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n. An intentionally shocking exhibition of people with unusual characteristics, and which may include people who are gigantic, dwarfish, intersexed, physically deformed or who have other extraordinary diseases, conditions and talents.
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Freak Show is an animated television series that aired on Comedy Central created by H. Jon Benjamin and David Cross.
The show chronicles a freak show, called the Freak Squad, which reluctantly moonlights as a group of second-rate superheroes employed by the US government.
The first and only season, which consisted of seven episodes, premiered on October 4, and ended on November 16, 2006. Cross and Benjamin were executive producers in addition to voicing various characters. Radical Axis handled all aspects of production, from initial audio records and character design to final delivery of the master. The series was released on DVD on June 12, 2012.
A freak show is an exhibition of biological rarities, referred to as "freaks of nature". Typical features would be physically unusual humans, such as those uncommonly large or small, those with both male and female secondary sexual characteristics, people with other extraordinary diseases and conditions, and performances that are expected to be shocking to the viewers. Heavily tattooed or pierced people have sometimes been seen in freak shows, as have attention-getting physical performers such as fire-eating and sword-swallowing acts.
Freak Show is the second studio album by Australian alternative rock band Silverchair. It was recorded between May and November 1996 and released on 31 January 1997 by record labels Murmur and Epic. It nominated the 1997 ARIA Music Award for Best Group but lost to Savage Garden.
Freak Show is an upcoming American LGBT drama film directed by Trudie Styler and written by Patrick J. Clifton & Beth Rigazio, based on the novel of same name by James St. James. The film stars Alex Lawther, Abigail Breslin, Bette Midler, AnnaSophia Robb, Ian Nelson, Lorraine Toussaint, Willa Fitzgerald and Laverne Cox.
Usage examples of "freak show".
Am I to teach the world how to space-jaunte and let us spread our freak show from galaxy to galaxy through all the universe?
Our office is a freak show and no indication of the world at large.
A ten-in-one was a sideshow, usually a freak show, with at least ten attractions-or freaks-under the same tent.