Mosquito Control Officer

December 19, 2006

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Dirty Jobs - S2 - E20

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Dirty Jobs: Season 2 - 20 Episode s

2x1 - Avian Vomitologist
January 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 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.
2x2 - Turkey Farmer
January 17, 2006
Turkey farmer, potato farmer, waste water sewage plant
2x3 - Alligator Farmer
January 24, 2006
Sugarcane mill, firefighter (Fremont, CA), alligator farmer
2x4 - Mushroom Farmer
March 7, 2006
Mushroom farmer, storm drain cleaner, drain cover foundry
2x5 - Plumber
March 14, 2006
Plumber, drilling mud, Rough necker (oil drilling)
2x6 - Termite Controller
March 21, 2006
Concrete spreader, termite exterminator, concrete truck cleaner
2x7 - Casino Food Recycler
June 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 and helping him process and transport yesterday's buffet leftovers to feed the pigs.
2x8 - Parade Float Dismantler
June 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 Washington 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.
2x9 - Garbage Pit Technician
June 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 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.
2x10 - Skull Cleaner
July 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 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 and maggots, including a whale carcass.
2x11 - Geoduck Farmer
July 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 process that takes a total of eight years to complete. Finally, Mike goes to Puget Sound in Washington to harvest geoduck clams, otherwise known as "gooey ducks".
2x12 - Fuel Tank Cleaner
July 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 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.
2x13 - Coal Miner
August 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 upstate Pennsylvania coal mine.
2x14 - Hoof Cleaner
August 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 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.
2x15 - Alpaca Shearer
August 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 of alpaca farmers and learns the hard way that alpacas can be pretty ill-willed animals when it comes to shearing them.
2x16 - Monkey Caretaker
August 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
2x17 - Snake Researcher
November 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.
2x18 - Penguin Keeper
December 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 care for penguins. Finally, he gets in the mud to hunt bloodworms in Maine.
2x19 - Bell Maker
December 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 yearly maintenance on a hurricane barrier that was raised from the oceans floor.
2x20 - Mosquito Control Officer
December 19, 2006
Mike helps New Orleans residents restore, rebuild and revive their city in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Mosquito Control Officer

Dirty Jobs - S2 - E20

Dirty Jobs: Season 2 - 20 Episode s

2x1 - Avian Vomitologist

2x2 - Turkey Farmer

2x3 - Alligator Farmer

2x4 - Mushroom Farmer

2x5 - Plumber

2x6 - Termite Controller

2x7 - Casino Food Recycler

2x8 - Parade Float Dismantler

2x9 - Garbage Pit Technician

2x10 - Skull Cleaner

2x11 - Geoduck Farmer

2x12 - Fuel Tank Cleaner

2x13 - Coal Miner

2x14 - Hoof Cleaner

2x15 - Alpaca Shearer

2x16 - Monkey Caretaker

2x17 - Snake Researcher

2x18 - Penguin Keeper

2x19 - Bell Maker

2x20 - Mosquito Control Officer

Dirty Jobs: All seasons

S0: Specials

S1: Season 1

S2: Season 2

S3: Season 3

S4: Season 4

S5: Season 5

S6: Season 6

S7: Season 7

S8: Season 8

S9: Down Under

S10: Season 10

S11: Season 11