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First Aired: July 26th, 2005
Status: Continuing
Genre: Reality
Network: Discovery
Summary: Host and everyman Mike Rowe gets the grimy scoop on downright nasty occupations.
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# of Episodes: 219
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Season 4
Episode 1: Big Animal Vet
Air Date: January 8th, 2008
Summary: 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.
Episode 2: Steel Mill Worker
Air Date: January 15th, 2008
Summary: 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.
Episode 3: Cave Biologist
Air Date: January 22nd, 2008
Summary: Mike Rowe works with a cave biologist and then braves the high seas in search of slime eels.
Episode 4: Buoy Cleaner
Air Date: January 29th, 2008
Summary: Mike Rowe gets dirty in Oregon making shingles and then jumps on a Coast Guard ship to clean dirty buoys.
Episode 5: Cranberry Farmer
Air Date: February 5th, 2008
Summary: Mike Rowe gets dirty making handmade bricks in South Carolina. He then masters the art of cranberry farming in Oregon.
Episode 6: Mud Mineral Excavator
Air Date: February 12nd, 2008
Summary: 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.
Episode 7: Dirty Jobs of the Big Apple
Air Date: April 14th, 2008
Summary: 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.
Episode 8: Floating Fish Factory
Air Date: April 21st, 2008
Summary: Mike travels to Alaska for an adventure aboard a fish processing ship.
Episode 9: Dairy Cow Midwife
Air Date: April 28th, 2008
Summary: 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.
Episode 10: Aerial Tram Greaser
Air Date: May 5th, 2008
Summary: 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.
Episode 11: Turkey Inseminator
Air Date: May 12nd, 2008
Summary: Making a home energy efficient by improving insulation, turkey artificial insemination, viewer mail, car crusher
Episode 12: Ice Salvage Crew
Air Date: May 19th, 2008
Summary: 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.
Episode 13: Wind Farm Technician
Air Date: June 2nd, 2008
Summary: 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.
Episode 14: Animal Barber
Air Date: June 9th, 2008
Summary: 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.
Episode 15: Brown Before Green
Air Date: June 16th, 2008
Summary: 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.
Episode 16: Tar Rigger
Air Date: October 7th, 2008
Summary: 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.
Episode 17: Dirty Chip Maker
Air Date: October 14th, 2008
Summary: 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.
Episode 18: Sheep Castrator
Air Date: October 21st, 2008
Summary: 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.
Episode 19: Leech Trapper
Air Date: October 28th, 2008
Summary: 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.
Episode 20: Dirty Presidents
Air Date: November 4th, 2008
Summary: 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.
Episode 21: Mannequin Factory
Air Date: November 11st, 2008
Summary: 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.
Episode 22: Egg Farm
Air Date: November 18th, 2008
Summary: 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.
Episode 23: Vellum Maker
Air Date: November 25th, 2008
Summary: 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.
Episode 24: Maggot Farmer
Air Date: December 2nd, 2008
Summary: Mike moves a giant cactus in Arizona and then helps raise maggots on a farm in Idaho.
Episode 25: Gourd Maker
Air Date: December 9th, 2008
Summary: Mike Rowe cleans out a Connecticut lake and then turns gourds into artwork in Pennsylvania.
Episode 26: Brown Before Green 2
Air Date: December 16th, 2008
Summary: Mike takes a look back at some of his former coworkers who should be role models for the green movement.
Episode 27: Maggot Farmer
Air Date: December 2nd, 2008
Episode 28: Gourd Maker
Air Date: December 9th, 2008
Episode 29: Brown Before Green 2
Air Date: December 16th, 2008
Summary: Mike takes a look back at some of his former coworkers who should be role models for the green movement.
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