Dirty Jobs
Season 2
Follows the exploits of Mike Rowe as he performs various dirty and dangerous jobs around the USA.
Where to Watch Season 2
20 Episodes
- Avian Vomitologist
E1Avian VomitologistMike 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. - Casino Food Recycler
E7Casino Food RecyclerIt'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. - Parade Float Dismantler
E8Parade Float DismantlerMike 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. - Skull Cleaner
E10Skull CleanerMike 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. - Geoduck Farmer
E11Geoduck FarmerMike 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". - Fuel Tank Cleaner
E12Fuel Tank CleanerMike 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. - Hoof Cleaner
E14Hoof CleanerMike 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. - Alpaca Shearer
E15Alpaca ShearerMike 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. - Snake Researcher
E17Snake ResearcherMike catches lobster starting with the preparation of the rotting, stinking, dead fish bait. Then Mike visits Put-in-Bay on South Bass Island in Lake Erie, first to clean sea weed out of the harbor then to feed the water snakes. Actually, Mike's supposed to catch the snakes but they find him fun to chew on. But Mike gets even doing strange things to his captives back at the lab. Of course, he gets bit there too.
