Dirty Jobs Season 4 Episodes

Episode 1

Big Animal Vet

Tue, Jan 8, 200844 mins

Mike Rowe gets dirty at a famous barbeque joint, joins forces with a big animal veterinarian and finds himself deep in a New Jersey sludge.

Episode 2

Steel Mill Worker

Tue, Jan 15, 200844 mins

Mike Rowe gets dirty in St. Louis as he works with a river barge demolition team and then melts down the scrap steel into molten metal.

Episode 3

Cave Biologist

Tue, Jan 22, 200843 mins

Mike Rowe works with a cave biologist and then braves the high seas in search of slime eels.

Episode 4

Buoy Cleaner

Tue, Jan 29, 200843 mins

Mike Rowe gets dirty in Oregon making shingles and then jumps on a Coast Guard ship to clean dirty buoys.

Episode 5

Cranberry Farmer

Tue, Feb 5, 200843 mins

Mike Rowe gets dirty making hand made bricks in South Carolina and then masters the art of cranberry farming in Oregon.

Episode 6

Mud Mineral Excavator

Tue, Feb 12, 200844 mins

Mike Rowe gets dirty in Death Valley preparing for a gem and mineral show, helps save injured birds from a salt lake and then gets dirty working at a rice plantation in South Carolina.

Episode 7

Tight Spaces

Tue, Feb 19, 2008

Episode 8

Brown Plate Special

Tue, Feb 26, 2008

Episode 9

Dirty Jobs of the Big Apple

Mon, Apr 14, 200844 mins

Mike Rowe rolls up his sleeves and gets dirty with some of the dirtiest jobs in the big apple. First Mike climbs to the top of a giant building to build a water tower and then he masters the art of elevator repair.

Episode 10

Floating Fish Factory

Mon, Apr 21, 200844 mins

Mike goes to Alaska to try out the jobs on a fishing boat that doubles as a fish processing factory. To top it off Mike and Dave sample a buffet of assorted fish parts served up by the ship's cook. Since he's in Alaska Mike wanders out on the tundra to learn to operate a poop burner because you can't dig a hole for an outhouse in the frozen ground.

Episode 11

Dairy Cow Midwife

Mon, Apr 28, 200844 mins

Inside an Indiana dairy farm, Mike learns how to milk a cow and use a blow torch to clean her udders. Then, Mike gets the inside scoop on how to inseminate a cow. Finally, Mike gets an up-close look at fatherhood as he helps deliver baby calves.

Episode 12

Aerial Tram Greaser

Mon, May 5, 200844 mins

Mike Rowe heads to the site of a future California neighborhood where he learns that there's more to erosion control than one might think. Then Mike gets a bird's eye view of Palm Springs as he helps maintain and repair the tram 8500 feet above the city.

Episode 13

Turkey Inseminator

Mon, May 12, 200844 mins

In this Dirty Jobs episode, Mike crawls through rat drops, falling insulation, and debris to make a house more energy efficient. Then, he visits a turkey farm where a bunch of large-breasted birds are inseminated.

Episode 14

Ice Salvage Crew

Mon, May 19, 200844 mins

Mike Rowe gets dirty in Alaska as he helps protect the environment by cleaning up an oil spill and then travels to Minnesota where he works to pull a car out of a lake that has fallen through the ice.

Episode 15

Wind Farm Technician

Mon, Jun 2, 200844 mins

Mike Rowe heads to an Oklahoma wind farm and learns that going green sometimes means you've got to get brown first. Then he heads to Kentucky to clean out a sink hole that some have unfortunately turned into a garbage dump.

Episode 16

Animal Barber

Mon, Jun 9, 200844 mins

Mike Rowe and the Dirty Jobs crew travel to the Spring Brook Ranch in Kalispell, Montana to join forces with a yak and bison rancher who put him to work in his 150th Dirty Job. It's a celebration of dirt as Mike and the crew go to work.

Episode 17

Brown Before Green

Mon, Jun 16, 2008

Episode 18

Greenland Shark Quest

Tue, Jul 29, 200843 mins

In this special episode of Dirty Jobs, Mike heads to the edge of the Arctic Circle on the northeast side of Canada's Baffin Island in search of one of the most mysterious marine animal: the Greenland shark.

Episode 19

Tar Rigger

Tue, Oct 7, 200844 mins

Mike heads to San Diego to get dirty with the tar rigging crew of the Star of India, the oldest active merchant ship in the world. Then, Mike takes a look back at some of the dirty tools he's used that make civilized life possible for the rest of us.

Episode 20

Dirty Chip Maker

Tue, Oct 14, 200844 mins

Mike heads to the Dirty Potato Chips factory and learns how potato chips are made and what it takes to keep the machines used to make them clean and in working order. Then it's off to Rifle, CO where Mike attempts to clean a "monster" hidden underground.

Episode 21

Sheep Castrator

Tue, Oct 21, 200844 mins

Mike works at an automobile dealership where the job is sawing down a giant concrete wall to make room for a new wash bay, then heads to a sheep farm where he tries his hand at sheep shearing & castrating before getting treated to Rocky Mountain Oysters.

Episode 22

Leech Trapper

Tue, Oct 28, 200844 mins

Mike teams up with the boys from Bartos Bait & Fish to catch leeches that will later be sold for fish bait. Then it's off to the Green Tripe factory in Hollister, CA where Mike helps make BARF (Biologically Appropriate Raw Food) for dogs.

Episode 23

Dirty Presidents

Tue, Nov 4, 2008

Episode 24

Mannequin Factory

Tue, Nov 11, 200844 mins

Mike finds himself at the Windsorland Mobile Home Park where homes are being broken down to make room for a new shopping center, then he heads off to Patina-V where he learns that making mannequins is not only a dirty job, but a form of art as well.

Episode 25

Egg Farm

Tue, Nov 18, 200844 mins

Mike visits a Chicken Farm to see how eggs make it to the store. There, he finds out that 1.4 million chickens equal a lot of poo, which he gets the chance to clean. Later, Mike learns how dirty dirt becomes clean dirt as he sterilizes soil in Oklahoma.

Episode 26

Vellum Maker

Tue, Nov 25, 200844 mins

Mike travels to Yakama, Washington to harvest hops, the main ingredient in beer. From there Mike goes to the Hudson Valley where he turns animal hides in to paper.

Episode 27

Maggot Farmer

Tue, Dec 2, 200844 mins

Mike travels to Congress, Arizona, to try his hand at moving a giant cactus before a storm comes in. Then Mike heads to Idaho where he visits a special kind of farm, one that raises maggots.

Episode 28

Gourd Maker

Tue, Dec 9, 200844 mins

Mike travels to the middle of Connecticut to clean out a lake, then drops by a gourd farm in Pennsylvania and transforms gourds into a variety of products.

Episode 29

Brown Before Green 2

Tue, Dec 16, 2008