Dirty Jobs

- Season 2

(2006)

A "greatest hits" episode with a compilation of Mike's dirtiest jobs involving tools and machines: House Mover, Tire Recycler, Demolition Worker, Scrap Metal Recycler, Golf-Ball Diver at the Golf Ball Depot and Hot Tar Roofer.

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Mike travels the country lending a helping hand at the Colorado marble quarry, collects owl vomit. He wrangles and learns how to palpitate a cow to check for pregnancy.

Mike examines the short lives of turkeys then it's off to a potato farm. Mike also removes sewage from a water treatment plant as well.

Mike visits one of the dirtiest places on earth, a sugar mill. Firefighters teach Mike how to light a building on fire, put it out and then he visits a menacing alligator farm.

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Mixing horse manure and soiled straw to make mushrooms, cleaning rat-infested storm drains in Los Angeles, and making shower drains in Erie, PA, it's a Dirty Job!

Mike reunites with catfish noodler for some backbreaking plumbing. He blends specialty drilling mud at a synthetic mud company, then rolls his sleeves for more oil drilling with rough necks.

Mike steps into the shoes of a concrete spreader for some curb side and sidewalk foundation. He reunites with the Vexcon exterminator crew to wage war against millions of termites that have attacked a local church and chips concrete out of giant mixers.

Mike Rowe rolls up his sleeves and gets dirty in Las Vegas as he goes behind the scenes of the world famous Lance Burton Magic Show. Mike Rowe also joins forces with a Las Vegas pig farmer that has found an ingenious way to recycle leftovers.

Mike Rowe faces his fear of parades when he is hired on at a company that is responsible for dismantling floats from the Tournament of Roses Parade. It's a dirty job that will forever change the way you look at parades.

Mike Rowe rolls up his sleeves and gets dirty operating an antique printing press. Then, he joins forces with the largest terracotta manufacturer in the U.S. Next, Mike teams up with a group of garbage collectors converting trash into electricity.

Mike Rowe helps keep trains on track. Mike links Boudin Sausages, a southern delicacy that's no treat to make. Before animal skulls and bones are put on display, they have to be cleaned. Mike rolls his sleeves up to clean them.

Mike Rowe hits Las Vegas to dive into the world famous Lance Burton Magic Show, and then teams up with a pig farmer who has some innovative recycling techniques.

Mike Rowe joins forces with the Air Force as he travels to McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita, Kansas to clean the stratotanker fuel tanks. He also learns to makes some messy candy and retread tires.

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Mike Rowe gets dirty as he helps a group of New Jersey salvage experts tear apart a dormitory at an abandoned college. Then Rowe rolls up his sleeve and goes to work as a coal miner.

Mike Rowe joins a crew at a rock quarry, gets hip deep in mud and muck working with the hippo keepers at the Adventure Aquarium, and addresses some bovine foot problems.

Mike Rowe joins a crew of filthy farmers on their job at Taylor Shellfish Farms, gets down and dirty in the tropics as he farms taro, and finds out that animals don't like haircuts when he joins a family of alpaca farmers to shear their alpacas.

Mike Rowe meets his match when he travels to South Africa to train monkeys to run wild.

The two-hour special will be hosted by Mike Rowe as he introduces his work with the United States Army. Mike will share stories from behind the scenes and answer viewer mail as he unites the US with the dirtiest jobs, and funniest moments of the show.

Mike 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.

Mike Rowe joins a rowdy construction crew in California and learns the art of concrete stamping, as well as taking care of some penguins and digging for blood worms.

Mike Rowe rolls up his sleeve and gets dirty making giant bells at the McShane Bell Foundry. He 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 ocean's floor.

From gutting mold infested houses to exterminating disease ridden rats and mosquitos, Mike has got his work cut out for him. He gets dirty helping New Orleans locals restore, rebuild, and revive their city in the aftermath of Katrina.