Dirty Jobs
50 Episodes Available16 Episodes Upcoming
TV-14RealitySeason 116 Episodes
Bat Cave ScavengerS1 E1Visiting a cave where bat guano is gathered for fertilizer; woman collects fruit bats in her back room; pro baseball's dirty little secret.
Worm Dung FarmerS1 E2Mike takes a crack at catfish noodling; cleaning septic tanks; going farming for worm-manure as a fertilizer.
Roadkill CleanersS1 E3Diving into alligator-infested waters to look for lost golf balls; keeping highways free of roadkill. Host: Mike Rowe.
Chinatown Garbage CollectorS1 E4Mike plays the role of garbage collector on the streets of San Francisco's Chinatown, going up and down steep staircases with tons of garbage.
Sewer InspectorS1 E5San Francisco sewer inspector; Brooklyn toilet explodes from a sewer backup; demolition work with a deconstruction crew.
Pig FarmerS1 E6Mike gets the whole pig farming experience after feeding, cleaning and artificially inseminating pigs; helping the Gum Busters clean gum off NYC sidewalks; cleaning up after pigeons.
Chick SexerS1 E7Mike Rowe learns the importance of separating the male and female baby chicks at the Murray McMurray Hatchery.
VexconS1 E8Enter 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 CleanerS1 E9Mike shapes surfboards with master shaper Matt Barker; goes underground to learn how to recycle gunky grime, diving into a greasy pit of sludge with an environmental company.
Hot Tar RooferS1 E10Mike learns how to melt down chunks of black tar for the purpose of fixing a church rooftop; learning how to move a house by tunneling under a 60-ton house, before lifting it up and placing it on large wheels.
Ostrich FarmerS1 E11Working on a Hawaiian coffee plantation; nursing an injured sea-lion pup; ostrich farming in the California desert.
Cheese MakerS1 E12Vermont cheese-makers show how they make their world-famous products; Zoo keeping at the San Francisco Zoo; volcanic ash mud baths.
ShrimperS1 E13Climbing aboard a shrimp boat to determine the shrimping season; America's largest swamp for crawfish catching; tire recycling.
Bio-Diesel-ManS1 E14Mike 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 ManS1 E15Mike prepares special outfits with a pet groomer; Hawaiian pharmaceutical plant grows green algae; getting dirty at charcoal factory.
Chimney SweeperS1 E16Getting schooled at the Chimney Sweeping Safety Institute.;diving into freezing water for sunken logs in Canada for high-end furniture; scrap metal recycling.
Synopsis
Mike Rowe apprentices himself to people who perform dangerous or disgusting jobs, ranging from rattlesnake catcher and zoo cleaner to road-kill collector. Mike performs difficult, strange, disgusting, or messy occupational duties alongside the job's current employees. In each episode, a worker or team of workers take on Rowe as a fully involved assistant for a typical work day, working hard to complete every task as best he can despite discomfort, hazards, or repulsive situations. Nearly every job is even more difficult than he expects.Cast
Mike RoweRating
TV-14
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