Dirty Jobs

In a uniquely odd tour de force, Mike helps out at a Colorado marble quarry, collects owl vomit...yes, owl vomit, and then checks cows to see if they're pregnant.

Mike works on a turkey farm and a potato farm; later he works at a water treatment plant where he removes sewage.

Mike visits a filthy sugar mill; the Fremont Fire Dept. firefighters teach Mike how to ignite a building, extinguish it and then do some overhauling; day ends at an ominous alligator farm.

Making mushrooms by mixing horse manure and ground straw; rat-infested rain drains in LA; shower drains in Erie, Penn.

Mike reunites with his catfish-noodler friend for some tough plumbing; drilling mud at a synthetic mud company, and oil drilling with roughnecks.

Mike spreads concrete for curbside and sidewalk foundations; then reunites with Vexcon for some termite extermination and chips concrete out of the back of a truck.

Going behind the scenes of Lance Burton's magic show; a pig farmer finds a way to recycle leftovers. Host: Mike Rowe.

Antique printing press; converting trash into electricity. Host: Mike Rowe.

Mike tries his hand at dismantling floats from the annual Tournament of Roses Parade in Pasadena, California.

Keeping trains on track; making boudin sausages; cleaning animal skulls and bones for display. Host: Mike Rowe.

Mike harvests giant clams called geoducks in Puget Sound; restores a Philadelphia church's antique pipe organ.

Mike Rowe travels to the McConnell Air Force Base near Wichita, Kan., to clean the Stratotanker fuel tanks.

Mike helps with the demolition and salvage of an abandoned dormitory at a college; Mike also tries his hand at coal mining.

Working in a rock quarry; cleaning out the hippo tank at the Adventure Aquarium; attending to bovine foot problems.

Mike gathers thousands of pounds of shellfish at Taylor Shellfish Farms; harvests taro in the tropics; shears alpaca fiber.

Mike travels to South Africa on a mission to train monkeys and prepare them to return to life in the wild.

Mike heads to Lake Erie to join a group dedicated to protecting endangered water snakes; his aquatic vocation continues on Lake Michigan where he assists in removing algae.

While they may seem cute and cuddly, penguins create a lot of very smelly waste which Mike discovers when he heads to Audubon Zoo in New Orleans to work as a keeper for the day.

Mike makes giant bells at the McShane Bell Foundry; the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers conducts yearly maintenance on a hurricane barrier.

Mike helps New Orleans residents restore, rebuild and revive their city in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

The U.S. Army helps Mike Rowe celebrate his 100th dirty job; behind the scenes and best moments of the show.