Dirty Jobs

Mike gets dirty at a famous barbecue joint, joins forces with a large-animal veterinarian, and finds himself deep in New Jersey sludge.

Mike Rowe samples some more of the dirtier jobs as he works with a cave biologist and then braves the ocean to search for slime eels.

Mike gets downright filthy as he cleans out a garbage hauling dump truck in San Francisco; Then he cleans out a monster sized kitty litter box for some exotic animals.

Mike heads to the edge of the Arctic Circle on the northeast side of Canada's Baffin Island to find one of the most enigmatic species of shark - the Greenland shark.

Everything goes wrong for Mike at a California mineral mine; then it's off to South Carolina to master rice milling.

While they may seem cute and cuddly, penguins create a lot of very smelly waste which Mike discovers when he heads to Audubon Zoo in New Orleans to work as a keeper for the day.

Mike Rowe takes on some more dirty jobs as he gets busy melting down scrap steel into molten metal; he then joins a river barge demolition team in St Louis.