Original title
Oddities
Released
11/4/2010
Origin country
US
Genre
Documentary, Reality
Production companies
Leftfield Pictures
Status
Returning series
Number of seasons
5
Number of episodes
78
Oddities is a half-hour documentary/reality television program which follows the operation of an East Village, Manhattan shop which trades in antiques and other rarities. The show premiered on November 4, 2010, and airs on the Discovery Channel and its sister network, the Science Channel. Oddities focuses on the day-to-day operation of Obscura Antiques & Oddities, and stars co-owners Mike Zohn and Evan Michelson and buyer Ryan Matthew, with appearances by other employees and customers. The store's employees search flea markets, personal collections, auctions, and antique shows for unique and unusual artifacts. Odd items bought and sold by the shop or featured on the show have included a mummified cat, a Rhesus monkey skull, art made from nail clippings, and a straitjacket.
Oddities, Best of Season 3
A collector offers a mummified cat for sale; a playwright with a passion for straitjackets; musket balls with strange origins.
A model turned mortician makes a bizarre request; a shopper's purchase makes Mike gag; fossil dinosaur feces.
Ryan seeks a high-end monkey skull; a customer looks for the perfect item to prank his girlfriend; an ancient medical concoction.
Ryan tries to create an exploding skull; Evan searches for a prosthetic limb; a customer brings in what looks like a dead body in their trunk.
An ancient Egyptian artifact; artwork made from human nails; a medical bag.
An elusive stuffed sloth; a Victorian medical device; a bloodletting kit for a pain artist.
Hunting for a vintage human skeleton; pickled pig; a police officer's Victorian machine.
A customer has Evan scrambling to find the perfect gift for his dentist; Mike and Evan get a show by the world's smallest escape artist; medical oddities from around the world.
Two magicians are looking for a special piece of taxidermy that only Ryan can create.
In Obscura Antiques & Oddities, a seller brings a book to Obscura that she thinks is bound in human skin.
A seller stops by the shop to gather offers on what he claims to be a genuine shrunken human head; a composer of black metal looks to a dark inspiration for his craft; a performance artist offers up a concert on his unique trumpet.
At Obscura Antiques and Oddities, shop regular Laura Flook stumbles upon a disturbing, mysterious tonic -- made with actual testicles. Meanwhile, when a customer can’t part with his beloved "pets," Ryan accepts a challenge to "rebuild" them from recently unearthed remains. He hits a serious snag when pieces of the formerly-purring pair are missing, forcing him to take some artistic liberties that the customer finds intriguing. Later, when a seller offers to part with what he calls a mummified human ear, Mike and Evan must call in their expert to find out if it’s the real deal.
When a seller brings three jars of grotesque, deformed pigs to Obscura Antiques and Oddities, Mike thinks they may be the perfect items for a restaurant owner up the street. When they are turned down for being "unappetizing" Mike and Ryan must scramble to find a replacement piece for the eatery. Meanwhile, Evan unexpectedly meets a kindred spirit: a customer who purchases one of her favorite, painstakingly restored pieces of Victorian hair art. And a mysterious artist who paints in his own blood makes a deal on a WWI blood transfusion kit, and takes Mike and Evan on a tour of his work.
At Obscura Antiques and Oddities, Jonathan Davis, of the band Korn, sends Mike and Evan on a hunt for some very specialized embalming equipment. They find a family-owned mortuary that has gone out of business, but will the funeral director be willing to let go of his family’s history? Meanwhile, a customer stops by in hopes of selling a huge piece of freaky Americana, but Ryan isn’t sure if Mike is going to appreciate the purchase. And Mike attempts to sell a Feejee Mermaid to a woman who has some amazing reptilian features of her own.
At Obscura Antiques and Oddities, regular customer Edgar is looking for a very special desk lamp. When Evan presents him one made of a baboon’s paw, he feels it may be too spooky, even for this eccentric buyer. Then, Ryan gets a lesson in love a beautiful bone artist stops in to try to sell an articulated rooster skeleton. Ryan plans a romantic date, but things take a turn for the worse when he brings her to meet another bone artist -- and his flesh-eating beetles. Meanwhile, a seller tries to peddle teddy bears (made of her boyfriend’s sweaty belly button lint) to Mike and Evan.
At Obscura Antiques and Oddities, Mike and Evan are intrigued when a sleep-deprived customer stops in to unload a nightmarishly large bat -- and its huge fangs. Then, a buyer who turns century-old inventions into new, working technology with Victorian flair sends Mike and Evan on the hunt for a quack medical device that he can use as a video game controller. Later, Mike takes a chance purchasing a very creepy, mute "talking doll" created by Thomas Edison, then reunites the doll with its voice box to hear what it might have sounded like 100 years ago.
At Obscura Antiques and Oddities, Mike and Evan are speechless when they witness an artist boldly attempt to steal the store’s dust -- and then sell it back to them. Then, a high-end buyer wants Mike to create a massive piece of specialized taxidermy. Mike takes the challenge, but finds the cost to create it is way over the customer’s budget. Mike must decide whether to renege on the deal, or take a gamble on a potentially huge loss for the store. Later, an amazingly flexible grandmother falls in love with an adorable stuffed feline, and performs an incredible act of contortion to get a discount.
A bizarre medical specimen is sought for a photo shoot; an artist happens upon a corrective device; an impalement artist purchases a throwing knife once owned by Harry Houdini.
At Obscura Antiques and Oddities Evan and Ryan meet an artist whose favorite medium is bodily secretions -- but now she wants to go in a different direction, and needs something she can really sink her teeth into. Then, a sideshow performer requests a usable prop from Coney Island's heyday. Later, customers come to the shop with what they think is an old leather diving helmet, only to find that there is more to this helmet than they thought.
While on the hunt for items for Obscura Antiques and Oddities, Mike locates an old plasticized piece of human anatomy, and finds it to be more of an eye-popping experience than he expected. Then, Mike’s wife Kris recruits Evan and Ryan to find the perfect birthday gift for Mike. Later, Actress Chloe Sevigny wanders in, and finds a lewd old-time gag that she gets a rise out of.
Edgar Oliver is back at Obscura Antiques & Oddities looking to create a mad scientist laboratory in his new apartment. Then Mike attempts to birth a 2-bodied bird, and Ryan encounters a man trying to acquire body parts to use in his next movie.
At Obscura Antiques & Oddities a patron tries selling 3 pickled hearts, but 1 may have a sinister past. Later Evan's friend Jonathan attempts hypnotizing her for a good deal, and a customer trades a peculiar item that has been traumatizing his daughter.
At Obscura Antiques & Oddities, a new customer finds himself trying to escape from a rare set of handcuffs and Mike & Ryan scramble to find the skeleton of a little racecar driver. Later a mother invests in a very hairy piece of shop real estate.
It's the oddest shopping season of the year at Obscura Antiques & Oddities. A yogi twists more than an arm for a discount, Mike & Evan dig up some (road) killer taxidermy for Laura's holiday party. The toe nail artist returns with a new product line.
It's a trip down memory lane with Mike & Evan as they relive the very best of everything odd from the first 2 seasons. It's a look back at the the curious customers, most amazing items and freakiest sideshow performances at Obscura Antiques & Oddities.
Sparks fly when Mike and Evan meet an evil clown and his power grinder; Ryan opens an old wound with Mike when he falls in love with the shop's new piece of freak taxidermy; a customer is left holding a smoking lung.
A horned patron looks to rid himself of a possessed dummy; Ryan must create a new preparation of exploded skull, but finds the process really stinks; a woman with 18-inch fingernails bonds with Evan over the prostate.
A customer receives a two-fer on a pickled pooch; Mike and Evan find a rare helmet designed to cure the insane; and a customer seeks an alternative cure for her nasal problems.
A customer brings in what appears to be an unexpected appendage from a Mummy, but is it the real deal? Then, a customer gets a crack to the skull when he tries out restraints made for a child, and a man stares Ryan down with a one eyed pig.
A burlesque performer has Mike and Evan seeing scars when she asks them to find a very special item. Then, Evan tests out a rare glass mortician table, and Ryan finds his inner Buddha when he hears the sweet sound of a human skull drum.
Mike and Evan lend a hand to legendary Toxic Avenger director, Lloyd Kaufman. Later, a chainsaw wielding performer flips out on the team, and a customer reveals a taboo piercing kit that isn't used to put holes in ears.
A boy wants to sell his hamster, but it's not what Mike and Evan were expecting. Then, Ryan and Monique get wrapped up in their second date -- and this time, they consult a sorceress. Later, Mike & Evan brace for Adventure.
Evan and Ryan must locate a body modification item for a tattoo shop. Then, Mike and Evan get drilled by a blockhead looking for a piece to stick up his nose, and a traveling museum finds a WWII parachute that didn't drop troops.
Mike considers buying a bizarre baboon that begs; a customer is looking to unload a creepy cauldron used in the practice of black magic; Ryan feels the heat when a performer nearly lights the shop on fire.
The Obscura Antiques & Oddities team goes to LA, where Mike & Evan are commissioned to find a macabre item for The Mistress of Darkness! Ryan stops by rock star Wes Borland's incredible skull collection, and later finds out that you can actually buy a brain!
A beautiful woman brings in bizarre jewelry made from some not so precious stones. Then Mike and Evan hunt for a mummified human body part, and a horror producer straps on an item made to stop her from eating her own hair.
A woman hires Mike and Evan to procure vintage autopsy equipment for her grandfather's body; a human pincushion visits.
Evan and Mike deliver eyeballs to a woman who makes art from animal tongues; Mike obtains a set of vampire fangs; Brent Hinds from the band Mastodon visits; Evan gets ready for a steampunk party.
At Obscura Antiques & Oddities, an artist flips for Evan's look and wants to create a life sized wax model of her. Then, Ryan calls an expert to figure out what a torturous looking item really is and Mike gets a very disturbing look at life as a sailor.
Obscura Antiques & Oddities heads to Texas when an astronaut sends Mike and Evan on a mission to keep his Austin home weird. The challenge puts the two in contact with a mummy, a man who lifts incredible weights and an unpredictable Black Scorpion.
At Obscura Antiques & Oddities tensions mount as Ryan and Mike compete head-to-head in an annual taxidermy contest. Then, Judah Friedlander stops by and finds his calling with Mike & Evan. Later, a huge customer starts ripping things apart in the store.
On a trip to LA, Mike, Evan, and Ryan uncover the weird side of that city. Ryan meets with Dita Von Teese to look for a piece of bird taxidermy. Mike and Evan visit the world's fastest talking man, a bunny museum, and the Institute of Abnormal Art.
Finding a new shop centerpiece weird enough to celebrate their new space.
An explorer convinces Mike he is no dummy; a customer touts a therapy device.
An odd flower vase is pitched to Ryan. Also: A photographer wants to use a skull-camera hybrid to shoot Mike and Evan.
At Obscura Antiques & Oddities an urban elf seeks a ouija board for her celluloid séance. Then Mike & Evan try to obtain an ear, nose & throat for a doctor who saved their customer's life, and Ryan learns why you don't stick your tongue out at strangers.
At Obscura Antiques & Oddities, gangrene attacks when a customer hires Mike & Evan to find something stranger than his scars. Then, a walking monster sees what it's like to be scared to death, and Ann exercises another dose of quack medicine.
At Obscura lizards run wild when a reptile specialist adopts a new pet. Then Mike & Evan are hired by a TV producer to breathe life into the undead for his zombie hunter series and a customer gets a token for his friend's parasite of an ex-wife.
At Obscura Antiques & Oddities bar and taxidermy owner Nic hires Mike & Evan to find him a unique stuffed animal. Then a patron goes nuts after realizing he did not grab the bull by its horns, and a customer catches Ryan's ear while playing with saws.
At Obscura Antiques & Oddities Mike bugs out seeking the ultimate insect for a customer's diorama project. Then Evan & Ryan pitch a TV host items that'll leave his audience cringing with glee & Ryan gives a steampunk captain a window to nether regions.
At Obscura Antiques & Oddities, anatomical blast from the past Slim Goodbody enlists Mike & Evan to find him an awesome educational prop. Then eyes pop when a customer seeks ocular inspiration, and Ryan braces for trouble as he meets a village idiot.
At Obscura Antiques & Oddities, a patron who tried selling a fake mummy phallus returns claiming now he has the real thing. A customer discovers her 9-banded armadillo is missing some bands. Ryan is confronted with a test of strength.
At Obscura Antiques & Oddities Ryan's artistic protégé seeks the biggest skull he can find. Then Mike & Evan brace for the end of the world when a customer forces them to break out emergency supplies and another proves that a two-headed cat is real.
At Obscura Antiques & Oddities Laura gets the shop scouring Philadelphia to decorate her vampire themed party. Then Mike & Evan meet a strange ventriloquist, a coffin dealing couple & experience what it was like to sit on Al Capone's porcelain throne.
At Obscura Antiques & Oddities a quirky couple with a jaded collecting appetite hires Mike to recover something so rare it's extinct. Then Evan & Ryan join a real life batman's wildlife preservation fight, and Evan gets a dose of therapy from a microwave.
At Obscura Antiques & Oddities, Mike encounters a customer who loves blowing his own horn and Evan gets a little heartburn in the shop with Dr. Dave.
At Obscura, Laura Flook shows how shopping for a baby can be like pulling teeth. Then, a painter looks to trade Ryan his elongated skull for something more mesmerizing, and a doctor diagnoses one of Mike & Evan's most mysterious items.
Mike and Ryan hunt down Jack the Ripper items for a haunted house.
At Obscura Antiques & Oddities, Mike & Evan take a hack at finding a horror prop for renowned B-movie producer Lloyd Kaufman. Then an Aussie buys a gift from six feet down under, and an exterminator tries to unload something from an infested funeral home.
Evan looks for an anniversary gift for her husband; a mentalist gets into Mike and Ryan's heads.
A wrestler wants an item to intimidate an opponent; Mike goes in search of a disturbing item.
Ryan makes a shrunken head replica; a couple attempts to sell Evan a skin grafter.
The gang goes to the Big Easy where Evan gets to meet the bassist for White Zombie.
A pro wrestler gets the shock of his life.
An artist recruits Evan to find medical instruments for his sculptures.
Mike and Evan are asked to bring life back to an old automaton.
An explosion shakes the shop when Mike gets a hold of an old detonator; Ryan is contracted to articulate the skeleton of a chimera.
A wrestler wants an item to intimidate an opponent; Mike goes in search of a disturbing item.
Ryan makes a shrunken head replica; a couple attempts to sell Evan a skin grafter.
The gang goes to the Big Easy where Evan gets to meet the bassist for White Zombie.
A pro wrestler gets the shock of his life.
Ryan's friend arrives to sell a mysterious organ he cannot name. Then Mike and Evan head to one of the largest flea markets in the US when a customer hires them to decorate his converted old jail house in Salem, Massachusetts.
The Obscura team heads to Chicago when a collector request death related items.
An artist recruits Evan to find medical instruments for his sculptures.
Mike and Evan are asked to bring life back to an old automaton.
Mike encounters a singing siren hunting for something of the sea variety and Ryan takes on a huge challenge, articulating a full-size skeleton. Then a surprise visit by Gwar may lead to a purchase of a one eyed creature.
An explosion shakes the shop when Mike gets a hold of an old detonator; Ryan is contracted to articulate the skeleton of a chimera.
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