Dirty Jobs

Mike visits a Texas ranch that breeds exotic animals like sloths, lemurs, camels, and bearcats.

Mike visits a bone black plant in Michigan and then talks about his five dirtiest jobs.

Mike creates some concrete counter-tops and fire pits in Moss Landing, California and then reminisces about the scariest job he's ever done.

Mike goes to Michigan to join up with the winter maintenance crew of the Soo Locks.

Mike goes on the hunt for feral chickens on the streets of Miami and later opens the mailbag and visits a very dirty mother and son team of mealworm breeders.

Mike first heads off to San Francisco to learn how to recycle paint in a process called paint bulking. Later, Mike makes maple syrup the old-fashioned way in Pennsylvania.

Mike goes to Florida to harvest clams at the Alligator Harbor Aquatic Preserve and later attempts to worm-grunt in the Apalachicola National Forest.

Mike becomes a specialty fireworks technician in Addison, Pa. and then helps examine a cow with a hole in its stomach at Arkansas State University.

Mike heads to Hawaii to make shirts using volcanic dirt as dye and later learns how to make marbles in Ohio.

Mike shrink-wraps a houseboat in Kentucky and then heads on over to Alaska to visit a reindeer farm.

Mike looks back at some of his most hazardous jobs to make the case for safety precautions.

Mike takes a trip to Washington State to see how a hydroelectric dam works. Also, Mike see's what catching and tagging fish is like in a fish-bypass system.

Mike goes to Arkansas to research dung beetles. Later, Mike attempts to make glass art in West Virginia.

An electronic waste-recycling facility is visited in California. Also, Mike makes tofu in Honolulu.

Mike goes to southern California to milk and take part in other camel activities at the Oasis Camel Dairy.

Mike becomes a professor's apprentice and tags endangered alligator snapping turtles in Arkansas. Later in the show Mike recycles toilets in San Francisco and meets an old friend from a past show.

Mike crushes abandoned boats in Miami and recycles used mattresses in San Francisco.

For one day, Mike's producers Piligian and Eddie Barbini try two dirty jobs themselves while Mike visits the doctor.

Mike reminisces and shows us some of his favorite moments from past shows.

Mike enjoys his 200th dirty job by restoring locomotives in Boise, Idaho.

Mike makes bird food in Payette, Idaho. Also, Mike milks venomous spiders in Yarnell, Ariz.

Mike heads to the desert in Arizona to make olive oil. Finally, Mike cleans dirty cloth diapers in California.

Mike visits California, where he harvests walnuts in Meridian and makes goose-down comforters and pillows in Tulelake.

Mike goes to Pennsylvania and learns how to make smoked bologna. Finally, Mike repairs a special toilet in Alaska.