Dirty Jobs
Follows the exploits of Mike Rowe as he performs various dirty and dangerous jobs around the USA.
Genre: Reality-TV
Cast:Mike Rowe , David M. Barsky , Doug Glover , Troy Paff , Christopher Jones , Chris Whiteneck , Adam Bradley , Dan Eggiman , Ryan Walsh , Amber McClarin , Zack Hall , Billy Bretherton , Cash Wiley , Edward Barbini , Mary Bretherton , John Rowe , Peggy Rowe , Jesse Meyer
S1.E1 ∙ Chinatown Garbage Collector
Mike Rowe assumes the responsibilities of a Garbage Collector as he takes to the streets of San Francisco's Chinatown. After carrying several tons of garbage down the narrow corridors and steep staircases of Chinatown, Mike moves onto Recycle Central...
S1.E2 ∙ Sewer Inspector
Mike Rowe steps into the shoes of a sewer inspector in San Francisco, and enlists a disaster clean up crew after a Brooklyn toilet explodes from a sewer backup. He then joins up with a demolition company where he works as part of a deconstruction crew.
S1.E3 ∙ Pig Farmer
Mike Rowe steps into the shoes of an Iowa pig farmer where he faces the challenges of feeding and cleaning up after hundreds of dirty pigs. Then Mike learns how to care for a new litter of piglets, and artificially inseminates a female pig.
S1.E4 ∙ Chick Sexer
Mike Rowe gets dirty as an Iowa chick sexer. Every Friday there are over 80,000 chicks born at the Murray McMurray Hatchery and it's Mike's job to sort the boys from the girls by the end of the day when they're shipped out to farms around the country.
S1.E5 ∙ Vexcon
Mike catches crabs, processes them then eats them which wasn't easy after seeing them processed. Next he goes into the horse shoe business and shoes a horse while it does it's business. Finally he visits a house that is more home to rats, roaches and snakes than people.
S1.E6 ∙ Sludge Cleaner
Mike spends time with the Clear Hills Honey beekeepers in Oregon where he learns to corral bees in their hives and then extract & process honey.
S1.E7 ∙ Hot Tar Roofer
Mike Rowe rolls up his sleeves and gets filthy dirty as he tackles the profession of hot tar roofing a church rooftop that needs to be replaced.
S1.E8 ∙ Ostrich Farmer
Mike visits the Big Island and an organic family coffee bean farm. Starting from dispersing the fertilizer, he then picks, gathers, wet-processes, drys, and bags the green coffee beans. Then he unzips the bag and a pound is poured into the roaster, cooled, then bagged for sale. He then enjoys a cup of coffee 12 hours in the making. Mike visits the Pacific coast to feed seals that are in bad shape, releasing them at the National Seashore. Mike visits an ostrich farm, wrangling and capturing to carry in a trailer. What could go wrong?
S1.E9 ∙ Cheese Maker
Mike Rowe gets a taste of what it's like to work as a Zookeeper at the San Francisco Zoo. He then teams up with Vermont cheese makers to learn how to turn four thousand gallons of milk into world famous cheese, and mixes volcanic ash mud baths.
S1.E10 ∙ Shrimper
This week Mike is in Louisiana catching some shrimp but mostly other strange creatures that don't get along with him well. Then it's off to the swamp for craw fish. And while he's out in the wild he might as well bring in some illegally dumped tires for recycling.
S1.E11 ∙ Bio-Diesel Man
Mike Rowe steps into the shoes of a cobb home builder and teams up with the Bee man to evict a swarm of angry bees hidden inside a church building. He recovers grease at a Mexican restaurant and learns to convert cooking oil into gasoline alternative.
S1.E12 ∙ Micro-Algae Man
Mike Rowe teams up with a pet groomer and is responsible for preparing special outfits prior to their departure. He works at a Hawaiian pharmaceutical plant that specializes in growing green algae. Mike Rowe gets dirty at a charcoal factory.
S1.E13 ∙ Chimney Sweeper
The tricks of the trade are taught to Mike at the Chimney Sweeping Safety Institute. He travels to Canada to dive into frigid water for sunken logs which will be made into expensive furniture. Mike's hired by a scrap metal recycling plant to sort cans.
S1.E14 ∙ Dirtiest Animals
A "greatest hits" episode with a compilation of Mike's dirtiest jobs involving animals: Pig Farmer, Chick Sexer, Pet Groomer, Horse Breeder at the Babcock Ranch and Ostrich Farmer.
S1.E15 ∙ Dirtiest Water Jobs
A "greatest hits" episode with a compilation of Mike's dirtiest water-related jobs: Shark Catcher/Tagger, Golf-Ball Diver for the Golf Ball Depot, Oyster Harvester, Crawfish Catcher, Catfish Noodler and Shrimper.
S1.E16 ∙ Creepy Critters
A "greatest hits" episode compiling dirty jobs Mike has done in previous episodes featuring insects: Exterminator, Crab Fisherman, Honey Harvester at the Clear Hills Honey apiary, Bee Man, Worm Poop Rancher in Sarasota and Bat-Poop Collector.
S2.E1 ∙ Dirtiest Tools
A "greatest hits" episode with a compilation of Mike's dirtiest jobs involving tools and machines: House Mover, Tire Recycler, Demolition Worker, Scrap Metal Recycler, Golf-Ball Diver at the Golf Ball Depot and Hot Tar Roofer.
S2.E3 ∙ Avian Vomitologist
Mike travels the country lending a helping hand at the Colorado marble quarry, collects owl vomit. He wrangles and learns how to palpitate a cow to check for pregnancy.
S2.E4 ∙ Turkey Farmer
Mike examines the short lives of turkeys then it's off to a potato farm. Mike also removes sewage from a water treatment plant as well.
S2.E5 ∙ Alligator Farmer
Mike visits one of the dirtiest places on earth, a sugar mill. Firefighters teach Mike how to light a building on fire, put it out and then he visits a menacing alligator farm.
S2.E7 ∙ Mushroom Farmer
Mixing horse manure and soiled straw to make mushrooms, cleaning rat-infested storm drains in Los Angeles, and making shower drains in Erie, PA, it's a Dirty Job!
S2.E8 ∙ Plumber
Mike reunites with catfish noodler for some backbreaking plumbing. He blends specialty drilling mud at a synthetic mud company, then rolls his sleeves for more oil drilling with rough necks.
S2.E9 ∙ 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.
S2.E10 ∙ Casino Food Recycler
Mike Rowe rolls up his sleeves and gets dirty in Las Vegas as he goes behind the scenes of the world famous Lance Burton Magic Show. Mike Rowe also joins forces with a Las Vegas pig farmer that has found an ingenious way to recycle leftovers.
S2.E11 ∙ Parade Float Dismantler
Mike Rowe faces his fear of parades when he is hired on at a company that is responsible for dismantling floats from the Tournament of Roses Parade. It's a dirty job that will forever change the way you look at parades.
S2.E12 ∙ Garbage Pit Technician
Mike Rowe rolls up his sleeves and gets dirty operating an antique printing press. Then, he joins forces with the largest terracotta manufacturer in the U.S. Next, Mike teams up with a group of garbage collectors converting trash into electricity.
S2.E13 ∙ Skull Cleaner
Mike Rowe helps keep trains on track. Mike links Boudin Sausages, a southern delicacy that's no treat to make. Before animal skulls and bones are put on display, they have to be cleaned. Mike rolls his sleeves up to clean them.
S2.E14 ∙ Geoduck Farmer
Mike Rowe hits Las Vegas to dive into the world famous Lance Burton Magic Show, and then teams up with a pig farmer who has some innovative recycling techniques.
S2.E15 ∙ Fuel Tank Cleaner
Mike Rowe joins forces with the Air Force as he travels to McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita, Kansas to clean the stratotanker fuel tanks. He also learns to makes some messy candy and retread tires.
S2.E18 ∙ Coal Miner
Mike Rowe gets dirty as he helps a group of New Jersey salvage experts tear apart a dormitory at an abandoned college. Then Rowe rolls up his sleeve and goes to work as a coal miner.
S2.E19 ∙ Hoof Cleaner
Mike Rowe joins a crew at a rock quarry, gets hip deep in mud and muck working with the hippo keepers at the Adventure Aquarium, and addresses some bovine foot problems.
S2.E20 ∙ Alpaca Shearer
Mike Rowe joins a crew of filthy farmers on their job at Taylor Shellfish Farms, gets down and dirty in the tropics as he farms taro, and finds out that animals don't like haircuts when he joins a family of alpaca farmers to shear their alpacas.
S2.E21 ∙ Monkey Caretaker
Mike Rowe meets his match when he travels to South Africa to train monkeys to run wild.
S2.E22 ∙ 100th Dirty Job Special
The two-hour special will be hosted by Mike Rowe as he introduces his work with the United States Army. Mike will share stories from behind the scenes and answer viewer mail as he unites the US with the dirtiest jobs, and funniest moments of the show.
S2.E23 ∙ Snake Researcher
Mike catches lobster starting with the preparation of the rotting, stinking, dead fish bait. Then Mike visits Put-in-Bay on South Bass Island in Lake Erie, first to clean sea weed out of the harbor then to feed the water snakes. Actually, Mike's supposed to catch the snakes but they find him fun to chew on. But Mike gets even doing strange things to his captives back at the lab. Of course, he gets bit there too.
S2.E24 ∙ Penguin Keeper
Mike Rowe joins a rowdy construction crew in California and learns the art of concrete stamping, as well as taking care of some penguins and digging for blood worms.
S2.E25 ∙ Bell Maker
Mike Rowe rolls up his sleeve and gets dirty making giant bells at the McShane Bell Foundry. He 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 ocean's floor.
S2.E26 ∙ Mosquito Control Officer
From gutting mold infested houses to exterminating disease ridden rats and mosquitos, Mike has got his work cut out for him. He gets dirty helping New Orleans locals restore, rebuild, and revive their city in the aftermath of Katrina.
S3.E1 ∙ Bug Breeder
Mike gets dirty with some fainting goats, breeding exotic insects, while helping remove tree stumps. They are dirty jobs but somebody's got to do them, why not Mike?
S3.E2 ∙ Poo Pot Maker
Just when Mike thought he had seen it all, he is hired at a cow farm that specializes in making gardening pots out of cow manure. Mike count dead salmon carcasses and opens up the mail bag and answers a viewer's question and gets bitten by a snake.
S3.E3 ∙ 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.
S3.E4 ∙ Well Digger
Mike joins the Bowie BaySox team acting as a groundskeeper. Mike gets wet and dirty helping secure boat moorings. He then joins Watson Water company to dig deep through mud, rock, gravel, sand and water as they drill for heating and water in Tennessee.
S3.E5 ∙ Wine Cave Digger
Mike helps dig tunnels that are used as underground wine caverns. Then he is off to the airport where he does the dirty jobs behind the scenes.
S3.E6 ∙ Salt Miner
Mike gets dirty underground packing explosives into a wall of salt and blowing it up in order to break up the salt into small blocks. Mike masters the dirty job of salt mining and gets a new respect for the people who get dirty to get us salt.
S3.E7 ∙ Wine Maker
Mike gets dirty in Napa Valley as he takes on the dirty job of making wine. Mike then rolls up his sleeves and gets dirty at a Kansas Cattle Ranch where he gets a lesson on how dirty the cattle business can be.
S3.E8 ∙ Steam Ship Cleaner
Mike joins forces with two dirty guys from San Diego who have mastered the art of hydro-seeding. Then he rolls up his sleeves and gets dirty on a steam ship ferry that's over 100 years old. Mike delves into the mailbag and answers a viewer's question.
S3.E10 ∙ Billboard Installer
Mike Rowe teams up with an outdoor advertising company in Texas that teaches him the tricks of their very dirty trade.
S3.E11 ∙ Snake Wrangler
Mike Rowe travels to Texas and joins forces with a local snake farm that is dedicated to raising some of the biggest and most dangerous snakes in the world. It's a dirty job that has Mike scared for his life as he moves giant and at times angry snakes.
S3.E12 ∙ Leather Tanner
Mike steps back in time when he joins Richard Meyer and his sons in the ancient art of tanning leather. At their tannery in New York Mike rolls up his sleeves and gets dirty turning stiff cowhides into soft suede soles for bowling shoes.
S3.E14 ∙ 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.
S3.E15 ∙ 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.
S3.E16 ∙ 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.
S3.E17 ∙ 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.
S3.E20 ∙ 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.
S3.E21 ∙ 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.
S3.E22 ∙ Exotic Animal Keeper
Mike gets dirty at a recycling center in San Francisco that requires its drivers to clean out the backs of their garbage-hauling dump trucks after every shift. Then Mike plays with exotic animals and cleans a cougar-sized kitty litter box.
S3.E24 ∙ Spray Insulation Technician
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.
S4.E1 ∙ Big Animal Vet
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.
S4.E2 ∙ 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.
S4.E3 ∙ Cave Biologist
Mike Rowe works with a cave biologist and then braves the high seas in search of slime eels.
S4.E4 ∙ Buoy Cleaner
Mike Rowe gets dirty in Oregon making shingles and then jumps on a Coast Guard ship to clean dirty buoys.
S4.E5 ∙ Cranberry Farmer
Mike Rowe gets dirty making hand made bricks in South Carolina and then masters the art of cranberry farming in Oregon.
S4.E6 ∙ Mud Mineral Excavator
Mike Rowe gets dirty in Death Valley preparing for a gem and mineral show, helps save injured birds from a salt lake and then gets dirty working at a rice plantation in South Carolina.
S4.E9 ∙ Dirty Jobs of the Big Apple
Mike Rowe rolls up his sleeves and gets dirty with some of the dirtiest jobs in the big apple. First Mike climbs to the top of a giant building to build a water tower and then he masters the art of elevator repair.
S4.E10 ∙ Floating Fish Factory
Mike goes to Alaska to try out the jobs on a fishing boat that doubles as a fish processing factory. To top it off Mike and Dave sample a buffet of assorted fish parts served up by the ship's cook. Since he's in Alaska Mike wanders out on the tundra to learn to operate a poop burner because you can't dig a hole for an outhouse in the frozen ground.
S4.E11 ∙ 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, Mike gets an up-close look at fatherhood as he helps deliver baby calves.
S4.E12 ∙ Aerial Tram Greaser
Mike Rowe 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 8500 feet above the city.
S4.E13 ∙ Turkey Inseminator
In this Dirty Jobs episode, Mike crawls through rat drops, falling insulation, and debris to make a house more energy efficient. Then, he visits a turkey farm where a bunch of large-breasted birds are inseminated.
S4.E14 ∙ Ice Salvage Crew
Mike Rowe gets dirty in Alaska as he helps protect the environment by cleaning up an oil spill and then travels to Minnesota where he works to pull a car out of a lake that has fallen through the ice.
S4.E15 ∙ Wind Farm Technician
Mike Rowe 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 sink hole that some have unfortunately turned into a garbage dump.
S4.E16 ∙ Animal Barber
Mike Rowe and the Dirty Jobs crew travel to the Spring Brook Ranch in Kalispell, Montana to join forces with a yak and bison rancher who put him to work in his 150th Dirty Job. It's a celebration of dirt as Mike and the crew go to work.
S4.E18 ∙ Greenland Shark Quest
In this special episode of Dirty Jobs Mike heads to the edge of the Arctic Circle, on the northeast side of Canada's Baffin Island in search of one of the most mysterious sharks known to man : the Greenland shark.
S4.E19 ∙ Tar Rigger
Mike heads to San Diego to get dirty with the tar rigging crew of the Star of India, the oldest active merchant ship in the world. Then, Mike takes a look back at some of the dirty tools he's used that make civilized life possible for the rest of us.
S4.E20 ∙ 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.
S4.E21 ∙ Sheep Castrator
Mike works at an automobile dealership where the job is sawing down a giant concrete wall to make room for a new wash bay, then heads to a sheep farm where he tries his hand at sheep shearing & castrating before getting treated to Rocky Mountain Oysters.
S4.E22 ∙ 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.
S4.E24 ∙ Mannequin Factory
Mike finds himself at the Windsorland Mobile Home Park where homes are being broken down to make room for a new shopping center, then he heads off to Patina-V where he learns that making mannequins is not only a dirty job, but a form of art as well.
S4.E25 ∙ 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.
S4.E26 ∙ 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.
S4.E27 ∙ Maggot Farmer
Mike travels to Congress, Arizona, to try his hand at moving a giant cactus before a storm comes in. Then Mike heads to Idaho where he visits a special kind of farm, one that raises maggots.
S4.E28 ∙ Gourd Maker
Mike travels to the middle of Connecticut to clean out a lake, then drops by a gourd farm in Pennsylvania and transforms gourds into a variety of products.
S5.E1 ∙ Bologna Maker
Mike heads to Pennsylvania and tries his hand at making bologna and then goes to Alaska to repair a very special toilet.
S5.E2 ∙ 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.
S5.E3 ∙ Animal Rendering
Mike heads to Southern California to find out what it takes to keep a tar pit clean. Then Mike travels north where he learns about rendering and discovers how much of a farm animal can be recycled.
S5.E4 ∙ Goose Down Plucker
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.
S5.E5 ∙ Diaper Cleaner
Mike journeys to Queen Creek, Arizona to press olives into oil and then heads to Sacramento, California to clean dirty diapers.
S5.E6 ∙ 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.
S5.E7 ∙ Locomotive Builder
Mike heads to MotivePower in Boise, Idaho to build and restore locomotives for his 200th dirty job.
S5.E8 ∙ 200 Jobs Look-Back
Mike takes a look back at his previous jobs, toughest co-workers, and his ongoing encounters with dirt and poo. He also entertains with a look at some of the more memorable and unexpected moments in Dirty Jobs history.
S5.E9 ∙ Mike's Day Off
Mike Rowe challenges his bosses to see if they have what it takes to get dirty. The two executive producers responsible for sending Mike out to the dirtiest jobs around the country are going to roll up their sleeves and attempt a dirty job of their own.
S5.E10 ∙ Sled Dog Breeder
Mike ventures out to discover what it takes to breed and train sled dogs at the Happy Trails Kennels in Big Lake, Alaska.
S5.E11 ∙ Mattress Recycler
Mike heads to Miami to recover and crush abandoned boats. Then he heads to San Francisco to pick up and recycle used mattresses.
S5.E12 ∙ High-Rise Window Washer
Mike travels to Hawaii and joins the crew of Worldwide Window Cleaning where he harnesses up and hops into a bosun's chair to clean windows 40 stories above downtown Honolulu.
S5.E13 ∙ Toilet Crusher
Mike treks to a creek in Arkansas to perform tests on endangered Alligator Snapping Turtles. Then, he travels to San Francisco where he removes and recycles toilets.
S5.E14 ∙ Camel Rancher
Mike visits a camel ranch and gets to know them intimately. He milks them, checks their toes, assists with mating and takes the temperature, you know where, of the entire herd. Finishing off with a ball busting camel race, Mike is ready to put camels out of his life for good.
S5.E15 ∙ Tofu Maker
Mike's jobs this week aren't so much dirty as painful since he hasn't recovered from last week. He aggravates his rope blisters and gets burned at a tofu factory in Hawaii. But he gets to release his aggravation deconstructing those pesky electronic devices that have invaded our lives.
S5.E16 ∙ Glass Maker
When you research dung beetles you need loads of dung. And where there's dung you'll find Mike Rowe ready to pitch in, ice cream scoop at the ready. Then, Mike learns to make art glass, a challenging art form which requires considerable skill. In other words, it's a job Mike to perfectly unsuited to.
S5.E17 ∙ Rocky Reach Dam
Mike and a couple co-workers cram themselves into a crawl space to perform the impossibly awkward job of replacing the seals on a turbine at a hydroelectric dam. Next Mike changes the oil on the turbine but first he has build a work platform while perched precariously on a wobbly beam. Then, after a little fish surgery, Mike does what he does best, digs through poop.
S5.E18 ∙ Safety Third
Mike takes a retrospective look at past dirty jobs focusing on efforts to ensure safety or lack thereof.
S5.E19 ∙ Reindeer Farm
Shrink wrapping a boat may not sound that dirty but when Mike falls down every five minutes it's hard to stay clean. The other problem is it takes a heat gun to shrink the wrap and Mike hasn't been doing too well with fire lately. Then Mike dons a red suit and cools of in Alaska tending a herd of Reindeer.
S5.E20 ∙ Marble Maker
Mike finds a company that is in the business of making dirty shirts; ten thousand of them each month. In the ultimate irony, they make the shirts dirty in washing machines. Next Mike returns to the glass industry to make marbles. In the process he enjoys burned shoes, gloves, hands and feet, glass in his pants but he wore a respirator to avoid breathing glass dust.
S5.E21 ∙ Fireworks Technician
Mike spends a day making fireworks from scratch, including the black powder. To avoid sparks (and explosions) mixing is literally done by hand. Mike is completely coated with the explosive dust, including his eyes which burn like the dickens. Shifting gears from dirty to disgusting Mike visits a dairy and peers through the hole in the side of a cow to watch it's digestion process. He even takes a turn as cameraman but first he has to empty the cows guts to make room.
S5.E22 ∙ Worm Grunter
Mike catches clams and earthworms. And it's nothing like he expected.
S5.E23 ∙ Maple Syrup Maker
Mike returns to San Francisco to participate in the great American recycling effort. This time he's recycling paint which is plenty messy but colorful. Then Mike goes to sugar camp to make maple syrup. That proved more complicated than dirty for Mike until he had to clean the furnace.
S6.E1 ∙ Animal Control Specialist
After being sprayed by a skunk Mike, and his camera men, squeeze into the crawl space under a house to gather up some dead, putrefying, reeking animals. That's all part of the animal control job. Turning to live animals, Mike does some dentistry on a moose.
S6.E2 ∙ Cricket Farmer
Miek helps raise and package crickets and, of course, their poop. Then he plays tag with a bunch of turkeys using a remote controlled toy truck.
S6.E3 ∙ Chicken Busters
Mike helps tame Miami's wild chicken population. Then he visits a mealworm farm to help raise pet food.
S6.E4 ∙ Soo Locks Technician
Mike goes to Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan to help maintain the Soo Locks that allow ships to pass between Lake Superior and Lake Huron. The locks are busy in the summer so Mike has to work on them in the winter when it's cold and wet and icy and dirty but especially cold.
S6.E5 ∙ Concrete Finisher
For the latest in home furnishings Mike visits a company that molds concrete. While there he helps build a fire pit, counter top and a bathtub, all from concrete. Mike has fun with their vibrating table but he really goes wild when he gets his hands on their forklift.
S6.E6 ∙ Bone Black
Mike travels to Michigan where he gets downright filthy working at a bone black plant. Then he meets with twin sisters who are big fans of the show to discuss the top five dirtiest jobs Mike has ever done.
S6.E19 ∙ Blueberry Connoisseur
Mike visits a Jelly Belly factory and helps create a new flavor. Mike also harvests blueberries, and then helps make some blueberry pies.
S7.E1 ∙ Exotic Nanny
Mike visits an exotic animal ranch near Dallas and is reminded, after a bite or three, that the best way to handle wild animals is not to handle them. Still, in addition to breeding porcupines, exercising the camel, cutting the bearcat's toenails, catching pregnant kangaroos and feeding their babies, he gets to do fun stuff like cleaning up lemur poop.
S7.E2 ∙ Wetland Warrior
Mike tries to evade a pack of blood hounds to train them for police duty. Then it's into the swamp, on air boats again, to purge the Everglades of invasive plants; first hacking away at unwanted trees then light wildfires to clear grass.
S7.E3 ∙ Sea Lamprey Exterminator
Mike works with the Fish and Wildlife Service to discover all the tricks they use to control the sea lampreys that threaten Great Lakes commercial fish. Then Mike makes shark food at the Mandalay Bay aquarium.
S7.E4 ∙ Animal Relocator
Mike and the crew climb a tottering ladder onto a Mississippi hot roof to install lightening rods. But that's just the beginning. Next there's wiring them all together in a sweltering attic.
S7.E5 ∙ Lightning Rod Installer
Mike travels to Lucedale, Mississippi to try his hand at installing a lightning rod system on a home.
S7.E6 ∙ 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 off of his good friend Barsky.
S7.E7 ∙ Pinsetter Mechanic
Mike travels to Fremont, CA, to help maintain a bowling center. Then he responds to a letter from one of his fans who wants to see more footage of cameraman Doug.
S7.E8 ∙ Bug Detective
Mike learns to collect forensic evidence by studying rotting, putrid, maggot infested, pig carcasses. Then Mike heads to the lab to see if his guesses about how long the pigs were dead is correct.
S7.E9 ∙ Horse Tester
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. Fortunatly there are plenty of flies to distract Mike while he prepares the samples.
S7.E10 ∙ Custom Meat Processor
Mike works with a falconer to chase birds away. Then Mike butchers a cow from the hoof clear through to steaks.
S7.E13 ∙ Date Palm Pollinator
After a quick behind the scenes visit to a gun range Mike scales a male date palm tree to harvest its pollen. Then its up to the top of a whole bunch of female trees to fertilize them. In another behind the scenes sequence Mike fights with an apron and a couple plastic buckets.
S7.E14 ∙ Asphalt Paver
Mike thinks he has the good job operating the heavy duty paving equipment until he gets to the sweeper. The paver is a bit too complicated for Mike and bad things happen. But he's happy to do some touch up work with the steam roller.
S7.E15 ∙ Rum Distiller
You would think that working in a distillery that provides free drinks to its employees would be Mike's dream job. But he quickly learns there is a great deal of work to do before enjoying the fruits of his labor.
S7.E16 ∙ Hair Fairy
Mike helps replace a power pole in Wyoming, and then learns about lice at the Hair Fairies shop in San Francisco.
S7.E17 ∙ Dirty Infrastructure
Mike introduces clips from previous episodes with a focus on the infrastructure of America.
S7.E18 ∙ Scrapple Maker
Mike learns all about making Scrapple, then gets a lesson in taking care of shoes from the shoe doctor at the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco.
S7.E20 ∙ Sponge Diver
Mike harvests sponges from the gulf floor off Tarpon Springs Florida, and then struggles to remove a fence post.
S7.E21 ∙ Cedar Log Peeler
Mike cleans a fish guts grinder for an Alaskan fish processor, and then shows us how cedar logs are prepared to become part of a log cabin home.
S7.E22 ∙ Termite Researcher
Mike processes crayfish, and the travels to Sapelo Island in Georgia to learn about termites.
S7.E23 ∙ Dirty DNA
A clip show where Mike (host) takes us back for a look at previous jobs involving family members.
S8.E1 ∙ Fish Squeezer
Mike helps fertilize walleye eggs in New Mexico, and then helps with acupuncture on a goat.
S8.E2 ∙ Fossil Hunter
Mike travels to a remote area of Utah to learn about paleontology.
S8.E3 ∙ Doomsday Seed Banker
Mike travels to the Chicago Botanic Garden to see their seed vault, but ends up doing a bunch of odd jobs around the place first.
S8.E4 ∙ Water Softener Technician
Mike travels to Moorhead Minnesota to clean a large water softener, and then washes quarters at the St. Francis hotel in San Francisco.
S8.E5 ∙ Barber's Assistant
Mike learns about cutting hair and shaving at a barbershop in Atlanta, then learns how a landfill operates in California.
S8.E6 ∙ Mardi Gras Bladder Banger
Mike travels to Mobile, AL and visits the Knights of Revelry to learn about inflating cow bladders for the Folly float in the annual Mardi Gras parade.
S8.E7 ∙ Medical Waste
Mike is in Sioux Falls, SD to help process medical waste. He learns how it is treated before going to a landfill, and helps perform maintenance on "Miss Piggy".
S8.E8 ∙ Dirty Little Bits
A clip show made up of many behind-the-scenes segments introduced by Mike while he and the crew lounge pool-side.
S8.E9 ∙ Tower Top Hand
Mike helps complete a 300+ foot radio tower in North Dakota, and then celebrates having completed a Dirty Job in all 50 States with a song.
S8.E10 ∙ Onion Processor
Mike gets the inside scoop on processing onions at the Gills Onions plant in Oxnard CA, and then spends time making a wooden ladder for the San Francisco Fire Department.
S8.E11 ∙ Dirty Conversations 2
Clip show focusing on unusual conversations between Mike and the various people he came into contact with over the course of the show to date.
S9.E1 ∙ Rodbuster / Galvanizer
Mike installs rebar with a team of rodbusters, then he galvanizes steel.
S9.E2 ∙ Jellyballer / Epoxy Installer
Mike harvests a smack of jellyfish for food, then installs an epoxy floor.
S9.E3 ∙ Tugboat Fitter / Water Tower Cleaner
Mike learns how to build tugboats, then cleans the inside of a water tower.
S9.E4 ∙ Rock Sucker / Mountain Carver
Mike vacuums rock off an industrial roof, then carves Crazy Horse Monument.
S9.E5 ∙ Escalator Maintainer / Scorpion Sweeper
Mike cleans grime off an escalator before sweeping scorpions in the desert.
S9.E6 ∙ Combat Surgeon / Iguana Hunter
Mike trains as a combat surgeon before helping control iguanas in Florida.
S10.E1 ∙ Pool Fixer/Hotel Soap Recycler
Mike heads to West Palm Beach, Florida to join a family business while they replace the vinyl liner in a swimming pool that has not been cleaned in 15 years. Then, Mike drives inland to Orlando, Florida, where he helps Clean The World recycle secondhand hotel soap that is distributed to people in need.
S10.E2 ∙ Feral Cat Fixer/Reaper Keeper
Mike Rowe helps cat ladies of northern Texas to fix a clowder of feral cats at a spay/neuter facility. Mike feels the burn as he processes peppers with the mad scientist inventor of the Carolina Reaper, the hottest pepper in the world.
S10.E3 ∙ Pile Jacketer/Concrete Cleaner
In a week full of broken promises, Mike performs two jobs he has sworn off forever: diving and concrete. For his first gig, Mike finds a dilapidated bridge near Pensacola, Florida. Meeting a group of divers who find solutions to such problems, he hops waist-deep into the mucky river with them to reinforce the crumbling infrastructure. The day's work should add another 40 years onto the bridge's life. On his second job, Mike meets a crew of concrete fanatics in Charlotte, North Carolina. These guys willingly jump into a pit full of concrete washout. Their work - separating the solids and revitalizing the water.
S10.E4 ∙ Caviar Harvester/Spice Maker
Mike goes for the waterways of America. First he heads to Clarksville, Missouri where he lends a hand onboard the Hillbilly Deluxe at catching shovelhead sturgeon to harvest Show-Me caviar. Part two of the episode has Mike at J.O. Spice Co. in Mike's hometown of Baltimore, Maryland. Here Mike rectifies an OLD mistake as he blends Maryland's most popular crab seasoning.
S10.E5 ∙ Baghouse Cleaner/Biochar Maker
Mike finds himself in Charlotte, North Carolina, where there is a unique job at an asphalt plant. Mike joins the plant's crew for a Baghouse Party: cleaning out the the massive filtration system (baghouse) keeping employees and the environment safe. Mike then helps an entrepreneur in Berthoud, Colorado turn useless, beetle-eaten timber into a resource with an intensely high carbon count and many beneficial uses.
S10.E6 ∙ Deer Urine Farmer/Necropsy
In Anna, Illinois, Mike discovers feces from a new species as he collects and bottles the freshest farm-raised deer urine on the market sold to hunters looking to bag a buck. Near his hometown of Baltimore, in Oxford, Maryland, Mike dives elbow-deep into a recently deceased bottlenose dolphin as he assists in performing a necropsy to determine the cause of the creature's misfortune.
S10.E7 ∙ Manhole Rehab/Clock Caretaker
Traveling below Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Mike descends into an aging manhole, stops the sewage, and sprays a life extending coating on the walls. Then, just down the street from The Capitol in Washington DC, Mike repairs one of the oldest working clocks in the country at a prep school.
S10.E8 ∙ Beaver Relocator/Slime Master
Mike visits Cache County, Utah, to help relocate beavers, followed by a trip to Santa Fe Springs, California, where he visits an adhesives company that makes slime for Hollywood.
