Dirty Jobs
(2005)Streaming Episode Guide
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Season 11
Beaver Relocator / Slime Master
Episode 8 - 2-05-2023
Mike Rowe goes to the mountains in Utah and gives a dam to a couple nuisance beavers causing havoc for municipalities; Mike gets a little sticky while working with a special effects artist at a glue factory in LA.
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Manhole Rehab / Clock Caretaker
Episode 7 - 1-29-2023
Mike Rowe descends into the depths of an aging manhole, coating it with a polyurea liner to extend its warranty in Murfreesboro, Tenn.; Mike joins an horologist and a priest to set the time right as he restores a historic clocktower.
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Deer Urine Farmer / Necropsy
Episode 6 - 1-22-2023
Mike Rowe travels to Anna, Ill., and wades knee-deep in diarrhea to collect deer urine for America's buck-hunters; Mike strands Maryland's shore to perform a necropsy on an ocean sentinel to determine its cause of death
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Baghouse Cleaner / Biochar Maker
Episode 5 - 1-15-2023
Mike Rowe attends a dusty baghouse party to clean the filtration system at a North Carolina asphalt plant; in Colorado, Mike gets his dirtiest yet, pyrolyzing waste lumber into the planet's most efficient fertilizer: biochar.
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Caviar Harvester / Spice Maker
Episode 4 - 1-08-2023
Mike returns to his hometown Baltimore to rectify an OLD mistake and learns the recipe for Maryland's most popular crab seasoning.
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Pile Jacketer / Concrete Cleaner
Episode 3 - 1-01-2023
Mike Rowe submerges in a murky Florida river to pour concrete jackets around crumbling bridge pilings. While in North Carolina, Mike sucks out a concrete washout pit and sprays sediment as he turns toxic sludge into potable water.
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Feral Cat Fixer / Reaper Keeper
Episode 2 - 12-18-2022
Mike Rowe helps the cat ladies of northern Texas and learns to processes peppers.
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Pool Fixer / Hotel Soap Recycler
Episode 1 - 12-11-2022
Mike gets to clean the dirtiest pool in America as well as learning how to recycle dirty hotel soap.
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Season 10
Combat Surgeon / Iguana Hunter
Episode 6 - 2-06-2022
Mike Rowe trains as a trauma surgeon using hyper-realistic scenarios and specialized equipment to learn under simulated battlefield conditions. He then controls an invasive mess of iguanas which are posing health risks to humans on the Florida coast.
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Escalator Maintainer / Scorpion Sweeper
Episode 5 - 1-30-2022
Mike Rowe crams into a hockey arena's escalator where he scrapes and cleans a special kind of shmutz from the bottom. Then, he and a zoo keeper venture into the hot, treacherous Arizona desert at night to round up neurotoxic stinging scorpions.
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Rock Sucker / Mountain Carver
Episode 4 - 1-23-2022
Mike sucks rocks off an industrial roof with a massive vacuum. He then travels to the Black Hills to carve the largest monument in the world: Crazy Horse. Both stories involve several generations working together to pass on their life's ambitions.
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Tugboat Fitter / Water Tower
Episode 3 - 1-16-2022
Mike visits a ship-building community in Coden, Ala., to learn the ins-and-outs of building a tugboat; he makes a long climb to the top of a dirty water tower in Magee, Miss., to clean inside the tank.
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Jellyballer / Epoxy Installer
Episode 2 - 1-09-2022
Mike Rowe joins a fourth-generation fisherman's crew in Georgia as they harvest cannonball Jellyfish for food, a trade known as Jellyballing. Then Mike helps a father-son team install epoxy flooring at a restaurant in time for the dinner rush.
8.1/10Where to watch
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Rodbuster / Galvanizer
Episode 1 - 1-02-2022
Mike installs rebar with a team of rodbusters, then he galvanizes steel.
7.9/10Where to watch
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Down Under
Outback Treasure Hunter
Episode 4 - 9-12-2012
Mike and his crew travel deep into the Australian Outback to strike it rich with a group of opal miners. And then, with this already a dirty adventure with dangerous work and extreme temperatures, production is almost brought to a halt by a fly infestation.
7.8/10Where to watch
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Journey to Croc Country
Episode 3 - 9-05-2012
Mike journeys down the Adelaide River to capture one of Australia's most deadly creatures: the crocodile. Then, after wrestling the wild crocs into the boat, he helps a scientist pump their stomachs and study their vomit.
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Deadly Snake Wrangler
Episode 2 - 8-29-2012
In Australia, Mike Rowe teams up with local business "Snakes Away" to capture a poisonous Eastern brown snake without getting bitten, then joins a posse of local "toadbusters" in their war against the cane toad, a non-indigenous species destroying the local ecosystem.
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Lost in Aboriginal Land
Episode 1 - 8-22-2012
Mike Rowe works with Australia's northern coast Aboriginals, who have lived off the land for more than 40,000 years. It's a dirty adventure that leaves Mike speechless as he works and hunts (yes, hunts) with tribal leaders.
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Season 8
Dirty Conversations 2
Episode 11 - 2-21-2012
There are no second takes on Dirty Jobs, and this special shows you just what happens when you point real cameras at real people and let them talk ... while in Mike Rowes presence.
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Onion Processor
Episode 10 - 2-14-2012
43m
At Gills Onions, Mike Rowe slices, dices and tastes onions before cleaning out the juicing machine and parts of the reactor. Then, its off to the San Francisco Fire Department to help build wooden ladders.
7.1/10Where to watch
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Tower Top Hand
Episode 9 - 2-07-2012
43m
A radio-communications tower rises in North Dakota; Mike visits a Hollywood soundstage to commemorate his experiences in all 50 states.
7.5/10Where to watch
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Dirty Little Bits
Episode 8 - 1-31-2012
Mike takes another look back at some of the unusual and quirky conversations he's had with his dirty co-workers. Using 99.9% never-before-seen footage, this special is an entertaining look at the art of communication.
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Medical Waste Disposal Expert
Episode 7 - 1-24-2012
43m
Mike Rowe passes a surprisingly tranquil -- and highly entertaining -- day at Medical Waste Transport, Inc. in Sioux Falls, S.D.
7.1/10Where to watch
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Mardi Gras Bladder Banger
Episode 6 - 1-17-2012
43m
Working with the Knights of Revelry, a 137-year-old secret society, Mike Rowe assembles evil-spirit-warding cow bladders for the Knights Mardi Gras parade float.
7.2/10Where to watch
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Barber's Assistant
Episode 5 - 1-10-2012
43m
Mike works at a barber shop in Mobile, Ala., and visits California to work as a landfill operator.
7/10Where to watch
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Water Softener Technician
Episode 4 - 1-03-2012
43m
Mike becomes a water softener technician in Minnesota, and works as a coin washer at a San Francisco hotel.
7.3/10Where to watch
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Doomsday Seed Banker
Episode 3 - 12-27-2011
43m
Mike assists the Millennium Seed Bank Project, which preserves seeds that could be replanted following a catastrophic event, at the Chicago Botanic Garden.
7/10Where to watch
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Fossil Hunter
Episode 2 - 12-20-2011
43m
Mike travels to a remote area near Moab, Utah, to take on the job of being a paleontologist.
7.5/10Where to watch
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Fish Squeezer
Episode 1 - 12-13-2011
43m
Mike travels to New Mexico to work as a Fish Squeezer with the Department of Game and Fish. Then he heads to Virginia to practice the ancient art of pet acupuncture on a goat named Lilly.
7.4/10Where to watch
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Season 7
Dirty DNA
Episode 10 - 3-08-2011
44m
Revisit of jobs related to family with Mike visiting his parents: crab fisherman ("Vexcon"), maggot farmer ("Maggot Farmer"), leech trapping ("Leech Trapper"), candy maker ("Fuel Tank Cleaner"), coffee plantation ("Ostrich Farmer"), worm grunter ("Worm Grunter"), mealworm farm ("Cricket Farmer"), walnut harvester ("Goose Down Plucker"), bell maker ("Bell Maker"), raw meat dog food maker ("Leech Trapper"), goat milk soap maker ("Reef Ball Maker"), sponge diver ("Sponge Diver"), mobile butcher ("Custom Meat Processor")
7.2/10Where to watch
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Termite Researcher
Episode 9 - 3-01-2011
44m
Mike visits with long-time fans Marilyn and Carolyn Maedel to look at never-before-seen footage at a crawfish factory in Louisiana. Then, he experiences the many hands-on duties that come with being a termite researcher on Sapolo Island in Georgia.
7.1/10Where to watch
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Cedar Log Peeler
Episode 8 - 2-22-2011
43m
Mike works on a fish processing boat in the Bering Sea and cleans out the fish grinder. Then he heads to the Rapid River Rustic Mill to lend a hand with debarking, peeling and processing wood for a cedar log cabin.
7.8/10Where to watch
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Sponge Diver
Episode 7 - 2-15-2011
44m
Mike heads to Tarpon Springs, Florida to help collect sponges off the sea floor. Then he answers viewer mail and recounts his struggle with a metal fence post at an abandoned mine.
6.9/10Where to watch
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Blueberry Connoisseur
Episode 6 - 2-08-2011
44m
Mike visits the Jelly Belly Candy Company to concoct a dirty boot flavored jelly bean based on his own sweaty, grimy, filthy pair of work boots. Then he travels to Maine to harvest blueberries and joins the "Pie Ladies" in a pie bakeoff.
7/10Where to watch
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Scrapple Maker
Episode 5 - 2-01-2011
43m
Mike learns how to make a pig delicacy known as scrapple and later becomes a shoe doctor's assistant.
7.3/10Where to watch
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Dirty Infrastructure
Episode 4 - 1-25-2011
44m
Mike takes a look at America's report card on its infrastructure and also salutes the workers who help preserve it.
7.2/10Where to watch
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Hair Fairy
Episode 3 - 1-18-2011
43m
Mike installs a metal power pole in Wyoming and later learns about how to remove lice from hair in San Francisco.
7.1/10Where to watch
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Rum Distiller
Episode 2 - 1-11-2011
43m
Mike visits a distillery, where he turns molasses into rum, hauls hoses, scours copper and works with scalding liquid.
7.4/10Where to watch
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Asphalt Paver
Episode 1 - 1-04-2011
44m
In Nebraska, Mike Rowe takes a shot at paving roads. Then, in reply to a mailbag question about his favorite animal, he recalls the time he crossed paths with a tiger crossbreed in Texas.
7.6/10Where to watch
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Season 6
Date Palm Pollinator
Episode 22 - 12-28-2010
Mike answers viewer mail and pollinates date palm trees in Palm Springs.
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Dirty Conversation
Episode 21 - 12-21-2010
Mike Rowe takes a look at never-before-seen footage featuring unusual, skewed and quirky conversations Mike has had with a colorful array of characters.
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Dirty Holidays
Episode 20 - 12-14-2010
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Custom Meat Processor
Episode 19 - 12-07-2010
43m
Mike works with a falconer to chase birds away. Then Mike butchers a cow from the hoof clear through to steaks.
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Horse Tester
Episode 18 - 11-30-2010
Mike goes to Ketucky to learn about race horse nutrition. That involves collecting the horse's vital statistic from it's blood, poop and pee. Fortunately there are plenty of flies to distract Mike while he prepares the samples.
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Bug Detective
Episode 17 - 11-28-2010
Mike visits a forensic entomology lab where he helps inspect pig carcasses for maggots and other insects.
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Pinsetter Mechanic
Episode 16 - 11-23-2010
Mike visits a bowling center in Fremont, Cal. and at the request of a fan turns the spotlight on his cameraman.
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Woolen Mill Operator
Episode 15 - 11-21-2010
Mikes learns how to make yarn from fleece and waxes hair off of his friend at a day spa.
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Lightning Rod Installer
Episode 14 - 1-04-2011
Mike learns how to install a lightning rod on a home in Lucedale, Miss.
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Animal Relocator
Episode 13 - 11-09-2010
Mike visits an old-fashioned corn mill in De Kalb, Miss. Also, Mike helps relocate a pair of exotic deer in Wills Point, Texas.
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Sea Lamprey Exterminator
Episode 12 - 11-02-2010
Mike helps the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in battling the sea lamprey population that threatens the fishing industry of the Great Lakes. Also, Mike makes meat gel to feed fish in Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino's shark reef aquarium.
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Wetland Warrior
Episode 11 - 10-26-2010
Mike tries to evade and outsmart a team of bloodhounds while posing as a stand-in fugitive in Texas. Also, Mike takes on non-native, invasive species in the Florida Everglades.
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Exotic Nanny
Episode 10 - 10-19-2010
Mike visits a Texas ranch that breeds exotic animals like sloths, lemurs, camels, and bearcats.
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The Dirty Truth
Episode 9 - 6-14-2010
A special episode which looks back at previous episodes as Mike offers employment tips he’s learned over the years.
7.9/10Where to watch
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Crew Unemployment
Episode 8 - 2-23-2010
With a hiatus looming, Mike tries to secure employment for the "Dirty Jobs" crew and reflects on their contributions.
6.6/10Where to watch
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Tight Spaces 2
Episode 7 - 2-16-2010
Mike reminisces about jobs where he had to work in tight spaces, including the time he cleaned the inside of a buoy, his adventure in an abandoned mine, and an insulation application assignment beneath a home.
7.2/10Where to watch
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Bone Black
Episode 6 - 2-09-2010
44m
Mike visits a bone black plant in Michigan and then talks about his five dirtiest jobs.
6.9/10Where to watch
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Concrete Finisher
Episode 5 - 2-02-2010
44m
Mike creates some concrete counter-tops and fire pits in Moss Landing, California and then reminisces about the scariest job he's ever done.
6.9/10Where to watch
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Soo Locks Technician
Episode 4 - 1-26-2010
44m
Mike goes to Michigan to join up with the 12 maintenance crew.
6.7/10Where to watch
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Chicken Busters
Episode 3 - 1-19-2010
44m
Mike goes on the hunt for feral chickens on the streets of Miami.
7.6/10Where to watch
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Cricket Farmer
Episode 2 - 1-12-2010
44m
Mike goes to work at a cricket farm in Augusta, Georgia and later becomes a camel rancher at the Oasis Camel Dairy in Ramona, California.
7.3/10Where to watch
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Animal Control Specialist
Episode 1 - 1-05-2010
44m
Mike goes to Southern California to handle skunks and other pests as an animal control specialist.
7.3/10Where to watch
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Season 5
Maple Syrup Maker
Episode 23 - 12-29-2009
44m
Mike travels to San Francisco to participate in the messy process of paint bulking. Then he heads to Wagner's Sugar Camp in Pennsylvania to spend the day making delicious maple syrup the old-fashioned way.
6.9/10Where to watch
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Worm Grunter
Episode 22 - 12-22-2009
44m
Mike goes to Florida to harvest clams at the Alligator Harbor Aquatic Preserve and later attempt to worm-grunt in the Apalachicola National Forest.
7.1/10Where to watch
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Fireworks Technician
Episode 21 - 12-15-2009
44m
Mike becomes a specialty fireworks technician in Addison, Pa. and then helps examine a cow with a hole in its stomach at Arkansas State University.
6.9/10Where to watch
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Marble Maker
Episode 20 - 12-08-2009
44m
Mike goes to Hawaii to learn how to make dirt shirts at The Original Dirt Shirt Company. Then he heads off to Reno, Ohio to learn how to make marbles.
6.6/10Where to watch
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Reindeer Farm
Episode 19 - 12-01-2009
44m
Mike goes to Kentucky to try his hand at shrink-wrapping a houseboat. Then he heads off to Palmer, Alaska to spend a day working at a reindeer farm.
6.6/10Where to watch
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Safety Third
Episode 18 - 11-24-2009
44m
Mike reflects back on his more hazardous apprenticeships and makes a case for safety.
6.9/10Where to watch
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Rocky Reach Dam
Episode 17 - 11-17-2009
44m
Mike journeys to Wenatchee, Washington to help maintain a hydroelectric dam. Then he explores a fish bypass system where he catches and tags fish and winds up wading through a pool of fish poop.
6.6/10Where to watch
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Glass Maker
Episode 16 - 11-10-2009
44m
Mike goes to Jonesboro, Arkansas to perform dung beetle research. Then he heads to Williamstown, West Virginia to try his hand at making glass art.
6.4/10Where to watch
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Tofu Maker
Episode 15 - 11-03-2009
44m
Mike recycles computers before heading to Hawaii to make tofu.
6.7/10Where to watch
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Camel Rancher
Episode 14 - 10-27-2009
44m
Mike works at the country's only Dromedary camel dairy.
7.3/10Where to watch
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Toilet Crusher
Episode 13 - 10-20-2009
44m
Toilet Crusher & alligator snapping turtle researcher
6.7/10Where to watch
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High-Rise Window Washer
Episode 12 - 10-13-2009
44m
High-rise window washer, viewer mail: brine tank cleaner (Shark Reef at Mandalay Bay)
7.7/10Where to watch
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Mattress Recycler
Episode 11 - 10-06-2009
44m
Mike finds out what happens to old mattresses after people throw them out.
6.9/10Where to watch
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Sled Dog Breeder
Episode 10 - 4-12-2009
44m
Breeding and training Alaskan Huskies as sled dogs with Martin Buser; revisit of dirty jobs in Alaska: Bird ringing common terns and Canadian geese ("Abandoned Mine Plugger"), fishing and processing of fish ("Floating Fish Factory"), cleaning up diesel spill in Dutch Harbor, Alaska ("Ice Salvage Crew"), incinerating toilet cleaner ("Bologna Maker"). The mail bag portion was taped at the Soo Locks on the floor of the MacArthur Lock in front of the upstream bulkheads.
7.1/10Where to watch
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Mike's Day Off
Episode 9 - 3-03-2009
44m
Mike takes the day off to get a physical examination, leaving Executive Producers Eddie Barbini and Craig Piligian to host the show: servicing porta-potties and making custom-fabricated alloy wheels for Boyd Coddington Wheels
6.6/10Where to watch
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200 Jobs Look-Back
Episode 8 - 2-24-2009
44m
Mike takes a look back at his previous jobs, toughest co-workers, and his ongoing encounters with dirt and poo. With additional footage from "Skull Cleaner" and "Turkey Inseminator"
7.4/10Where to watch
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Locomotive Builder
Episode 7 - 2-17-2009
44m
Mike heads to MotivePower in Boise, Idaho to build and restore locomotives for his 200th dirty job.
7.2/10Where to watch
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Spider Pharm
Episode 6 - 2-10-2009
44m
Mike ventures to Payette, Idaho to learn how to make high quality bird food. Then he heads to Yarnell, Arizona to collect spiders from the desert to milk them for their venom.
6.8/10Where to watch
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Diaper Cleaner
Episode 5 - 2-03-2009
44m
Mike journeys to Queen Creek, Arizona to press olives into oil and then heads to Sacramento, California to clean dirty diapers.
7/10Where to watch
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Goose Down Plucker
Episode 4 - 1-27-2009
44m
Mike heads to Meridian, California to find out what it takes to harvest walnuts. Then he spends some time in Tulelake where he learns how to make goose down pillows and comforters.
7.9/10Where to watch
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Animal Rendering
Episode 3 - 1-20-2009
44m
Mike takes a trip to the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles to find out about the important work being done in Pit 91. Then Mike travels north where he learns about rendering and discovers how much of a farm animal can be recycled.
6.9/10Where to watch
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Abandoned Mine Plugger
Episode 2 - 1-13-2009
44m
Mike travels to Ohio to check on the Common Tern population and then he finds himself in Northern California plugging an abandoned mineshaft.
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Bologna Maker
Episode 1 - 1-06-2009
44m
Mike heads to Pennsylvania and tries his hand at making bologna and then goes to Alaska to repair a very special toilet.
7.2/10Where to watch
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Season 4
Brown Before Green 2
Episode 29 - 12-16-2008
Mike takes a look back at some of his former coworkers who should be role models for the green movement.
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Brown Before Green 2
Episode 26 - 12-16-2008
44m
Mike takes a look back at some of his former coworkers who should be role models for the green movement.
6.6/10Where to watch
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Gourd Maker
Episode 25 - 12-09-2008
44m
Mike Rowe cleans out a Connecticut lake and then turns gourds into artwork in Pennsylvania.
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Maggot Farmer
Episode 24 - 12-02-2008
44m
Mike moves a giant cactus in Arizona and then helps raise maggots on a farm in Idaho.
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Vellum Maker
Episode 23 - 11-25-2008
Mike travels to Yakama, Washington to harvest hops, the main ingredient in beer. From there Mike goes to the Hudson Valley where he turns animal hides in to paper.
6.9/10Where to watch
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Egg Farm
Episode 22 - 11-18-2008
44m
Mike visits a Chicken Farm to see how eggs make it to the store. There, he finds out that 1.4 million chickens equal a lot of poo, which he gets the chance to clean. Later, Mike learns how dirty dirt becomes clean dirt as he sterilizes soil in Oklahoma.
6.8/10Where to watch
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Mannequin Factory
Episode 21 - 11-11-2008
44m
Mike helps break down some homes at the Windsorland Mobile Home Park to make room for a new shopping center. Next, he heads to Patina-V where he learns the art involved in creating a mannequin.
6.4/10Where to watch
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Dirty Presidents
Episode 20 - 11-04-2008
44m
Mike takes a look at what dirty jobs past presidents once performed. This Dirty Jobs Extravaganza will leave us all looking at the country in a new way.
7/10Where to watch
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Leech Trapper
Episode 19 - 10-28-2008
44m
Mike teams up with the boys from Bartos Bait & Fish to catch leeches that will later be sold for fish bait. Then it's off to the Green Tripe factory in Hollister, CA where Mike helps make BARF (Biologically Appropriate Raw Food) for dogs.
7.3/10Where to watch
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Sheep Castrator
Episode 18 - 10-21-2008
43m
Mike helps saw down a giant concrete wall at an auto dealership in order to make way for a new wash bay. Then he heads to a sheep farm where he tries shearing and castrating a sheep and is treated to a pate of Rocky Mountain Oysters.
7.2/10Where to watch
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Dirty Chip Maker
Episode 17 - 10-14-2008
Mike heads to the Dirty Potato Chips factory and learns how potato chips are made and what it takes to keep the machines used to make them clean and in working order. Then it?s off to Rifle, CO where Mike attempts to clean a "monster" hidden underground.
6.5/10Where to watch
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Tar Rigger
Episode 16 - 10-07-2008
44m
Mike hooks up with the tar rigging crew on the oldest active merchant ship in the world, the Star of India in San Diego. Then, Mike looks back at some of the dirtiest tools he's used, all which make life simpler for the rest of us.
6.7/10Where to watch
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Brown Before Green
Episode 15 - 6-16-2008
44m
Mike looks back on several of the Dirty Jobs that help to clean up the environment. From geothermal drilling, to wood and tire salvage, to building cobb homes, one thing seemed constant: in order to be green, you usually have to get brown first.
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Animal Barber
Episode 14 - 6-09-2008
44m
Mike first visits Terressentials where natural organic hair care products are made out of mud. He then returns to Montana to do some more work with big animal vet Charlene Esch. Finally, Mike joins forces with the yak and bison rancher who put him to work in his 150th Dirty Job.
6.6/10Where to watch
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Wind Farm Technician
Episode 13 - 6-02-2008
44m
Mike heads to an Oklahoma wind farm and learns that going green sometimes means you've got to get brown first. Then he heads to Kentucky to clean out a sinkhole that some have unfortunately turned into a garbage dump.
6.7/10Where to watch
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Ice Salvage Crew
Episode 12 - 5-19-2008
44m
Mike gets dirty in Alaska as he helps protect the environment by cleaning up an oil spill. He then travels to Minnesota where he works to pull a car out of a lake that has fallen through the ice.
6.7/10Where to watch
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Turkey Inseminator
Episode 11 - 5-12-2008
44m
Making a home energy efficient by improving insulation, turkey artificial insemination, viewer mail, car crusher
6.6/10Where to watch
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Aerial Tram Greaser
Episode 10 - 5-05-2008
44m
Mike heads to the site of a future California neighborhood where he learns that there's more to erosion control than one might think. Then Mike gets a bird's eye view of Palm Springs as he helps maintain and repair the tram 8,500 feet above the city.
6.6/10Where to watch
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Dairy Cow Midwife
Episode 9 - 4-28-2008
44m
Inside an Indiana dairy farm, Mike learns how to milk a cow and use a blow torch to clean her udders. Then, Mike gets the inside scoop on how to inseminate a cow. Finally, he gets an up-close look at fatherhood as he helps deliver baby calves.
6.9/10Where to watch
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Floating Fish Factory
Episode 8 - 4-21-2008
Mike travels to Alaska for an adventure aboard a fish processing ship.
6.4/10Where to watch
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Dirty Jobs of the Big Apple
Episode 7 - 4-14-2008
Mike Rowe rolls up his sleeves and gets dirty with some of the dirtiest jobs in New York City. First Mike climbs to the top of a giant building to build a water tower and then he masters the art of elevator repair.
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Mud Mineral Excavator
Episode 6 - 2-12-2008
44m
Mike Rowe gets dirty in Death Valley, CA preparing for a gem and mineral show. He then helps save injured birds from a nearby salt lake. Finally, he gets dirty working at a rice plantation in South Carolina.
6.9/10Where to watch
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Cranberry Farmer
Episode 5 - 2-05-2008
43m
Mike Rowe gets dirty making handmade bricks in South Carolina.
He then masters the art of cranberry farming in Oregon.
6.7/10Where to watch
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Buoy Cleaner
Episode 4 - 1-29-2008
43m
Mike Rowe gets dirty in Oregon making shingles and then jumps on a Coast Guard ship to clean dirty buoys.
7/10Where to watch
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Cave Biologist
Episode 3 - 1-22-2008
43m
Mike Rowe works with a cave biologist and then braves the high seas in search of slime eels.
6.8/10Where to watch
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Steel Mill Worker
Episode 2 - 1-15-2008
44m
Mike Rowe gets dirty in St. Louis as he works with a river barge demolition team and then melts down the scrap steel into molten metal.
7.1/10Where to watch
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Big Animal Vet
Episode 1 - 1-08-2008
44m
Mike Rowe gets dirty at a famous barbeque joint, joins forces with a big animal veterinarian and finds himself deep in a New Jersey sludge.
6.8/10Where to watch
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Season 3
Spray Insulation Technician
Episode 18 - 11-27-2007
Mike Rowe gets dirty with a team of airport runway painters, examines dirty diapers for bad smells and then teams up with a group of spray insulation technicians that get dirty to keep our houses warm.
6.9/10Where to watch
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Exotic Animal Keeper
Episode 17 - 11-13-2007
44m
Mike Rowe rolls up his sleeves and gets dirty at a recycling center in San Francisco that requires their dump truck drivers to clean out the back of their dirty trucks after each shift. It's a dirty job that even Mike has a hard time completing.
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Reef Ball Maker
Episode 16 - 11-06-2007
44m
Mike rolls up his sleeves and gets dirty in order to help create an artificial underwater reef. It's a dirty job that is helping to revitalize fish and coral populations in areas that have been devastated by pollution.
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Special Effects Artist
Episode 15 - 10-30-2007
44m
Mike exposes the fascinating secrets behind the dirty world of special effects. He explores this very strange world as he is transformed into a real life zombie by special effects artist, Toby Sells. Also, Mike gets dirty harvesting kelp.
7.6/10Where to watch
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Alligator Egg Collector
Episode 14 - 8-21-2007
44m
Mike Rowe gets dirty as he forages the swamps of Louisiana in search of alligator eggs 90,000 of them to be exact. It's a very dirty job that's helping to preserve the population of the American alligator.
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Vomit Island Workers
Episode 13 - 8-14-2007
Mike Rowe gets dirty as he braves the untamed world of Vomit Island, a place where few have ever been and even fewer would ever want to go. Mike's mission is to help band and count newly hatched herons on the poo covered island.
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Bridge Painter
Episode 12 - 8-07-2007
44m
Mike Rowe and the Dirty Jobs crew travels to Michigan to work with the Mackinac Bridge Authority on one of the world's largest suspension bridges. Mike goes to great lengths, and heights, braving 50 mile per hour winds while helping paint the bridge.
7.4/10Where to watch
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Leather Tanner
Episode 11 - 7-17-2007
44m
Mike goes to Georgia to learn how to make artistic jugs. He then joins Richard Meyer and his sons in upstate New York to learn the ancient trade of tanning leather.
7.9/10Where to watch
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Billboard Installer
Episode 9 - 6-26-2007
Mike heads off to Texas to work with an outdoor advertising company.
6.7/10Where to watch
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Steam Ship Cleaner
Episode 8 - 3-13-2007
43m
Mike heads off to San Diego to learn the dirty job of hydroseeding. He then reads a viewer's letter and shows us never before seen footage from a previous episode. Finally Mike gets dirty cleaning up a 100 year old steam yacht.
6.9/10Where to watch
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Wine Maker
Episode 7 - 3-06-2007
44m
Mike first heads off to Napa Valley to learn how to make wine. Mike then gets dirty at a Kansas Cattle Ranch learning about the cattle business.
7.2/10Where to watch
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Salt Miner
Episode 6 - 2-27-2007
44m
Mike goes underground in Hutchinson, Kansas to learn about mining rock salt. This episode also focuses on the behind the scenes action in filming the show.
7.1/10Where to watch
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Cave Digger
Episode 5 - 2-20-2007
43m
Mike helps dig tunnels that are used as underground wine caverns. Later he works behind the scenes with Southwest Airlines as a baggage handler. He also gets to work with the airport incinerator.
6.9/10Where to watch
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Well Digger
Episode 4 - 1-30-2007
44m
Mike joins the Bowie BaySox team at Prince Georges Stadium in Maryland acting as a groundskeeper. Next he fixes boat moorings with a former Navy SEAL. He then joins Watson Water company dig deep through mud, rock, gravel, sand and water as they drill for heating and water in Tennessee. Also, Mike takes a dive into the mail bag.
7.5/10Where to watch
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Mule Logger
Episode 3 - 1-23-2007
44m
Mike joins forces with a master-cooper, or in laymen's terms, a barrel maker. Mike also teams up with some mule loggers.
7.2/10Where to watch
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Poo Pot Maker
Episode 2 - 1-16-2007
44m
Mike first goes to northern California to count dead salmon. Mike opens up the mail bag and answers a viewer's question about the snake researcher segment. Just when Mike thought he had seen it all, he visits a cow farm in Connecticut that specializes in making gardening pots out of cow manure.
7.3/10Where to watch
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Bug Breeder
Episode 1 - 1-09-2007
44m
First Mike helps remove trees and tree stumps in California. Mike then gets himself dirty with some fainting goats in Tennessee. Then he vists a place that breeds exotic insects in New Orleans.
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Season 2
Mosquito Control Officer
Episode 20 - 12-19-2006
44m
Mike helps New Orleans residents restore, rebuild and revive their city in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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Bell Maker
Episode 19 - 12-12-2006
43m
Mike Rowe rolls up his sleeve and gets dirty making giant bells at the McShane Bell Foundry. Mike also gets down and dirty with the US Army Corps of Engineers as they conduct yearly maintenance on a hurricane barrier that was raised from the oceans floor.
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Penguin Keeper
Episode 18 - 12-05-2006
42m
Even though Mike has worked with concrete before in Dallas, he visits concrete workers in California today to learn the art of concrete stamping. Then he goes to New Orleans to care for penguins. Finally, he gets in the mud to hunt bloodworms in Maine.
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Snake Researcher
Episode 17 - 11-28-2006
Mike Rowe wrangles some water snakes, steps into the shoes of hard working bait and lobster fishermen in Maine, and opens the viewer mail bag which results in some seaweed trimming.
7.1/10Where to watch
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Monkey Caretaker
Episode 16 - 8-29-2006
Mike Rowe meets his match when he travels to South Africa to take care of monkeys that are being trained to go back into the wild
7.1/10Where to watch
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Alpaca Shearer
Episode 15 - 8-22-2006
43m
Mike once again joins up with the guys of Taylor Shellfish Farms to help them harvest mussels. Next he goes to Hawaii to learn about harvesting taro. Finally, Mike joins a family of alpaca farmers and learns the hard way that alpacas can be pretty ill-willed animals when it comes to shearing them.
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Hoof Cleaner
Episode 14 - 8-15-2006
43m
Mike Rowe first joins a crew at a rock quarry in Washington and learns what it takes to make gravel from loading rocks to blowing up a side of a mountain. Next, Mike gets hip deep in mud and muck working with the hippo keepers at the Adventure Aquarium in Camden, NJ. Finally, Mike helps a crew of hooftrimmers give some cows a pedicure and later cleans a cow foot bath.
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Coal Miner
Episode 13 - 8-08-2006
43m
Mike helps a family in New Jersey demolish and recycle parts from 100 year old buildings on an old college campus. Finally, Mike enters the dangerous world of a coal miner in an upstate Pennsylvania coal mine.
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Fuel Tank Cleaner
Episode 12 - 7-24-2006
44m
Mike heads to a good old fashioned steel town in Pennsylvania to work at a 75 year old candy store named Wertz Candies making all sorts of candy treats. Mike then goes to California and works as a tire retreader. Finally, Mike goes to McConnell AFB in Kansas to help repair the fuel tanks of a refueling tanker aircraft.
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Geoduck Farmer
Episode 11 - 7-18-2006
44m
Mike first heads off to California to help tear down a dam so trout on the endangered species list can spawn. Mike then goes to Pennsylvania to restore a church's pipe organ, a process that takes a total of eight years to complete. Finally, Mike goes to Puget Sound in Washington to harvest geoduck clams, otherwise known as "gooey ducks".
7.1/10Where to watch
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Skull Cleaner
Episode 10 - 7-11-2006
43m
Mike first goes to Sacramento, CA to help repair railroad tracks. Mike then heads to Louisiana to learn how to make "boudin" (Cajun sausage). Mike then cuts and fry's pig skins to make "cracklin" (pork rinds). Finally, Mike goes to Oklahoma and joins a skull cleaning business to learn how to clean skulls and bones using beetles and maggots, including a whale carcass.
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Garbage Pit Technician
Episode 9 - 6-27-2006
44m
Mike first heads off to Las Vegas to work at an old fashioned printing press making lithographs of himself for the official Dirty Jobs poster. Mike then goes to Lincoln, CA and helps make large scale terra cotta building sculpture pieces from recycled terra cotta sewer pipes. Finally, Mike visits a garbage processing plant in San Francisco where food and assorted scraps are passed through a rolling cylinder and "digested" to make a methane gas energy supply.
6.9/10Where to watch
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Parade Float Dismantler
Episode 8 - 6-20-2006
43m
Mike first goes to Pennsylvania at a coal processing plant and learns how to make coke, carbonized coal used to make iron which in turn is used to make steel. Mike then goes to Washington to an oyster shucking plant and works alongside a very dirty girl. Finally, Mike goes to Pasadena, CA to dismantle floats from the Tournament of Roses Parade.
7.2/10Where to watch
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Casino Food Recycler
Episode 7 - 6-13-2006
43m
It's a glitzy Las Vegas premiere as Mike visits the Lance Burton Theater to clean up the pens for Lance's show doves and geese. Mike then gets really dirty by visiting a pig farmer and helping him process and transport yesterday's buffet leftovers to feed the pigs.
6.8/10Where to watch
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Termite Controller
Episode 6 - 3-21-2006
Concrete spreader, termite exterminator, concrete truck cleaner
7.2/10Where to watch
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Plumber
Episode 5 - 3-14-2006
43m
Plumber, drilling mud, Rough necker (oil drilling)
7.2/10Where to watch
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Mushroom Farmer
Episode 4 - 3-07-2006
43m
Mushroom farmer, storm drain cleaner, drain cover foundry
7/10Where to watch
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Alligator Farmer
Episode 3 - 1-24-2006
44m
Sugarcane mill, firefighter (Fremont, CA), alligator farmer
7.1/10Where to watch
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Turkey Farmer
Episode 2 - 1-17-2006
Turkey farmer, potato farmer, waste water sewage plant
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Avian Vomitologist
Episode 1 - 1-10-2006
Mike first travels to Colorado to help out at a marble quarry. He then goes to California to collect owl vomit which is sold to school children for research projects. Finally, Mike travels to Texas to palpate cows, a process used to figure out if a cow is pregnant. He also gets a little too familiar with a bull.
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Season 1
Chimney Sweeper
Episode 13 - 11-08-2005
44m
Mike first goes to the Chimney Safety Institute of America in Plainfield, IN and learns how to be a certified chimney sweeper. Mike then goes to Ontario, Canada to salvage underwater logs, which are then used to make furniture. Finally, Mike visits a scrap metal recycler in St. Louis, MO and learns how to separate different metals and operate some big machines.
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Micro-Algae Man
Episode 12 - 11-01-2005
44m
Mike begins by traveling to Palo Alto, CA to learn how to be a pet groomer, from cutting hair to giving baths. Mike then goes to Hawaii to turn happy green algae into unhappy red algae to be used as antioxidant gelcaps for human consumption. Finally, Mike goes to Missouri to learn how to be a charcoal factory worker. Mike ends the day with a barbeque and introduces us to the crew that help make the show.
7.1/10Where to watch
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Bio-Diesel Man
Episode 11 - 10-25-2005
44m
Mike goes to Washington and helps build a house out of cob, which is basically a combination of sand, clay, and straw.Mike then heads to California and works alongside Dave the bee man to get rid of some bee's infesting a church.Finally, Mike goes back to Washington and helps clean out the old oil from a deep fryer at a Mexican restaurant and then recycle the oil into fuel or bio-diesel.
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Shrimper
Episode 10 - 10-18-2005
44m
Mike goes to South Carolina and learns about shrimping. He also helps study the shrimp population in order to find out when it's time to open the shrimping season. Mike then goes to the swamps of Louisiana to catch some crawfish. Finally, Mike goes to Washington to clean up an illegal tire dump and recycle some tires.
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Cheese Maker
Episode 9 - 10-11-2005
44m
Mike visits the San Francisco Zoo and learns what it's like to be a zookeeper, essentially feeding the animals and collecting their poo.Mike then goes to Vermont to a haunted cheese making factory and learns not only how to make cheese, but the art of patience.Finally, Mike learns how to be a volcano ash mud bath mixer (spa technician) in Calistoga, CA and takes a mud bath after a very dirty day. That's not all - Mike also journeys to a live volcano in Hawaii and gets up close and personal with some very hot lava.
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Ostrich Farmer
Episode 8 - 10-04-2005
43m
Mike visits a coffee plantation in Hawaii and learns about the long process in how to make coffee, from picking the beans to roasting them. Mike then goes to Sausalito, CA to be a marine mammal rescuer and help rehabilitate some injured seals.Finally, Mike learns about ostrich farming, from their daily upkeep to collecting their eggs.
7.1/10Where to watch
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Hot Tar Roofer
Episode 7 - 9-27-2005
44m
Mike first heads off to Pasadena, California and discovers the difficult step by step process in patching up a roof. Then Mike goes to New Jersey and helps move a 60 ton, 225 year old house.
7.3/10Where to watch
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Sludge Cleaner
Episode 6 - 8-30-2005
43m
Mike Rowe gets dirty as he works with surfboard shaper Matt Barker. Mike masters the art of shaping a surfboard from Styrofoam. And Mike goes underground into a greasy pit of sludge as he joins an environmental company that recycles the gunky grime.
7.2/10Where to watch
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Vexcon
Episode 5 - 8-23-2005
44m
Exterminator, crab fisherman, blacksmith/farrier
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Chick Sexer
Episode 4 - 8-16-2005
44m
Baby chicken sexer, beer brewer, oyster harvester
7.3/10Where to watch
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Pig Farmer
Episode 3 - 8-09-2005
43m
Pig farmer, removing chewing gum from sidewalks (New York City), pigeon droppings removal (New York City)
7.4/10Where to watch
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Sewer Inspector
Episode 2 - 8-02-2005
44m
Sewer inspector, disaster cleanup crew member (basement sewer), demolition worker (office building interior)
7.5/10Where to watch
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Chinatown Garbage Collector
Episode 1 - 7-26-2005
44m
Garbage collector/recycling separator, shark catcher/tagger, car recycling
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Lost in Aboriginal Land
Episode 1 - 8-22-2012
Mike Rowe works with Australia's northern coast Aboriginals, who have lived off the land for more than 40,000 years. It's a dirty adventure that leaves Mike speechless as he works and hunts (yes, hunts) with tribal leaders.
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Journey to Croc Country
Episode 3 - 9-05-2012
Mike journeys down the Adelaide River to capture one of Australia's most deadly creatures: the crocodile. Then, after wrestling the wild crocs into the boat, he helps a scientist pump their stomachs and study their vomit.
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Jellyballer / Epoxy Installer
Episode 2 - 1-09-2022
Mike Rowe joins a fourth-generation fisherman's crew in Georgia as they harvest cannonball Jellyfish for food, a trade known as Jellyballing. Then Mike helps a father-son team install epoxy flooring at a restaurant in time for the dinner rush.
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Deadly Snake Wrangler
Episode 2 - 8-29-2012
In Australia, Mike Rowe teams up with local business "Snakes Away" to capture a poisonous Eastern brown snake without getting bitten, then joins a posse of local "toadbusters" in their war against the cane toad, a non-indigenous species destroying the local ecosystem.
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Leather Tanner
Episode 11 - 7-17-2007
44m
Mike goes to Georgia to learn how to make artistic jugs. He then joins Richard Meyer and his sons in upstate New York to learn the ancient trade of tanning leather.
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