The BEST episodes of Oddities
Every episode of Oddities ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Oddities!
ODDITIES dives into the weird world of strange and extraordinary science artifacts through the eyes of the proprietors of Manhattan's Obscura Antiques & Oddities.
#1 - The Model Mortician
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/11/2010
A model turned mortician comes to Obscura with a bizarre request; a shopper makes a purchase that puts Mike's gag reflex to the test; and Ersan thinks he has purchased fossil dinosaur feces for the store ... but the owners don't buy it.
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#2 - Mummy Cat
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/4/2010
In Obscura Antiques & Oddities a collector offers a mummified cat for sale, but is it valuable? Or just putrefying remains? Also: A playwright with a passion for straitjackets visits, while a seller brings in musket balls, only to discover their true origin is much stranger.
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#4 - Fingernails and Just for Males
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/21/2012
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.
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#6 - Holiday Bizarre
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/24/2011
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.
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#7 - Ghost Rider
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/17/2011
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.
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#8 - Shot Through the Heart
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/24/2011
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.
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#9 - Edgar's Creation and Robot Relations
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/24/2011
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.
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#10 - Hedgehog Homolog
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 6/4/2011
At Obscura Antiques and Oddities Evan and Ryan meet an artist whose favorite medium is bodily secretions -- but now she wants to go in a different direction, and needs something she can really sink her teeth into. Then, a sideshow performer requests a usable prop from Coney Island's heyday. Later, customers come to the shop with what they think is an old leather diving helmet, only to find that there is more to this helmet than they thought.
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#12 - The Horaffe
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/21/2011
At Obscura Antiques and Oddities, Mike and Evan are speechless when they witness an artist boldly attempt to steal the store’s dust -- and then sell it back to them. Then, a high-end buyer wants Mike to create a massive piece of specialized taxidermy. Mike takes the challenge, but finds the cost to create it is way over the customer’s budget. Mike must decide whether to renege on the deal, or take a gamble on a potentially huge loss for the store. Later, an amazingly flexible grandmother falls in love with an adorable stuffed feline, and performs an incredible act of contortion to get a discount.
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#13 - Edison's Monstrous Creation
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 5/14/2011
At Obscura Antiques and Oddities, Mike and Evan are intrigued when a sleep-deprived customer stops in to unload a nightmarishly large bat -- and its huge fangs. Then, a buyer who turns century-old inventions into new, working technology with Victorian flair sends Mike and Evan on the hunt for a quack medical device that he can use as a video game controller. Later, Mike takes a chance purchasing a very creepy, mute "talking doll" created by Thomas Edison, then reunites the doll with its voice box to hear what it might have sounded like 100 years ago.
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#14 - 3 Little Piggies
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/23/2011
When a seller brings three jars of grotesque, deformed pigs to Obscura Antiques and Oddities, Mike thinks they may be the perfect items for a restaurant owner up the street. When they are turned down for being "unappetizing" Mike and Ryan must scramble to find a replacement piece for the eatery. Meanwhile, Evan unexpectedly meets a kindred spirit: a customer who purchases one of her favorite, painstakingly restored pieces of Victorian hair art. And a mysterious artist who paints in his own blood makes a deal on a WWI blood transfusion kit, and takes Mike and Evan on a tour of his work.
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#15 - Rock Star Embalmer
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/30/2011
At Obscura Antiques and Oddities, Jonathan Davis, of the band Korn, sends Mike and Evan on a hunt for some very specialized embalming equipment. They find a family-owned mortuary that has gone out of business, but will the funeral director be willing to let go of his family’s history? Meanwhile, a customer stops by in hopes of selling a huge piece of freaky Americana, but Ryan isn’t sure if Mike is going to appreciate the purchase. And Mike attempts to sell a Feejee Mermaid to a woman who has some amazing reptilian features of her own.
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#16 - Spider Prank
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/18/2010
At Obscura, Ryan is on the hunt for a high-end monkey skull to satisfy a picky new customer, Evan attempts to help a customer find the perfect item to prank his girlfriend, and Mike takes a big chance on an ancient medical concoction.
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#17 - Mummified Hand
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/16/2010
A customer tries to sell what he believes is an ancient Egyptian artifact, but is it really a fake? Another brings in some of her "unique" artwork made from human nails and a customer brings in a medical bag that Mike can't wait to dig through.
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#19 - Four-Legged Chicken
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/23/2010
In Obscura Antiques & Oddities, Mike and Ryan bet a client they can find a rare taxidermy piece: the elusive sloth. A seller brings a Victorian medical device that sparks fear in Cerd, and a pain artist wants Obscura's bloodletting kit to use on himself.
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#20 - Teeth on a Stick
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/6/2011
Evan takes the challenge of finding the perfect gift for a customer's dentist, but after he questions her pick of a rare dental display, she finds that the hunt is going to be tougher than she anticipated. Later, the world's smallest escape artist has his eye on a coffin and hopes to get a discount if he gives the Obscura team a show. Finally, Mike and Evan get a lead on a huge collection of medical oddities from around the world, but after a long ride they find the owner may be more interested in show-and-tell than a sell.
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#21 - The Chair
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/13/2011
A very particular collector stops by the shop with a sizzling request, sending Mike and Evan off on the hunt. The Cerd goes head-over-heels for a seller's two-bodied duck, but a doubtful Evan steps in for a closer look. Then, two magicians reveal the mysterious workings of a trick when they ask Ryan to create a very special piece of taxidermy for their show.
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#22 - Shrunken Head
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/9/2011
A seller stops by the shop to gather offers on what he claims to be a genuine shrunken human head; a composer of black metal looks to a dark inspiration for his craft; a performance artist offers up a concert on his unique trumpet.
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#23 - Raising The Dead
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 4/16/2011
At Obscura Antiques and Oddities, shop regular Laura Flook stumbles upon a disturbing, mysterious tonic -- made with actual testicles. Meanwhile, when a customer can’t part with his beloved "pets," Ryan accepts a challenge to "rebuild" them from recently unearthed remains. He hits a serious snag when pieces of the formerly-purring pair are missing, forcing him to take some artistic liberties that the customer finds intriguing. Later, when a seller offers to part with what he calls a mummified human ear, Mike and Evan must call in their expert to find out if it’s the real deal.
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#24 - Pickled Pig
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/30/2010
Ryan and Mike hunt for a vintage human skeleton to satisfy a rocker; a seller stops by Obscura with a failed Valentine's present, a pickled pig; and Evan tries out an old electro-shock therapy machine on herself to see if it works (it does).
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