Rick Mercer Report: Season 8
Season 8 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Rick Mercer Report Season 7.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 8 Progress Shield
September 21, 2010
Sep 21, 2010 · 21 min
Rick’s in Shanghai to visit Expo 2010 and the Canadian Pavilion. He gets a city tour with Dashan AKA Mark Rowswell, the most famous Canadian in China. He’s a comic who’s fluent in
Sepember 28, 2010
Sep 28, 2010 · 21 min
Rick heads to Winnipeg and learns how to escape from a vehicle submerged in a lake.
October 5, 2010
Oct 5, 2010 · 21 min
Rick goes toe-to-toe with Canadian boxing legend George Chuvalo in Toronto, ON and participates in an international plowing match in St. Thomas, ON.
October 12, 2010
Oct 12, 2010 · 21 min
River-boarding on Alberta's Kananaskis River; motorcycle side-car racing in Shannonville, Ont.
October 19, 2010
Oct 19, 2010 · 21 min
Rick is at the Fortress of Louisbourg in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia where he joins an archeological dig and finds out what it was like being an 18th century blacksmith, soldier and g
November 9, 2010
Nov 9, 2010 · 21 min
Rick is in Craigellachie, BC for the 125th anniversary of the driving of 'the last spike' that marked the completion of the cross-country railroad. He learns how to handle a train
November 16, 2010
Nov 16, 2010 · 21 min
Rick goes to Calgary's Canada Olympic Park where he goes zip-lining with Jann Arden, Olympian Kyle Shewfelt, and new mayor Naheed Nenshi and helps celebrate Shewfelt's induction in
November 23, 2010
Nov 23, 2010 · 21 min
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 harves
November 30, 2010
Nov 30, 2010 · 21 min
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.
February 8, 2011
Feb 8, 2011 · 21 min
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 t
March 15, 2011
Mar 15, 2011 · 21 min
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
March 22, 2011
Mar 22, 2011 · 21 min
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
March 29, 2011
Mar 29, 2011 · 21 min
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