7.0/1030 votes#1 - Avian Vomitologist
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/10/2006
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: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1029 votes
#2 - Turkey Farmer
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 1/17/2006
Turkey farmer, potato farmer, waste water sewage plant
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1036 votes
#3 - Alligator Farmer
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 1/24/2006
Sugarcane mill, firefighter (Fremont, CA), alligator farmer
Director: Dave Barsky
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1035 votes
#4 - Mushroom Farmer
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 3/7/2006
Mushroom farmer, storm drain cleaner, drain cover foundry
Director: Dave Barsky
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1039 votes
#5 - Plumber
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 3/14/2006
Plumber, drilling mud, Rough necker (oil drilling)
Director: Dave Barsky
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1031 votes
#6 - Termite Controller
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 3/21/2006
Concrete spreader, termite exterminator, concrete truck cleaner
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/1032 votes
#7 - Casino Food Recycler
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 6/13/2006
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.
Director: Dave Barsky
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1037 votes
#8 - Parade Float Dismantler
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 6/20/2006
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: N/A
- 6.9/1033 votes
#9 - Garbage Pit Technician
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 6/27/2006
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.
Director: Dave Barsky
Writer: N/A
- 7.5/1045 votes
#10 - Skull Cleaner
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 7/11/2006
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.
Director: Dave Barsky
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1038 votes
#11 - Geoduck Farmer
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 7/18/2006
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".
Director: Dave Barsky
Writer: N/A
- 6.7/1033 votes
#12 - Fuel Tank Cleaner
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 7/24/2006
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.
Director: Dave Barsky
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/1033 votes
#13 - Coal Miner
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 8/8/2006
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.
Director: Dave Barsky
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/1042 votes
#14 - Hoof Cleaner
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 8/15/2006
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.
Director: Dave Barsky
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/1042 votes
#15 - Alpaca Shearer
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 8/22/2006
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.
Director: Dave Barsky
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1033 votes
#16 - Monkey Caretaker
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 8/29/2006
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
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1032 votes
#17 - Snake Researcher
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 11/28/2006
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.1/1042 votes
#18 - Penguin Keeper
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 12/5/2006
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. Finally, he gets in the mud to hunt bloodworms in Maine.
Director: Dave Barsky
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1032 votes
#19 - Bell Maker
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 12/12/2006
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.
Director: Dave Barsky
Writer: N/A
- 7.2/1040 votes
#20 - Mosquito Control Officer
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 12/19/2006
Mike helps New Orleans residents restore, rebuild and revive their city in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Director: Dave Barsky
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of Dirty Jobs Season 2
Every episode of Dirty Jobs Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Dirty Jobs Season 2!
Host and everyman Mike Rowe gets the grimy scoop on downright nasty occupations.
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Network:Discovery
Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Avian Vomitologist" is the best rated episode of "Dirty Jobs" season 2. It scored 7/10 based on 30 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/10/2006. This episode is rated 0.0 points higher than the second-best, "Turkey Farmer".