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.[3][4]
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.[5] 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.[4][6][7]
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.[8][9] New York playwright Edgar Oliver has appeared on the program multiple times and appears in the show's title sequence admiring a straitjacket.
Episodes
From left to right: Mike Zohn, Evan Michelson and Ryan Matthew Cohn at the 2011
New York Comic Con.
Season 1: 2010-2011
| # |
# |
Title |
Original 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
| # |
# |
Title |
Original 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
| # |
# |
Title |
Original 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 | Head Gear & Death Mask | June 3, 2012 |
| 40 | 20 | Keeping Austin Odd | June 10, 2012 |
| 41 | 21 | Mounting Tensions | June 17, 2012 |
Season 4: 2012-2013
| # |
# |
Title |
Original US airdate |
|---|
| 42 | ? | Holiday Bizarre #2 | December 22, 2012 |
| 43 | 1 | Return to Holly-Odd | February 9, 2013 |
| 44 | 2 | Mutant Mascot | February 16, 2013 |
| 45 | 3 | Dummy Drama & Internal Trauma | February 23, 2013 |
| 46 | 4 | Skull Camera Obscura | March 2, 2013 |
| 47 | 5 | Taking Life by the Ears, Nose & Throat | March 9, 2013 |
| 48 | 6 | Heads, Kegels, Knees & Toes | April 13, 2013 |
| 49 | 7 | Blood Suckers & Brain Eaters | April 20, 2013 |
| 50 | 8 | March of Pangolin | April 27, 2013 |
| 51 | 9 | A Bug's Afterlife | May 11, 2013 |
| 52 | 10 | Slim Goodbody's Anatomical Adventure | May 18, 2013 |
| 53 | 11 | The Mummy Phallus Returns | June 8, 2013 |
| 54 | 12 | Skull in the City & a Two-Headed Kitty | June 10, 2013 |
| 55 | 13 | Vampires of Phila'hell'phia | June 15, 2013 |
| 56 | 14 | Bat Man & Ryan | June 15, 2013 |
| 58 | 15 | Obscura Is Loved to Death | July 13, 2013 |
Season 5: 2013-2014
| # |
# |
Title |
Original US airdate |
|---|
| 59 | ? | Holiday Bizarre #3 | January 4, 2014 |
| 60 | 1 | No Guts, No Gory | October 29, 2013 |
| 61 | 2 | Brain Bits & Baby Gifts | October 29, 2013 |
| 62 | 3 | Lights, Camera, Duck Impaction! | October 29, 2013 |
| 63 | 4 | Evan's Odd Anniversary | October 29, 2013 |
| 64 | 5 | Head Shrinking 101 With Ryan | January 2014 |
| 65 | 6 | Tongue Tied | January 2014 |
| 66 | 7 | New Oddleans | January 2014 |
| 67 | 8 | Don't Get Testis | January 2014 |
| 68 | 9 | Jails, Fails, and Salem Tales | April 27, 2014 |
| 69 | 10 | Skeletons and Gwar | April 27, 2014 |
| 70 | 11 | Music to My Gears | 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.[10][11][12]
Another spinoff, Odd Folks Home, features notable regulars from Oddities and debuted November 22, 2012.
See also
References
- ↑ Schoof, Dustin (December 16, 2010). "Bethlehem artist Rachel Betty Case to appear tonight on Discovery Channel's 'Oddities'". The Express-Times Daily Newspaper. Retrieved January 3, 2011.
- ↑ "Leftfield Pictures". Retrieved January 3, 2011.
- ↑ Muessig, Ben (November 2, 2010). "From Skulls to Straitjackets, This Is Your One-Stop Shop". AOL News. Retrieved January 3, 2011.
- 1 2 Starr, Michael (October 25, 2010). "Starr Report". New York Post. Retrieved January 3, 2011.
- ↑ "Meet the Team: Obscura Antiques & Oddities". Oddities. Discovery Communications. 2011. Retrieved January 3, 2011.
- ↑ Weiswasser, G. (November 3, 2010). "The Odd World of 'Oddities' on Discovery Channel". DiscoveryBlog. Discovery Communications. Retrieved January 3, 2011.
- ↑ Salazar, Lauren. "Obscura Antiques and Oddities". New York Magazine (New York Media). Retrieved January 3, 2011.
- ↑ "Whitey Sterling on new Discovery Channel "Oddities" Episode". Leopard Studio. November 1, 2010. Retrieved January 3, 2011.
- ↑ Richardson, Katie (December 28, 2010). "Amy and Paul Dinello on Oddities". amysedarisrocks.com. Retrieved January 3, 2011.
- ↑ Loved to Death website
- ↑ Press release: "Science Takes Weird West This Summer With the World Premiere of Series 'Oddities: San Francisco'", June 7, 2012.
- ↑ Science Channel: "Oddities: San Francisco"
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