The Oddities (also known as The Parade of Human Oddities) were a professional wrestling stable in the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) during the Attitude Era of the late 1990s.
History
World Wrestling Federation (1998–1999)
The Jackyl formed the group in May 1998 and called them "The Parade of Human Oddities” after The Truth Commission disbanded. The group consisted of a freak show of wrestlers, including the masked Golga (whose mask made it look like bony overgrowths deformed his cranium), the deranged Luna Vachon, the towering Kurrgan (who stood at seven feet tall) and the even larger Giant Silva. On the May 25, 1998 episode of Monday Night Raw, the stable appeared in a segment with Howard Stern Show regulars Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf and Crackhead Bob. The Oddities made their pay-per-view debut at SummerSlam under a new entrance music performed live by Insane Clown Posse, who also started accompanying them to the ring and dancing energetically along with all of them before their matches. Their entrance video featured clips from the 1932 horror film Freaks, as the song and video celebrated the film's message, that the "freaks" were actually decent and polite and that the so-called "normal" people were bad.
They later started a feud with The Headbangers (Mosh and Thrasher), who feigned friendship to attack the group on Raw in September 21, 1998. The Oddities scored victories against them in Raw and Sunday Night Heat thanks to interventions by Insane Clown Posse, which caused The Headbangers to start targeting them specifically. They challenged ICP to a tag team match on October 5 on Raw, during which Insane Clown Posse were beaten down.