Dirty Jobs: Season 2
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Dirty Jobs Season 1.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 2 Progress Shield
Avian Vomitologist
Jan 10, 2006
Mike first travels to Colorado to help out at a marble quarry. He then goes to California to collect owl vomit which is sold to school children for research projects. Finally, Mike
Alligator Farmer
Jan 24, 2006
Sugarcane mill, firefighter (Fremont, CA), alligator farmer
Termite Controller
Mar 21, 2006
Concrete spreader, termite exterminator, concrete truck cleaner
Casino Food Recycler
Jun 13, 2006
It's a glitzy Las Vegas premiere as Mike visits the Lance Burton Theater to clean up the pens for Lance's show doves and geese. Mike then gets really dirty by visiting a pig farmer
Parade Float Dismantler
Jun 20, 2006
Mike first goes to Pennsylvania at a coal processing plant and learns how to make coke, carbonized coal used to make iron which in turn is used to make steel. Mike then goes to Was
Garbage Pit Technician
Jun 27, 2006
Mike first heads off to Las Vegas to work at an old fashioned printing press making lithographs of himself for the official Dirty Jobs poster. Mike then goes to Lincoln, CA and hel
Skull Cleaner
Jul 11, 2006
Mike first goes to Sacramento, CA to help repair railroad tracks. Mike then heads to Louisiana to learn how to make "boudin" (Cajun sausage). Mike then cuts and fry's pig skins to
Geoduck Farmer
Jul 18, 2006
Mike first heads off to California to help tear down a dam so trout on the endangered species list can spawn. Mike then goes to Pennsylvania to restore a church's pipe organ, a pro
Fuel Tank Cleaner
Jul 24, 2006
Mike heads to a good old fashioned steel town in Pennsylvania to work at a 75 year old candy store named Wertz Candies making all sorts of candy treats. Mike then goes to Californi
Coal Miner
Aug 8, 2006
Mike helps a family in New Jersey demolish and recycle parts from 100 year old buildings on an old college campus. Finally, Mike enters the dangerous world of a coal miner in an up
Hoof Cleaner
Aug 15, 2006
Mike Rowe first joins a crew at a rock quarry in Washington and learns what it takes to make gravel from loading rocks to blowing up a side of a mountain. Next, Mike gets hip deep
Alpaca Shearer
Aug 22, 2006
Mike once again joins up with the guys of Taylor Shellfish Farms to help them harvest mussels. Next he goes to Hawaii to learn about harvesting taro. Finally, Mike joins a family o
Monkey Caretaker
Aug 29, 2006
Mike Rowe meets his match when he travels to South Africa to take care of monkeys that are being trained to go back into the wild
Snake Researcher
Nov 28, 2006
Mike Rowe wrangles some water snakes, steps into the shoes of hard working bait and lobster fishermen in Maine, and opens the viewer mail bag which results in some seaweed trimming
Penguin Keeper
Dec 5, 2006
Even though Mike has worked with concrete before in Dallas, he visits concrete workers in California today to learn the art of concrete stamping. Then he goes to New Orleans to ca
Bell Maker
Dec 12, 2006
Mike Rowe rolls up his sleeve and gets dirty making giant bells at the McShane Bell Foundry. Mike also gets down and dirty with the US Army Corps of Engineers as they conduct yearl
Mosquito Control Officer
Dec 19, 2006
Mike helps New Orleans residents restore, rebuild and revive their city in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.