About this season
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.
Episodes (21)
1. Edgar's Creation and Robot Relations
Aired 24 November 2011 • 30 min
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.
2. Shot Through the Heart
Aired 24 November 2011 • 30 min
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.
3. Ghost Rider
Aired 17 December 2011 • 30 min
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.
4. Holiday Bizarre
Aired 24 December 2011 • 30 min
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.
5. Best Of Oddities
Aired 24 December 2011 • 30 min
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.
6. The Smoking Lung
Aired 21 January 2012 • 30 min
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.
7. Fingernails and Just for Males
Aired 21 January 2012 • 30 min
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.
8. Insane and the Membrane
Aired 4 February 2012 • 30 min
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.
9. Mummy's Private Collection
Aired 4 February 2012 • 30 min
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.
10. Seeing Scars
Aired 11 February 2012 • 30 min
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.
11. The Arsenic Avenger
Aired 18 February 2012 • 30 min
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.
12. Sorceress of Love
Aired 18 February 2012 • 30 min
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.
13. The Power of a Grey Skull
Aired 25 February 2012 • 30 min
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.
14. Black Magic Woman
Aired 25 February 2012 • 30 min
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.
15. Holly-Odd
Aired 3 March 2012 • 30 min
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!
16. Heads or Fails
Aired 3 March 2012 • 30 min
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.
17. A Gurney for Grandpa
Aired 10 March 2012 • 30 min
A woman hires Mike and Evan to procure vintage autopsy equipment for her grandfather's body; a human pincushion visits.
18. Meat Mastodon
Aired 10 March 2012 • 30 min
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.
19. Killer Queen
Aired 2 June 2012 • 30 min
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.
20. Keeping Austin Odd
Aired 9 June 2012 • 30 min
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.
21. Mounting Tensions
Aired 16 June 2012 • 30 min
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.