Dirty Jobs is a program on the Discovery Channel in which host Mike Rowe is shown performing difficult, strange, and/or messy occupational duties alongside professional workers. The show premiered with three pilot episodes in November 2003. It returned as a series on July 26 2005. The episodes shown on the European Discovery Channel sometimes include scenes that were not included in the U.S. version .
An Australian version of the show commenced airing on the Nine Network from October 7 2007.
The appeal of the show is the juxtaposition of Mike Rowe, a well-spoken man of television with a sharp, sarcastic, self-deprecating wit, the blue-collar situations in which he's put, and the colorful personalities of the men and women who actually do that job for a living.
ke Rowe: [to a guy he's working with] A man who deliberately covers himself in poo is not sexy.
ke Rowe: You know your ship has come in when you get your name on your own garbage can. And your own shovel.
ke Rowe: Well, there's your problem there.
ke Rowe: I don't see what can possibly go wrong.
