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Dirty Jobs : Season 8
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Air date: 13 Dec '11 - 11 episodesDirty Jobs is a program on the Discovery Channel, produced by Pilgrim Films & Television, in which host Mike Rowe is shown performing difficult, strange, disgusting, or messy occupational duties alongside the typical employees. The show premiered with two pilot episodes in November 2003. It returned as a series on July 26, 2005, running for 8 seasons until September 12, 2012. The show's setting was refocused in Australia for the eighth season, advertised as Dirty Jobs Down Under. There is also a European edition of the show, hosted by Danish former goalkeeper Peter Schmeichel. On November 21, 2012, Mike Rowe announced that Discovery Channel had cancelled Dirty Jobs.
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List of Episodes (11)
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Dirty Jobs (2003)
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1. Fish Squeezer
13 Dec '11Mike travels to New Mexico to work as a Fish Squeezer with the Department of Game and Fish. Then he heads to Virginia to practice the ancient art of pet acupuncture on a goat named Lilly.
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2. Fossil Hunter
20 Dec '11Mike travels to a remote area near Moab, Utah, to take on the job of being a paleontologist.
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3. Doomsday Seed Banker
27 Dec '11Mike assists the Millennium Seed Bank Project, which preserves seeds that could be replanted following a catastrophic event, at the Chicago Botanic Garden.
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4. Water Softener Technician
03 Jan '12Mike becomes a water softener technician in Minnesota, and works as a coin washer at a San Francisco hotel.
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5. Barber's Assistant
10 Jan '12Mike works at a barber shop in Mobile, Ala., and visits California to work as a landfill operator.
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6. Mardi Gras Bladder Banger
17 Jan '12Working with the Knights of Revelry, a 137-year-old secret society, Mike Rowe assembles evil-spirit-warding cow bladders for the Knights Mardi Gras parade float.
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7. Medical Waste Disposal Expert
24 Jan '12Mike Rowe passes a surprisingly tranquil -- and highly entertaining -- day at Medical Waste Transport, Inc. in Sioux Falls, S.D.
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8. Dirty Little Bits
31 Jan '12Mike takes another look back at some of the unusual and quirky conversations he's had with his dirty co-workers. Using 99.9% never-before-seen footage, this special is an entertaining look at the art of communication.
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9. Tower Top Hand
07 Feb '12A radio-communications tower rises in North Dakota; Mike visits a Hollywood soundstage to commemorate his experiences in all 50 states.
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10. Onion Processor
14 Feb '12At Gills Onions, Mike Rowe slices, dices and tastes onions before cleaning out the juicing machine and parts of the reactor. Then, its off to the San Francisco Fire Department to help build wooden ladders.
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11. Dirty Conversations 2
21 Feb '12There are no second takes on Dirty Jobs, and this special shows you just what happens when you point real cameras at real people and let them talk ... while in Mike Rowes presence.
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