Name: Special Effects Artist
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 25 min

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Mike Rowe works with a team of airport runway painters, examines dirty diapers for bad smells and works with spray insulation technicians.

Dirty Jobs

Spray Insulation Technician

Mike gets downright filthy as he cleans out a garbage hauling dump truck in San Francisco; Then he cleans out a monster sized kitty litter box for some exotic animals.

Exotic Animal Keeper

Mike makes reef balls to revitalize the fish and coral populations in polluted areas; then he makes soap from goats' milk and refurbishes tanks used for water storage.

Reef Ball Maker

The crew discovers the art of special effects as Mike is transformed into a zombie by special effects artist Toby Sells; helping to harvest kelp.

Special Effects Artist

Mike Rowe goes on a wild goose chase - literally; after traveling to the tundra, Mike joins forces with a team of workers that round up a flock of wild geese with airplanes.

Wild Goose Chase

Mike gets dirty as he forages through the swamps of Louisiana in search of 90,000 alligator eggs to help preserve the population of the American alligator.

Alligator Egg Collector

Hold your breath and plug your nose as Mike braves the guano-covered Vomit Island to help band and count newly-hatched herons; then he helps at a fish farm in southern California's Mojave Desert.

Vomit Island Workers

Mike Rowe endures powerful winds to help sandblast and paint Michigan's Mackinac Bridge; he then works on the space shuttle crawler transporter at the Kennedy Space Center.

Bridge Painter

Mike travels to Montgomery, New York, to learn the ancient trade of tanning leather, in which cowhide is transformed into suede; then he discovers how to make artistic jugs.

Leather Tanner

Mike treks to a Texas snake farm and fears for his life as he is charged with moving some of the most venomous, scariest, horrific snakes you ever saw.

Snake Wrangler

Mike Rowe teams up with an outdoor advertising company in Texas that teaches him the tricks of their very dirty trade.

Billboard Installer

Mike joins forces with two guys from San Diego who have mastered the art of hydro-seeding; then he rolls up his sleeves on a steam ship ferry that's over 100 years old.

Steam Ship Cleaner

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A fearless guy apprentices himself to people who perform dangerous or disgusting jobs, ranging from rattlesnake catcher and zoo cleaner to road-kill collector.

S3 E19 | Special Effects Artist