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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 2
Episode 1: Avian Vomitologist
Air Date: January 10th, 2006
Summary: 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.
Episode 2: Turkey Farmer
Air Date: January 17th, 2006
Summary: Turkey farmer, potato farmer, waste water sewage plant
Episode 3: Alligator Farmer
Air Date: January 24th, 2006
Summary: Sugarcane mill, firefighter (Fremont, CA), alligator farmer
Episode 4: Mushroom Farmer
Air Date: March 7th, 2006
Summary: Mushroom farmer, storm drain cleaner, drain cover foundry
Episode 5: Plumber
Air Date: March 14th, 2006
Summary: Plumber, drilling mud, Rough necker (oil drilling)
Episode 6: Termite Controller
Air Date: March 21st, 2006
Summary: Concrete spreader, termite exterminator, concrete truck cleaner
Episode 7: Casino Food Recycler
Air Date: June 13rd, 2006
Summary: 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.
Episode 8: Parade Float Dismantler
Air Date: June 20th, 2006
Summary: 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.
Episode 9: Garbage Pit Technician
Air Date: June 27th, 2006
Summary: 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.
Episode 10: Skull Cleaner
Air Date: July 11st, 2006
Summary: 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.
Episode 11: Geoduck Farmer
Air Date: July 18th, 2006
Summary: 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".
Episode 12: Fuel Tank Cleaner
Air Date: July 24th, 2006
Summary: 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.
Episode 13: Coal Miner
Air Date: August 8th, 2006
Summary: 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.
Episode 14: Hoof Cleaner
Air Date: August 15th, 2006
Summary: 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.
Episode 15: Alpaca Shearer
Air Date: August 22nd, 2006
Summary: 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.
Episode 16: Monkey Caretaker
Air Date: August 29th, 2006
Summary: 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
Episode 17: Snake Researcher
Air Date: November 28th, 2006
Summary: 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.
Episode 18: Penguin Keeper
Air Date: December 5th, 2006
Summary: 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.
Episode 19: Bell Maker
Air Date: December 12nd, 2006
Summary: 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.
Episode 20: Mosquito Control Officer
Air Date: December 19th, 2006
Summary: Mike helps New Orleans residents restore, rebuild and revive their city in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Episode 21: Parade Float Dismantler
Air Date: June 20th, 2006
Summary: 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.
Episode 22: Garbage Pit Technician
Air Date: June 27th, 2006
Summary: 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.
Episode 23: Skull Cleaner
Air Date: July 11st, 2006
Summary: 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.
Episode 24: Geoduck Farmer
Air Date: July 18th, 2006
Summary: 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".
Episode 25: Fuel Tank Cleaner
Air Date: July 24th, 2006
Summary: 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.
Episode 26: Jobs That Bite
Air Date: July 30th, 2006
Summary: Mike starts off Shark Week by going to South Africa to look at some great white sharks inside a shark cage. Mike then heads to a shark research lab and gets a deeper understanding about shark anatomy as he conducts an autopsy of a dead tiger shark. Mike then works with some shark researchers and helps electronically tag them and collect shark DNA. Mike then goes to the island of Bimini in the Bahamas and helps test a new shark repellent, which is made from the smell of dead sharks. Finally, Mike hangs out with a professional shark spotter off the coast of South Africa who watches the ocean to protect beachgoers.
Episode 27: Jobs That Bite Harder
Air Date: August 4th, 2006
Summary: Mike Rowe concludes Shark Week with another hour of dirty jobs with the men and women who work with sharks. Mike starts off in Florida working alongside a taxidermist that makes replicas out of real sharks. Mike then heads to the Bahamas to help Jeremiah Sullivan, the inventor of the Neptunic shark suit, to repair and test the suit in shark infested waters. Finally, Mike ends the show with some behind the scenes footage.
Episode 28: Coal Miner
Air Date: August 8th, 2006
Summary: 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.
Episode 29: Hoof Cleaner
Air Date: August 15th, 2006
Summary: 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.
Episode 30: Alpaca Shearer
Air Date: August 22nd, 2006
Summary: 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.
Episode 31: Monkey Caretaker
Air Date: August 29th, 2006
Summary: 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
Episode 32: 100th Dirty Job Special
Air Date: September 5th, 2006
Summary: 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.
Episode 33: Snake Researcher
Air Date: November 28th, 2006
Summary: 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.
Episode 34: Penguin Keeper
Air Date: December 5th, 2006
Summary: 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.
Episode 35: Bell Maker
Air Date: December 12nd, 2006
Summary: 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.
Episode 36: Mosquito Control Officer
Air Date: December 19th, 2006
Summary: Mike helps New Orleans residents restore, rebuild and revive their city in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Episode 37: Bug Breeder
Air Date: January 9th, 2007
Summary: 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.
Episode 38: Poo Pot Maker
Air Date: January 16th, 2007
Summary: 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.
Episode 39: Mule Logger
Air Date: January 23rd, 2007
Summary: Mike joins forces with a master-cooper, or in laymen's terms, a barrel maker. Mike also teams up with some mule loggers.
Episode 40: Well Digger
Air Date: January 30th, 2007
Summary: 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.
Episode 41: Cave Digger
Air Date: February 20th, 2007
Summary: 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.
Episode 42: Salt Miner
Air Date: February 27th, 2007
Summary: 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.
Episode 43: Wine Maker
Air Date: March 6th, 2007
Summary: 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.
Episode 44: Steam Ship Cleaner
Air Date: March 13rd, 2007
Summary: 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.
Episode 45: Really Dirty Animals
Air Date: March 20th, 2007
Summary: It's an extravaganza of Really Dirty Animals as Mike Rowe looks back at spitting alpacas, fainting goats, wild monkeys, pregnant cows, cheating penguins, kicking ostriches, squealing pigs and runaway mules. There's new footage, updates and old favorites.
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