As of July 2026, Dirty Jobs Season 2 aired in 2006 with 20 episodes — streaming now on HBO Max. Full episode guide and where to watch below.
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Dirty Jobs Season 2

2006 20 Episodes Reality · Comedy ⭐ 7/10

Dirty Jobs Season 2 has quietly become one of the more dependable comedies currently available on and . The show says what it needs to say in a single season, no filler. 98 people have weighed in on TMDB, and the verdict leans heavily positive. Mike Rowe sets the tone, and the rest of the cast matches it scene for scene. There is no real reason to keep putting it off.

Part of the current wave of titles people are actually watching, Dirty Jobs Season 2 earns its spot. The jokes in Dirty Jobs Season 2 land because the characters underneath them are worth caring about. Season 2 of Dirty Jobs includes 20 episodes. It aired from January 2006 to December 2006. This season stars Mike Rowe. Mike Rowe leads a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 2006. The timing in Dirty Jobs Season 2 is precise enough that even the throwaway lines land on a second watch. There is real craft here, even in the moments that do not fully land.

If you need a comedy that actually makes you laugh, Dirty Jobs Season 2 is a strong candidate. If you have run out of similar titles to watch, this is a strong next pick. A contained run means every episode is doing real work. Mike Rowe anchors an ensemble with real chemistry. Genuinely funny, consistently, across the whole run.

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🎬 Dirty Jobs Season 2 — Episode Guide

E1
Avian Vomitologist
2006-01-10
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...
E2
Turkey Farmer
2006-01-17
Turkey farmer, potato farmer, waste water sewage plant
E3
Alligator Farmer
2006-01-24
Sugarcane mill, firefighter (Fremont, CA), alligator farmer
E4
Mushroom Farmer
2006-03-07
Mushroom farmer, storm drain cleaner, drain cover foundry
E5
Plumber
2006-03-14
Plumber, drilling mud, Rough necker (oil drilling)
E6
Termite Controller
2006-03-21
Concrete spreader, termite exterminator, concrete truck cleaner
E7
Casino Food Recycler
2006-06-13
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.
E8
Parade Float Dismantler
2006-06-20
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 dismant...
E9
Garbage Pit Technician
2006-06-27
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 ...
E10
Skull Cleaner
2006-07-11
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 s...
E11
Geoduck Farmer
2006-07-18
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 c...
E12
Fuel Tank Cleaner
2006-07-24
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 refuel...
E13
Coal Miner
2006-08-08
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.
E14
Hoof Cleaner
2006-08-15
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 ho...
E15
Alpaca Shearer
2006-08-22
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.
E16
Monkey Caretaker
2006-08-29
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
E17
Snake Researcher
2006-11-28
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.
E18
Penguin Keeper
2006-12-05
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.
E19
Bell Maker
2006-12-12
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.
E20
Mosquito Control Officer
2006-12-19
Mike helps New Orleans residents restore, rebuild and revive their city in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

🎭 Cast of Dirty Jobs Season 2

Mike Rowe
Mike Rowe
Self - Host

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