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 Cohn, 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.

Celebrities appearing on the show have included Jonathan Davis of the band Korn, Whitey Sterling, singer for the New York band Stiffs, Inc., musician Genesis P-Orridge, actress/comedian Amy Sedaris, actor Matthew Gray Gubler, artist Ann Hirsch, actress Chloë Sevigny, musician Natalia Paruz ('Saw Lady'), video game designer and commercial space flight enthusiast Richard Garriott, director Lloyd Kaufman, nerdcore rapper Schaffer The Darklord, musician Voltaire, musician Moby, artist Cynthia von Buhler, actor/comedian Paul Dinello, burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese, and "High Pitch Eric" of The Howard Stern Show. New York playwright Edgar Oliver has appeared on the program multiple times and appears in the show's title sequence admiring a straitjacket.

Episodes

Season 1: 2010–2011 ##TitleOriginal US airdate 1 1 Mummy Cat November 4, 2010 2 2 The Model Mortician November 11, 2010 3 3 Spider Prank November 18, 2010 4 4 Skull Envy December 9, 2010 5 5 Mummified Hand December 16, 2010 6 6 Four-Legged Chicken December 23, 2010 7 7 Pickled Pig December 30, 2010 8 8 Teeth On A Stick January 6, 2011 9 9 The Chair January 13, 2011 10 10 The Bulb Cruncher April 9, 2011

Season 2: 2011 ##TitleOriginal US airdate 11 1 Shrunken Head April 9, 2011 12 2 Raising The Dead April 16, 2011 13 3 Three Little Piggies April 23, 2011 14 4 Rock Star Embalmer April 30, 2011 15 5 Romancing The Bone May 7, 2011 16 6 Edison's Monstrous Creation May 14, 2011 17 7 The Horaffe May 21, 2011 18 8 Piece of Mind May 28, 2011 19 9 Hedgehog Homolog June 4, 2011 20 10 Love Stones June 11, 2011

Season 3: 2011–2012 ##TitleOriginal US airdate 21 1 Edgar's Creation and Robot Relations November 24, 2011 22 2 Shot Through the Heart November 24, 2011 23 3 Ghost Rider December 17, 2011 24 4 Holiday Bizarre December 24, 2011 25 5 Best of Oddities December 24, 2011 26 6 The Smoking Lung January 21, 2012 27 7 Fingernails and Just for Males January 21, 2012 28 8 Insane & The Membrane February 4, 2012 29 9 Mummy's Private Collection February 4, 2012 30 10 Seeing Scars February 11, 2012 31 11 The Arsenic Avenger February 18, 2012 32 12 Sorceress of Love February 18, 2012 33 13 The Power of a Grey Skull February 25, 2012 34 14 Black Magic Woman February 25, 2012 35 15 Holly-Odd March 3, 2012 36 16 Heads or Fails March 3, 2012 37 17 A Gurney for Grandpa March 10, 2012 38 18 Meat Mastodon March 10, 2012 39 19 Killer Queen June 2, 2012 40 20 Keeping Austin Odd June 9, 2012 41 21 Mounting Tensions June 16, 2012 42 ? Holiday Bizarre #2 December 22, 2012 43 ? Best Of #2 December 29, 2012

Season 4: 2013–2014 ##TitleOriginal US airdate 44 1 Return to Holly-Odd February 9, 2013 45 2 Mutant Mascot February 16, 2013 46 3 Dummy Drama & Internal Trauma February 23, 2013 47 4 Skull Camera Obscura March 2, 2013 48 5 Taking Life by the Ears, Nose & Throat March 9, 2013 49 6 Heads, Kegels, Knees & Toes April 13, 2013 50 7 Blood Suckers & Brain Eaters April 20, 2013 51 8 March of Pangolin April 27, 2013 52 9 A Bug's Afterlife May 11, 2013 53 10 Slim Goodbody's Anatomical Adventure May 18, 2013 54 11 The Mummy Phallus Returns June 8, 2013 55 12 Skull in the City & a Two-Headed Kitty June 8, 2013 56 13 Vampires of PhilaHELLphia June 15, 2013 57 14 Bat Man & Ryan June 15, 2013 58 15 Obscura Is Loved to Death July 13, 2013 59 16 Brain Bits & Baby Gifts October 29, 2013 60 17 No Guts, No Gory October 29, 2013 61 18 Lights, Camera, Duck Impaction! October 29, 2013 62 19 Evan's Odd Anniversary October 29, 2013 63 ? Holiday Bizarre #3 January 4, 2014

Season 5: 2014 ##TitleOriginal US airdate 64 1 Tongue Tied January 18, 2014 65 2 Head Shrinking 101 With Ryan January 18, 2014 66 3 New Oddleans January 25, 2014 67 4 Don't Get Testis January 25, 2014 68 5 Jails, Fails, and Salem Tales April 27, 2014 69 6 Chic-ODD-o April 27, 2014 70 7 Elephant Skull In The Room April 27, 2014 71 8 Music to My Gears April 27, 2014 72 9 Skeletons and Gwar April 27, 2014 73 10 Instant Chimera April 27, 2014

Spinoffs A spinoff of Oddities, Oddities: San Francisco, debuted June 23, 2012 on the Science Channel with co-star Wednesday Mourning. This series focuses on another antiques store, Loved to Death, which is located in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district.Loved to Death websitePress release: "Science Takes Weird West This Summer With the World Premiere of Series 'Oddities: San Francisco'", June 7, 2012.Science Channel: "Oddities: San Francisco" It has since been cancelled.

Another spinoff, Odd Folks Home, features notable regulars from Oddities and debuted November 22, 2012. It has since been cancelled.

See also Pawn Stars, about a Las Vegas pawn shop American Pickers, starring itinerant buyers of antiques and collectibles American Restoration, chronicling the daily activities at Rick's Restorations, an antique restoration store

References

External links

Oddities at Internet Movie Database Discovery Channel – About the show

Discovery Insider interview Discovery Channel – Episode Guide Obscura Antiques & Oddities website