Episode 1
Aired Jan 8, 2008
Big Animal Vet
Mike gets dirty at a famous barbecue joint, joins forces with a large-animal veterinarian, and finds himself deep in New Jersey sludge.
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Episode 2
Aired Jan 15, 2008
Steel Mill Worker
Mike Rowe takes on some more dirty jobs as he gets busy melting down scrap steel into molten metal; he then joins a river barge demolition team in St Louis.
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Episode 3
Aired Jan 22, 2008
Cave Biologist
Mike Rowe samples some more of the dirtier jobs as he works with a cave biologist and then braves the ocean to search for slime eels.
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Episode 4
Aired Jan 29, 2008
Buoy Cleaner
Mike Rowe travels to Oregon to make shingles and then rides on a Coast Guard ship to clean dirty buoys.
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Episode 5
Aired Feb 5, 2008
Cranberry Farmer
Join host Mike Rowe as he gets down and dirty making handmade bricks in South Carolina; he later masters the art of cranberry farming in Oregon.
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Episode 6
Aired Feb 12, 2008
Mud Mineral Excavator
Everything goes wrong for Mike at a California mineral mine; then it's off to South Carolina to master rice milling.
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Episode 7
Aired Feb 19, 2008
Tight Spaces
Mike Rowe recalls some of his most challenging jobs over the years that required him to squeeze into some tight spaces.
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Episode 8
Aired Feb 26, 2008
Brown Plate Special
Mike Rowe looks back at some of the jobs he had making America's favorite foods, as well as a top ten list of the most disgusting things he has eaten on the show.
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Episode 9
Aired Apr 14, 2008
Dirty Jobs of the Big Apple
Join Mike Rowe as he takes on some of the dirtiest jobs in New York City; he scales a skyscraper to build a water tower on the roof before trying his hand at lift repair.
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Episode 10
Aired Apr 21, 2008
Floating Fish Factory
Mike goes on an epic adventure aboard a fish processing ship in the great state of Alaska, gaining a new appreciation for the people who work tirelessly to catch, freeze and gut fish to put fresh food on our dinner table.
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Episode 11
Aired Apr 28, 2008
Dairy Cow Midwife
Mike milks a cow in Indiana and uses a blowtorch to clean her udder; he also partakes in inseminating a cow and delivering calves.
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Episode 12
Aired May 5, 2008
Aerial Tram Greaser
Mike learns there's more to erosion control than one might think; Mike helps maintain and repair a tram that's 8,500 feet above Palm Springs, Calif.
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Episode 13
Aired May 12, 2008
Turkey Inseminator
Mike works to make a house more energy efficient as he crawls through dead rats, falling fiberglass insulation and debris; he then travels to a turkey farm to try his hand at turkey inseminating.
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Episode 14
Aired May 19, 2008
Ice Salvage Crew
Mike travels to Alaska where he cleans up an oil spill and then travels to Minnesota to pull a car out of a lake.
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Episode 15
Aired Jun 2, 2008
Wind Farm Technician
At an Oklahoma wind farm, Mike finds that being green is dirtier work than he had imagined; in Kentucky he cleans out a sinkhole which has been used as a rubbish dump.
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Episode 16
Aired Jun 9, 2008
Animal Barber
Mike and the crew take on their 150th dirty job as they travel to the Spring Brook Ranch in Kalispell, Montana, and help out a yak and bison rancher.
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Episode 17
Aired Jun 16, 2008
Brown Before Green
Mike looks back on the past jobs that were environmentally friendly, including geothermal drilling, wood and tire salvage and building cobb homes.
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Episode 18
Aired Jul 29, 2008
Greenland Shark Quest
Mike heads to the edge of the Arctic Circle on the northeast side of Canada's Baffin Island to find one of the most enigmatic species of shark - the Greenland shark.
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Episode 19
Aired Oct 7, 2008
Tar Rigger
Mike travels to San Diego and works with the tar-rigging crew on the oldest active merchant ship in the world, the Star of India.
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Episode 20
Aired Oct 14, 2008
Dirty Chip Maker
Mike heads to the Dirty Potato Chips company in Oxnard, California where much of the work being done by machine. Despite this Mike finds a way to lend a hand.
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Episode 21
Aired Oct 21, 2008
Sheep Castrator
Mike works at an automobile dealership, sawing down a giant concrete wall for a new car-wash bay, then heads to a farm to try his hand at sheep-shearing and castrating.
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Episode 22
Aired Oct 28, 2008
Leech Trapper
Mike Rowe helps the boys from Bartos Bait and Fish catch leeches; later on he heads to the Green Tripe Factory where he makes biologically appropriate raw food for dogs.
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Episode 23
Aired Nov 4, 2008
Dirty Presidents
Mike takes a look at what dirty jobs past presidents once performed, leaving us all looking at the country in a new way.
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Episode 24
Aired Nov 11, 2008
Mannequin Factory
Mike demolishes the Windsorland Mobile Home Park in order to make way for a brand new shopping center; after that it's off to Patina-V mannequin factory.
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Episode 25
Aired Nov 18, 2008
Egg Farm
Mike Rowe learns about the life of an egg - from the chicken to the frying pan; unfortunately for him he then has to clean up the waste generated by 1.4 million chickens.
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Episode 26
Aired Nov 25, 2008
Vellum Maker
Mike finds him harvesting hops in Yakima, Wash. then converting animal hides into paper in New York's Hudson Valley.
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Episode 27
Aired Dec 2, 2008
Maggot Farmer
Mike tries to move a giant cactus in Arizona and then travels to a maggot farm in Idaho to learn their purpose.
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Episode 28
Aired Dec 9, 2008
Gourd Maker
Mike cleans out a Connecticut lake, then travels to Pennsylvania to a gourd farm to make artwork out of the gourds for Halloween time.
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Episode 29
Aired Dec 16, 2008
Brown Before Green 2
Mike remembers his former co-workers who should be role models for the green movement with their environmental work.
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