List of 30 Days episodes

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The following is a list of episodes for the FX reality series 30 Days.

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[edit] Series Overview

Season Episodes Originally
aired		 DVD release
date
1 6 2005 July 11, 2006
2 6 2006 July 1, 2008
3 6 2008 TBA

[edit] Season 1: 2005

# Topic Original airdate
101 "Minimum Wage" June 15, 2005
FX began airing the show on June 15, 2005, with the pilot episode "Minimum Wage," in which Morgan and his fiancée, Alex, lived for 30 days in the Bottoms neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio, trying to get by on minimum wage ($5.15 an hour). They had no access to prior cash and credit cards and lived in an apartment whose rent was less than their combined wages for one week.

Rules:

  1. They have to work minimum-wage jobs.
  2. They must start off with only one week's minimum wage pay (about $300).
  3. They must get rid of all their credit cards and other money.
102 "Anti-Aging" June 22, 2005
The second episode featured 34-year-old Scott Bridges on his quest to reverse the aging process using testosterone and growth hormone supplements. However, Scott quits after only 22 days on the program after experiencing abnormal liver functions and extreme decrease in sperm count.

Rules:

  1. He must take daily injections of growth hormones and other medications.
  2. He must eat better and get exercise.
  3. He must get weekly checkups from his doctor.
103 "Muslims and America" June 29, 2005
The third episode featured Dave Stacy, a devout Christian with seemingly offensive views of the Muslim people, who had to spend 30 days with a Muslim family.

Rules:

  1. Dave must act accordingly with all Muslim traditions, from what he wears to what he eats.
  2. Dave must study the Qur'an daily.
  3. Dave must grow a beard.
104 "Straight Man in a Gay World" July 6, 2005
The fourth episode featured a conservative Christian man (under the idea that America's way of life is under attack) who spends 30 days living with a homosexual man in his home in The Castro, a majority-gay neighborhood in San Francisco, California, USA.
  1. He must familiarize himself with the city's gay culture by socializing with his roommate's friends
  2. Get a job in The Castro
  3. Meet with the reverend of the local "gay" church for a one on one conversation.
105 "Off the Grid" July 13, 2005
Two nightclub employees with a dependence on the grid have to live off it without electricity, phone service, or Internet; they have to spend 30 days at Dancing Rabbit, an ecovillage in Missouri.

Rules:

  1. They must leave cars, electricity, and live completely off the grid.
  2. They must engage in manual labor.
  3. They must recycle everything, including their human waste products.
106 "Binge Drinking Mom" July 20, 2005
In a Freaky Friday style of intervention of a daughter's future possibility of drinking, a mother begins to binge drink for 30 days as her daughter watches what a person would go through (e.g., vomiting, hangovers, and drunkenness). As the mother teaches the daughter, the mother ends up learning about the pressure teens experience to drink.

Rules:

  1. The mother must drink as much as a college student - at least four days a week.
  2. To count as "binge drinking," the mother must drink at least four drinks in two hours.
  3. She must go about her daily schedule as normal, despite sickness or hangovers.

[edit] Season 2: 2006

# Topic Original Airdate
201 "Immigration" July 26, 2006
The second season begins with a reaction to recent immigration protests by placing a border-patrolling Minuteman - who, incidentally, had legally immigrated to America from Cuba as a child - in a home of illegal immigrants.

Rules:

  1. Leave any and all identification behind.
  2. Move in with a family of immigrants and live in their house.
  3. He will be put to work as a day laborer.
202 "Outsourcing" August 2, 2006
The second episode of season 2 involves an unemployed computer programmer, Christopher Jopin, who had his job outsourced to India. He travels to India to work and find out why so many American jobs are being outsourced there.

Rules:

  1. Chris must relocate to India.
  2. Chris must live with a family that works in outsourced jobs.
  3. Chris must train and work in an outsourced job.
203 "Religious Perception" August 9, 2006
A firm atheist must live among a family of devout Christians.

Rules:

  1. Must live with a family of devout Christians
  2. Must go to Church once a week
  3. Must go to Bible Study once a week
204 "New Age" August 16, 2006
A high-strung, stressed out salesman (Tom) is introduced to a New Age "life guide" who compels him to participate in a number of New Age ceremonies, treatments, discussions, etc., much to the chagrin of his live-in girlfriend.

Rules:

  1. Tom has to accept a life coach as his spiritual mentor and advisor.
  2. He must open his consciousness and release his body to new age healers.
  3. He must attend and participate in a variety of new age rituals.
205 "Abortion" August 23, 2006
29 year old Jennifer from Atlanta is a counselor at a reproductive health clinic who is strongly pro-choice. For 30 days she'll live in His Nesting Place, a residential Christian crisis pregnancy center in Long Beach, California run by former Operation Rescue activists.[1]

Rules:

  1. Must move in to a religious, pro-life crisis pregnancy center
  2. Must obey house rules
  3. Must participate in pro-life activities
206 "Jail" August 30, 2006
Series creator Spurlock spends thirty days in the Henrico County Jail in Richmond, Virginia.

Rules:

  1. Must be treated exactly the same as all other inmates.
  2. Must spend 72 hours in solitary confinement.
  3. Limited to two visits only from friends or family outside. His first visit is from his mother and brother, and the second is from his fiancé, Alexandra.

At the end of the episode, it is revealed that two of the inmates Spurlock befriended (and were released during the 30 days) were re-incarcerated a few months later.

[edit] Season 3: 2008

# Topic Original airdate
301 "Working in a Coal Mine" June 3, 2008

Morgan Spurlock goes to West Virginia to work in a coal mine. He explores the detrimental effect burning coal has on the environment. Spurlock talks about the practice of surface mining, which is destroying the landscape in his native West Virginia.
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302 "30 Days in a Wheelchair" June 10, 2008

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303 "Animal Rights" June 17, 2008

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304 "Same Sex Parenting" June 24, 2008

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305 "Gun Nation" July 1, 2008

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306 "Life on an Indian Reservation" July 8, 2008

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