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 (19)
1. Return to Holly-Odd
Aired 9 February 2013 • 30 min
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.
2. Mutant Mascot
Aired 16 February 2013 • 30 min
Finding a new shop centerpiece weird enough to celebrate their new space.
3. Dummy Drama & Internal Trauma
Aired 23 February 2013 • 30 min
An explorer convinces Mike he is no dummy; a customer touts a therapy device.
4. Skull Camera Obscura
Aired 2 March 2013 • 30 min
An odd flower vase is pitched to Ryan. Also: A photographer wants to use a skull-camera hybrid to shoot Mike and Evan.
5. Taking Life by the Ears, Nose & Throat
Aired 9 March 2013 • 30 min
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.
6. Heads, Kegels, Knees & Toes
Aired 13 April 2013 • 30 min
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.
7. Blood Suckers & Brain Eaters
Aired 20 April 2013 • 30 min
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.
8. March of Pangolin
Aired 27 April 2013 • 30 min
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.
9. A Bugs Afterlife
Aired 11 May 2013 • 30 min
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.
10. Slim Goodbody's Anatomical Adventure
Aired 18 May 2013 • 30 min
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.
11. The Mummy Phallus Returns
Aired 8 June 2013 • 30 min
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.
12. Skull in the City & A Two-Headed Kitty
Aired 8 June 2013 • 30 min
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.
13. Vampires of PhilaHELLphia
Aired 15 June 2013 • 30 min
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.
14. Bat Man & Ryan
Aired 15 June 2013 • 30 min
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.
15. Obscura is Loved to Death
Aired 13 July 2013 • 30 min
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.
16. Brain Bits & Baby Gifts
Aired 29 October 2013 • 30 min
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.
17. No Guts, No Gory
Aired 29 October 2013 • 30 min
Mike and Ryan hunt down Jack the Ripper items for a haunted house.
18. Lights, Camera, Duck Impaction!
Aired 29 October 2013 • 30 min
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.
19. Evan's Odd Anniversary
Aired 29 October 2013 • 30 min
Evan looks for an anniversary gift for her husband; a mentalist gets into Mike and Ryan's heads.