Oddities

Oddities

2010 5 Seasons 70 Episodes ⭐ 7.4 Documentary Reality

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 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.

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Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

Mummy Cat

A collector offers a mummified cat for sale; a playwright with a passion for straitjackets; musket balls with strange or

EP 2

The Model Mortician

A model turned mortician makes a bizarre request; a shopper's purchase makes Mike gag; fossil dinosaur feces.

EP 3

Spider Prank

Ryan seeks a high-end monkey skull; a customer looks for the perfect item to prank his girlfriend; an ancient medical co

EP 4

Skull Envy

Ryan tries to create an exploding skull; Evan searches for a prosthetic limb; a customer brings in what looks like a dea

EP 5

Mummified Hand

An ancient Egyptian artifact; artwork made from human nails; a medical bag.

EP 6

Four-Legged Chicken

An elusive stuffed sloth; a Victorian medical device; a bloodletting kit for a pain artist.

EP 7

Pickled Pig

Hunting for a vintage human skeleton; pickled pig; a police officer's Victorian machine.

EP 8

Teeth On a Stick

A customer has Evan scrambling to find the perfect gift for his dentist; Mike and Evan get a show by the world's smalles

EP 9

The Chair

Two magicians are looking for a special piece of taxidermy that only Ryan can create.

EP 10

The Bulb Cruncher

In Obscura Antiques & Oddities, a seller brings a book to Obscura that she thinks is bound in human skin.

EP 1

Shrunken Head

A seller stops by the shop to gather offers on what he claims to be a genuine shrunken human head; a composer of black m

EP 2

Raising The Dead

At Obscura Antiques and Oddities, shop regular Laura Flook stumbles upon a disturbing, mysterious tonic -- made with act

EP 3

3 Little Piggies

When a seller brings three jars of grotesque, deformed pigs to Obscura Antiques and Oddities, Mike thinks they may be th

EP 4

Rock Star Embalmer

At Obscura Antiques and Oddities, Jonathan Davis, of the band Korn, sends Mike and Evan on a hunt for some very speciali

EP 5

Romancing the Bone

At Obscura Antiques and Oddities, regular customer Edgar is looking for a very special desk lamp. When Evan presents him

EP 6

Edison's Monstrous Creation

At Obscura Antiques and Oddities, Mike and Evan are intrigued when a sleep-deprived customer stops in to unload a nightm

EP 7

The Horaffe

At Obscura Antiques and Oddities, Mike and Evan are speechless when they witness an artist boldly attempt to steal the s

EP 8

Piece of Mind

A bizarre medical specimen is sought for a photo shoot; an artist happens upon a corrective device; an impalement artist

EP 9

Hedgehog Homolog

At Obscura Antiques and Oddities Evan and Ryan meet an artist whose favorite medium is bodily secretions -- but now she

EP 10

Love Stones

While on the hunt for items for Obscura Antiques and Oddities, Mike locates an old plasticized piece of human anatomy, a

EP 1

Edgar's Creation and Robot Relations

Edgar Oliver is back at Obscura Antiques & Oddities looking to create a mad scientist laboratory in his new apartment. T

EP 2

Shot Through the Heart

At Obscura Antiques & Oddities a patron tries selling 3 pickled hearts, but 1 may have a sinister past. Later Evan's fri

EP 3

Ghost Rider

At Obscura Antiques & Oddities, a new customer finds himself trying to escape from a rare set of handcuffs and Mike & Ry

EP 4

Holiday Bizarre

It's the oddest shopping season of the year at Obscura Antiques & Oddities. A yogi twists more than an arm for a discoun

EP 5

Best Of Oddities

It's a trip down memory lane with Mike & Evan as they relive the very best of everything odd from the first 2 seasons. I

EP 6

The Smoking Lung

Sparks fly when Mike and Evan meet an evil clown and his power grinder; Ryan opens an old wound with Mike when he falls

EP 7

Fingernails and Just for Males

A horned patron looks to rid himself of a possessed dummy; Ryan must create a new preparation of exploded skull, but fin

EP 8

Insane and the Membrane

A customer receives a two-fer on a pickled pooch; Mike and Evan find a rare helmet designed to cure the insane; and a cu

EP 9

Mummy's Private Collection

A customer brings in what appears to be an unexpected appendage from a Mummy, but is it the real deal? Then, a customer

EP 10

Seeing Scars

A burlesque performer has Mike and Evan seeing scars when she asks them to find a very special item. Then, Evan tests ou

EP 11

The Arsenic Avenger

Mike and Evan lend a hand to legendary Toxic Avenger director, Lloyd Kaufman. Later, a chainsaw wielding performer flips

EP 12

Sorceress of Love

A boy wants to sell his hamster, but it's not what Mike and Evan were expecting. Then, Ryan and Monique get wrapped up i

EP 13

The Power of a Grey Skull

Evan and Ryan must locate a body modification item for a tattoo shop. Then, Mike and Evan get drilled by a blockhead loo

EP 14

Black Magic Woman

Mike considers buying a bizarre baboon that begs; a customer is looking to unload a creepy cauldron used in the practice

EP 15

Holly-Odd

The Obscura Antiques & Oddities team goes to LA, where Mike & Evan are commissioned to find a macabre item for The Mistr

EP 16

Heads or Fails

A beautiful woman brings in bizarre jewelry made from some not so precious stones. Then Mike and Evan hunt for a mummifi

EP 17

A Gurney for Grandpa

A woman hires Mike and Evan to procure vintage autopsy equipment for her grandfather's body; a human pincushion visits.

EP 18

Meat Mastodon

Evan and Mike deliver eyeballs to a woman who makes art from animal tongues; Mike obtains a set of vampire fangs; Brent

EP 19

Killer Queen

At Obscura Antiques & Oddities, an artist flips for Evan's look and wants to create a life sized wax model of her. Then,

EP 20

Keeping Austin Odd

Obscura Antiques & Oddities heads to Texas when an astronaut sends Mike and Evan on a mission to keep his Austin home we

EP 21

Mounting Tensions

At Obscura Antiques & Oddities tensions mount as Ryan and Mike compete head-to-head in an annual taxidermy contest. Then

EP 1

Return to Holly-Odd

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

EP 2

Mutant Mascot

Finding a new shop centerpiece weird enough to celebrate their new space.

EP 3

Dummy Drama & Internal Trauma

An explorer convinces Mike he is no dummy; a customer touts a therapy device.

EP 4

Skull Camera Obscura

An odd flower vase is pitched to Ryan. Also: A photographer wants to use a skull-camera hybrid to shoot Mike and Evan.

EP 5

Taking Life by the Ears, Nose & Throat

At Obscura Antiques & Oddities an urban elf seeks a ouija board for her celluloid séance. Then Mike & Evan try to obtai

EP 6

Heads, Kegels, Knees & Toes

At Obscura Antiques & Oddities, gangrene attacks when a customer hires Mike & Evan to find something stranger than his s

EP 7

Blood Suckers & Brain Eaters

At Obscura lizards run wild when a reptile specialist adopts a new pet. Then Mike & Evan are hired by a TV producer to b

EP 8

March of Pangolin

At Obscura Antiques & Oddities bar and taxidermy owner Nic hires Mike & Evan to find him a unique stuffed animal. Then a

EP 9

A Bugs Afterlife

At Obscura Antiques & Oddities Mike bugs out seeking the ultimate insect for a customer's diorama project. Then Evan & R

EP 10

Slim Goodbody's Anatomical Adventure

At Obscura Antiques & Oddities, anatomical blast from the past Slim Goodbody enlists Mike & Evan to find him an awesome

EP 11

The Mummy Phallus Returns

At Obscura Antiques & Oddities, a patron who tried selling a fake mummy phallus returns claiming now he has the real thi

EP 12

Skull in the City & A Two-Headed Kitty

At Obscura Antiques & Oddities Ryan's artistic protégé seeks the biggest skull he can find. Then Mike & Evan brace for

EP 13

Vampires of PhilaHELLphia

At Obscura Antiques & Oddities Laura gets the shop scouring Philadelphia to decorate her vampire themed party. Then Mike

EP 14

Bat Man & Ryan

At Obscura Antiques & Oddities a quirky couple with a jaded collecting appetite hires Mike to recover something so rare

EP 15

Obscura is Loved to Death

At Obscura Antiques & Oddities, Mike encounters a customer who loves blowing his own horn and Evan gets a little heartbu

EP 16

Brain Bits & Baby Gifts

At Obscura, Laura Flook shows how shopping for a baby can be like pulling teeth. Then, a painter looks to trade Ryan his

EP 17

No Guts, No Gory

Mike and Ryan hunt down Jack the Ripper items for a haunted house.

EP 18

Lights, Camera, Duck Impaction!

At Obscura Antiques & Oddities, Mike & Evan take a hack at finding a horror prop for renowned B-movie producer Lloyd Kau

EP 19

Evan's Odd Anniversary

Evan looks for an anniversary gift for her husband; a mentalist gets into Mike and Ryan's heads.

EP 1

Tongue Tied

A wrestler wants an item to intimidate an opponent; Mike goes in search of a disturbing item.

EP 2

Head Shrinking 101 with Ryan

Ryan makes a shrunken head replica; a couple attempts to sell Evan a skin grafter.

EP 3

New Oddleans

The gang goes to the Big Easy where Evan gets to meet the bassist for White Zombie.

EP 4

Don't Get Testis

A pro wrestler gets the shock of his life.

EP 5

Jails, Fails & Salem Tales

Ryan's friend arrives to sell a mysterious organ he cannot name. Then Mike and Evan head to one of the largest flea mark

EP 6

Chic-ODD-o

The Obscura team heads to Chicago when a collector request death related items.

EP 7

Elephant Skull in the Room

An artist recruits Evan to find medical instruments for his sculptures.

EP 8

Music to My Gears

Mike and Evan are asked to bring life back to an old automaton.

EP 9

Skeletons and Gwar

Mike encounters a singing siren hunting for something of the sea variety and Ryan takes on a huge challenge, articulatin

EP 10

Instant Chimera

An explosion shakes the shop when Mike gets a hold of an old detonator; Ryan is contracted to articulate the skeleton of

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