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CNN's Mike Rowe cleans the Mutter Museum's giant colon

Somebody's gotta do it

King of odd jobs Mike Rowe hit the Mutter Museum for his CNN show "Somebody's Gotta Do It," in which the charismatic host profiles country's strangest professions, on tonight's show.

Yeah, working at the Mutter Museum -- Philly's collection of medical oddities -- totally counts.

In the episode, airing tonight at 9, Rowe follows around museum curator Anne Dhody, giving Rowe a chance to clean out the Mutter's nine-foot-long colon that once contained up to 40 pounds of fecal matter. Rowe seems game:

The Mutter Museum kept mum on when Rowe was in town, but a rep promised there would be extras from the episode on the museum's YouTube account tomorrow afternoon.

Check out the full preview for the episode below, in which Rowe learns about conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker, leaving Rowe in the fetal position: