The episodes from season two of Dirty Jobs are listed below.
1 - Dirtiest Tools & Machines | Originally Aired on January 3, 2006
Mike revisits some of his old jobs: house mover, tire recycler, demolition worker, scrap metal recycler, golf ball diver, hot tar roofer.
2 - Super Dirty | Originally Aired on January 3, 2006
Mike revisits some of his old jobs: disaster cleanup crew member, septic tank technician, sewer inspector, sludge recycler, fish gutter, charcoal maker.
3 - Avian Vomitologist | Originally Aired on January 10, 2006
In what may be his grossest job yet, Mike joins forces with a man who scours barnyards in search of bits of owl vomit. Along the way, he learns why owls are forced to regurgitate parts of what they eat and investigates the skeletal remains of their half-digested prey. Once enough vomit has been collected, Mike learns how to process and package it before sending it off to science teachers around the world.
4 - Turkey Farmer | Originally Aired on January 17, 2006
Join Mike for his stint as a turkey farmer, where he’s tasked with keeping 50,000 gobblers happy and healthy until their destiny as sandwich meat can be fulfilled. Plus, watch as he makes a spud-tacular splash as a potato farmer and learns what smelly surprises await at the bottom of San Francisco’s Oceanside Waste Water Sewage Plant.
5 - Alligator Farmer | Originally Aired on January 24, 2006
Mike spends the day caring for the 70,000 residents of an alligator farm and discovers the dirty little secret behind sugar production.
6 - Viewer’s Choice | Originally Aired on January 31, 2006
Mike answers questions from viewers and shows some of the many outtakes and deleted scenes from the show. Mike also does a new dirty job and goes to a dairy farm in Pennsylvania to milk some cows, feed a newborn calf, collect fresh cow poo for study, and do some of the daily maintenance on the feed mill. Mike ends the show by singing his own version of the Dirty Jobs theme song.
7 - Mushroom Farmer | Originally Aired on March 7, 2006
Mike steps into the shoes of a mushroom farmer and learns just how dirty cultivating edible fungus can be. As he discovers, horse manure and soiled straw make the perfect compost for growing mushrooms - that is, if you can stand the smell. Later, watch as Mike goes treasure hunting in a Los Angeles storm drain and learns how to melt metal in a Pennsylvania foundry.
8 - Plumber | Originally Aired on March 14, 2006
With tool belt in tow, Mike plays plumber and heads underground to repair a smelly sewage backup. Plus, learn how synthetic mud is created (for use in certain specialty drilling jobs) and why oil drilling is one of the most dangerous jobs around.
9 - Termite Controller | Originally Aired on March 21, 2006
Mike reunites with the Vexcon exterminator crew in Louisiana. But instead of battling cockroaches, he wages war against millions of termites that have attacked a local church. Later, he slips into the shoes of a concrete spreader to learn how to make curbs and sidewalks
10 - Casino Food Recycler | Originally Aired on June 13, 2006
Mike meets a Las Vegas pig farmer who feeds his oinkers leftover scraps from casino buffets and restaurants. Work begins by sorting out t-bones, napkins and other inedible bits from an unsightly mound of slop that is later cooked in a giant, homemade crock-pot. Plus, watch as Mike goes behind the scenes of a Vegas magic show that uses an aviary full of ducks, geese and pigeons on stage. His job? Make all of the bird droppings disappear.
11 - Parade Float Dismantler | Originally Aired on June 20, 2006
Mike is hired to dismantle floats from the Tournament of Roses Parade. Floats are made of flowers and fruit that have been rotting for weeks in a hot warehouse. It’s a dirty job that will forever change the way you look at parades.
12 - Garbage Pit Technician | Originally Aired on June 27, 2006
Mike teams up with a group of garbage collectors that convert trash into electricity. It’s a smelly proposition that has him up to his knees in other people’s garbage but in the end he learns that some dirty jobs are helping to preserve the environment.
13 - Skull Cleaner | Originally Aired on July 11, 2006
Watch as Mike falls head over heels for his newest dirty job as a skull cleaner for a company that supplies animal skeletons to museums and schools. After putting a team of beetles to work cleaning smaller carcasses, he power washes the skeleton of a 42-foot hump back whale. Later, learn what disgusting work goes into making delicious, Boudin sausage links.
14 - Geoduck Farmer | Originally Aired on July 18, 2006
Mike finds himself waist deep in mud digging furiously as he harvests clams in the cold waters of Puget Sound. This special breed of clams bury themselves nearly three feet underground and the only way to harvest them is to get down and dirty.
15 - Fuel Tank Cleaner | Originally Aired on July 25, 2006
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. When the tanks get clogged Mike joins the crew to crawl inside the empty “bladder cell”. It’s a messy, gooey and dirty job as Mike learns whaty it takes to keep the KC-135 Stratotanker refueling fighter planes and cargo aircraft in mid-air.
16 - Dirty Jobs: Jobs That Bite | Originally Aired on July 30, 2006
Watch as Mike comes face to face with great white sharks in South Africa and risks his limbs attempting to tag them with a satellite-tracking device that helps scientists track their migration patterns. Later, Mike tests out a seal decoy and actually witnesses several great white attacks. Finally, Mike helps perform a necropsy on a nine-foot bull shark.
17 - Dirty Jobs: Jobs That Bite Harder | Originally Aired on August 4, 2006
Mike rolls up his sleeves and makes shark replicas to match sharks that fishermen catch and then later release. Then travel to the Bahamas, where Mike dives into shark infested waters wearing a shark suit that he helped make. Finally, enjoy behind the scenes footage and bloopers of Mike as he travels the world to find men and women unafraid to get dirty with sharks.
18 - Coal Miner | Originally Aired on August 8, 2006
Mike learns quickly that the coal business is a dirty - and dangerous - profession. Rowe and the miners bury into the mine to see how coal is removed from earth and loaded onto carts. Then Mike gets a taste of the fun when he drills into the hardened earth to carefully place dynamite into the holes to blast a new vein of coal. Later, Mike learns there’s an art to making big rocks into small ones as he joins a crew at a rock quarry.
19 - Hoof Cleaner | Originally Aired on August 15, 2006
Mike hoofs it to a Pennsylvania dairy farm to work with a podiatrist treating a herd of hardworking cows. Bovine foot problems are from gross to grosser - as in hairy warts and harmful toe ulcers. Hoisting the cows into his truck for treatment, Mike’s joins the hoof trimmer to clean mud, muck and more before they trim the cow’s hooves. Happy cows with healthy feet make better milk! Plus, he gets hip deep in mud and muck working with hippo keepers at the Adventure Aquarium.
20 - Alpaca Shearer | Originally Aired on August 22, 2006
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.
21 - Monkey Caretaker | Originally Aired on August 29, 2006
Mike meets his match when he travels to South Africa to train tame monkeys how to survive in the wild.
22 - 100th Dirty Job Special | Originally Aired on September 5, 2006
Mike Rowe becomes an army mechanic, shaves a pig, answers viewer mail, and plays the Dirty Jobs Anthem.
23 - Snake Researcher | Originally Aired on November 28, 2006
Travel with Mike to the Lake Erie Water Snake Outreach Center and become a snake researcher for a day. After wrangling snakes from nearby lakes and shores, Mike returns to the lab to get a dirty lesson on how to make snakes regurgitate their lunch.
24 - Penguin Keeper | Originally Aired on December 5, 2006
Learn the art of concrete stamping as Mike joins a rowdy construction crew in California. But first, Mike visits the historic Audubon Zoo in New Orleans, where he tries out the job of a penguin keeper. Watch in disgust as he crawls into nests to cleanout penguin excrement, feathers and food.
25 - Bell Maker | Originally Aired on December 12, 2006
Join Mike at the McShane Bell Foundry in Maryland as he learns the art of making giant bells. After a quick lesson, he climbs atop a local church steeple to help maintain a century-old bell. There’s just one catch, Mike must carefully watch every step as his feathered friends have left behind some very special treats.
26 - Mosquito Control Officer | Originally Aired on December 19, 2006
Just when he thought he’d seen it all, Mike is hired on to catch small fish from the muddy canals of New Orleans. Mike must count, clean and transport the fish to abandoned swimming pools around the city in an effort to fight mosquito infestations. Plus, he gets a lesson from scientists breeding mosquitoes to learn about their resistance to pesticides.
