Dirty Jobs

Mike Rowe assumes the responsibilities of a garbage collector in San Francisco's Chinatown.

Mike Rowe steps into the shoes of a sewer inspector and works in a deconstruction crew.

Mike Rowe feeds and cleans up after hundreds of pigs, then cleans gum off the streets of New York.

Mike Rowe sorts boy chicks from girl chicks at the Murray McMurray Hatchery.

Mike Rowe joins exterminators in their war against rats and bugs, and learns how to shell crabs.

Mike Rowe goes into a pit of sludge with an environmental company that recycles the gunky grime.

Mike Rowe mops hot tar on a church rooftop and learns how to move a house down the street.

Mike gets dirty on a Hawaiian coffee bean plantation and works as an ostrich farmer.

Mike Rowe works as a zookeeper, learns how to make cheese and mixes volcanic-ash mud baths.

Mike Rowe climbs aboard a shrimp boat and teams up with a man who catches crawfish for a living.

Mike Rowe recovers grease and learns to convert cooking oil into a gasoline alternative.

Mike Rowe works at a Hawaiian pharmaceutical plant that specializes in growing green algae.

Mike Rowe learns the tricks of the trade at the Chimney Sweeping Safety Institute.

Mike lends a helping hand at a Colorado marble quarry and then collects owl vomit.

Mike examines the short lives of turkeys as they make their way from farm to sandwich.

Mike visits a sugar mill, one of the dirtiest places on Earth, and a menacing alligator farm.

Mike mixes horse manure and soiled straw to make mushrooms and cleans rat-infested storm drains.

Mike reunites with a catfish noodler for some backbreaking plumbing and drills for oil.

Mike wages war against millions of termites that have attacked a local church.

Mike joins forces with a Las Vegas pig farmer with an ingenious way to recycle leftovers.

Mike Rowe faces his fear of parades when he works to dismantle floats from the Rose Parade.

Mike teams up with a group of garbage collectors converting trash into electricity.

Mike challenges his executive producers to attempt a dirty job of their own.

Mike Rowe helps keep trains on track, links Boudin sausages and cleans animal skulls and bones.

Mike finds himself waist deep in mud as he harvests clams in the cold waters of Puget Sound.