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Dirty Jobs - Episode Guide

Season 1

Bat Cave Scavenger

Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Nov 7, 2003

Bat Cave Scavenger

Mike enters a bat cave in Texas in search of guano (bat excrement) to collect with a bat biologist. Later he helps to rehabilitate bats at a "bat hospital." Mike then goes in search of mud used to give grip to baseballs in the major leagues. Finally, Mike tries his hand at filleting fish and takes part in the many stages of seafood production.

Worm Dung Farmer

Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Nov 14, 2003

Worm Dung Farmer

Catfish noodler, septic tank technician, worm castings rancher 

Roadkill Cleaner

Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Nov 21, 2003

Roadkill Cleaner

Golf ball diver, horse breeder, roadkill collector 

Chinatown Garbage Collector

Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Jul 26, 2005

Chinatown Garbage Collector

Garbage collector/recycling separator, shark catcher/tagger, car recycling

Sewer Inspector

Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Aug 2, 2005

Sewer Inspector

Sewer inspector, disaster cleanup crew member (basement sewer), demolition worker (office building interior) 

Pig Farmer

Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Aug 9, 2005

Pig Farmer

Pig farmer, removing chewing gum from sidewalks (New York City), pigeon droppings removal (New York City) 

Chick Sexer

Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Aug 16, 2005

Chick Sexer

Baby chicken sexer, beer brewer, oyster harvester 

Vexcon

Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Aug 23, 2005

Vexcon

Enter Billy the Exterminator as Mike joins exterminators in their war against rats and bugs; shelling crabs after crabbing in the Chesapeake Bay; making horseshoes out of raw steel and trying his hand at shoeing a horse.

Sludge Cleaner

Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Aug 30, 2005

Sludge Cleaner

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.

Season 2

Hot Tar Roofer

Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Sep 27, 2005

Hot Tar Roofer

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.

Ostrich Farmer

Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Oct 4, 2005

Ostrich Farmer

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.

Cheese Maker

Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Oct 11, 2005

Cheese Maker

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.

Shrimper

Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Oct 18, 2005

Shrimper

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.

Bio-Diesel Man

Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Oct 25, 2005

Bio-Diesel Man

Mike does the work of a cobb home builder, evicts a swarm of angry bees hidden inside a church, greases it up at a Mexican restaurant and converts cooking oil into bio-fuel.

Micro-Algae Man

Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Nov 1, 2005

Micro-Algae Man

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.

Chimney Sweeper

Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Nov 8, 2005

Chimney Sweeper

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.

Avian-vomitologist

Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Dec 13, 2005

Avian-vomitologist

Mike Rowe revisits some his previous jobs involving animals and talks about some of the behind the scenes action. Mike looks at clips from when he was a pig farmer, a chick sexer, a pet groomer, a horse breeder, and finally an ostrich farmer. 

Turkey Farmer

Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: Jan 17, 2006

Turkey Farmer

Mike works on a turkey farm and a potato farm; later he works at a water treatment plant where he removes sewage.

Alligator Farmer

Episode: 2x10 | Airdate: Jan 24, 2006

Alligator Farmer

Mike visits an extremely dirty sugar mill; the Fremont Fire Dept. firefighters teach Mike how to ignite a building, extinguish it and then do some overhauling; day ends at an ominous alligator farm.

Mushroom Farmer

Episode: 2x11 | Airdate: Mar 7, 2006

Mushroom Farmer

Making mushrooms by mixing horse manure and grounded straw; rat-infested rain drains in LA; shower drains in Erie, Penn.

Plumber

Episode: 2x12 | Airdate: Mar 14, 2006

Plumber

Mike reunites with his catfish-noodler friend for some tough plumbing; drilling mud at a synthetic mud company, and oil drilling with roughnecks.

Termite Controller

Episode: 2x13 | Airdate: Mar 21, 2006

Termite Controller

Mike steps into the shoes of a concrete spreader for some curb side and sidewalk foundation. He reunites with the Vexcon exterminator crew to wage war against millions of termites that have attacked a local church and chips concrete out of giant mixers.

Casino Food Recycler

Episode: 2x14 | Airdate: Jun 13, 2006

Casino Food Recycler

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.

Rose Parade Float Dismantler

Episode: 2x15 | Airdate: Jun 20, 2006

Rose Parade Float Dismantler

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.

Garbage Pit Technician

Episode: 2x16 | Airdate: Jun 27, 2006

Garbage Pit Technician

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.

Skull Cleaner

Episode: 2x17 | Airdate: Jul 11, 2006

Skull Cleaner

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.

Geoduck Farmer

Episode: 2x18 | Airdate: Jul 18, 2006

Geoduck Farmer

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".

Fuel Tank Cleaner

Episode: 2x19 | Airdate: Jul 25, 2006

Fuel Tank Cleaner

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.

Coal Miner

Episode: 2x20 | Airdate: Aug 8, 2006

Coal Miner

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. 

Hoof Cleaner

Episode: 2x21 | Airdate: Aug 15, 2006

Hoof Cleaner

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.

Alpaca Shearer

Episode: 2x22 | Airdate: Aug 22, 2006

Alpaca Shearer

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.

Monkey Caretaker

Episode: 2x23 | Airdate: Aug 29, 2006

Monkey Caretaker

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

Season 3

Snake Researcher

Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Nov 28, 2006

Snake Researcher

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.

Penguin Keeper

Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Dec 5, 2006

Penguin Keeper

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. While they may seem cute and cuddly, penguins create a lot of very smelly waste which Mike discovers when he heads to Audubon Zoo in New Orleans to work as a keeper for the day. Finally, he gets in the mud to hunt blood worms in Maine

Bell Maker

Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Dec 12, 2006

Bell Maker

Mike makes giant bells at the McShane Bell Foundry; the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers conducts yearly maintenance on a hurricane barrier.

Mosquito Control Officer

Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Dec 19, 2006

Mosquito Control Officer

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. Mike helps New Orleans residents restore, rebuild and revive their city in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Bug Breeder

Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Jan 9, 2007

Bug Breeder

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. 

Poo Pot Maker

Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Jan 16, 2007

Poo Pot Maker

Join the intrepid Mike Rowe as he heads to a farm specializing in making garden pots from cow manure; he them visits California to check out the state's salmon population.

Mule Logger

Episode: 3x07 | Airdate: Jan 23, 2007

Mule Logger

Mike joins forces with a master-cooper, or in laymen's terms, a barrel maker. Mike also teams up with some mule loggers. 

Well Digger

Episode: 3x08 | Airdate: Jan 30, 2007

Well Digger

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. 

Cave Digger

Episode: 3x09 | Airdate: Feb 20, 2007

Cave Digger

Mike helps dig wine caverns then mike helps New Orleans residents restore, rebuild and revive their city in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Salt Miner

Episode: 3x10 | Airdate: Feb 27, 2007

Salt Miner

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. 

Wine Maker

Episode: 3x11 | Airdate: Mar 6, 2007

Wine Maker

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. 

Steam Ship Cleaner

Episode: 3x12 | Airdate: Mar 13, 2007

Steam Ship Cleaner

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. 

Billboard Installer

Episode: 3x13 | Airdate: Jun 26, 2007

Billboard Installer

Mike heads off to Texas to work with an outdoor advertising company.

Snake Wrangler

Episode: 3x14 | Airdate: Jul 10, 2007

Snake Wrangler

Mike goes to Texas and works at a snake farm learning how to raise some of the biggest and most dangerous snakes in the world. 

Leather Tanner

Episode: 3x15 | Airdate: Jul 17, 2007

Leather Tanner

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.

Bridge Painter

Episode: 3x16 | Airdate: Aug 7, 2007

Bridge Painter

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.

Vomit Island Workers

Episode: 3x17 | Airdate: Aug 14, 2007

Vomit Island Workers

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.

Alligator Egg Collector

Episode: 3x18 | Airdate: Aug 21, 2007

Alligator Egg Collector

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.

Wild Goose Chase

Episode: 3x19 | Airdate: Aug 28, 2007

Wild Goose Chase

Mike Rowe goes on a wild goose chase - literally! After traveling to the tundra, Mike joins forces with a team of workers that round up a flock of wild geese with airplanes. 

Special Effects Artist

Episode: 3x20 | Airdate: Oct 30, 2007

Special Effects Artist

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.

Reef Ball Maker

Episode: 3x21 | Airdate: Nov 6, 2007

Reef Ball Maker

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.

Exotic Animal Keeper

Episode: 3x22 | Airdate: Nov 13, 2007

Exotic Animal Keeper

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.

Season 4

Big Animal Vet

Episode: 4x01 | Airdate: Jan 8, 2008

Big Animal Vet

Mike helps out at a BBQ restaurant and gets to help clean out the smoker. After that a trip to the farm to help out a big animal vet. For his last job Mike gets to help dig a tank out of the ground

Steel Mill Worker

Episode: 4x02 | Airdate: Jan 15, 2008

Steel Mill Worker

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.

Cave Digger

Episode: 4x03 | Airdate: Jan 22, 2008

Cave Digger

Mike Rowe works with a cave biologist and then braves the high seas in search of slime eels.

Buoy Cleaner

Episode: 4x04 | Airdate: Jan 29, 2008

Buoy Cleaner

Mike Rowe gets dirty in Oregon making shingles and then jumps on a Coast Guard ship to clean dirty buoys.

Cranberry Farmer

Episode: 4x05 | Airdate: Feb 5, 2008

Cranberry Farmer

Mike Rowe gets dirty making handmade bricks in South Carolina. He then masters the art of cranberry farming in Oregon.

Mud Mineral Excavator

Episode: 4x06 | Airdate: Feb 12, 2008

Mud Mineral Excavator

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.

Dirty Jobs of the Big Apple

Episode: 4x07 | Airdate: Apr 14, 2008

Dirty Jobs of the Big Apple

Join Mike Rowe as he takes on some of the dirtiest jobs in New York City; he scales a skyscraper to build a water tower on the roof before trying his hand at lift repair.

Floating Fish Factory

Episode: 4x08 | Airdate: Apr 21, 2008

Floating Fish Factory

Mike travels to Alaska for an adventure aboard a fish processing ship.

Dairy Cow Midwife

Episode: 4x09 | Airdate: Apr 28, 2008

Dairy Cow Midwife

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.

Aerial Tram Greaser

Episode: 4x10 | Airdate: May 5, 2008

Aerial Tram Greaser

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. 

Turkey Inseminator

Episode: 4x11 | Airdate: May 12, 2008

Turkey Inseminator

Making a home energy efficient by improving insulation, turkey artificial insemination, viewer mail, car crusher

Ice Salvage Crew

Episode: 4x12 | Airdate: May 19, 2008

Ice Salvage Crew

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.

Wind Farm Technician

Episode: 4x13 | Airdate: Jun 2, 2008

Wind Farm Technician

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.

Animal Barber

Episode: 4x14 | Airdate: Jun 9, 2008

Animal Barber

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. 

Season 5

Tar Rigger

Episode: 5x01 | Airdate: Oct 7, 2008

Tar Rigger

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. 

Dirty Chip Maker

Episode: 5x02 | Airdate: Oct 14, 2008

Dirty Chip Maker

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.

Sheep Castrator

Episode: 5x03 | Airdate: Oct 21, 2008

Sheep Castrator

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. 

Leech Trapper

Episode: 5x04 | Airdate: Oct 28, 2008

Leech Trapper

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.

Mannequin Factory

Episode: 5x05 | Airdate: Nov 11, 2008

Mannequin Factory

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. 

Egg Farm

Episode: 5x06 | Airdate: Nov 18, 2008

Egg Farm

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.

Vellum Maker

Episode: 5x07 | Airdate: Nov 25, 2008

Vellum Maker

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. 

Maggot Farmer

Episode: 5x08 | Airdate: Dec 2, 2008

Maggot Farmer

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. 

Gourd Maker

Episode: 5x09 | Airdate: Dec 9, 2008

Gourd Maker

Mike Rowe cleans out a Connecticut lake and then turns gourds into artwork in Pennsylvania.

Bologna Maker

Episode: 5x10 | Airdate: Jan 6, 2009

Bologna Maker

Mike heads to Pennsylvania and tries his hand at making bologna and then goes to Alaska to repair a very special toilet.

Abandoned Mine Plugger

Episode: 5x11 | Airdate: Jan 13, 2009

Abandoned Mine Plugger

Mike travels to Ohio to check on the Common Tern population and then he finds himself in Northern California plugging an abandoned mineshaft.

Animal Rendering

Episode: 5x12 | Airdate: Jan 20, 2009

Animal Rendering

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.

Goose Down Plucker

Episode: 5x13 | Airdate: Jan 27, 2009

Goose Down Plucker

Mike Rowe works with a cave biologist and then braves the high seas in search of slime eels.

Diaper Cleaner

Episode: 5x14 | Airdate: Feb 3, 2009

Diaper Cleaner

Mike Rowe heads to Queen Creek in Arizona to make oil out of olives, and then cleans dirty nappies in Sacramento, California.

Spider Pharm

Episode: 5x15 | Airdate: Feb 3, 2009

Spider Pharm

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.

Locomotive Builder

Episode: 5x16 | Airdate: Feb 17, 2009

Locomotive Builder

Mike heads to MotivePower in Boise, Idaho to build and restore locomotives for his 200th dirty job.

Season 6

Mattress Recycler

Episode: 6x01 | Airdate: Oct 6, 2009

Mattress Recycler

Mike finds out what happens to old mattresses after people throw them out.

High-Rise Window Washer

Episode: 6x02 | Airdate: Oct 13, 2009

High-Rise Window Washer

High-rise window washer, viewer mail: brine tank cleaner (Shark Reef at Mandalay Bay) 

Toilet Crusher

Episode: 6x03 | Airdate: Oct 20, 2009

Toilet Crusher

Toilet Crusher & alligator snapping turtle researcher 

Camel Rancher

Episode: 6x04 | Airdate: Oct 27, 2009

Camel Rancher

Mike works at the country's only Dromedary camel dairy.

Tofu Maker

Episode: 6x05 | Airdate: Nov 3, 2009

Tofu Maker

Mike recycles computers before heading to Hawaii to make tofu.

Glass Maker

Episode: 6x06 | Airdate: Nov 10, 2009

Glass Maker

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.

Rocky Reach Dam

Episode: 6x07 | Airdate: Nov 17, 2009

Rocky Reach Dam

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.

Safety Third

Episode: 6x08 | Airdate: Nov 24, 2009

Safety Third

Mike reflects back on his more hazardous apprenticeships and makes a case for safety.

Reindeer Farm

Episode: 6x09 | Airdate: Dec 1, 2009

Reindeer Farm

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.

Marble Maker

Episode: 6x10 | Airdate: Dec 15, 2009

Marble Maker

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.

Fireworks Technician

Episode: 6x11 | Airdate: Dec 15, 2009

Fireworks Technician

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.

Worm Grunter

Episode: 6x12 | Airdate: Dec 22, 2009

Worm Grunter

Mike goes to Florida to harvest clams at the Alligator Harbor Aquatic Preserve and later attempt to worm-grunt in the Apalachicola National Forest.

Maple Syrup Maker

Episode: 6x13 | Airdate: Dec 29, 2009

Maple Syrup Maker

Mike goes to Florida to harvest clams at the Alligator Harbor Aquatic Preserve and later attempt to worm-grunt in the Apalachicola National Forest.

Animal Control Specialist

Episode: 6x14 | Airdate: Jan 5, 2010

Animal Control Specialist

Mike goes to Southern California to handle skunks and other pests as an animal control specialist.

Cricket Farmer

Episode: 6x15 | Airdate: Jan 12, 2010

Cricket Farmer

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.

Chicken Busters

Episode: 6x16 | Airdate: Jan 19, 2010

Chicken Busters

Mike goes on the hunt for feral chickens on the streets of Miami.

Soo Locks Technician

Episode: 6x17 | Airdate: Jan 26, 2010

Soo Locks Technician

Mike goes to Michigan to join up with the 12 maintenance crew.

Concrete Finisher

Episode: 6x18 | Airdate: Feb 2, 2010

Concrete Finisher

Mike creates some concrete counter-tops and fire pits in Moss Landing, California and then reminisces about the scariest job he's ever done.

Bone Black

Episode: 6x19 | Airdate: Sep 19, 2010

Bone Black

Mike visits a bone black plant in Michigan and then talks about his five dirtiest jobs.

Season 7

Exotic Nanny

Episode: 7x01 | Airdate: Oct 19, 2010

Exotic Nanny

Mike visits a Texas ranch that breeds exotic animals like sloths, lemurs, camels, and bearcats.

Wetland Warrior

Episode: 7x02 | Airdate: Oct 26, 2010

Wetland Warrior

Mike acts as a fugitive attempting to outsmart a team of bloodhounds and evade being captured; combating invasive species in the Florida Everglades

Sea Lamprey Exterminator

Episode: 7x03 | Airdate: Nov 2, 2010

Sea Lamprey Exterminator

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.

Animal Relocator

Episode: 7x04 | Airdate: Nov 9, 2010

Animal Relocator

Mike visits an old-fashioned corn mill in De Kalb, Miss. Also, Mike helps relocate a pair of exotic deer in Wills Point, Texas.

Lightning Rod Installer

Episode: 7x05 | Airdate: Nov 16, 2010

Lightning Rod Installer

Mike learns how to install a lightning rod on a home in Lucedale, Miss.

Woolen Mill Operator

Episode: 7x06 | Airdate: Nov 21, 2010

Woolen Mill Operator

Mike spends a day working at Ohio Valley Natural Fibers, where he makes yarn from fleece; then he goes to work at a day spa in Michigan, where he helps wax hair.

Pinsetter Mechanic

Episode: 7x07 | Airdate: Nov 23, 2010

Pinsetter Mechanic

Mike visits a bowling center in Fremont, Cal. and at the request of a fan turns the spotlight on his cameraman.

Bug Detective

Episode: 7x08 | Airdate: Nov 16, 2010

Bug Detective

Mike visits a forensic entomology lab where he helps inspect pig carcasses for maggots and other insects.

Horse Tester

Episode: 7x09 | Airdate: Nov 30, 2010

Horse Tester

Joe Pagan of the Kentucky Equine Research facility in Woodford County, Kentucky gives Mike the low-down on their work testing foods and training techniques in order to create healthier, more athletic horses.

Custom Meat Processor

Episode: 7x10 | Airdate: Dec 7, 2010

Custom Meat Processor

Mike heads to a San Francisco dump to learn how hawks are employed as a seagull-removing method; then he is off to work on a mobile meat processing truck.

Date Palm Pollinator

Episode: 7x11 | Airdate: Dec 28, 2010

Date Palm Pollinator

Mike Rowe climbs date palms with the pollinators guaranteeing a good crop of fruit, cuts granite, and tries his luck at the gun range; he also answers viewer mail.

Asphalt Paver

Episode: 7x12 | Airdate: Jan 4, 2011

Asphalt Paver

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.

Rum Distiller

Episode: 7x13 | Airdate: Jan 11, 2011

Rum Distiller

Mike visits a distillery, where he turns molasses into rum, hauls hoses, scours copper and works with scalding liquid.

Hair Fairy

Episode: 7x14 | Airdate: Jan 18, 2011

Hair Fairy

Mike installs a metal power pole in Wyoming and later learns about how to remove lice from hair in San Francisco. 

Scrapple Maker

Episode: 7x15 | Airdate: Feb 1, 2011

Scrapple Maker

Mike learns how to make a pig delicacy known as scrapple and later becomes a shoe doctor's assistant. 

Blueberry Connoisseur

Episode: 7x16 | Airdate: Feb 8, 2011

Blueberry Connoisseur

Mike visits a jelly bean company to create a flavored jelly bean based on the smell of his boots; he then travels to Maine to harvest blueberries, before joining in a pie bakeoff.

Sponge Diver

Episode: 7x17 | Airdate: Feb 15, 2011

Sponge Diver

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.

Cedar Log Peeler

Episode: 7x18 | Airdate: Feb 22, 2011

Cedar Log Peeler

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.

Termite Researcher

Episode: 7x19 | Airdate: Mar 1, 2011

Termite Researcher

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.

Season 8

Fish Squeezer

Episode: 8x01 | Airdate: Dec 13, 2011

Fish Squeezer

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.

Fossil Hunter

Episode: 8x02 | Airdate: Dec 20, 2011

Fossil Hunter

Mike travels to a remote area near Moab, Utah, to take on the job of being a paleontologist.

Doomsday Seed Banker

Episode: 8x03 | Airdate: Dec 27, 2011

Doomsday Seed Banker

The millennium seed project collects and preserves flora seeds for replanting after a catastrophic event.

Water Softener Technician

Episode: 8x04 | Airdate: Jan 3, 2012

Water Softener Technician

Mike becomes a water softener technician in Minnesota, and works as a coin washer at a San Francisco hotel.

Barber's Assistant

Episode: 8x05 | Airdate: Jan 10, 2012

Barber's Assistant

Mike learns some of the tricks of the haircutting trade; Mike spends the day working as a landfill operator.

Mardi Gras Bladder Banger

Episode: 8x06 | Airdate: Jan 17, 2012

Mardi Gras Bladder Banger

Mike spends the day in Mobile, Ala. assembling cow bladders that will be used during a Mardi Gras parade

Medical Waste Disposal Expert

Episode: 8x07 | Airdate: Jan 24, 2012

Medical Waste Disposal Expert

Mike samples life as a medical waste processor, learning what medical waste is and then doing his bit to treat it; his new colleagues have some surprises in store.

Tower Top Hand

Episode: 8x08 | Airdate: Feb 7, 2012

Tower Top Hand

Mike helps to erect a radio communications tower; celebrating the milestone of doing a dirty job in each of the 50 states.

Onion Processor

Episode: 8x09 | Airdate: Feb 14, 2012

Onion Processor

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.

Season 9

Lost in Aboriginal Land

Episode: 9x01 | Airdate: Aug 22, 2012

Lost in Aboriginal Land

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.

Deadly Snake Wrangler

Episode: 9x02 | Airdate: Aug 29, 2012

Deadly Snake Wrangler

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. 

Journey to Croc Country

Episode: 9x03 | Airdate: Sep 5, 2012

Journey to Croc Country

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. 

Outback Treasure Hunter

Episode: 9x04 | Airdate: Sep 12, 2012

Outback Treasure Hunter

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. 

Season 10

Rodbuster / Galvanizer

Episode: 10x01 | Airdate: Jan 2, 2022 (61 min)

Rodbuster / Galvanizer

Mike works his hardest construction job yet. He helps a team of rodbusters, who carry 2 tons of reinforced steel each for overpass construction. Next, Mike combats the ruination of rust by galvanizing infrastructural steel in an 850-degree zinc bath.

Jellyballer / Epoxy Installer

Episode: 10x02 | Airdate: Jan 9, 2022 (61 min)

Jellyballer / Epoxy Installer

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.

Tugboat Fitter / Tower Cleaner

Episode: 10x03 | Airdate: Jan 16, 2022 (61 min)

Tugboat Fitter / Tower Cleaner

Mike visits a ship-building community in Coden, Alabama, to learn the ins-and-outs of building a tugboat, from tight spaces to complex algebra. Then he makes a long climb to the top of a dirty water tower in Magee, Mississippi, to clean inside the tank.

Rock Sucker / Mountain Carver

Episode: 10x04 | Airdate: Jan 23, 2022 (61 min)

Rock Sucker / Mountain Carver

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.

Escalator Maintainer / Scorpion Sweeper

Episode: 10x05 | Airdate: Jan 30, 2022 (61 min)

Escalator Maintainer / Scorpion Sweeper

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.

Combat Surgeon / Iguana Hunter

Episode: 10x06 | Airdate: Feb 6, 2022 (61 min)

Combat Surgeon / Iguana Hunter

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.

Season 11

Pool Fixer / Hotel Soap Recycler

Episode: 11x01 | Airdate: Dec 11, 2022 (61 min)

Pool Fixer / Hotel Soap Recycler

Mike Rowe joins a second-generation pool fixer in West Palm Beach, Florida, and jumps into the dirtiest pool in America to clean 17 years of accumulated filth. In Orlando, Mike and a Soap Whisperer recycle dirty hotel soap in an effort to Clean the World.

Feral Cat Fixer / Reaper Keeper

Episode: 11x02 | Airdate: Dec 18, 2022

Feral Cat Fixer / Reaper Keeper

Mike Rowe helps cat ladies of northern Texas to fix a clowder of feral cats at a spay and neuter facility. Mike and his crew feel the burn as he processes peppers with the mad scientist inventor of the Carolina Reaper, the hottest pepper in the world.

Pile Jacketer / Concrete Cleaner

Episode: 11x03 | Airdate: Jan 1, 2023

Pile Jacketer / Concrete Cleaner

Mike Rowe preserves infrastructure as he submerges in a murky Florida river to pour concrete jackets around crumbling bridge pilings. In North Carolina, Mike sucks out a concrete washout pit and sprays sediment as he turns toxic sludge into potable water.

Caviar Harvester / Spice Maker

Episode: 11x04 | Airdate: Jan 8, 2023

Caviar Harvester / Spice Maker

Mike Rowe shows us where our food comes from, harvesting caviar from the muddy Mississippi River. Mike brings his parents to work and rectifies misconceptions in his hometown of Baltimore preparing blue crab seasoning with a fourth-generation spice maker.

Baghouse Cleaner / Biochar Maker

Episode: 11x05 | Airdate: Jan 15, 2023

Baghouse Cleaner / Biochar Maker

Mike Rowe attends a dusty baghouse party to clean the filtration system at a North Carolina asphalt plant. In Colorado, Mike solves global warming as he gets his dirtiest yet, pyrolyzing waste lumber into the planet's most efficient fertilizer: biochar.

Deer Urine Farmer / Necropsy

Episode: 11x06 | Airdate: Jan 22, 2023

Deer Urine Farmer / Necropsy

Mike Rowe travels to Anna, IL, 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 and any possible human ramifications.

Manhole Rehab / Clock Caretaker

Episode: 11x07 | Airdate: Jan 29, 2023 (61 min)

Manhole Rehab / Clock Caretaker

Mike Rowe descends into the depths of an aging manhole, coating it with a polyurea liner to extend its warranty in Murfreesboro, TN. Mike joins an horologist and a priest to set the time right as he restores a historic clocktower in our nation's capital.

Beaver Relocator / Slime Master

Episode: 11x08 | Airdate: Feb 5, 2023 (61 min)

Beaver Relocator / Slime Master

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 in the process of fulfilling a lifelong dream, working with a special effects artist at a glue factory in LA.

Specials

Super Dirty

Episode: S02 Special | Airdate: Jan 3, 2006

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100th Dirty Job Special

Episode: S02 Special | Airdate: Sep 5, 2006

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Mike celebrates his 100th dirty job as an Army mechanic and takes a look back at some of his past jobs. Also, Mike answers more viewer questions, shows even more bloopers and airs even more unaired footage.

Mike's Day Off

Episode: S02 Special | Airdate: Mar 3, 2009

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Mike Challenges his executive producers to try a dirty job of their choice

Dirty DNA

Episode: S09 Special | Airdate: Mar 8, 2011

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