The essential episodes of Dirty Jobs
Watch these 15 in order and you've got Dirty Jobs — each pick states its reason.
- 01
Garbage collector/recycling separator, shark catcher/tagger, car recycling
- 02
Sewer inspector, disaster cleanup crew member (basement sewer), demolition worker (office building interior)
- 03
Pig farmer, removing chewing gum from sidewalks (New York City), pigeon droppings removal (New York City)
- 04
Baby chicken sexer, beer brewer, oyster harvester
- 05
Exterminator, crab fisherman, blacksmith/farrier
- 06
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.
- 07
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.
- 08
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.
- 09
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.
- 10
Mike heads to Pennsylvania and tries his hand at making bologna and then goes to Alaska to repair a very special toilet.
- 11
Mike goes to Southern California to handle skunks and other pests as an animal control specialist.
- 12
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.
- 13
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.
- 14
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.
- 15
Mike installs rebar with a team of rodbusters, then he galvanizes steel.
