Dirty Jobs Quotes

Mike Rowe: The thing I most like about the crew here on Dirty Jobs is that not *one* of them, in the years that I've known them, has ever once exhibited the slightest ounce of anything that could possibly *ever*, under any condition, be confused with good judgment.

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[after throwing a pregnant shark back into the ocean, Mike notices a small wriggling shark on the deck of the boat. The marine biologist identifies this as a baby]
Host: Did I just scare a baby out of a shark?

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Mike: That stinks a little.
Renee: You sure it's not you?
Mike: At this point, no.

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Mike: This is what you did with your back room. And you could have gone with a computer office or a library...you've got a bat cage.
Barbara: Yeah, I've decided to go with the fruit bat motif.

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Mike: [with his leg stuck in bat guano] What a stupid way to die.

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Mike: There's really not a lot of difference between an octopus and like a giant pile of snot.

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Mike: Are we walking in sand or guano?
Jim: That's powdered bat guano.
Mike: Holy shit.
Jim: I don't know if it's holy, but it's definitely shit.

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John: Worms are low maintenance, real easy to take care of. They basically do three things: they eat, they poop, and have sex.
Mike: Man, that's a great life.

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Mike: You know they throw poop at each other over at that other ranch. Just so you know.
Chris: We're a little bit cleaner facility.

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Mike: [while he's inside a septic tank] Are you a religious man, Les? I'm about to become one. I'm going to be real good for the rest of my life because I don't want to come here when I die.

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Mike: If I'm supposed to let it bite me, then who's fishing who?

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Mike: [about the catfish] Jeez, it's like a giant hunk of snot.

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Roadkill Cleaner: There's times that you have to either laugh or throw up, whatever comes first which you might as well laugh.
Mike: I'll tell you what. You laugh and I'll throw up.

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Mike: [to golf ball diver] Did you ever lose your bag of balls? That's got to be frustrating.

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Golf ball diver: You fan with your hands through the mud until you feel something hard and you grab onto it. It's gonna be a golf ball. And if it moves, you let it go.

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Horse Breeder: [said while horse breeder was pulling out manure from the horse's butt] I can identify most of our horses from this angle.
Mike: You gotta get out more.

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Mike: Nice warm day. Rough seas. The smell of freshly ground mackerel hitting you square in the face like a moist sponge. If you don't vomit in a situation like this, you never will.

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Mike: That's going in my wine? Please tell me there's another process between here and the vineyard.

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Mike: What's the coolest thing you ever found in a car you were disassembling?
Mark: One time I found a forty-five.
Mike: A forty-five... a weapon?
Mark: A weapon. I found a cassette box that was loaded with drugs.
Mike: What kinda drugs?
Mark: Green stuff in a bag, I guess it was...
Mike: Oregano, probably
Mark: Probably. Oregano to me...
Mike: What happened was that you probably got the car of an ex-cooking expert, probably.
Mark: And he was afraid someone was gonna steal his recipe and that's why he had the forty-five.

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Mike: After eight hours with L.J. III, I was trashed.

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Mike: Nobody makes a turd like that and lives.
Gary: Sure they do.
Mike: Come on, it's orange!

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Gary: The first thing we have to do, Mike, is get acquainted with this tool right here.
Mike: What is this?
Gary: This tool here is called the Pooper Scooper.
Mike: This is called a garden trowel.
Gary: For us it's a Pooper Scooper.
Mike: You're not gonna tell me that were gonna scoop the poop out of the pot with a garden trowel?

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Mike: Ho ho ho, three giant bags of poo. Who's been naughty? I'm the real bad Santa.

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Mike: And while some people might have left their hearts in San Francisco, I can tell you from my experience today, that's not all they left.

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[Mike is pushing the pigs out of a fenced area.]
Mike: Go to where your friends are peeing... Join the urine parade.

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Mike: They build a nest on top of their poo? How firm a foundation.

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Mike: [Stumbles on roof] Another colossally stupid way to die: "What happened to Mike?" - "Ah, he fell off a building." - "What was he doing?" - "Ah, he was cleaning up pigeon poo. Tragic really, cut down in the sub-prime of his life."

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Eric: Now, you're gonna wanna to take your hand and brush off the excess dirt off her vulva.
Mike: Right, with my clean gloves. Excess dirt? There's nothing here but... this vulva is encased in poo.

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Eric: This is the nursery.
Mike: The nursery! What fresh hell are we in here?

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Mike: Yeah, that's a great sound. The ground is farting at me.

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