Dave Barsky
Director
Dirty Jobs (2005)
Season 2
Host and everyman Mike Rowe gets the grimy scoop on downright nasty occupations.
Released July 26, 2005
Episode 57 min
11+
Genres: Comedy, Reality, Reality TV
Keywords: imdb.business-and-occupation-reality-tv, imdb.working-class, imdb.labor, imdb.work, imdb.workplace, imdb.bloopers-during-credits, imdb.bleeped-dialogue + 4 more, imdb.non-fiction, awards.emmy-award-nominated, imdb.two-word-title, mdblist.has-trailer
Watch Providers: Hulu, Discovery, Discovery, Spectrum On Demand, Discovery + + 5 more, Discovery+ Amazon Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max, Philo, YouTube TV
Production Companies: Pilgrim Studios
Network: Discovery
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S2E1 - Avian Vomitologist
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.
Jan. 10, 2006, midnight
S2E2 - Turkey Farmer
Turkey farmer, potato farmer, waste water sewage plant
Jan. 17, 2006, midnight
S2E3 - Alligator Farmer
Sugarcane mill, firefighter (Fremont, CA), alligator farmer
Jan. 24, 2006, midnight
S2E4 - Mushroom Farmer
Mushroom farmer, storm drain cleaner, drain cover foundry
March 7, 2006, midnight
S2E5 - Plumber
Plumber, drilling mud, Rough necker (oil drilling)
March 14, 2006, midnight
S2E6 - Termite Controller
Concrete spreader, termite exterminator, concrete truck cleaner
March 21, 2006, midnight
S2E7 - Casino Food Recycler
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.
June 13, 2006, midnight
S2E8 - Parade Float Dismantler
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.
June 20, 2006, midnight
S2E9 - Garbage Pit Technician
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.
June 27, 2006, midnight
S2E10 - Skull Cleaner
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.
July 11, 2006, midnight
S2E11 - Geoduck Farmer
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".
July 18, 2006, midnight
S2E12 - Fuel Tank Cleaner
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.
July 24, 2006, midnight
S2E13 - Coal Miner
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.
Aug. 8, 2006, midnight
S2E14 - Hoof Cleaner
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.
Aug. 15, 2006, midnight
S2E15 - Alpaca Shearer
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.
Aug. 22, 2006, midnight
S2E16 - Monkey Caretaker
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
Aug. 29, 2006, midnight
S2E17 - Snake Researcher
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.
Nov. 28, 2006, midnight
S2E18 - Penguin Keeper
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.
Dec. 5, 2006, midnight
S2E19 - Bell Maker
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.
Dec. 12, 2006, midnight
S2E20 - Mosquito Control Officer
Mike helps New Orleans residents restore, rebuild and revive their city in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
Dec. 19, 2006, midnight
Network: Discovery
Episode Runtime: 57 min.
Season Runtime: 9264 min.
Released: July 26, 2005
Last Air Date: Feb. 5, 2023, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
Common sense age: 11+
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