How many episodes in 2 season: 36 episodes
Mike first heads off to Pasadena, California and discovers the difficult step by step process in patching up a roof. Then he goes to New Jersey and helps move a 60 ton, 225 year old house.
Mike visits a coffee plantation in Hawaii and learns about the long process in how to make coffee from picking the beans to roasting them. He then goes to Sausalito, CA to be a marine mammal rescuer and help rehabilitate injured seals. Finally, Mike learns about ostrich farming from daily upkeep to collecting their eggs.
Mike visits the San Francisco Zoo and learns what it's like to be a zookeeper. He then goes to a haunted cheese factory in Vermont and learns the art of patience. Finally, Mike learns how to be a volcano ash mud bath mixer (spa technician) in Calistoga, CA and takes a mud bath after a very dirty day. That's not all - Mike also journeys to a live volcano in Hawaii and gets up close and personal with some very hot lava.
Mike goes to South Carolina and learns about shrimping. He also helps study the shrimp population in order to find out when it's time to open the shrimping season. He then goes to the swamps of Louisiana to catch some crawfish. Finally, Mike goes to Washington state to clean up an illegal tire dump and recycle some tires.
Mike goes to Washington state and helps build a house out of cob, which is basically a combination of sand, clay, and straw. He then heads to California and works alongside Dave the bee man to get rid of some bees infesting a church. Finally, Mike goes back to Washington and helps clean out the old oil from a deep fryer at a Mexican restaurant. The oil is then recycled into bio-diesel fuel.
Mike begins by traveling to Palo Alto, CA to learn how to be a pet groomer. He then goes to Hawaii to turn happy green algae into unhappy red algae to be used as antioxidant gelcaps for human consumption. Finally, Mike goes to Missouri to learn how to be a charcoal factory worker.
Mike first goes to the Chimney Safety Institute of America in Plainfield, IN and learns how to be a certified chimney sweeper. He then goes to Ontario, Canada to salvage underwater logs, which are then used to make furniture. Finally, Mike visits a scrap metal recycler in St. Louis, MO and learns how to separate different metals and operate some big machines.
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 travels to Texas to palpate cows, a process used to figure out if a cow is pregnant. He also gets a little too familiar with a bull.
Mike first heads off to Texas and learns what it takes to be a turkey farmer. He then goes to the Colorado Rockies and works as a potato farmer. Finally, Mike gets neck deep in poo as he goes to San Francisco's Westside Pumping Station to replace a lift pump that helps process raw sewage.
Mike heads off to Louisiana to be a sugar cane farmer and learns the difficult process in making sugar. He then trains as a firefighter in Fremont, CA by burning down an abandoned home. Finally, Mike returns to Louisiana to visit an alligator farm. He learns that some are returned to the wild and others are used for their meat and skin.
Mike first heads off to California and finds out just how dirty mushroom farming can be by first making compost, then planting and picking mushrooms. He then goes to Los Angeles to clean out storm drains filled with litter. Finally, Mike finds out just how shower drains are made at the Lincoln Foundry in Erie, PA.
Mike begins the show by heading off to Oklahoma to track down his old catfish noodling friend for some plumbing lessons. He then goes to Louisiana and works at a mud factory where they blend custom made mud used for drilling oil and gas wells. Finally, Mike puts that special mud to use and learns the art of oil well drilling with some roughneckers.
Mike goes to Texas to help build a road by stepping into the shoes of a concrete spreader. He then heads off to Louisiana and reunites with the Vexcon exterminators to rid a local church of termites. Finally, Mike helps chips away at the back of concrete trucks.
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 and helping him process and transport yesterday's buffet leftovers to feed the pigs.
Mike first goes to a Pennsylvania coal processing plant and learns how to make coke, a carbonized coal used to make iron which in turn is used to make steel. He then goes to Washington state to an oyster shucking plant and works alongside a very dirty girl. Finally, Mike goes to Pasadena, CA to dismantle floats from the Tournament of Roses Parade.
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. He then goes to Lincoln, CA and helps make large scale terra cotta building sculpture pieces from recycled terra cotta sewer pipes. Finally, Mike visits a garbage processing plant in San Francisco where food and assorted scraps are passed through a rolling cylinder and "digested" to make a methane gas energy supply.
Mike first goes to Sacramento, CA to help repair railroad tracks. He then heads to Louisiana to learn how to make "boudin" (Cajun sausage). Mike then cuts and fries pig skins to make "cracklin" (pork rinds). Finally, Mike goes to Oklahoma and joins a skull cleaning business to learn how to clean skulls and bones using beetles.
Mike first heads off to California to help tear down a dam so trout on the endangered species list can spawn. He then goes to Pennsylvania to restore a church's pipe organ, a process that takes a total of eight years to complete. Finally, Mike goes to Puget Sound in Washington state to harvest geoduck clams.
Mike heads to Pennsylvania to work at Wertz Candies, a 75 year old candy store. He then goes to California and works as a tire retreader. Finally, Mike goes to McConnell AFB in Kansas to help repair the fuel tanks of a refueling tanker aircraft.
Mike helps a family in New Jersey demolish and recycle parts from 100 year old buildings on a college campus. Then Mike enters the dangerous world of a coal miner in upstate Pennsylvania.
Mike Rowe first joins a crew at a rock quarry in the state of 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 in mud and muck working with the hippo keepers at the Adventure Aquarium in Camden, NJ. Finally, Mike helps a crew of hooftrimmers give some cows a pedicure and later cleans a cow foot bath.
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 of alpaca farmers and learns the hard way that alpacas can be pretty ill-willed animals when it comes to shearing them.
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.
Mike steps into the shoes of hard working bait and lobster fishermen in Maine. Then he opens the viewer mail bag which results in some seaweed trimming. Finally Mike wrangles some water snakes in Lake Erie.
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 care for penguins. Finally, Mike gets in the mud to hunt bloodworms in Maine.
Mike Rowe rolls up his sleeves and gets dirty making giant bells at the McShane Bell Foundry. He also gets down and dirty with the US Army Corps of Engineers as they conduct yearly maintenance on a hurricane barrier that was raised from the ocean floor.
Mike helps New Orleans residents restore, rebuild and revive their city in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
First Mike helps cut down trees and remove tree stumps in California. He then gets himself dirty with some fainting goats in Tennessee. Finally, he visits a place that breeds exotic insects in New Orleans.
Mike first goes to northern California to count dead salmon. He then opens up the mail bag and answers a viewer's question about the snake researcher segment. Just when Mike thought he had seen it all, he visits a cow farm in Connecticut that specializes in making gardening pots out of cow manure.
Mike joins forces with a master-cooper, or in laymen's terms, a barrel maker. Mike also teams up with some mule loggers.
Mike joins the Bowie BaySox team at Prince Georges Stadium in Maryland acting as a groundskeeper. Next he fixes boat moorings with a former Navy SEAL. He then joins Watson Water company digging deep through mud, rock, gravel, sand and water as they drill for geo-thermal heat in Tennessee.
Mike helps dig tunnels that are used as underground wine caverns. Later he works behind the scenes with Southwest Airlines as a baggage handler. He also gets to work with the airport incinerator.
Mike goes underground in Hutchinson, Kansas to learn about mining rock salt. This episode also focuses on the behind the scenes action in filming the show.
Mike first heads off to Napa Valley to learn how to make wine. Mike then gets dirty at a Kansas cattle ranch learning about the cattle business.
Mike heads off to San Diego, California to learn the dirty job of hydroseeding. He then reads a viewer's letter and shows us never before seen footage from a previous episode. Finally Mike gets dirty cleaning up a 100 year old steam yacht.
It's an extravaganza of Really Dirty Animals as Mike Rowe looks back at spitting alpacas, fainting goats, wild monkeys, pregnant cows, cheating penguins, kicking ostriches, squealing pigs and runaway mules. There's new footage, updates and old favorites.
