The WORST episodes of Rick Mercer Report
Every episode of Rick Mercer Report ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Rick Mercer Report!
The Rick Mercer Report (formerly Rick Mercer's Monday Report) is a political news-comedy show. Most of each episode is done with Rick in front of the camera displaying his unique brand of satire, from insulting politicians to mocking Americans. Rick tries to do at least one segment in a different Canadian city each week. This is a must see for everyone in Canada. You'll either love or hate this show within the first viewing.
#1 - January 11, 2011
Season 8 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/11/2011
#2 - March 29, 2011
Season 8 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/29/2011
Rick checks out the abundant moose population in Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland. Then he's off to the University of Northern British Columbia in Prince George, and Espanola High School in Ontario, to acknowledge the top fund-raisers in the annual Spread the Net Student Challenge.
#3 - March 22, 2011
Season 8 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/22/2011
Tonight Rick is at Toronto's Air Canada Centre to help the crew convert the building from a Maple Leafs to a Raptors game---from hockey to basketball--in just six hours. He is also at Brentwood College School, in Mill Bay, BC to join the rowing team.
#4 - March 15, 2011
Season 8 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/15/2011
Rick is in Niagara Falls where he joins the crew of the Niagara Tunnel Project, an enormous tunnel boring project around the Falls (10 kilometers long; 14 meters wide). Rick finds out how to run 'Big Becky', the largest tunnel-boring machine in the worl
#5 - February 22, 2011
Season 8 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/22/2011
#6 - February 15, 2011
Season 8 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/15/2011
#7 - February 8, 2011
Season 8 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/8/2011
Tonight Rick participates in the 64th annual Queens University Model Parliament in the actual House of Commons in Ottawa. He is Speaker of the House and then learns what it takes to be a parliamentary page. He also goes to Edmonton for the Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race hosted by the University of Alberta and featuring students from across the country.
#8 - January 25, 2011
Season 8 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/25/2011
#9 - January 18, 2011
Season 8 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/18/2011
#10 - January 27, 2009
Season 6 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/27/2009
Rick hits the slopes with senator and Olympic legend Nancy Greene in Sun Peaks, BC; then trains with the women's biathlon team in Canmore, Alberta.
#11 - January 4, 2011
Season 8 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/4/2011
#12 - November 30, 2010
Season 8 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/30/2010
Rick goes heli-logging in Seymour Inlet, BC and teams up with Habitat for Humanity and officers and cadets from the RCMP to build a house in Regina, SK.
#13 - November 23, 2010
Season 8 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/23/2010
This week, Rick goes to Shannonville, ON where he attends "Skid School" and learns how to stop a transport truck on a slippery highway. Also, Rick participates in the potato harvest in PEI.
#14 - April 18, 2006
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 4/18/2006
Rick tries to take Jann Arden bull riding with very interesting results and Rick wraps up this season until the fall.
#15 - April 11, 2006
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 4/11/2006
They are pulling out all the stops to prove that RMR is at the top of its game by having over 16 politicians appear in this episode. From unknown backbenchers to Belinda and Peter Mackay, there was a whole gamut of parties represented.
#16 - April 4, 2006
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 4/4/2006
Rick meets up with the newest Mayor of Vancouver, who happens to be wheelchair bound, and Rick gets his butt "rescued".
#17 - March 28, 2006
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 3/28/2006
Rick gets to feel the head of a calf ... before it has even been born and Mendelson Joe paints Ricks portrait.
#18 - March 14, 2006
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/14/2006
Rick learns how the sledge hockey team manages to play and find out what happened to the eBay offer.
#19 - January 5th, 2010
Season 7 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/5/2010
Best of 2009 A look back at the best reports of 2009 to start off 2010.
#20 - November 29, 2011
Season 9 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/29/2011
Rick marches in Toronto's annual Santa Claus Parade and movie director Norman Jewison explains his role in saving the parade. Rick is in Hamilton, Ontario training with the police force's emergency response team on the waterfalls that dot the Niagara Escarpment.
#21 - November 8, 2011
Season 9 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/8/2011
Tonight Rick joins a crew constructing 200 foot-high transmission towers and connecting power lines across rural Ontario. Then he goes to Vancouver to train with Canada's National Powerchair Soccer Team as they prepare for the World Cup in France.
#22 - November 1, 2011
Season 9 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/1/2011
Tonight Rick is in Langford, BC where he trains with the Canadian National Rugby Team and then goes to the University of Victoria to shave off World Cup Rugby star Adam Kleeberger's immense beard for charity. Rick also ventures to Fergus, Ontario to ride with the Ontario Provincial Police Golden Helmets Precision Motorcycle Team.
#23 - October 25, 2011
Season 9 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/25/2011
Rick and opera star Measha Brueggergosman go whale watching on the Bay of Fundy in St Andrews, New Brunswick and Rick stays on the Bay of Fundy to go jet boating with New Brunswick Premier David Alward at the reversing falls near Saint John.
#24 - October 11,2011
Season 9 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/11/2011
Tonight Rick is at the speedway in Brighton, Ontario where he participates in the Eve of Destruction by driving a trailer in a high speed race until it's demolished. He is also in Calgary at the High Country Carriage Club for the horse and carriage races, a sport Prince Philip developed.
#25 - October 4, 2011
Season 9 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/4/2011
Rick is at the Windsor International Air Show where his activities include flying a vintage World War II Harvard plane, parachuting with the Skyhawks, the Canadian Forces' elite team, and flying in a vintage aerobatic bi-plane.