The BEST episodes of Dirty Jobs
Every episode of Dirty Jobs ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Dirty Jobs!
DIRTY JOBS profiles the unsung American laborers who make their living in the most unthinkable -- yet vital -- ways. Our brave host and apprentice Mike Rowe will introduce you to a hardworking group of men and women who overcome fear, danger and sometimes stench and overall ickiness to accomplish their daily tasks.
#1 - Pool Liner Fixer / Hotel Soap Recycler
Season 10 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/11/2022
Mike travels to West Palm Beach, Fl to take on the job of Pool Liner Fixer with second-generation pool fixers Dan Duecker, Dave Duecker and Juan Pablo, who lead Mike into the dirtiest pool in America to clean 17 years of accumulated filth. Later, in Orlando, Mike takes on the job of Hotel Soap Recycler and meets with Shawn Seipler and “Soap Whisperer” Carlos Anderson to recycle dirty hotel soap to donate to needy people.
#2 - Penguin Keeper
Season 2 - Episode 34 - Aired 12/5/2006
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.
#3 - Poo Pot Maker
Season 2 - Episode 38 - Aired 1/16/2007
Mike first goes to northern California to count dead salmon. Mike opens up the mail bag and answers a viewer's question about the snake researcher segment. Just when Mike thought he had seen it all, he visits a cow farm in Connecticut that specializes in making gardening pots out of cow manure.
#5 - 200 Jobs Look-Back
Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/24/2009
Mike takes a look back at his previous jobs, toughest co-workers, and his ongoing encounters with dirt and poo. With additional footage from "Skull Cleaner" and "Turkey Inseminator"
#6 - High-Rise Window Washer
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/13/2009
High-rise window washer, viewer mail: brine tank cleaner (Shark Reef at Mandalay Bay)
#7 - Dirty Conversation
Season 6 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/21/2010
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.
#8 - Cedar Log Peeler
Season 6 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/22/2011
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.
#9 - Bio-Diesel Man
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/25/2005
Mike goes to Washington and helps build a house out of cob, which is basically a combination of sand, clay, and straw.Mike then heads to California and works alongside Dave the bee man to get rid of some bee's infesting a church.Finally, Mike goes back to Washington and helps clean out the old oil from a deep fryer at a Mexican restaurant and then recycle the oil into fuel or bio-diesel.
#10 - Turkey Inseminator
Season 3 - Episode 29 - Aired 5/12/2008
Making a home energy efficient by improving insulation, turkey artificial insemination, viewer mail, car crusher
#11 - Sheep Castrator
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/21/2008
Mike helps saw down a giant concrete wall at an auto dealership in order to make way for a new wash bay. Then he heads to a sheep farm where he tries shearing and castrating a sheep and is treated to a pate of Rocky Mountain Oysters.
#12 - Locomotive Builder
Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/17/2009
Mike heads to MotivePower in Boise, Idaho to build and restore locomotives for his 200th dirty job.
#13 - Greenland Shark Quest
Season 3 - Episode 34 - Aired 7/29/2008
In this special episode of Dirty Jobs Mike heads to the edge of the Arctic Circle, on the northeast side of Canada's Baffin Island in search of one of the most mysterious sharks known to man: the Greenland shark.
#14 - Snake Researcher
Season 2 - Episode 33 - Aired 11/28/2006
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.
#15 - Wine Maker
Season 2 - Episode 43 - Aired 3/6/2007
Mike first heads off to Napa Valley to learn how to make wine. Mike then gets dirty at a Kansas Cattle Ranch learning about the cattle business.
#16 - Dirtiest Water Jobs
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/20/2005
Revisit of dirty jobs involving water: shark catcher/tagger ("Chinatown Garbage Collector"), golf ball diver ("Roadkill Cleaner"), oyster harvester ("Chick Sexer"), crawfish catcher ("Shrimper"), catfish noodler ("Worm Dung Farmer"), shrimper ("Shrimper")
#17 - Creepy Critters
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/27/2005
Mike Rowe steps into the world of creepy critters and gets up close and personal with some small creatures. Mike talks about some of the behind the scenes moments from when he was an exterminator, a crab fisherman, a bee keeper/exterminator, worn farmer, and finally a bat biologist.
#18 - Exotic Animal Keeper
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 11/13/2007
Mike Rowe rolls up his sleeves and gets dirty at a recycling center in San Francisco that requires their dump truck drivers to clean out the back of their dirty trucks after each shift. It's a dirty job that even Mike has a hard time completing.
#19 - Steel Mill Worker
Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/15/2008
Mike Rowe gets dirty in St. Louis as he works with a river barge demolition team and then melts down the scrap steel into molten metal.
#20 - Dirty Presidents
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/4/2008
Mike takes a look at what dirty jobs past presidents once performed. This Dirty Jobs Extravaganza will leave us all looking at the country in a new way.
#21 - Concrete Finisher
Season 5 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/2/2010
Mike creates some concrete counter-tops and fire pits in Moss Landing, California and then reminisces about the scariest job he's ever done.
#22 - Dairy Cow Midwife
Season 3 - Episode 27 - Aired 4/28/2008
Inside an Indiana dairy farm, Mike learns how to milk a cow and use a blow torch to clean her udders. Then, Mike gets the inside scoop on how to inseminate a cow. Finally, he gets an up-close look at fatherhood as he helps deliver baby calves.
#23 - Termite Researcher
Season 6 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/1/2011
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.
#24 - Sponge Diver
Season 6 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/15/2011
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.
