History YMMV / DirtyJobs

* MostWonderfulSound: Any time Mike sings, having a fine operatic baritone.

** The show is bad enough, and then they show those commercials [[UpToEleven where they're making beer with spit....]]

* HarsherInHindsight: Making mud for off-shore oil wells in the Gulf coast; cleaning the natural gas drilling (fracking) chemical containers.

* HarsherInHindsight: Making mud for off-shore oil wells in the Gulf coast; cleaning the natural gas drilling "fracking" (short for "fracture", not [[Series/BattlestarGalactica2003 a sci-fi swear word]]) chemical containers after watching the documentary ''[[http://gaslandthemovie.com/ Gasland]]'' (briefly: natural gas drilling is so bad for the environment that drinking water becoming flammable is the least of its problems).

* EarWorm: "On the road to Coober Pedy there's a thousand ways to die..."

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Either through the situation, Mike's comments or both, this is probably one of the funniest shows on TV because it has so many funny moments. We also have [[{{Funny/DirtyJobs}} a list]] of some of the best moments.

* HilariousInHindsight: Back when he hosted TheHistoryChannel program, ''The Most'', Mike did a segment on the world's dirtiest job: the Parisian sewer worker.

* [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Crowning Show Of Funny]]: Either through the situation, Mike's comments or both, this is probably one of the funniest shows on TV currently. We also have [[{{Funny/DirtyJobs}} a list]] of some of the best moments.

* HarsherInHindsight: Making mud for off-shore oil wells in the Gulf coast; cleaning the natural gas drilling "fracking" (short for "fracture", not [[Series/BattlestarGalacticaReimagined a sci-fi swear word]]) chemical containers after watching the documentary ''[[http://gaslandthemovie.com/ Gasland]]'' (briefly: natural gas drilling is so bad for the environment that drinking water becoming flammable is the least of its problems).

* NightmareFuel: The DECOMP LAB's forensic entomology ''body farm''. They study how pig carcasses decay and how maggots feed in, umm, various conditions. Like being crammed into a trash barrel, rolled up in a blanket, and tossed in a dumpster.
** One of the instructors for the DECOMP Lab was on the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gacy,_John_Wayne John Wayne Gacy]] case and helped analyze the nearly ''three-dozen'' bodies recovered from Gacy's property.
** If you look closely when Mike's butchering the freshly killed steer you'll notice its muscles are still twitching.
** That frigging hide-softening machine at the tannery, which looked like a possessed staple claw on steroids. Almost every single one of the tannery's machines is capable of doing gruesome damage to a person, but the "staker" is the one that Mike seemed the most terrified by, for good reason.
*** And speaking of the tannery... two words: Liquid. Hair.
*** And ''still'' on that subject, there's also the refuse left behind by the de-fleshing machine, which Mike described with horrible accuracy as "a pile of gelatinous deer."

* {{Squick}}: The obvious aside, one episode has Mike go through a tofu factory and before, during and after he complains about open blisters on his hands... a man with OPEN WOUNDS on his HAND, making FOOD and if memory serves, DIDN'T WEAR GLOVES AT ANY POINT IN THE PROCESS...

* NightmareFuel: One of the instructors for the DECOMP Lab was on the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gacy,_John_Wayne John Wayne Gacy]] case and helped analyze the nearly ''three-dozen'' bodies recovered from Gacy's property.

** That frigging lint-chewing machine at the tannery, which looked like a possessed staple claw on steroids.
** And speaking of the tannery... two words: [[spoiler: Liquid. Hair.]]
*** And still on that subject, two more words: [[spoiler: Deer. Flesh.]]
** Then there was the forensic entomology ''body farm''. They study how pig carcasses decay and how maggots feed in, umm, various conditions. Like being crammed into a trash barrel, rolled up in a blanket, and tossed in a dumpster.

** Then there was the forensic entomology ''body farm''. They study how pig carcasses decay and how maggots feed in, umm, various conditions. Like being [[StuffedIntoTheFridge crammed into a trash barrel]], rolled up in a blanket, and tossed in a dumpster.

* HarsherInHindsight: Making mud for off-shore oil wells in the Gulf coast; cleaning the natural gas drilling "fracking" (short for "fracture", not [[BattlestarGalactica a sci-fi swear word]]) chemical containers after watching the documentary ''[[http://gaslandthemovie.com/ Gasland]]'' (briefly: natural gas drilling is so bad for the environment that drinking water becoming flammable is the least of its problems).

* HarsherInHindsight: Making mud for off-shore oil wells in the Gulf coast; cleaning the natural gas drilling "fracking" (short for "fracture", not [[BattlestarGalactica a sci-fi swear word]]) chemical containers after watching the documentary ''[[http://gaslandthemovie.com/ Gasland]]'' (briefly: natural gas drilling is so bad for the environment that [[BeyondTheImpossible drinking water becoming flammable]] is the least of its problems).

* AccidentalNightmareFuel: That frigging lint-chewing machine at the tannery, which looked like a possessed staple claw on steroids.
** And speaking of the tannery... two words: [[spoiler: Liquid. Hair.]]
*** And still on that subject, two more words: [[spoiler: Deer. Flesh.]]
** Then there was the forensic entomology ''body farm'', which may have gone into [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel high octane]] territory. They study how pig carcasses decay and how maggots feed in, umm, various conditions. Like being [[StuffedIntoTheFridge crammed into a trash barrel]], rolled up in a blanket, and tossed in a dumpster.

* [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel High Octane]] NauseaFuel: The show is bad enough, and then they show those commercials [[UpToEleven where they're making beer with spit....]]
* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: One of the instructors for the DECOMP Lab was on the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gacy,_John_Wayne John Wayne Gacy]] case and helped analyze the nearly ''three-dozen'' bodies recovered from Gacy's property.
** If you look closely when Mike's butchering the freshly killed steer you'll notice its muscles are still twitching.

* HarsherInHindsight: That sheep castrating? [[http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2011/12/08/cdc-castrating-lambs-with-your-teeth-may-make-you-sick/ The CDC just issued a warning about it.]]

* NightmareFuel: That frigging lint-chewing machine at the tannery, which looked like a possessed staple claw on steroids.
** And speaking of the tannery... two words: [[spoiler: Liquid. Hair.]]
*** And still on that subject, two more words: [[spoiler: Deer. Flesh.]]
** Then there was the forensic entomology ''body farm'', which may have gone into [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel high octane]] territory. They study how pig carcasses decay and how maggots feed in, umm, various conditions. Like being [[StuffedIntoTheFridge crammed into a trash barrel]], rolled up in a blanket, and tossed in a dumpster.

* HilariousInHindsight: Back when he hosted TheHistoryChannel program, ''The Most'', Mike did a segment on the worlds dirtiest job. The Parisian sewer worker.

* [=~Hey, It's That Voice!~=]: Even if you've never seen the show, as long as you've watched Discovery (or seen a Ford commercial) any time in recent memory you have heard Mike Rowe's work, guaranteed. He provides narration on fellow DiscoveryChannel shows ''TheUltimateFighter'', ''DeadliestCatch'', ''AmericanChopper'', ''GhostLab'', ''SwampLoggers'', ''TheMost'', and ''HowTheUniverseWorks''.
** He's also replaced the British narrators for ''Wild Pacific'' and ''Human Planet''.

* FetishFuel: Hot damn, the mannequin factory. See the Getting Crap Past the Radar section on the main page.

* HeyItsThatVoice: Even if you've never seen the show, as long as you've watched Discovery (or seen a Ford commercial) any time in recent memory you have heard his work, guaranteed. He provides narration on fellow [[DiscoveryChannel Discovery Channel]] shows The Ultimate Fighter, [[DeadliestCatch Deadliest Catch]], [[AmericanChopper American Chopper]], [[GhostLab Ghost Lab]], Swamp Loggers, The Most, and How the Universe Works.

* {{Squick}}: The obvious aside, one episode has him go through a tofu factory and before, during and after he complains about open blisters on his hands... a man with OPEN WOUNDS on his HAND, making FOOD and if memory serves, DIDN'T WEAR GLOVES AT ANY POINT IN THE PROCESS...