Dirty Jobs

  • Premiered: Jul 2005
  • Episodes: 180
  • Followers: 300
  • Running
  • Discovery
  • Sunday at 20
  • Documentary Reality

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Season 4
4x1
Tar Rigger
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 07, 2008
Mike hooks up with the tar rigging crew on the oldest active merchant ship in the world, the Star of India in San Diego. Then, Mike looks back at some of the dirtiest tools he's used, all which make life simpler for the rest of us.
4x2
Dirty Chip Maker
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 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 .. show full overview
4x3
Sheep Castrator
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 21, 2008
Mike helps saw down a giant concrete wall at an auto dealership in order to make way for a new wash bay. Then he heads to a sheep farm where he tries shearing and castrating a sheep and is treated to a pate of Rocky Mountain Oysters.
4x4
Leech Trapper
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 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.
4x5
Dirty Presidents
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 04, 2008
Mike takes a look at what dirty jobs past presidents once performed. This Dirty Jobs Extravaganza will leave us all looking at the country in a new way.
4x6
Mannequin Factory
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 11, 2008
Mike helps break down some homes at the Windsorland Mobile Home Park to make room for a new shopping center. Next, he heads to Patina-V where he learns the art involved in creating a mannequin.
4x7
Egg Farm
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 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 .. show full overview
4x8
Vellum Maker
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 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.
4x9
Maggot Farmer
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 02, 2008
Mike moves a giant cactus in Arizona and then helps raise maggots on a farm in Idaho.
4x10
Gourd Maker
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 09, 2008
Mike Rowe cleans out a Connecticut lake and then turns gourds into artwork in Pennsylvania.
4x11
Brown Before Green 2
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 16, 2008
Mike takes a look back at some of his former coworkers who should be role models for the green movement.
4x12
Bologna Maker
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 06, 2009
Mike heads to Pennsylvania and tries his hand at making bologna and then goes to Alaska to repair a very special toilet.
4x13 Season finale
Abandoned Mine Plugger
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 13, 2009
Mike travels to Ohio to check on the Common Tern population and then he finds himself in Northern California plugging an abandoned mineshaft.
4x14
Animal Rendering
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 20, 2009
Mike takes a trip to the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles to find out about the important work being done in Pit 91. Then Mike travels north where he learns about rendering and discovers how much of a farm animal can be recycled.
4x15
Goose Down Plucker
Episode overview
Air date
Jan 27, 2009
Mike heads to Meridian, California to find out what it takes to harvest walnuts. Then he spends some time in Tulelake where he learns how to make goose down pillows and comforters.
4x16
Diaper Cleaner
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 03, 2009
Mike journeys to Queen Creek, Arizona to press olives into oil and then heads to Sacramento, California to clean dirty diapers.
4x17
Spider Pharm
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 10, 2009
Mike ventures to Payette, Idaho to learn how to make high quality bird food. Then he heads to Yarnell, Arizona to collect spiders from the desert to milk them for their venom.
4x18
Locomotive Builder
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 17, 2009
Mike heads to MotivePower in Boise, Idaho to build and restore locomotives for his 200th dirty job.
4x19 Season finale
200 Jobs Look-Back
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 24, 2009
Mike takes a look back at his previous jobs, toughest co-workers, and his ongoing encounters with dirt and poo. With additional footage from "Skull Cleaner" and "Turkey Inseminator"
4x20
Mike's Day Off
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 03, 2009
Mike takes the day off to get a physical examination, leaving Executive Producers Eddie Barbini and Craig Piligian to host the show: servicing porta-potties and making custom-fabricated alloy wheels for Boyd Coddington Wheels
4x21 Season finale
Sled Dog Breeder
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 12, 2009
Breeding and training Alaskan Huskies as sled dogs with Martin Buser; revisit of dirty jobs in Alaska: Bird ringing common terns and Canadian geese ("Abandoned Mine Plugger"), fishing .. show full overview

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