What I love about this show is the respect that Mike has for the work and the workers. Sure, he's funny and uses pretty black humour, but even the best house of the richest person in the world has got a toilet which will overflow a mass of raw sewage if it'd not working properly. Enter Mike. He talks to the people who get in there and fix the things up, who clean up the crap. He mentions the unmentionable but he never talks down to anyone. He demonstrates the skills involved by trying to do the job himself, which though not always successful is usually funny. Some of the comments about this show say stuff like "I wouldn't want my kids to do this". Maybe so, but someone's got to do it. Maybe if more kids started their careers doing "Dirty Jobs" they might be better employees and/or employers later on because of it. And they might even discover that the good feeling you get from being good at a dirty job that no-one else wants to tackle. Being a farmer, I get to see all the crap jobs as well as the "good" jobs, and my experience is that usually, the dirtier the job, the more enjoyable the company of the people you work with. Mike Rowe has found that out too which is one of the reasons the show is so successful.
Review of Dirty Jobs
