Cabinet de curiosités

Épisode 1 - Mummy Cat

4 novembre 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.

Épisode 2 - The Model Mortician

11 novembre 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.

Épisode 3 - Spider Prank

18 novembre 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.

Épisode 4 - Skull Envy

9 décembre 2010

Ryan — passionate about the study of bones — tries to create an "exploded" (or Beauchene) skull, Evan meets a puppeteer in search of a prosthetic limb, and a customer has what appears to be a body in the trunk of his car.

Épisode 5 - Mummified Hand

16 décembre 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.

Épisode 6 - Four-Legged Chicken

23 décembre 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.

Épisode 7 - Pickled Pig

30 décembre 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).

Épisode 8 - Teeth on a Stick

6 janvier 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.

Épisode 9 - The Chair

13 janvier 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.

Épisode 10 - The Bulb Cruncher

9 avril 2011

Thinking it's bound in human skin, a seller offers Obscura a bizarre book, which Mike excitedly brings it to a DNA lab to find out if it's the real deal. Upon arriving at a huge oddity collection downtown, Mike and Evan find that the prices are higher than they had anticipated, leading to some debate over the items each want to purchase. Later, an intriguing carnival performer offers to do a cutting-edge stunt with a light bulb for a store discount.

Épisode 1 - Shrunken Head

9 avril 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.

Épisode 2 - Raising The Dead

16 avril 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.

Épisode 3 - 3 Little Piggies

23 avril 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.

Épisode 4 - Rock Star Embalmer

30 avril 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.

Épisode 5 - Romancing the Bone

7 mai 2011

At Obscura Antiques and Oddities, regular customer Edgar is looking for a very special desk lamp. When Evan presents him one made of a baboon’s paw, he feels it may be too spooky, even for this eccentric buyer. Then, Ryan gets a lesson in love a beautiful bone artist stops in to try to sell an articulated rooster skeleton. Ryan plans a romantic date, but things take a turn for the worse when he brings her to meet another bone artist -- and his flesh-eating beetles. Meanwhile, a seller tries to peddle teddy bears (made of her boyfriend’s sweaty belly button lint) to Mike and Evan.

Épisode 6 - Edison's Monstrous Creation

14 mai 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.

Épisode 7 - The Horaffe

21 mai 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.

Épisode 8 - Piece of Mind

28 mai 2011

A bizarre medical specimen is sought for a photo shoot; an artist happens upon a corrective device; an impalement artist purchases a throwing knife once owned by Harry Houdini.

Épisode 9 - Hedgehog Homolog

4 juin 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.

Épisode 10 - Love Stones

11 juin 2011

While on the hunt for items for Obscura Antiques and Oddities, Mike locates an old plasticized piece of human anatomy, and finds it to be more of an eye-popping experience than he expected. Then, Mike’s wife Kris recruits Evan and Ryan to find the perfect birthday gift for Mike. Later, Actress Chloe Sevigny wanders in, and finds a lewd old-time gag that she gets a rise out of.

Épisode 1 - Edgar's Creation and Robot Relations

24 novembre 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.

Épisode 2 - Shot Through the Heart

24 novembre 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.

Épisode 3 - Ghost Rider

17 décembre 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.

Épisode 4 - Holiday Bizarre

24 décembre 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.

Épisode 5 - Best Of Oddities

24 décembre 2011

It's a trip down memory lane with Mike & Evan as they relive the very best of everything odd from the first 2 seasons. It's a look back at the the curious customers, most amazing items and freakiest sideshow performances at Obscura Antiques & Oddities.

Épisode 6 - The Smoking Lung

21 janvier 2012

Sparks fly when Mike and Evan meet an evil clown and his power grinder; Ryan opens an old wound with Mike when he falls in love with the shop's new piece of freak taxidermy; a customer is left holding a smoking lung.

Épisode 7 - Fingernails and Just for Males

21 janvier 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.

Épisode 8 - Insane and the Membrane

4 février 2012

A customer receives a two-fer on a pickled pooch; Mike and Evan find a rare helmet designed to cure the insane; and a customer seeks an alternative cure for her nasal problems.

Épisode 9 - Mummy's Private Collection

4 février 2012

A customer brings in what appears to be an unexpected appendage from a Mummy, but is it the real deal? Then, a customer gets a crack to the skull when he tries out restraints made for a child, and a man stares Ryan down with a one eyed pig.

Épisode 10 - Seeing Scars

11 février 2012

A burlesque performer has Mike and Evan seeing scars when she asks them to find a very special item. Then, Evan tests out a rare glass mortician table, and Ryan finds his inner Buddha when he hears the sweet sound of a human skull drum.

Épisode 11 - The Arsenic Avenger

18 février 2012

Mike and Evan lend a hand to legendary Toxic Avenger director, Lloyd Kaufman. Later, a chainsaw wielding performer flips out on the team, and a customer reveals a taboo piercing kit that isn't used to put holes in ears.

Épisode 12 - Sorceress of Love

18 février 2012

A boy wants to sell his hamster, but it's not what Mike and Evan were expecting. Then, Ryan and Monique get wrapped up in their second date -- and this time, they consult a sorceress. Later, Mike & Evan brace for Adventure.

Épisode 13 - The Power of a Grey Skull

25 février 2012

Evan and Ryan must locate a body modification item for a tattoo shop. Then, Mike and Evan get drilled by a blockhead looking for a piece to stick up his nose, and a traveling museum finds a WWII parachute that didn't drop troops.

Épisode 14 - Black Magic Woman

25 février 2012

Mike considers buying a bizarre baboon that begs; a customer is looking to unload a creepy cauldron used in the practice of black magic; Ryan feels the heat when a performer nearly lights the shop on fire.

Épisode 15 - Holly-Odd

3 mars 2012

The Obscura Antiques & Oddities team goes to LA, where Mike & Evan are commissioned to find a macabre item for The Mistress of Darkness! Ryan stops by rock star Wes Borland's incredible skull collection, and later finds out that you can actually buy a brain!

Épisode 16 - Heads or Fails

3 mars 2012

A beautiful woman brings in bizarre jewelry made from some not so precious stones. Then Mike and Evan hunt for a mummified human body part, and a horror producer straps on an item made to stop her from eating her own hair.

Épisode 17 - A Gurney for Grandpa

10 mars 2012

A woman hires Mike and Evan to procure vintage autopsy equipment for her grandfather's body; a human pincushion visits.

Épisode 18 - Meat Mastodon

10 mars 2012

Evan and Mike deliver eyeballs to a woman who makes art from animal tongues; Mike obtains a set of vampire fangs; Brent Hinds from the band Mastodon visits; Evan gets ready for a steampunk party.

Épisode 19 - Killer Queen

2 juin 2012

At Obscura Antiques & Oddities, an artist flips for Evan's look and wants to create a life sized wax model of her. Then, Ryan calls an expert to figure out what a torturous looking item really is and Mike gets a very disturbing look at life as a sailor.

Épisode 20 - Keeping Austin Odd

9 juin 2012

Obscura Antiques & Oddities heads to Texas when an astronaut sends Mike and Evan on a mission to keep his Austin home weird. The challenge puts the two in contact with a mummy, a man who lifts incredible weights and an unpredictable Black Scorpion.

Épisode 21 - Mounting Tensions

16 juin 2012

At Obscura Antiques & Oddities tensions mount as Ryan and Mike compete head-to-head in an annual taxidermy contest. Then, Judah Friedlander stops by and finds his calling with Mike & Evan. Later, a huge customer starts ripping things apart in the store.

Épisode 22 - Holiday Bizarre 2

22 décembre 2012

Épisode 23 - Best of 2

29 décembre 2012

Oddities, Best of Season 3

Épisode 1 - Return to Holly-Odd

9 février 2013

Mike, Evan and Ryan journey to Los Angeles where they uncover the weird side of the city and meet with a unique variety of clientele; highlights include a piece of expert bird taxidermy, the world's fastest talking man and a bunny museum.

Épisode 2 - Mutant Mascot

16 février 2013

Mike, Evan and Ryan search for a centerpiece that is weird enough to celebrate their new space. Also: psychedelic medicine; a reanimating baby.

Épisode 3 - Dummy Drama & Internal Trauma

23 février 2013

A collector who kept the titanium rods from his mother's spine after she died; a customer with an unusual therapy device.

Épisode 4 - Skull Camera Obscura

2 mars 2013

An odd flower vase is pitched to Ryan. Also: A photographer wants to use a skull-camera hybrid to shoot Mike and Evan.

Épisode 5 - Taking Life by the Ears, Nose & Throat

9 mars 2013

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.

Épisode 6 - Heads, Kegels, Knees & Toes

13 avril 2013

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.

Épisode 7 - Blood Suckers & Brain Eaters

20 avril 2013

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.

Épisode 8 - March of Pangolin

27 avril 2013

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.

Épisode 9 - A Bugs Afterlife

11 mai 2013

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.

Épisode 10 - Slim Goodbody's Anatomical Adventure

18 mai 2013

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.

Épisode 11 - The Mummy Phallus Returns

8 juin 2013

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.

Épisode 12 - Skull in the City & A Two-Headed Kitty

8 juin 2013

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.

Épisode 13 - Vampires of PhilaHELLphia

15 juin 2013

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.

Épisode 14 - Bat Man & Ryan

15 juin 2013

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.

Épisode 15 - Obscura is Loved to Death

13 juillet 2013

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. Meanwhile, Audra & Wednesday of Loved to Death, stop by to get help finding an Egyptian item for a client

Épisode 16 - Brain Bits & Baby Gifts

29 octobre 2013

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.

Épisode 17 - No Guts, No Gory

29 octobre 2013

Mike and Ryan hunt down Jack the Ripper items for a haunted house.

Épisode 18 - Lights, Camera, Duck Impaction!

29 octobre 2013

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.

Épisode 19 - Evan's Odd Anniversary

29 octobre 2013

Épisode 20 - Tongue Tied

18 janvier 2014

At Obscura Antiques & Oddities a customer tries to sell a baby he found while dumpster diving & a wrestler wants something to intimidate his opponents with, so Mike goes on the hunt and finds an item so disturbing it leaves his customer tongue tied.

Épisode 21 - Head Shrinking 101 with Ryan

18 janvier 2014

At Obscura Antiques & Oddities 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.

Épisode 22 - New Oddleans

25 janvier 2014

The Obscura Antiques & Oddities gang heads to the Big Easy where Evan meets the bassist for White Zombie & a puppet group rumored to do human sacrifice. Then Ryan & Mike meet zombies of their own, leading them to a spirit whisperer & ancient sarcophagus.

Épisode 23 - Don't Get Testis'

25 janvier 2014

At Obscura Antiques & Oddities 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 & Evan go nuts hunting for the ultimate symbol of masculinity to please a customer.

Épisode 24 - Elephant Skull in the Room

27 avril 2014

Mike encounters a singing siren hunting for something of the sea variety and 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.

Épisode 25 - Music to My Gears

27 avril 2014

A customer asks Mike and Evan to breathe 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.

Épisode 26 - Instant Chimera

27 avril 2014 - 3/5

An explosion shakes the shop when Mike gets a hold of an old detonator; Ryan is contracted to articulate the skeleton of a chimera.

Épisode 1 - Tongue Tied

18 janvier 2014

Épisode 2 - Head Shrinking 101 with Ryan

18 janvier 2014

Épisode 3 - New Oddleans

25 janvier 2014

Épisode 4 - Don't Get Testis

25 janvier 2014

Épisode 5 - Jails, Fails & Salem Tales

27 avril 2014

Épisode 6 - Chic-ODD-o

27 avril 2014

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.

Épisode 7 - Elephant Skull in the Room

27 avril 2014

Épisode 8 - Music to my Gears

27 avril 2014

Épisode 9 - Skeletons & Gwar

27 avril 2014

Épisode 10 - Instant Chimera

27 avril 2014