Joe Dirt

After Brandy's father loses his leg due to his foot getting caught on railroad tracks, he blames Charlie and shoots him. After this, Joe feels the need to search for his parents. Along the way, Joe gets a series of odd jobs, such as advertising for a dentist, working on an oil rig, working at a carnival, and becoming a janitor at a New Orleans, LA elementary school. His journey also finds him helping an "Indian tracker," named Kicking Wing, improve his fireworks business. He also meets an attractive woman named Jill at the carnival where he worked, and he ends up having sex with her, but afterwards, he is afraid she may have been his long-lost sister (she wasn't); he nearly gets literally skinned by a psychopath known as "Buffalo Bob." Joe also accidentally blows the cover of Clem, the head janitor at the school where he worked; Clem was formerly involved with the mafia and had been relocated to New Orleans through a witness protection program; Clem tried to make Joe a hero after Clem rescued a science class from a student who accidentally created mustard gas, as an attempt to avoid the spotlight, but later on the news, Joe pointed out it was Clem who rescued the students (while at the same time, Joe tried to get the word out about his missing parents).

Joe has another job working on an alligator farm, and after this, he eventually does find his parents' old home in Baton Rouge, LA, but he is disappointed to find they no longer live there. With the help of a local, Joe comes to the conclusion that his real home is in Silvertown with Brandy, and he decides to give up the search for his parents and live with Brandy. Unfortunately, upon his return to Silvertown, Robby informs Joe that Brandy does not want to see Joe anymore, and Robby even shows Joe a note signed by Brandy saying that even though she found Joe's parents, Robby should not tell Joe if he calls. Joe walks away completely devestated, and that is the end of the story which lead to him becoming janitor at the radio station.

After Joe is finished telling his story, Brandy calls the radio station and informs Joe his parents are dead, and that he should go home to her. Joe's story has also touched the entire nation, he becomes a celebrity, and he is later seen on MTV's Total Request Live. On the show, Joe receives a call from his parents telling him they are not dead, and they tell him where they live. However, Joe finds his parents never really cared about him at all, and they only called him down so they could plug their business live on national television. After this discovery, Joe threatens to commit suicide by jumping off a bridge, claiming he has nobody who cares about him, but Brandy comes in time to convince him otherwise. Joe also gets roped by a policeman, which causes him to fall off the bridge; the rope prevents him from hitting the water below, but he hits his head on the underside of the bridge and is knocked unconscious. When he comes to, he sees he has a family: Brandy (who really wants to marry Joe), Kicking Wing (whose fireworks business had become a success thanks to Joe), Clem, and the alligator farm owner; Clem had been relocated to Silvertown as part of the witness protection program, and he and the alligator farm owner are also engaged.