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The Best Episodes of Dirty Jobs

Every episode of Dirty Jobs ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Dirty Jobs!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Dirty Jobs Season 1 Episode 1 - Chinatown Garbage Collector
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - Chinatown Garbage Collector

    S1:E1

    Garbage collector/recycling separator, shark catcher/tagger, car recycling

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Dirty Jobs Season 1 Episode 2 - Sewer Inspector
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - Sewer Inspector

    S1:E2

    Sewer inspector, disaster cleanup crew member (basement sewer), demolition worker (office building interior)

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Dirty Jobs Season 1 Episode 3 - Pig Farmer
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - Pig Farmer

    S1:E3

    Pig farmer, removing chewing gum from sidewalks (New York City), pigeon droppings removal (New York City)

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Dirty Jobs Season 1 Episode 4 - Chick Sexer
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - Chick Sexer

    S1:E4

    Baby chicken sexer, beer brewer, oyster harvester

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Dirty Jobs Season 1 Episode 5 - Vexcon
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #5 - Vexcon

    S1:E5

    Exterminator, crab fisherman, blacksmith/farrier

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Dirty Jobs Season 1 Episode 6 - Sludge Cleaner
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #6 - Sludge Cleaner

    S1:E6

    Mike Rowe gets dirty as he works with surfboard shaper Matt Barker. Mike masters the art of shaping a surfboard from Styrofoam. And Mike goes underground into a greasy pit of sludge as he joins an environmental company that recycles the gunky grime.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Dirty Jobs Season 2 Episode 1 - Avian Vomitologist
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #7 - Avian Vomitologist

    S2:E1

    Mike 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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Dirty Jobs Season 2 Episode 2 - Turkey Farmer
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #8 - Turkey Farmer

    S2:E2

    Turkey farmer, potato farmer, waste water sewage plant

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Dirty Jobs Season 2 Episode 3 - Alligator Farmer
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - Alligator Farmer

    S2:E3

    Sugarcane mill, firefighter (Fremont, CA), alligator farmer

    Director:Dave Barsky
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Dirty Jobs Season 2 Episode 4 - Mushroom Farmer
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - Mushroom Farmer

    S2:E4

    Mushroom farmer, storm drain cleaner, drain cover foundry

    Director:Dave Barsky
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Dirty Jobs Season 2 Episode 5 - Plumber
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - Plumber

    S2:E5

    Plumber, drilling mud, Rough necker (oil drilling)

    Director:Dave Barsky
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Dirty Jobs Season 2 Episode 6 - Termite Controller
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - Termite Controller

    S2:E6

    Concrete spreader, termite exterminator, concrete truck cleaner

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Dirty Jobs Season 2 Episode 7 - Casino Food Recycler
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - Casino Food Recycler

    S2:E7

    It'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.

    Director:Dave Barsky
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Dirty Jobs Season 2 Episode 8 - Parade Float Dismantler
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #14 - Parade Float Dismantler

    S2:E8

    Mike 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.

    Director:Dave Barsky
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Dirty Jobs Season 2 Episode 9 - Garbage Pit Technician
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - Garbage Pit Technician

    S2:E9

    Mike first heads off to Las Vegas to work at an old fashioned printing press making lithographs of himself for the official Dirty Jobs poster. Mike then goes to Lincoln, CA and helps make large scale terra cotta building sculpture pieces from recycled terra cotta sewer pipes. Finally, Mike visits a garbage processing plant in San Francisco where food and assorted scraps are passed through a rolling cylinder and "digested" to make a methane gas energy supply.

    Director:Dave Barsky
    Writer:Unknown

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  16. Dirty Jobs Season 2 Episode 10 - Skull Cleaner
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - Skull Cleaner

    S2:E10

    Mike 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.

    Director:Dave Barsky
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Dirty Jobs Season 2 Episode 11 - Geoduck Farmer
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - Geoduck Farmer

    S2:E11

    Mike 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".

    Director:Dave Barsky
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Dirty Jobs Season 2 Episode 12 - Fuel Tank Cleaner
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #18 - Fuel Tank Cleaner

    S2:E12

    Mike 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.

    Director:Dave Barsky
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Dirty Jobs Season 2 Episode 13 - Coal Miner
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - Coal Miner

    S2:E13

    Mike helps a family in New Jersey demolish and recycle parts from 100 year old buildings on an old college campus. Finally, Mike enters the dangerous world of a coal miner in an upstate Pennsylvania coal mine.

    Director:Dave Barsky
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Dirty Jobs Season 2 Episode 14 - Hoof Cleaner
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - Hoof Cleaner

    S2:E14

    Mike 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.

    Director:Dave Barsky
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Dirty Jobs Season 2 Episode 15 - Alpaca Shearer
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - Alpaca Shearer

    S2:E15

    Mike 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.

    Director:Dave Barsky
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Dirty Jobs Season 2 Episode 16 - Monkey Caretaker
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - Monkey Caretaker

    S2:E16

    Mike Rowe meets his match when he travels to South Africa to take care of monkeys that are being trained to go back into the wild

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Dirty Jobs Season 2 Episode 17 - Snake Researcher
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - Snake Researcher

    S2:E17

    Mike Rowe wrangles some water snakes, steps into the shoes of hard working bait and lobster fishermen in Maine, and opens the viewer mail bag which results in some seaweed trimming.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Dirty Jobs Season 2 Episode 18 - Penguin Keeper
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #24 - Penguin Keeper

    S2:E18

    Even though Mike has worked with concrete before in Dallas, he visits concrete workers in California today to learn the art of concrete stamping. Then he goes to New Orleans to care for penguins. Finally, he gets in the mud to hunt bloodworms in Maine.

    Director:Dave Barsky
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Dirty Jobs Season 2 Episode 19 - Bell Maker
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #25 - Bell Maker

    S2:E19

    Mike Rowe rolls up his sleeve and gets dirty making giant bells at the McShane Bell Foundry. Mike 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 oceans floor.

    Director:Dave Barsky
    Writer:Unknown

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Best Episodes Summary

"Chinatown Garbage Collector" is the best rated episode of "Dirty Jobs". It scored 7/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 7/26/2005. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "Sewer Inspector".