Dirty Jobs: Season 7
Season 7 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of Dirty Jobs Season 6.
- Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
- Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
- Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
Episode Guide
Season 7 Progress Shield
Asphalt Paver
Jan 4, 2011 · 60 min
In Nebraska, Mike Rowe takes a shot at paving roads. Then, in reply to a mailbag question about his favorite animal, he recalls the time he crossed paths with a tiger crossbreed in
Rum Distiller
Jan 11, 2011 · 60 min
Mike visits a distillery, where he turns molasses into rum, hauls hoses, scours copper and works with scalding liquid.
Hair Fairy
Jan 18, 2011 · 60 min
Mike installs a metal power pole in Wyoming and later learns about how to remove lice from hair in San Francisco.
Dirty Infrastructure
Jan 25, 2011 · 60 min
Mike takes a look at America's report card on its infrastructure and also salutes the workers who help preserve it.
Scrapple Maker
Feb 1, 2011 · 60 min
Mike learns how to make a pig delicacy known as scrapple and later becomes a shoe doctor's assistant.
Blueberry Connoisseur
Feb 8, 2011 · 60 min
Mike visits the Jelly Belly Candy Company to concoct a dirty boot flavored jelly bean based on his own sweaty, grimy, filthy pair of work boots. Then he travels to Maine to harvest
Sponge Diver
Feb 15, 2011 · 60 min
Mike heads to Tarpon Springs, Florida to help collect sponges off the sea floor. Then he answers viewer mail and recounts his struggle with a metal fence post at an abandoned mine.
Cedar Log Peeler
Feb 22, 2011 · 60 min
Mike works on a fish processing boat in the Bering Sea and cleans out the fish grinder. Then he heads to the Rapid River Rustic Mill to lend a hand with debarking, peeling and proc
Termite Researcher
Mar 1, 2011 · 60 min
Mike visits with long-time fans Marilyn and Carolyn Maedel to look at never-before-seen footage at a crawfish factory in Louisiana. Then, he experiences the many hands-on duties th
Dirty DNA
Mar 8, 2011 · 60 min
Revisit of jobs related to family with Mike visiting his parents: crab fisherman ("Vexcon"), maggot farmer ("Maggot Farmer"), leech trapping ("Leech Trapper"), candy maker ("Fuel T