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The Worst Episodes of Dirty Jobs

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The Worst Episodes of Dirty Jobs

Host and everyman Mike Rowe gets the grimy scoop on downright nasty occupations.
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    #1 - 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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #2 - Turkey Farmer

    S2:E2

    Turkey farmer, potato farmer, waste water sewage plant

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #3 - Alligator Farmer

    S2:E3

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

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    Director:Dave Barsky
    Writer:Unknown
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    #4 - Mushroom Farmer

    S2:E4

    Mushroom farmer, storm drain cleaner, drain cover foundry

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    Director:Dave Barsky
    Writer:Unknown
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    #5 - Plumber

    S2:E5

    Plumber, drilling mud, Rough necker (oil drilling)

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    Director:Dave Barsky
    Writer:Unknown
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    #6 - Termite Controller

    S2:E6

    Concrete spreader, termite exterminator, concrete truck cleaner

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #7 - 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.

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    Director:Dave Barsky
    Writer:Unknown
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    #8 - 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.

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    Director:Dave Barsky
    Writer:Unknown
  10. Background image for Garbage Pit Technician
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    #9 - 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.

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    Director:Dave Barsky
    Writer:Unknown
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    #10 - 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.

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    Director:Dave Barsky
    Writer:Unknown
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    #11 - 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".

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    Director:Dave Barsky
    Writer:Unknown
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    #12 - 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.

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    Director:Dave Barsky
    Writer:Unknown
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    #13 - Coal Miner

    S2:E13

    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.

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    Director:Dave Barsky
    Writer:Unknown
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    #14 - Hoof Cleaner

    S2:E14

    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.

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    Director:Dave Barsky
    Writer:Unknown
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    #15 - Alpaca Shearer

    S2:E15

    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.

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    Director:Dave Barsky
    Writer:Unknown
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    #16 - Monkey Caretaker

    S2:E16

    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

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    Director:Unknown
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    #17 - Snake Researcher

    S2:E17

    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.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #18 - Penguin Keeper

    S2:E18

    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.

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    Director:Dave Barsky
    Writer:Unknown
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    #19 - Bell Maker

    S2:E19

    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.

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    Director:Dave Barsky
    Writer:Unknown
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    #20 - Mosquito Control Officer

    S2:E20

    Mike helps New Orleans residents restore, rebuild and revive their city in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

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    Director:Dave Barsky
    Writer:Unknown
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    #21 - Bug Breeder

    S3:E1

    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.

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    Director:Dave Barsky
    Writer:Unknown
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    #22 - Poo Pot Maker

    S3:E2

    Mike first goes to northern California to count dead salmon. Mike opens up the mail bag and answers a viewer's question about the snake researcher segment. Just when Mike thought he had seen it all, he visits a cow farm in Connecticut that specializes in making gardening pots out of cow manure.

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    Director:Dave Barsky
    Writer:Unknown
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    #23 - Mule Logger

    S3:E3

    Mike joins forces with a master-cooper, or in laymen's terms, a barrel maker. Mike also teams up with some mule loggers.

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    Director:Dave Barsky
    Writer:Unknown
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    #24 - Well Digger

    S3:E4

    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.

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    Director:Dave Barsky
    Writer:Unknown
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    #25 - Cave Digger

    S3:E5

    Mike helps dig tunnels that are used as underground wine caverns. Later he works behind the scenes with Southwest Airlines as a baggage handler. He also gets to work with the airport incinerator.

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    Director:Dave Barsky
    Writer:Unknown

Worst Episodes Summary

"Avian Vomitologist" is the worst rated episode of "Dirty Jobs". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/10/2006. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Turkey Farmer".