Bar Rescue Season 5, Episode 16: Struck Out at the Dugout

1

The Perks of Being a Wallpaper

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.

43 min

2

Wheels of Misfortune

In a desert town, Taffer collides with the owner of a bar in a roller rink, a local landmark close to closing for good.

43 min

3

Whipped Into Shape

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.

43 min

4

Antisocial Media

Taffer helps an owner whose social media mishaps have made him public enemy number one.

43 min

5

How to Train Your Goldfish

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?

43 min

6

Win, Lose or Brawl

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.

43 min

7

Listen Y'all It's Sabotage

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.

43 min

8

Gettin' Jigger With It

A historical landmark bar, divided in profits and responsibility, pits brother and sister against one another.

43 min

9

Chase Lounge

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.

43 min

10

Zero Dark Drunky

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.

43 min

11

Ice, Mice, Baby

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?

43 min

12

Punk as a Drunk

A former punk rocker hits bottom after being overwhelmed with tragedy. But his constant roughhousing with his employees draws Taffer's ire.

43 min

13

Back To The Bar: Drunky Mcdrunkerton Returns

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.

43 min

14

Don't Tell Mom the Bar is Dead

An abrasive owner takes advantage of his mom's generosity to take over a craft beer bar from his landlord.

43 min

15

I Know What You Did Last Summit

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?

43 min

16

Struck Out at the Dugout

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.

43 min

17

Back to the Bar: Brick & Barley Above Water

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.

43 min

18

All Twerk and No Pay Makes Taffer Shut It Down

An owner twerks her way to tears when her bar gets out of step

43 min

19

Bar Over Troubled Water

In this special episode, Taffer rescues a successful bar – the beacon of the community – that was destroyed by a recent hurricane in Baton Rouge

43 min

20

Desi, You Got Some 'Splainin' To Do

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?

43 min

21

Back to the Bar: Hallelujah for Jon

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.

43 min

22

Casually Tapped Out

Taffer tries to resurrect a closed neighborhood bar by reigniting the passion of the burnt out firefighter who owns it.

43 min

23

Things That Go Pahrump in the Night

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.

43 min

24

Mother Doesn't Know Best

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.

43 min

25

Back to the Bar: Flying Fists and Bar Brawls

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.

43 min

26

Silence of the Ants

A Long Beach dive bar becomes infested with more than just bar problems -- they have bug problems.

43 min

27

Daddy Dearest

Jon Taffer arrives just in time to save a family run bar on the brink of ruin with an aggressive father at its helm.

43 min

28

Rickety Rockin' Rhonda's

It's a race against the clock as Jon Taffer tries to rescue a failing bar with a crumbling floor.

43 min

29

Back to the Bar: For Whom the Cajun Belle Tolls

Taffer revisits The Cajun Belle to see whether husband Dave still supports his hard-working wife and whether their marriage needs another rescue, checks in on the partnership at Hammer & Ales, and heads back to The Wildcatter.

43 min

30

The Unlucky Leprechaun

Jon Taffer tries to convince a foul-mouthed owner to change his ways before the bar he owns with his ex-wife shuts down for good.

43 min

31

Back to the Bar: Disasters of Epic Proportions

Taffer revisits 3 bars whose fortunes have turned for the worse after disasters have ravaged their futures, from the apocalypse themed bar The End to Chicago landmark The Abbey. Can Taffer develop a plan to help them get back on their feet?

43 min