Mike heads to the Dirty Potato Chips factory and learns how potato chips are made and what it takes to keep the machines used to make them clean and in working order. Then it's off to Rifle, CO where Mike attempts to clean a "monster" hidden underground.
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1. Steel Mill Worker
January 15, 2008
Mike Rowe gets dirty in St. Louis as he works with a river barge demolition team and then melts down the scrap steel into molten metal.
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2. Cave Biologist
January 22, 2008
Mike Rowe works with a cave biologist and then braves the high seas in search of slime eels.
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3. Buoy Cleaner
January 29, 2008
Mike Rowe gets dirty in Oregon making shingles and then jumps on a Coast Guard ship to clean dirty buoys.
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4. Cranberry Farmer
February 5, 2008
Mike Rowe gets dirty making hand made bricks in South Carolina and then masters the art of cranberry farming in Oregon.
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5. Mud Mineral Excavator
February 12, 2008
Mike Rowe gets dirty in Death Valley preparing for a gem and mineral show, helps save injured birds from a salt lake and then gets dirty working at a rice plantation in South Carolina.
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6. Dirty Jobs of the Big Apple
February 19, 2008
Mike Rowe rolls up his sleeves and gets dirty with some of the dirtiest jobs in the big apple. First Mike climbs to the top of a giant building to build a water tower and then he masters the art of elevator repair.
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7. Floating Fish Factory
April 21, 2008
In this special Dirty Jobs episode, Mike travels to the great state of Alaska for an epic adventure aboard a fish processing ship. He gains a new appreciation for the men and women who get dirty to put fresh fish on our dinner table.
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8. Dairy Cow Midwife
April 28, 2008
Inside an Indiana dairy farm, Mike learns how to milk a cow and use a blow torch to clean her udders. Then, Mike gets the inside scoop on how to inseminate a cow. Finally, Mike gets an up-close look at fatherhood as he helps deliver baby calves.
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9. Aerial Tram Greaser
May 5, 2008
Mike Rowe heads to the site of a future California neighborhood where he learns that there's more to erosion control than one might think. Then Mike gets a bird's eye view of Palm Springs as he helps maintain and repair the tram 8500 feet above the city.
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10. Turkey Inseminator
May 12, 2008
In this Dirty Jobs episode, Mike crawls through rat drops, falling insulation, and debris to make a house more energy efficient. Then, he visits a turkey farm where a bunch of large-breasted birds are inseminated.
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11. Ice Salvage Crew
May 19, 2008
Mike Rowe gets dirty in Alaska as he helps protect the environment by cleaning up an oil spill and then travels to Minnesota where he works to pull a car out of a lake that has fallen through the ice.
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12. Wind Farm Technician
June 2, 2008
Mike Rowe heads to an Oklahoma wind farm and learns that going green sometimes means you've got to get brown first. Then he heads to Kentucky to clean out a sink hole that some have unfortunately turned into a garbage dump.
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13. Greenland Shark Quest
July 29, 2008
In this special episode of Dirty Jobs Mike heads to the edge of the Arctic Circle, on the northeast side of Canada's Baffin Island in search of one of the most mysterious sharks known to man : the Greenland shark.
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14. Tar Rigger
October 7, 2008
Mike heads to San Diego to get dirty with the tar rigging crew of the Star of India, the oldest active merchant ship in the world. Then, Mike takes a look back at some of the dirty tools he's used that make civilized life possible for the rest of us.
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15. Dirty Chip Maker
October 14, 2008
Mike heads to the Dirty Potato Chips factory and learns how potato chips are made and what it takes to keep the machines used to make them clean and in working order. Then it's off to Rifle, CO where Mike attempts to clean a "monster" hidden underground.
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16. Sheep Castrator
October 21, 2008
Mike works at an automobile dealership where the job is sawing down a giant concrete wall to make room for a new wash bay, then heads to a sheep farm where he tries his hand at sheep shearing & castrating before getting treated to Rocky Mountain Oysters.
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17. Leech Trapper
October 28, 2008
Mike teams up with the boys from Bartos Bait & Fish to catch leeches that will later be sold for fish bait. Then it's off to the Green Tripe factory in Hollister, CA where Mike helps make BARF (Biologically Appropriate Raw Food) for dogs.
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18. Animal Barber
January 1, 2008
Mike Rowe and the Dirty Jobs crew travel to the Spring Brook Ranch in Kalispell, Montana to join forces with a yak and bison rancher who put him to work in his 150th Dirty Job. It's a celebration of dirt as Mike and the crew go to work.
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19. Egg Farm
November 18, 2008
Mike visits a Chicken Farm to see how eggs make it to the store. There, he finds out that 1.4 million chickens equal a lot of poo, which he gets the chance to clean. Later, Mike learns how dirty dirt becomes clean dirt as he sterilizes soil in Oklahoma.
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20. Vellum Maker
November 25, 2008
Mike travels to Yakama, Washington to harvest hops, the main ingredient in beer. From there Mike goes to the Hudson Valley where he turns animal hides in to paper.
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21. Maggot Farmer
December 2, 2008
Mike travels to Congress, Arizona, to try his hand at moving a giant cactus before a storm comes in. Then Mike heads to Idaho where he visits a special kind of farm, one that raises maggots.
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22. Gourd Maker
December 9, 2008
Mike travels to the middle of Connecticut to clean out a lake, then drops by a gourd farm in Pennsylvania and transforms gourds into a variety of products.
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23. Bologna Maker
January 6, 2009
Mike heads to Pennsylvania and tries his hand at making bologna and then goes to Alaska to repair a very special toilet.
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24. -19
January 1, 2008
A collection of viewers' favorite moments, bloopers and out takes from Dirty Jobs.
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Synopsis: Mike heads to the Dirty Potato Chips factory and learns how potato chips are made and what it takes to keep the machines used to make them clean and in working order. Then it's off to Rifle, CO where Mike attempts to clean a "monster" hidden underground.
Synopsis: Dirty Jobs is an unflinching yet engaging look at unsung American workers performing unusual--but vital--vocations. Much can be learned as host Mike Rowe introduces the viewer to an assortment of men and women who make their livings doing the most unthinkable jobs.
Season year: 2008
Network: Discovery Channel
ASIN: B001NJTMZQ
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