Dirty Jobs: Difference between revisions

* [[Actor Allusion]]: While working on a suspension bridge, Mike gets the job of directing traffic and he's all too happy to point out a Ford truck driving by. Guess who's the official spokesperson for Ford right now?

* [[A Date with Rosie Palms]]: Given that Mike is the master of the [[Double Entendre]], he'll make a reference to such any chance he can get.

'''Mike''': Yeah well, a lot of practice. }}

* [[Angrish]]: Mike slips into it during some especially horrifying jobs, such as when he had to dump the inedible guts of a cow - specifically the enormous stomach(s) - into a barrel.

** Mike's tendency to snark is what got him fired from the graveyard shift at [[QVC]]. Three times.

* [[Disgusting Public Toilet]]: Inevitable, given the subject matter of the show.

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: The episode about geoduck farmers (geoducks are marine bivalves with somewhat phallic mantles which can be extended upward for some distance). At one point Mike shows a newly-caught geoduck with its formerly erect mantle sagging and makes a sad face.

* [[Double Entendre]]: Mike Rowe, of course. Discovery Networks even compiled a clip titled [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqzQxMtmjn8 "King of Double Entendre"]

'''Mike:''' ...come again? }}

** One episode he worked on a tall ship and was set to police the captain's (binnacle) balls. After an entire scene with both Mike and the crew members joking, he narrates that after he finished polishing the balls, he went to see the caulker.

* [[Fun with Acronyms]]: The DECOMP ('''D'''iscovering '''E'''ntymology and '''C'''riminalistics '''O'''ver '''M'''any '''P'''rojects) Lab.

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Aside from, y'know, all the ''actual'' feces (human and non) Mike has dealt with over the years, how about the time he visited a mannequin factory, copped a feel with some undressed torsos (with a pervy far-away look on his face) and asked the guy who makes the vinyl hand replicas if he had "hundreds of hand jobs" every day? Did I mention all of this aired with no bleeping or blurring?

** And the time he was working at a bone black factory and was hammering on the side of a container while making it sound like a BDSM session. The look on the face of his host was priceless.

** During a rerun show, Mike had this gem, while holding two large, orange inflatable balls. "Like walnuts. Not many people know this, but walnuts are full of hair. And when they fall from the tree, they fall in the dirt. And no one wants their walnuts hairy and dirty. At least, not in this country." And then, after the short about the walnuts: "There you go, beer, nuts and tight spaces all in one show."

** Some behind the scenes footage from later that episode revealed that stuff was really hard to get out and it made sleeping a wholly unbearable experience for several days thereafter.

* [[Mouthy Kid]]: The cow hoof-trimmer's son:

'''Mike:''' ''(gritting teeth)'' I think they do! }}

* [[The Napoleon]]: Barsky, at least according to Mike.

* [[Nausea Dissonance]]: This happens ''all the time''. There was an episode where a cameraman literally stood under a shower of condensed raw sewage and didn't even flinch.

* [[Never Work with Children or Animals]]: Though there haven't been too many children, there have been ''plenty'' of animals, and whenever he does work with them [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GiVndB8bFlw hilarity tends to ensue].

** He'll also wear shirts and hats from previous jobs at other jobs.

* [[Punctuated Pounding]]: In "Jobs that Bite Harder", Mike is chopping fish:

* [[The Real Heroes]]: As noted in the opening narration, the jobs Mike learns about are almost entirely blue-collar, always physically demanding, and often very unpleasant, to say the least--but many of them also make the luxuries industrialized society takes for granted possible.

** No matter how much of a [[Deadpan Snarker]] Mike is during the rest of the show, there is ''always'' a moment where he takes time to recognize and thank the people that do these jobs with honest respect.

* [[Sadist Show]]: One of the most popular episodes involves Mike being bitten by snakes. Multiple times.

* [[Self-Deprecation]]: Mike is [http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/dirty-jobs-mike-rowe-bloopers.html a master at this] and allows for many of his mistakes to air, not to mention frequently snarking on himself throughout the normal action of any given show.

'''Mike:''' It doesn't matter, I'm equally incompetent with either hand. }}

** You could condense Mike's reaction to the hundreds of bizarre jobs he's done down to "You want me to do ''what''? With my ''hands''?!?"