Season 1
Bat Cave Scavenger
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Nov 7, 2003
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
Catfish noodler, septic tank technician, worm castings rancher
Roadkill Cleaner
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Nov 21, 2003
Golf ball diver, horse breeder, roadkill collector
Chinatown Garbage Collector
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Jul 26, 2005
Garbage collector/recycling separator, shark catcher/tagger, car recycling
Sewer Inspector
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Aug 2, 2005
Sewer inspector, disaster cleanup crew member (basem*nt sewer), demolition worker (office building interior)
Pig Farmer
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Aug 9, 2005
Pig farmer, removing chewing gum from sidewalks (New York City), pigeon droppings removal (New York City)
Chick Sexer
Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Aug 16, 2005
Baby chicken sexer, beer brewer, oyster harvester
Vexcon
Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Aug 23, 2005
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Mike first goes to Pennsylvania at a coal processing plant and learns how to make co*ke, 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Mike heads off to Texas to work with an outdoor advertising company.
Snake Wrangler
Episode: 3x14 | Airdate: Jul 10, 2007
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Mike travels to Alaska for an adventure aboard a fish processing ship.
Dairy Cow Midwife
Episode: 4x09 | Airdate: Apr 28, 2008
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
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
Making a home energy efficient by improving insulation, turkey artificial insemination, viewer mail, car crusher
Ice Salvage Crew
Episode: 4x12 | Airdate: May 19, 2008
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Mike Rowe cleans out a Connecticut lake and then turns gourds into artwork in Pennsylvania.
Bologna Maker
Episode: 5x10 | Airdate: Jan 6, 2009
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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, viewer mail: brine tank cleaner (Shark Reef at Mandalay Bay)
Toilet Crusher
Episode: 6x03 | Airdate: Oct 20, 2009
Toilet Crusher & alligator snapping turtle researcher
Camel Rancher
Episode: 6x04 | Airdate: Oct 27, 2009
Mike works at the country's only Dromedary camel dairy.
Tofu Maker
Episode: 6x05 | Airdate: Nov 3, 2009
Mike recycles computers before heading to Hawaii to make tofu.
Glass Maker
Episode: 6x06 | Airdate: Nov 10, 2009
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
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
Mike reflects back on his more hazardous apprenticeships and makes a case for safety.
Reindeer Farm
Episode: 6x09 | Airdate: Dec 1, 2009
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
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
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
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
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
Mike goes to Southern California to handle skunks and other pests as an animal control specialist.
Cricket Farmer
Episode: 6x15 | Airdate: Jan 12, 2010
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
Mike goes on the hunt for feral chickens on the streets of Miami.
Soo Locks Technician
Episode: 6x17 | Airdate: Jan 26, 2010
Mike goes to Michigan to join up with the 12 maintenance crew.
Concrete Finisher
Episode: 6x18 | Airdate: Feb 2, 2010
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
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
Mike visits a Texas ranch that breeds exotic animals like sloths, lemurs, camels, and bearcats.
Wetland Warrior
Episode: 7x02 | Airdate: Oct 26, 2010
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
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
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
Mike learns how to install a lightning rod on a home in Lucedale, Miss.
Woolen Mill Operator
Episode: 7x06 | Airdate: Nov 21, 2010
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The millennium seed project collects and preserves flora seeds for replanting after a catastrophic event.
Water Softener Technician
Episode: 8x04 | Airdate: Jan 3, 2012
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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)
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
Dirtiest Animals
Episode: S02 Special | Airdate: Dec 13, 2005
Dirtiest Water Jobs
Episode: S02 Special | Airdate: Dec 20, 2005
Creepy Critters
Episode: S02 Special | Airdate: Dec 27, 2005
Super Dirty
Episode: S02 Special | Airdate: Jan 3, 2006
Episode: S02 Special | Airdate: Jan 3, 2006
Jobs that Bite
Episode: S02 Special | Airdate: Jul 30, 2006
Jobs That Bite...Harder
Episode: S02 Special | Airdate: Aug 4, 2006
100th Dirty Job Special
Episode: S02 Special | Airdate: Sep 5, 2006
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.
Really Dirty Animals
Episode: S03 Special | Airdate: Mar 20, 2007
Dirtiest Machines on the Planet
Episode: S04 Special | Airdate: Jul 24, 2007
Crew's Cruise
Episode: S300 Special | Airdate: Sep 18, 2007
150th Dirty Job Extravaganza
Episode: S300 Special | Airdate: Oct 23, 2007
Creepy, Slimy and Just Plain Weird
Episode: S04 Special | Airdate: Nov 20, 2007
Spray Insulation Technician
Episode: S04 Special | Airdate: Nov 27, 2007
Dirty Innovators
Episode: S04 Special | Airdate: Dec 4, 2007
Tight Spaces
Episode: S04 Special | Airdate: Feb 19, 2008
Brown Plate Special
Episode: S04 Special | Airdate: Feb 26, 2008
Brown Before Green (1)
Episode: S09 Special | Airdate: Jun 16, 2008
Greenland Shark Quest
Episode: S04 Special | Airdate: Jul 29, 2008
Dirty Presidents
Episode: S07 Special | Airdate: Nov 4, 2008
Brown Before Green (2)
Episode: S07 Special | Airdate: Dec 16, 2008
200 Jobs Look-Back
Episode: S07 Special | Airdate: Feb 24, 2009
Mike's Day Off
Episode: S02 Special | Airdate: Mar 3, 2009
Mike Challenges his executive producers to try a dirty job of their choice
Sled Dog Breeder
Episode: S07 Special | Airdate: Apr 12, 2009
Tight Spaces (2)
Episode: S08 Special | Airdate: Feb 16, 2010
Crew Unemployment
Episode: S08 Special | Airdate: Feb 23, 2010
The Dirty Truth
Episode: S08 Special | Airdate: Jun 14, 2010
The Nitty Gritty: Beer Processing
Episode: S08 Special | Airdate: Nov 21, 2010
Dirty Holidays
Episode: S09 Special | Airdate: Dec 14, 2010
Dirty Conversations (1)
Episode: S09 Special | Airdate: Dec 21, 2010
Dirty Infrastructure
Episode: S09 Special | Airdate: Jan 25, 2011
Dirty DNA
Episode: S09 Special | Airdate: Mar 8, 2011