Dirty Jobs

  • Premiered: Jul 2005
  • Episodes: 180
  • Followers: 303
  • Running
  • Discovery
  • Sunday at 20
  • Documentary Reality

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Season 6
6x1
Exotic Nanny
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Air date
Oct 19, 2010
Mike visits a Texas ranch that breeds exotic animals like sloths, lemurs, camels, and bearcats.
6x2
Wetland Warrior
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Air date
Oct 26, 2010
Mike tries to evade and outsmart a team of bloodhounds while posing as a stand-in fugitive in Texas. Also, Mike takes on non-native, invasive species in the Florida Everglades.
6x3
Sea Lamprey Exterminator
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Air date
Nov 02, 2010
Mike helps the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in battling the sea lamprey population that threatens the fishing industry of the Great Lakes. Also, Mike makes meat gel to feed fish in Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino's shark reef aquarium.
6x4
Animal Relocator
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Air date
Nov 09, 2010
Mike visits an old-fashioned corn mill in De Kalb, Miss. Also, Mike helps relocate a pair of exotic deer in Wills Point, Texas.
6x5
Lightning Rod Installer
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Air date
Nov 16, 2010
Mike learns how to install a lightning rod on a home in Lucedale, Miss.
6x6
Woolen Mill Operator
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Air date
Nov 21, 2010
Mikes learns how to make yarn from fleece and waxes hair off of his friend at a day spa.
6x7
Pinsetter Mechanic
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Nov 23, 2010
Mike visits a bowling center in Fremont, Cal. and at the request of a fan turns the spotlight on his cameraman.
6x8 Season finale
Bug Detective
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Air date
Nov 28, 2010
Mike visits a forensic entomology lab where he helps inspect pig carcasses for maggots and other insects.
6x9
Horse Tester
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Air date
Nov 30, 2010
Evaluating equine nutrition at Kentucky Equine Research
6x10
Custom Meat Processor
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Air date
Dec 07, 2010
Mike heads to a San Francisco dump to learn how hawks are employed as a seagull-removing method; then he is off to work on a mobile meat processing truck.
6x11
Dirty Holidays
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Air date
Dec 14, 2010
Mike revisits jobs he has worked that are directly related to the holiday season, bringing glad tidings of dirtiness.
6x12 Season finale
Dirty Conversation
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Air date
Dec 21, 2010
Mike Rowe takes a look at never-before-seen footage featuring unusual, skewed and quirky conversations Mike has had with a colorful array of characters.
6x14
Asphalt Paver
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Air date
Dec 22, 2010
In Nebraska, Mike Rowe takes a shot at paving roads. Then, in reply to a mailbag question about his favorite animal, he recalls the time he crossed paths with a tiger crossbreed in Texas.
6x13
Date Palm Pollinator
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Air date
Dec 28, 2010
Mike answers viewer mail and pollinates date palm trees in Palm Springs.
6x15
Rum Distiller
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Air date
Jan 11, 2011
Mike visits a distillery, where he turns molasses into rum, hauls hoses, scours copper and works with scalding liquid.
6x16
Hair Fairy
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Jan 18, 2011
Mike installs a metal power pole in Wyoming and later learns about how to remove lice from hair in San Francisco.
6x17
Dirty Infrastructure
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Air date
Jan 25, 2011
Mike takes a look at America's report card on its infrastructure and also salutes the workers who help preserve it.
6x18
Scrapple Maker
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Air date
Feb 01, 2011
Mike learns how to make a pig delicacy known as scrapple and later becomes a shoe doctor's assistant.
6x19
Blueberry Connoisseur
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Air date
Feb 08, 2011
Mike visits the Jelly Belly Candy Company to concoct a dirty boot flavored jelly bean based on his own sweaty, grimy, filthy pair of work boots. Then he travels to Maine to harvest blueberries and joins the "Pie Ladies" in a pie bakeoff.
6x20 Season finale
Sponge Diver
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Air date
Feb 15, 2011
Mike heads to Tarpon Springs, Florida to help collect sponges off the sea floor. Then he answers viewer mail and recounts his struggle with a metal fence post at an abandoned mine.
6x21
Cedar Log Peeler
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Air date
Feb 22, 2011
Mike works on a fish processing boat in the Bering Sea and cleans out the fish grinder. Then he heads to the Rapid River Rustic Mill to lend a hand with debarking, peeling and processing wood for a cedar log cabin.
6x22 Season finale
Termite Researcher
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Air date
Mar 01, 2011
Mike visits with long-time fans Marilyn and Carolyn Maedel to look at never-before-seen footage at a crawfish factory in Louisiana. Then, he experiences the many hands-on duties that come with being a termite researcher on Sapolo Island in Georgia.
6x23 Season finale
Dirty DNA
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 08, 2011
Revisit of jobs related to family with Mike visiting his parents: crab fisherman ("Vexcon"), maggot farmer ("Maggot Farmer"), leech trapping ("Leech Trapper"), candy maker ("Fuel Tank .. show full overview

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