List of 30 Days Episodes - Season 1: 2005

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 secure all their credit cards and other money, and are not allowed to access any savings accounts.
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 (75M alive vs. 1M dead).

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 Rutledge, 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.

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