Oddities
Oddities
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First Aired: November 4th, 2010
Status: Ended
Network: Science
Summary: 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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# of Episodes: 80
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Season 5
Episode 1: Holiday Bizarre #3
Air Date: January 4th, 2014
Summary: It’s holiday time so Mike, Evan and Ryan hold a festive show & tell dinner party for their quirkiest customers, including Robot Mike, Laura Flook and Andy Animal. But first an evil clown jams some metal into his face and back.
Episode 2: Tongue Tied
Air Date: January 18th, 2014
Summary: A customer tries to sell a baby he found while dumpster diving and a wrestler wants something to intimidate his opponents, so Mike goes on the hunt for an item so disturbing it leaves his customer tongue-tied.
Episode 3: Head Shrinking 101 with Ryan
Air Date: January 18th, 2014
Summary: Ryan cooks up an alternative recipe to make a shrunken head replica. Then Mike gets the shock of a lifetime when he sticks his pencil where it doesn’t belong, and a couple tries to sell Evan an antique skin grafter.
Episode 4: New Oddleans
Air Date: January 25th, 2014
Summary: The Obscura gang heads to the Big Easy where Evan meets the bassist for White Zombie and a puppet group rumored to do human sacrifice. Then Ryan and Mike meet zombies of their own, leading them to a "spirit whisperer."
Episode 5: Don't Get Testis
Air Date: January 25th, 2014
Summary: A pro wrestler gets the shock of his life and Ryan brokers a deal with a competitor to get a vintage hair removal apparatus. Later, Mike and Evan go nuts hunting for the ultimate symbol of masculinity to please a customer.
Episode 6: Jails, Fails & Salem Tales
Air Date: April 27th, 2014
Summary: At the shop, 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 jail house in Salem, Mass.
Episode 7: Chic-ODD-o
Air Date: April 27th, 2014
Summary: The Obscura team takes their business to Chicago when a world-class collector requests death-related items. The team soon finds a Second City filled with cadaver tools, off-the-wall wildlife blood and head-splitting sideshow acts.
Episode 8: Elephant Skull in the Room
Air Date: April 27th, 2014
Summary: A British customer tries selling Ryan a kettle that definitely doesn't pour tea. Then an artist enlists Evan to find medical instruments for his insane mechanical sculptures and Mike and Ryan encounter an elephant in the room.
Episode 9: Music to my Gears
Air Date: April 27th, 2014
Summary: A customer asks Mike and Evan to breath life into his creepy 100-year-old automaton, and Ryan meets an artist needing disgusting props. Later a man who chased Mike with a chainsaw reappears and wants something from him and Ryan.
Episode 10: Skeletons & Gwar
Air Date: April 27th, 2014
Summary: At Obscura Antiques & Oddities, Mike encounters a singing siren hunting for something of the sea variety & 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.
Episode 11: Instant Chimera
Air Date: April 27th, 2014
Summary: An explosion rocks the shop when Mike Sullivan gets his hands on an old detonator. Then Sean Lennon contracts Ryan to articulate the skeleton of a chimera, and Mike and Evan get an extreme dose of oxygen therapy.
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