List of 30 Days episodes
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This is a list of all 30 Days episodes.
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[edit] Season 1: 2005
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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. He must familiarize himself with the city's gay culture by socializing with his roommate's friends, get a job in The Castro and meet with a lesbian reverend for a one on one conversation. In an interesting twist, a gay man has to spend 30 days with the conservative man's family at his ranch in the Midwest. | ||
| 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.
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| 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.
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[edit] Season 2: 2006
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| 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.
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| 202 | Outsourcing | August 2, 2006 |
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| 203 | Religious Perception | August 9, 2006 |
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| 204 | New Age | August 16, 2006 |
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| 205 | Abortion | August 23, 2006 |
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| 206 | Jail | August 30, 2006 |
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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. |
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