 - Aired 7/23/2017
Jon Taffer tries to 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.
Director: N/A
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7.6/1010 votes#25 - Back to the Bar: Flying Fists and Bar Brawls
Season 5 Episode 25 - Aired 7/30/2017
It's all fists and fury when Taffer revisits the bars with the biggest fights, including the most dangerous brawl in show history at the bar whose owner is fighting foreclosure.
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The Best Episodes of Bar Rescue Season 5
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Season 5 Ratings Summary
"The Perks of Being a Wallpaper" is the best rated episode of "Bar Rescue" season 5. It scored 7.2/10 based on 34 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 8/7/2016. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Wheels of Misfortune".