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The Best Episodes of Dirty Jobs

Every episode of Dirty Jobs ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Dirty Jobs!

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    Dirty Jobs Season 1 Episode 1 - Chinatown Garbage Collector
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    #1 - Chinatown Garbage Collector

    S1:E1

    Garbage collector/recycling separator, shark catcher/tagger, car recycling

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Dirty Jobs Season 1 Episode 2 - Sewer Inspector
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    #2 - Sewer Inspector

    S1:E2

    Sewer inspector, disaster cleanup crew member (basement sewer), demolition worker (office building interior)

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Dirty Jobs Season 1 Episode 3 - Pig Farmer
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    #3 - Pig Farmer

    S1:E3

    Pig farmer, removing chewing gum from sidewalks (New York City), pigeon droppings removal (New York City)

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Dirty Jobs Season 1 Episode 4 - Chick Sexer
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    #4 - Chick Sexer

    S1:E4

    Baby chicken sexer, beer brewer, oyster harvester

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Dirty Jobs Season 1 Episode 5 - Vexcon
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    #5 - Vexcon

    S1:E5

    Exterminator, crab fisherman, blacksmith/farrier

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Dirty Jobs Season 1 Episode 6 - Sludge Cleaner
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    #6 - Sludge Cleaner

    S1:E6

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Dirty Jobs Season 1 Episode 7 - Hot Tar Roofer
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    #7 - Hot Tar Roofer

    S1:E7

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Dirty Jobs Season 1 Episode 8 - Ostrich Farmer
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    #8 - Ostrich Farmer

    S1:E8

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  9. Dirty Jobs Season 1 Episode 9 - Cheese Maker
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    #9 - Cheese Maker

    S1:E9

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  10. Dirty Jobs Season 1 Episode 10 - Shrimper
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    #10 - Shrimper

    S1:E10

    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.

    Director:Dave Barsky
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Dirty Jobs Season 1 Episode 11 - Bio-Diesel Man
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    #11 - Bio-Diesel Man

    S1:E11

    Mike goes to Washington and helps build a house out of cob, which is basically a combination of sand, clay, and straw.Mike then heads to California and works alongside Dave the bee man to get rid of some bee's infesting a church.Finally, Mike goes back to Washington and helps clean out the old oil from a deep fryer at a Mexican restaurant and then recycle the oil into fuel or bio-diesel.

    Director:Dave Barsky
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Dirty Jobs Season 1 Episode 12 - Micro-Algae Man
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    #12 - Micro-Algae Man

    S1:E12

    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.

    Director:Dave Barsky
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Dirty Jobs Season 1 Episode 13 - Chimney Sweeper
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    #13 - Chimney Sweeper

    S1:E13

    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.

    Director:Dave Barsky
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Dirty Jobs Season 2 Episode 1 - Avian Vomitologist
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    #14 - Avian Vomitologist

    S2:E1

    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.

    Director:Unknown
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  15. Dirty Jobs Season 2 Episode 2 - Turkey Farmer
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    #15 - Turkey Farmer

    S2:E2

    Turkey farmer, potato farmer, waste water sewage plant

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Dirty Jobs Season 2 Episode 3 - Alligator Farmer
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    #16 - Alligator Farmer

    S2:E3

    Sugarcane mill, firefighter (Fremont, CA), alligator farmer

    Director:Dave Barsky
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Dirty Jobs Season 2 Episode 4 - Mushroom Farmer
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    #17 - Mushroom Farmer

    S2:E4

    Mushroom farmer, storm drain cleaner, drain cover foundry

    Director:Dave Barsky
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Dirty Jobs Season 2 Episode 5 - Plumber
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    #18 - Plumber

    S2:E5

    Plumber, drilling mud, Rough necker (oil drilling)

    Director:Dave Barsky
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Dirty Jobs Season 2 Episode 6 - Termite Controller
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    #19 - Termite Controller

    S2:E6

    Concrete spreader, termite exterminator, concrete truck cleaner

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Dirty Jobs Season 2 Episode 7 - Casino Food Recycler
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    #20 - Casino Food Recycler

    S2:E7

    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.

    Director:Dave Barsky
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Dirty Jobs Season 2 Episode 8 - Parade Float Dismantler
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    #21 - Parade Float Dismantler

    S2:E8

    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.

    Director:Dave Barsky
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Dirty Jobs Season 2 Episode 9 - Garbage Pit Technician
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    #22 - Garbage Pit Technician

    S2:E9

    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.

    Director:Dave Barsky
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Dirty Jobs Season 2 Episode 10 - Skull Cleaner
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    #23 - Skull Cleaner

    S2:E10

    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.

    Director:Dave Barsky
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Dirty Jobs Season 2 Episode 11 - Geoduck Farmer
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    #24 - Geoduck Farmer

    S2:E11

    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".

    Director:Dave Barsky
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Dirty Jobs Season 2 Episode 12 - Fuel Tank Cleaner
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    #25 - Fuel Tank Cleaner

    S2:E12

    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.

    Director:Dave Barsky
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"Chinatown Garbage Collector" is the best rated episode of "Dirty Jobs". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 7/26/2005. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Sewer Inspector".