Dirty Jobs
2005–
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Seasons
Season 1
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E1
Chinatown Garbage Collector
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E2
Sewer Inspector
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E3
Pig Farmer
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E4
Chick Sexer
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E5
Vexcon
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E6
Sludge Cleaner
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E7
Hot Tar Roofer
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E8
Ostrich Farmer
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E9
Cheese Maker
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E10
Shrimper
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E11
Bio-Diesel Man
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E12
Micro-Algae Man
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E13
Chimney Sweeper
- E14 Dirtiest Animals
- E15 Dirtiest Water Jobs
- E16 Creepy Critters
Season 2
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E1
Dirtiest Tools
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E2
Super Dirty
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E3
Avian Vomitologist
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E4
Turkey Farmer
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E5
Alligator Farmer
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E6
Viewer's Choice
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E7
Mushroom Farmer
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E8
Plumber
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E9
Termite Controller
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E10
Casino Food Recycler
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E11
Parade Float Dismantler
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E12
Garbage Pit Technician
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E13
Skull Cleaner
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E14
Geoduck Farmer
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E15
Fuel Tank Cleaner
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E16
Jobs That Bite
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E17
Jobs That Bite Harder
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E18
Coal Miner
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E19
Hoof Cleaner
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E20
Alpaca Shearer
- E21 Monkey Caretaker
- E22 100th Dirty Job Special
- E23 Snake Researcher
- E24 Penguin Keeper
- E25 Bell Maker
- E26 Mosquito Control Officer
Season 3
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E1
Bug Breeder
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E2
Poo Pot Maker
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E3
Mule Logger
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E4
Well Digger
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E5
Wine Cave Digger
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E6
Salt Miner
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E7
Wine Maker
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E8
Steam Ship Cleaner
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E9
Really Dirty Animals
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E10
Billboard Installer
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E11
Snake Wrangler
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E12
Leather Tanner
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E13
Dirtiest Machines on the Planet
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E14
Bridge Painter
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E15
Vomit Island Workers
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E16
Alligator Egg Collector
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E17
Wild Goose Chase
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E18
Crew's Cruise
- E19 Dirty Innovators
- E20 Special Effects Artist
- E21 Reef Ball Maker
- E22 Exotic Animal Keeper
- E23 Creepy Slimy and Just Plain Weird
- E24 Spray Insulation Technician
- E25 Dirty Innovators
Season 4
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E1
Big Animal Vet
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E2
Steel Mill Worker
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E3
Cave Biologist
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E4
Buoy Cleaner
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E5
Cranberry Farmer
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E6
Mud Mineral Excavator
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E7
Tight Spaces
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E8
Brown Plate Special
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E9
Dirty Jobs of the Big Apple
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E10
Floating Fish Factory
- E11 Turkey Inseminator Making a home energy efficient by improving insulation, turkey artificial insemination, viewer mail, car crusher
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E12
Aerial Tram Greaser
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E13
Turkey Inseminator
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E14
Ice Salvage Crew
- E15 Brown Before Green Mike looks back on several of the Dirty Jobs that help to clean up the environment. From geothermal drilling, to wood and tire salvage, to building cobb homes, one thing seemed constant: in order to be green, you usually have to get brown first.
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E16
Animal Barber
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E17
Brown Before Green
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E18
Greenland Shark Quest
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E19
Tar Rigger
- E20 Dirty Presidents 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.
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E21
Sheep Castrator
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E22
Leech Trapper
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E23
Dirty Presidents
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E24
Mannequin Factory
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E25
Egg Farm
- E26 Brown Before Green 2 Mike takes a look back at some of his former coworkers who should be role models for the green movement.
- E27 Maggot Farmer
- E28 Gourd Maker
- E29 Brown Before Green 2
Season 5
- 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.
- 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.
- E3 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.
- 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.
- E5 Diaper Cleaner Mike journeys to Queen Creek, Arizona to press olives into oil and then heads to Sacramento, California to clean dirty diapers.
- 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.
- E7 Locomotive Builder Mike heads to MotivePower in Boise, Idaho to build and restore locomotives for his 200th dirty job.
- 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. With additional footage from "Skull Cleaner" and "Turkey Inseminator"
- E9 Mike's Day Off Mike takes the day off to get a physical examination, leaving Executive Producers Eddie Barbini and Craig Piligian to host the show: servicing porta-potties and making custom-fabricated alloy wheels for Boyd Coddington Wheels
- E10 Sled Dog Breeder Breeding and training Alaskan Huskies as sled dogs with Martin Buser; revisit of dirty jobs in Alaska: Bird ringing common terns and Canadian geese ("Abandoned Mine Plugger"), fishing and processing of fish ("Floating Fish Factory"), cleaning up diesel spill in Dutch Harbor, Alaska ("Ice Salvage Crew"), incinerating toilet cleaner ("Bologna Maker"). The mail bag portion was taped at the Soo Locks on the floor of the MacArthur Lock in front of the upstream bulkheads.
- E11 Mattress Recycler Mike finds out what happens to old mattresses after people throw them out.
- E12 High-Rise Window Washer High-rise window washer, viewer mail: brine tank cleaner (Shark Reef at Mandalay Bay)
- E13 Toilet Crusher Toilet Crusher & alligator snapping turtle researcher
- E14 Camel Rancher Mike works at the country's only Dromedary camel dairy.
- E15 Tofu Maker Mike recycles computers before heading to Hawaii to make tofu.
- E16 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.
- E17 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.
- E18 Safety Third Mike reflects back on his more hazardous apprenticeships and makes a case for safety.
- E19 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.
- E20 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.
- E21 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.
- E22 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.
- E23 Maple Syrup Maker Mike travels to San Francisco to participate in the messy process of paint bulking. Then he heads to Wagner's Sugar Camp in Pennsylvania to spend the day making delicious maple syrup the old-fashioned way.
Season 6
- E1 Animal Control Specialist Mike goes to Southern California to handle skunks and other pests as an animal control specialist.
- E2 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.
- E3 Chicken Busters Mike goes on the hunt for feral chickens on the streets of Miami.
- E4 Soo Locks Technician Mike goes to Michigan to join up with the 12 maintenance crew.
- E5 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.
- E6 Bone Black Mike visits a bone black plant in Michigan and then talks about his five dirtiest jobs.
- E7 Tight Spaces 2 Mike reminisces about jobs where he had to work in tight spaces, including the time he cleaned the inside of a buoy, his adventure in an abandoned mine, and an insulation application assignment beneath a home.
- E8 Crew Unemployment With a hiatus looming, Mike tries to secure employment for the "Dirty Jobs" crew and reflects on their contributions.
- E9 The Dirty Truth A special episode which looks back at previous episodes as Mike offers employment tips he鈥檚 learned over the years.
- E19 Custom Meat Processor Mike works with a falconer to chase birds away. Then Mike butchers a cow from the hoof clear through to steaks.
Season 7
- E1 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.
- E2 Rum Distiller Mike visits a distillery, where he turns molasses into rum, hauls hoses, scours copper and works with scalding liquid.
- E3 Hair Fairy Mike installs a metal power pole in Wyoming and later learns about how to remove lice from hair in San Francisco.
- E4 Dirty Infrastructure Mike takes a look at America's report card on its infrastructure and also salutes the workers who help preserve it.
- E5 Scrapple Maker Mike learns how to make a pig delicacy known as scrapple and later becomes a shoe doctor's assistant.
- E6 Blueberry Connoisseur Mike visits the Jelly Belly Candy Company to concoct a dirty boot flavored jelly bean based on his own sweaty, grimy, filthy pair of work boots. Then he travels to Maine to harvest blueberries and joins the "Pie Ladies" in a pie bakeoff.
- E7 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.
- E8 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.
- E9 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.
- E10 Dirty DNA Revisit of jobs related to family with Mike visiting his parents: crab fisherman ("Vexcon"), maggot farmer ("Maggot Farmer"), leech trapping ("Leech Trapper"), candy maker ("Fuel Tank Cleaner"), coffee plantation ("Ostrich Farmer"), worm grunter ("Worm Grunter"), mealworm farm ("Cricket Farmer"), walnut harvester ("Goose Down Plucker"), bell maker ("Bell Maker"), raw meat dog food maker ("Leech Trapper"), goat milk soap maker ("Reef Ball Maker"), sponge diver ("Sponge Diver"), mobile butcher ("Custom Meat Processor")
- E11 Dirty Holidays
- E12 Dirty Conversations
- E13 Date Palm Pollinator
- E14 Asphalt Paver
- E15 Rum Distiller
- E16 Hair Fairy
- E17 Dirty Infrastructure
- E18 Scrapple Maker
- E20 Sponge Diver
- E21 Cedar Log Peeler
- E22 Termite Researcher
- E23 Dirty DNA
Season 8
- E1 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.
- E2 Fossil Hunter Mike travels to a remote area near Moab, Utah, to take on the job of being a paleontologist.
- E3 Doomsday Seed Banker Mike assists the Millennium Seed Bank Project, which preserves seeds that could be replanted following a catastrophic event, at the Chicago Botanic Garden.
- E4 Water Softener Technician Mike becomes a water softener technician in Minnesota, and works as a coin washer at a San Francisco hotel.
- E5 Barber's Assistant Mike works at a barber shop in Mobile, Ala., and visits California to work as a landfill operator.
- E6 Mardi Gras Bladder Banger Working with the Knights of Revelry, a 137-year-old secret society, Mike Rowe assembles evil-spirit-warding cow bladders for the Knights Mardi Gras parade float.
- E7 Medical Waste Disposal Expert Mike Rowe passes a surprisingly tranquil -- and highly entertaining -- day at Medical Waste Transport, Inc. in Sioux Falls, S.D.
- E8 Dirty Little Bits Mike takes another look back at some of the unusual and quirky conversations he's had with his dirty co-workers. Using 99.9% never-before-seen footage, this special is an entertaining look at the art of communication.
- E9 Tower Top Hand A radio-communications tower rises in North Dakota; Mike visits a Hollywood soundstage to commemorate his experiences in all 50 states.
- E10 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.
- E11 Dirty Conversations 2 There are no second takes on Dirty Jobs, and this special shows you just what happens when you point real cameras at real people and let them talk ... while in Mike Rowes presence.
Season 9
- E1 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.
- E2 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.
- E3 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.
- E4 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.
- E5 Escalator Maintainer / Scorpion Sweeper
- E6 Combat Surgeon / Iguana Hunter
Season 10
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E1
Pool Fixer/Hotel Soap Recycler
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E2
Feral Cat Fixer/Reaper Keeper
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E3
Pile Jacketer/Concrete Cleaner
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E4
Caviar Harvester/Spice Maker
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E5
Baghouse Cleaner/Biochar Maker
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E6
Deer Urine Farmer/Necropsy
- E7 Manhole Rehab/Clock Caretaker
- E8 Beaver Relocator/Slime Master
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