Dirty Jobs

- Season 7

(2010)

Mike visits an exotic animal ranch near Dallas and is reminded, after a bite or three, that the best way to handle wild animals is not to handle them. Still, in addition to breeding porcupines, exercising the camel, cutting the bearcat's toenails, catching pregnant kangaroos and feeding their babies, he gets to do fun stuff like cleaning up lemur poop.

Mike tries to evade a pack of blood hounds to train them for police duty. Then it's into the swamp, on air boats again, to purge the Everglades of invasive plants; first hacking away at unwanted trees then light wildfires to clear grass.

Mike works with the Fish and Wildlife Service to discover all the tricks they use to control the sea lampreys that threaten Great Lakes commercial fish. Then Mike makes shark food at the Mandalay Bay aquarium.

Mike and the crew climb a tottering ladder onto a Mississippi hot roof to install lightening rods. But that's just the beginning. Next there's wiring them all together in a sweltering attic.

Mike travels to Lucedale, Mississippi to try his hand at installing a lightning rod system on a home.

Mike spends a day working at Ohio Valley Natural Fibers where he makes yarn from fleece. Then he goes to work at a day spa in Michigan where he helps wax hair off of his good friend Barsky.

Mike travels to Fremont, CA, to help maintain a bowling center. Then he responds to a letter from one of his fans who wants to see more footage of cameraman Doug.

Mike learns to collect forensic evidence by studying rotting, putrid, maggot infested, pig carcasses. Then Mike heads to the lab to see if his guesses about how long the pigs were dead is correct.

Mike goes to Ketucky to learn about race horse nutrition. That involves collecting the horse's vital statistic from it's blood, poop and pee. Fortunatly there are plenty of flies to distract Mike while he prepares the samples.

Mike works with a falconer to chase birds away. Then Mike butchers a cow from the hoof clear through to steaks.

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After a quick behind the scenes visit to a gun range Mike scales a male date palm tree to harvest its pollen. Then its up to the top of a whole bunch of female trees to fertilize them. In another behind the scenes sequence Mike fights with an apron and a couple plastic buckets.

Mike thinks he has the good job operating the heavy duty paving equipment until he gets to the sweeper. The paver is a bit too complicated for Mike and bad things happen. But he's happy to do some touch up work with the steam roller.

You would think that working in a distillery that provides free drinks to its employees would be Mike's dream job. But he quickly learns there is a great deal of work to do before enjoying the fruits of his labor.

Mike helps replace a power pole in Wyoming, and then learns about lice at the Hair Fairies shop in San Francisco.

Mike introduces clips from previous episodes with a focus on the infrastructure of America.

Mike learns all about making Scrapple, then gets a lesson in taking care of shoes from the shoe doctor at the St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco.

Mike harvests sponges from the gulf floor off Tarpon Springs Florida, and then struggles to remove a fence post.

Mike cleans a fish guts grinder for an Alaskan fish processor, and then shows us how cedar logs are prepared to become part of a log cabin home.

Mike processes crayfish, and the travels to Sapelo Island in Georgia to learn about termites.

A clip show where Mike (host) takes us back for a look at previous jobs involving family members.