MartinHafer This reality series follows the host as he learns to do a lot of jobs that are 'dirty'. Some clearly make the participant dirty, some are revolting and some are much more scary than anything else. Regardless, the show celebrates the people who do these jobs that make our lives easier.Mike Rowe starred in this disgusting but highly enjoyable series. In fact, the show was often so disgusting that I got to thinking why I enjoyed it and why it had so many episodes. I think the key is that Rowe has a really nice TV persona. You find that you like him due to many reasons, such as his easy-going manner, his self-deprecation and his ability to make the often dull seem a lot more interesting. So, while the show occasionally was so disgusting I found myself queasy, it balanced that with a fun style and likable host--and that was the only way it could have worked. Highly watchable despite the subject matter.

ctomvelu1 I have been a big fan of this show since its inception. Host Mike Rowe, a familiar voice from another documentary-type show, roots around in the most unimaginable places to help us understand how our world works. Some of my favorite episodes have had to do with wildlife and farm creatures, including an episode shot in Alaska or Canada involving winter sharks and one focused on a western ranch containing buffalo, yaks and other big, hairy beasts. An alligator farm episode is another terrific example of this one-of-a-kind show These are educational and entertaining at the same time, in a different way than when Rowe is just sticking his head in mounds of sludge, fumbling through slippery caves and salt mines or playing with some dead creature's entrails. Rowe occasionally indulges in some off-color humor, which any tots watching likely will miss.

xredgarnetx I have fallen mightily for this quirky show about jobs most of us do not do, never will do, and haven't the vaguest idea who does them or how they are done. Not all are dirty jobs, but even then, the show is mighty entertaining. One episode took the host and his crew to Australia or South Africa to swim with the great whites and test something or other by way of a repellent. The only dirty part of the job was chumming, but the whole episode was extremely educational and funny at the same time, and was the type of episode that should be shown in every school in America. DIRTY JOBS is DISCOVERY CHANNEL at its best. Even when this guy is rolling around in the worst kind of muck, we learn something. He did an episode in a salt mine that was astounding in both the drama of an incredibly hazardous and scary real-life job and the wonderful educational aspects. I assumed at first DISCOVERY CHANNEL dreamed up the show and then hired an actor. Wrong. The actor in question dreamed up the show and brought it to the channel. Perfection. A must see, along with the equally innovative and educational CASH CAB.

nvserv Instead of the pompous type of show we've become inured to, Dirty Jobs is a show that doesn't take itself too seriously. Host Mike Rowe shows us what the people who keep our lives clean do to make them that way. From cleaning up chewing gum, cleaning out sewers, working the salt mines, tarring roofs and more, Mike shows us what's involved in those nasty little jobs we don't think about and what those who do them for us experience every single workday.Mike has a self-deprecating sense of humor, and I've never seen him shy away from getting dirty. He's literally been right there underneath it all when the charcoal dust fell. Somehow, I can't see a lot of other hosts putting themselves in that position.