The WORST episodes of Dirty Jobs
Every episode of Dirty Jobs ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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 - Caviar Harvester / Spice Maker
Season 10 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/8/2023
Mike Rowe shows us where our food comes from, harvesting caviar from the muddy Mississippi River. Mike brings his parents to work and rectifies misconceptions in his hometown of Baltimore preparing blue crab seasoning with a fourth-generation spice maker.
#2 - Rodbuster / Galvanizer
Season 9 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/2/2022
Mike installs rebar with a team of rodbusters, then he galvanizes steel.
#3 - Jellyballer / Epoxy Installer
Season 9 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/9/2022
Mike Rowe joins a fourth-generation fisherman's crew in Georgia as they harvest cannonball Jellyfish for food, a trade known as Jellyballing. Then Mike helps a father-son team install epoxy flooring at a restaurant in time for the dinner rush.
#4 - Tugboat Fitter / Water Tower
Season 9 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/16/2022
Mike visits a ship-building community in Coden, Ala., to learn the ins-and-outs of building a tugboat; he makes a long climb to the top of a dirty water tower in Magee, Miss., to clean inside the tank.
#5 - Rock Sucker / Mountain Carver
Season 9 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/23/2022
Mike sucks rocks off an industrial roof with a massive vacuum. He then travels to the Black Hills to carve the largest monument in the world: Crazy Horse. Both stories involve several generations working together to pass on their life's ambitions.
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#6 - Escalator Maintainer / Scorpion Sweeper
Season 9 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/30/2022
Mike Rowe crams into a hockey arena's escalator where he scrapes and cleans a special kind of shmutz from the bottom. Then, he and a zoo keeper venture into the hot, treacherous Arizona desert at night to round up neurotoxic stinging scorpions.
#7 - Combat Surgeon / Iguana Hunter
Season 9 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/6/2022
Mike Rowe trains as a trauma surgeon using hyper-realistic scenarios and specialized equipment to learn under simulated battlefield conditions. He then controls an invasive mess of iguanas which are posing health risks to humans on the Florida coast.
#8 - Beaver Relocator / Slime Master
Season 10 - Episode 8 - Aired 2/5/2023
Mike Rowe goes to the mountains in Utah and gives a dam to a couple nuisance beavers causing havoc for municipalities; Mike gets a little sticky while working with a special effects artist at a glue factory in LA.
#9 - Manhole Rehab / Clock Caretaker
Season 10 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/29/2023
Mike Rowe descends into the depths of an aging manhole, coating it with a polyurea liner to extend its warranty in Murfreesboro, Tenn.; Mike joins an horologist and a priest to set the time right as he restores a historic clocktower.
#10 - Feral Cat Fixer / Reaper Keeper
Season 10 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/18/2022
Mike Rowe helps cat ladies of northern Texas to fix a clowder of feral cats at a spay and neuter facility. Mike and his crew feel the burn as he processes peppers with the mad scientist inventor of the Carolina Reaper, the hottest pepper in the world.
#11 - Deer Urine Farmer / Necropsy
Season 10 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/22/2023
Mike Rowe travels to Anna, Ill., and wades knee-deep in diarrhea to collect deer urine for America's buck-hunters; Mike strands Maryland's shore to perform a necropsy on an ocean sentinel to determine its cause of death
#12 - Pile Jacketer / Concrete Cleaner
Season 10 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/1/2023
Mike Rowe submerges in a murky Florida river to pour concrete jackets around crumbling bridge pilings; in North Carolina, Mike sucks out a concrete washout pit and sprays sediment as he turns toxic sludge into potable water
#13 - Baghouse Cleaner / Biochar Maker
Season 10 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/15/2023
Mike Rowe attends a dusty baghouse party to clean the filtration system at a North Carolina asphalt plant; in Colorado, Mike gets his dirtiest yet, pyrolyzing waste lumber into the planet's most efficient fertilizer: biochar.
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#14 - Goose Down Plucker
Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/27/2009
Mike heads to Meridian, California to find out what it takes to harvest walnuts. Then he spends some time in Tulelake where he learns how to make goose down pillows and comforters.
#15 - Crew Unemployment
Season 5 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/23/2010
With a hiatus looming, Mike tries to secure employment for the "Dirty Jobs" crew and reflects on their contributions.
#16 - Steam Ship Cleaner
Season 2 - Episode 44 - Aired 3/13/2007
Mike heads off to San Diego to learn the dirty job of hydroseeding. He then reads a viewer's letter and shows us never before seen footage from a previous episode. Finally Mike gets dirty cleaning up a 100 year old steam yacht.
#17 - Brown Before Green
Season 3 - Episode 33 - Aired 6/16/2008
Mike looks back on several of the Dirty Jobs that help to clean up the environment. From geothermal drilling, to wood and tire salvage, to building cobb homes, one thing seemed constant: in order to be green, you usually have to get brown first.
#19 - Animal Relocator
Season 6 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/9/2010
Mike visits an old-fashioned corn mill in De Kalb, Miss. Also, Mike helps relocate a pair of exotic deer in Wills Point, Texas.
#20 - Exotic Nanny
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/19/2010
Mike visits a Texas ranch that breeds exotic animals like sloths, lemurs, camels, and bearcats.
#21 - Tight Spaces 2
Season 5 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/16/2010
Mike reminisces about jobs where he had to work in tight spaces, including the time he cleaned the inside of a buoy, his adventure in an abandoned mine, and an insulation application assignment beneath a home.
#22 - The Dirty Truth
Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 6/14/2010
A special episode which looks back at previous episodes as Mike offers employment tips he’s learned over the years.
#23 - Dirty Conversations 2
Season 7 - Episode 11 - Aired 2/21/2012
There are no second takes on Dirty Jobs, and this special shows you just what happens when you point real cameras at real people and let them talk ... while in Mike Rowes presence.
#24 - Abandoned Mine Plugger
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/13/2009
Mike travels to Ohio to check on the Common Tern population and then he finds himself in Northern California plugging an abandoned mineshaft.
#25 - Mattress Recycler
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/6/2009
Mike finds out what happens to old mattresses after people throw them out.