Rick Mercer Report: Season 3
Season 3 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of Rick Mercer Report Season 2.
- Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
- Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
- Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
November 8, 2005
Nov 8, 2005 · 21 min
Watch to see Rick get pushed out of an airplane, and Stephen Harper in a more natural state.
November 15, 2005
Nov 15, 2005 · 21 min
Rick Mercer pals around with Paul Martin. See why the Prime Minister is still in power as he lets us see a personality.
November 22, 2005
Nov 22, 2005 · 21 min
Rick goes to Winnipeg where he gets to meet Dr. Popsicle, and in Churchill a group of polar bears.
November 29, 2005
Nov 29, 2005 · 21 min
Rick traveled to Northern Alberta to visit Fort McMurray (Boomtown), the home of Alberta's famous oil sands (the second largest known oil deposit in the world).
December 6, 2005
Dec 6, 2005 · 21 min
Rick goes to Washington to meet with Frank McKenna and gets to learn what it takes to be a Firefighter.
January 10, 2006
Jan 10, 2006 · 21 min
Election time means new ads for both the Conservatives and the Liberals.
January 17, 2006
Jan 17, 2006 · 21 min
Rick gets down and dirty with the RCMP ride and shows just how anyone can make a smear campaign.
January 23, 2006
Jan 23, 2006 · 21 min
It's a special election night episode on Monday instead of Tuesday.
January 31, 2006
Jan 31, 2006 · 21 min
Rick gets a chance to play basketball with the CIAU champions and we get a Liberal apology.
February 7, 2006
Feb 7, 2006 · 21 min
Shirley Douglas does a charity commercial for the Liberals and a trailer for Brokeback Martin
February 28, 2006 (Best of 2005)
Feb 28, 2006 · 21 min
Included some favorite scenes from this season and included a new rant.
March 7, 2006
Mar 7, 2006 · 21 min
For one week only, place a bid on the winning the Liberal Leadership race and meet Delivery-O's pizza.
March 14, 2006
Mar 14, 2006 · 21 min
Rick learns how the sledge hockey team manages to play and find out what happened to the eBay offer.
March 28, 2006
Mar 28, 2006 · 21 min
Rick gets to feel the head of a calf ... before it has even been born and Mendelson Joe paints Ricks portrait.
April 4, 2006
Apr 4, 2006 · 21 min
Rick meets up with the newest Mayor of Vancouver, who happens to be wheelchair bound, and Rick gets his butt "rescued".
April 11, 2006
Apr 11, 2006 · 21 min
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
April 18, 2006
Apr 18, 2006 · 21 min
Rick tries to take Jann Arden bull riding with very interesting results and Rick wraps up this season until the fall.