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Sibling Watchery: RuPaul's Drag Race S18E05 "The Rate-A-Queen Talent Show, Part 1"

74 min
Feb 4, 20262 months ago
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Summary

Bob and Monét critique RuPaul's Drag Race Season 18 Episode 5, analyzing the Rate-A-Queen talent show where queens judge each other's performances and runway looks. The episode features strategic alliances that quickly crumble, with Mia Starr and Juicy Couture delivering standout performances, while Sierra Miss ends up in the bottom despite initiating the alliance strategy.

Insights
  • Drag Race alliances consistently fail because voting is based on merit rather than loyalty, making pre-show strategizing largely ineffective
  • Runway walk quality varies significantly among contestants, with some queens prioritizing character over basic model fundamentals
  • Performance authenticity matters more than novelty—queens who draw from established skills outperform those attempting new material for the first time
  • Judge positioning and critiques influence contestant perception of weaknesses, leading to selective memory about feedback received
  • Costume construction quality doesn't guarantee visual appeal; concept execution and silhouette flattery are equally critical
Trends
Increased emphasis on contestant-judged challenges rather than traditional panel critiques, shifting power dynamics in competitionGrowing expectation for queens to demonstrate versatility across multiple performance styles within single episodesRunway look preparation challenges when designers don't deliver, forcing last-minute pivots and borrowed garmentsStrategic alliance-building becoming normalized but consistently ineffective due to individual voting incentivesContestant commentary on judge feedback accuracy and selective memory during competition pressure
Topics
Rate-A-Queen talent show format and mechanicsRunway look construction and silhouette designPerformance authenticity vs. novelty in drag competitionsStrategic alliance formation and breakdownJudge critique consistency and contestant perceptionCostume designer reliability and backup planningLip sync performance styles and preparationCharacter commitment in performance artWig and makeup coordination with outfitsMonochromatic fashion choices in dragAerobic/workout number performance tropesSpoken word and poetry performance on drag stageViral content recreation in competitionDrag mother-daughter relationships and votingContestant confidence and stage presence
Companies
RuPaul's Drag Race
Primary subject of episode analysis; Season 18 Episode 5 featuring Rate-A-Queen talent show format
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Rula
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People
RuPaul Charles
Host and judge of RuPaul's Drag Race Season 18; manages talent show format and contestant feedback
Michelle Visage
Judge on RuPaul's Drag Race providing critiques on runway looks and performances
Mia Starr
Contestant delivering standout rap performance with strong stage presence and character commitment
Juicy Couture
Contestant with competitive dance background performing character-driven choreography
Nini Coco Yo
Contestant performing engineering-themed number with multiple character iterations
Sierra Miss
Contestant initiating glam alliance strategy; ends up in bottom two despite alliance efforts
Kenya Pleaser
Contestant in multiple alliances; breaks glam alliance by voting strategically
Vida Bunti
Previous week's winner choosing which queens perform in week one vs. week two
Jane Don't
Contestant with two wins refusing to participate in alliance strategy; judges other queens
Darlene Mitchell
Contestant with unconventional performance style and original runway aesthetic choices
Athena Dion
Contestant committed to voting for Juicy regardless of performance; part of multiple alliances
Vita Von Teese
Contestant performing aerobic-themed number; previous week's winner
Discord Adams
Contestant recreating Emma Stone's Cruella DeVille newspaper dress from film
Mikey Meeks
Contestant praised for beauty and makeup artistry throughout season
Zara Larsson
Musical artist whose song 'Pretty Ugly' is used for final lip sync performance
Quotes
"Girl, drag race is not a show for alliances unless apparently unless Monet is there"
Bob the Drag QueenMid-episode discussion
"I didn't come here to be judged by y'all"
Jane Don'tAlliance formation segment
"I'm going to be celebrating Black History Month by being in my home, in my black home with my black body, celebrating myself"
Monét X ChangeOpening segment
"If you're not going to meet that level of camp and ridiculousness, don't even bother"
Bob the Drag QueenVita's aerobic number critique
"This number just like brought the house down"
Monét X ChangeMia Starr performance discussion
Full Transcript
okay hello everyone welcome back to sibling watchery which is a podcast where we critique review and bisect episodes of rupaul's drag race season 18 bisect you mean cut it in half yeah okay um we could we could have half and we were like exactly half and we look at it from there um and to those of you who are listening i want you to know that if you join our patreon and our top two you actually get to watch us record the podcast live so shout out to the cool aunts and the stepdads who are in our chat right now and shout out to jenny who acknowledged that monet interrupted me when her and i were having a beautiful conversation that being said let's hop into episode five of season 18. Wait. What? Happy Black History Month. Oh, it's the first. Oh, it is the first day. Yes. Yes. Happy Black History Month to you. Do you have any way you're going to celebrate on this specific day or is it going to be a month-long thing? Today, I am celebrating Black History Month by watching the Grammys today and hoping that Black people do some cool things at the Grammys this year. I think Sinners has I was watching the Grammys celebrating Black History Month. Let me fucking finish before you interrupt me. I can't wait to hear how watching this instance. Let me finish what I'm saying before you interrupt me, bitch. I'm all ears. Go ahead. The Sinners has made history by getting the most nominations of any movie ever by 16 nominations, and hopefully that makes it more Black History by winning the most that any movie does by a Black director and creators and yada, yada, yada. I think the record before was 14 nominations, and Sinners got 16. So you're celebrating Black Hairs by watching a white institution. Okay. For Black people. Sinners was nominated for the most Oscars. So what does that have to do with the Grammys? Oh, it's Oscars? Oh. So what are you doing? Are you celebrating? Do you even, what are you doing today? Who are you celebrating? Anyway, so today. We need to talk about this. So how I'm going to celebrate Black History Month, the Oscars is a few weeks for now. How I'm going to celebrate Black History Month is by being in my home, in my black home with my black body, celebrating myself. But there's a white guy there. There's no white guy here. He's actually in Boston. But there's a white cat there. She's actually black and white because you know she's marbled. She's actually Asian. No, she's actually not. Sphinx is up in Canada. where they from they're from Canada oh are they yeah isn't that so weird Singscats are literally from Canada they're not Egyptian they're from Canada so you have a Canadian woman and a Mexican guy in your house let's clear it up there is no Mexican guy the dog Monet he's Mexican there's a Mexican that's problematic I don't think Chihuahua There's actually a place in Mexico called Chihuahua. I know. Let me fucking finish. Well, you finished last time. You said the Oscars were tonight. So I don't know what's going on. Potato is not from Chihuahua, Mexico, though. Potato is from San Diego. Jacob, look at that. But in the meantime, I'm going to be celebrating bike history today. I'm actually going to try my very, very best. I know it's not this holiday today, but I'm making a conscious decision this year that I actually am. finally going to actually actually celebrate Kwanzaa. And I feel like the reason why I haven't celebrated Kwanzaa every other time is because I waited until Kwanzaa. I wait until like December 26th. I'm like, today's the day. So I'm actually going to do some research on that today. Oh, wow. So like this year, you're going to get a canard and everything and the candles and work. Not today. I'm not going to get a canard today, but I'm going to research on it today. but but but but you say to yourself i'm gonna start doing this yeah or this work all right well you know what which girls in this cast of draggers do you think celebrate kwanzaa if if any of these girls celebrated kwanzaa which ones would it be the one named kenya i say kenya i say vita i say you know what because she's from seattle jane don't is celebrated i don't think vita would celebrate kwanzaa jane don't celebrates kwanzaa jane don't would celebrate before vita would black folk in the south we do not celebrate kwanzaa so i actually kenya wouldn't either because black folks in the south we do not celebrate kwanzaa and speaking of this speaking of kenya kenya just sent briar blush home um and briar's mirror measure was actually really cute she goes actually i changed my mind keep recording me p.s i like you guys that's such a cute message yeah it's very cute um and i and i wouldn't say briar was a big threat but i think briar was a big very big personality so um to see when you see big personalities leave you're kind of like oh shit the girls always say oh my god the game is getting real so well she was a threat to calmness and decorum i have a question do you think the fans are overreacting to rupaul's response to her fading have you seen this response online like people think that like the fans are overreacting to rupaul's response to it i'm asking do you think they're like rupaul didn't even get up she didn't care. I'm like, get up. There's literally medic. There are people on set who are literally medics. That is their job. I didn't see this discourse online because I didn't think that was even a thing. Like, what is RuPaul supposed to do? Get up there and open her mouth and give her CPR? I don't know. People were like, well, she didn't want to get up because she's wearing sweat pants. And I'm like, no one, like, girl, there are people whose job it is to get up and do that. Like, they're like, but yeah, Discord Adams ran over there. First of all, Discord Adams was on stage with her. And also RuPaul literally says, meddy, meddy, come on on sticks. Like, if you don't know, like RuPaul's like encouraging him to be quick, faster. Like what is RuPaul going to do? Lunge over the table and give her the breath of life. What is on sticks supposed to mean? On sticks means the camera's on tripod. So I don't even know what you're on sticks. That's what he said. RuPaul said, uh, you said, you knew what it meant. You're like medic on sticks. If y'all don't know. I thought, I thought it meant maybe like quickly in, in, in set language. I don't know. In my, in from what I know, sticks means a camera's on a tripod. It's on sticks. that's what I thought so too but also maybe maybe saying that with medic means yeah um Mia saying Mia is saying Vita is showing she's more than a design oh this gagged me Mia in her thing she's like you know I think Mia Vita is showing that she's more than a design girl when she's only done well in design challenges so far I'm like how is she showing versatility I'm like she I didn't get that either I wrote that down too I was like what the fuck is happening. What really hit me was Kenya trying to intimidate the girls, being like, honey, when the Kenya pleaser effect is in action, you all will be gagging. And they were like, okay, girl. You're like, I'm kidding. Also, I don't know it doesn't bother you. It drives me crazy. Discourse wig is always lifting on the sides. If they are not on the main stage, Discourse wigs are always like this. And I know she's not on occasion. It's just, every time the cameras on discord every single week the show has been on her weeks are always like this maybe when she gets backstage she just plucks it for a little bit of relief maybe i guess it just seems like kicking her heels off you know just giving a little a little air here well here's my thing um i don't think discord remembers things well because she is acting like the judges only does this is her second time doing this she's like the judges only dislikes my walk that's not true they said your dress was ill-fitting they did not like it but she's like no it was literally just my walk it was only my walk and if i'm in the room for my walk i'll be so upset i wrote that too i was like she's really thinking on the walk i was like but i don't think they like the dress much i mean again they didn't like shred her last day they were like this dress is awful you should go back to design school this has been burned in hell but they didn't also so yeah maybe she's just picking and choosing what she wants. There's also a chance that I just don't remember because the judges critique them in front of them and they critique them when they're in Untucked. So there's a chance that maybe their critiques happen when they're in Untucked, but I feel like I remember them telling her they did not love that. They talked about the issues they had with the dress. Also, the fans were like, I can't believe when Bob and Monet did not mention Squabble. To be honest, I didn't even write a note about it. I wrote it down because it was so funny. And I want to say we did Squabble that opportunity. so thank you all for calling us out we absolutely squabble that opportunity we will not squabble another opportunity thank you so much for keeping us accountable I think she meant squander yes I think that's clear the next day Discord walks in and she's still not over being in the bottom she is still upset she is still mad about it and then RuPaul lets everyone know that they're going to be doing a Raider Queen talent show in two parts Raider Queen is back Can you explain what Raider Queen is, please? How Raider Queen works is that, so we typically see this in the beginning of the season. We've never seen it in like the middle of a season. But what, so the Queens get a chance at the performance and they get to rank and rate each other. And so the bottom and top placements are chosen by the Queens and not RuPaul and the judges, which is kind of crazy because a few weeks ago, Bob and I were like, when Jane was like, there's a target on my back. And we're like, girl, like, that's not a thing. I was like, Janie's to add psychic to her many titles because she foresaw that this was going to happen Well, apparently what's her name? What's her name? What's her name? Kelly Mansell Why are you making my face at Kelly Mansell? Because there's a video going around I know, but you made the face then Why are you making it again? It's not about Kelly Mansell, it's about psychic I don't think psychics are a thing do you do you have you gone to a psychic never not once would you go to psychic maybe yeah probably but i mean i know people i know two people who go to who go to a psychic and like they're like yeah like my psychic she i mean again i would go to one but i wouldn't go to one regularly i had two people who go to and they are but they like really trust the psychic and like everything not everything but a lot of the decisions and choices they make like oh yeah my psychic said and they like really trust the psychic. Is it different than going to church? No, it's not. It's not that different than going to church. But I also wouldn't go to church. So, yeah, my whole thought process about this is like the queens immediately start strategizing, right? Because what's going to happen here is only half the queens have to perform, other half the queens are in the talent show, and then next week they swap out and then the two top queens will lip sync for the win and then the bottom two queens will lip sync for their lives and see what gets to say. So I believe next week we're getting two lip syncs. back to back. And they started strategizing Amina RuPaul lets the girls decide who's going to go first in what week, who's going to judge on the first week. Well, Vida gets to choose as the winner. Vida gets to choose. Yes. Jane starts off by saying, I hate Raider Queen and I'm not coming to be judged by y'all, which I do not think is a great way to win favor off-rip. But I mean, she's right, though. Who cares? I'm not talking about her. She's right. or she's wrong, I'm saying that that's not a great way to win favor off rip. Did she say that to the girls or just to her confessional? She said it straight to their faces. She goes, I didn't come here to be judged by y'all. Talking directly to them. But also, I mean, but to her point, like, of course they're going to target her. She has two wins already. And she was top in the week that she didn't win. So the girls are like kind of discussing their, um, what they're going to be doing. And then Nene is talking about her praying mantis bit. And then Jane throws some shade. She's like, what else do you do besides bugs? What is, Jane is on one today. Can I just say Jane? Jane only has one win. She has one win. She has one win. She could have won the other one. Everyone could have won one. Everyone could have won one. You know what I mean? She was like, she was like high. She's like high win. But she didn't win. She was a loser that week. anyway um how do you feel about the what does youtube but like you don't think jane is like on one this week i mean i don't think it's on one no no okay um do you how do you feel about repackaging a number that you've done before in the world i think it's okay to do i'm like yeah i mean i think in these in these days when something gets like um it's with virality maybe a little different Like, I feel like if you like, like, like, like, let's say you went and you for the, for the competition on drag race, a video of yours that went viral, the, the crazy one. Yeah. Let's say like that went crazy and they got like 10 million views. Would you, would you come back and do it on drag race? I mean, if I can get the rest of those songs and those, those, those movie clips, sure. But my real question is like, for example, had you ever sang that song you sang on all stars here or something before? Yeah. Yeah. I'm like, I don't understand a talent is something you've actually curated and worked on. Not something you're doing for the first time. I mean, it can be something you don't for the first time, but like, I think if you're going to a talent show, it should be something that you've worked on and curated over time. Yeah, I agree. I don't, I don't, I don't think that, I don't think just, just because you've done something before is a reason that you can't do it on drag race. I think that's silly. But I think again, they're trying to nitpick to like to, to give themselves reasons. Oh, why I'm not going to give her this because, And again, as Jane's rubric, because she is now a judge and adjudicator, she can use her own rubric for how she's going to critique girls. But I don't think it's a problem. Ciara is doing poetry. I'm just intrigued by like Jane is like worried about how she's going to be judged. Meanwhile, she seems to have so far the harshest rubric of anyone. You can't do anything you've ever done. You can't wear anything you've ever worn. You can't be anyone you've ever been. You can't who anyone you've ever whoed. Like, girl, you have the harshest rubric so far. Support for this podcast is brought to you by Walden University. Ever catch yourself thinking, what if I could go after what I actually want and really make a difference? You're not alone. And that's exactly why I want to tell you about Walden University. For over 50 years, Walden has helped working adults like you get the W with the knowledge and skills to build the future you want and make a difference where it matters most. If you've been waiting for the right moment, this is it. Head to waldenu.edu and take that first step. Walden University, set a course for change. Certified to operate by SHEV. Want to make real change in your life, career, and community? At Walden University, we give you the support and flexibility to get the W. 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You think of Mariah Paris Balenciaga when she did the The paint thing The paint thing Like you think of like spoken word reports like that and i like okay if it gonna be like that caliber i like that could be really dope and again sierra seems to be a very artsy person so i at this point i didn't know what it was gonna be but i'm like yeah that's a that sounds like a safe fun one to do not safe but an interesting pov yeah yeah it could be it could be really good you never know um but what i want to talk about is the fact that the strategizing starts, right? So Kenya, Athena, Mia, and Juicy, they try to form an alliance with the voting plan. But then Sierra pulls the girls aside from the Glam group and wants to form a group there. But then they're like, okay, but can Athena be in the group? And then she's like, yes. And then Nene is like, okay, I'm going to be in on the Glam alliance. But then Mikey is like, okay, maybe I might be joining this alliance as well. and I'm like at this point y'all are just excluding one person I know I know the more the more they start adding people I'm like girl they act like this is like Survivor with like a tribe of 20 people I'm like at this point y'all are basically just telling Vida and Jane that y'all are going to get rid of them at this point yeah it was a lot of going back and forth between all the girls and I think that Mikey I think bringing the glam bot thing was a lot I think they should have just kept it to the Athena, Mia, Juicy, Kenya one. Did you say Glam Bot? Glam, what was it? Glam, Glam Pop Girl Group Alliance. I was like Glam Bot. It was Glam Pop, because all of them were from the Glam Pop girl group. But again, it serves everyone except those two you said, basically. Kenya's in the best position, because she's in the one with Athena, Mia, Juicy, and she's in the Glam Bot one with Nini, Mike and all of them. So I think that honestly it benefits her the most. Well, Darlene it feels like she's going to be taken care of by Jane. But then Jane was basically like, no, I'm going to be voting Fairley. So which triggered her face. And then Jane doesn't want to be but then Jane, everyone's going around like strategizing and I've noticed that Jane has not moved from once. She's in the same spot. She has not moved. She's not playing this game. She's like, I'm not playing this game with y'all. I don't want to be judged by y'all. and like well what you're going to be so like bitch get into the groove you know when i wrote down when the girls are deciding mini onini can pick week one or two oh so yeah before we move on today i was last thing i want to say is this athena i will say the only thing is really clear to me because the alliances are so confusing and so fucked up and drag race is just not a show for alliances i mean it's never worked out except for alaska talks and rolex She had no power. I worked out really well for Trinity and all. And Trinity Tuck. Oh, did she do Alliance there? Yeah, I don't like her. I was the deciding vote between her and Jada. So you're the reason Jada didn't win All-Stars. Correct. Got it. I'm also the reason I didn't win All-Stars. But I will say what I'm just intrigued by like athena has one thing that's been clear is that athena's like above everything i'm putting juicy in the top no matter what like under no circumstances i don't care what she does out there which to be fair you can vote how you can vote however you want to vote it is your vote and i love that athena's at least being like this is what i'm doing i don't give a fuck what y'all say you know yeah and she said it too she's like girl do they really think that i came in i came in here with my daughter and i wouldn't vote vote like put her in the top like is that she's like She's like, I don't care how that looks. She's like, and I think everyone knows that. She's like, that's how I'm going to, that's how I'm playing it. Like, I don't care. Every time she says daughter, I want to put granddaughter in asterisks. No, Bob, she's her, she's not her grandmother. She's her mother. Juicy said she's her grandmother. So who do you believe? Juicy or Athena? Literally, she said, she said it to Juicy. She said, you're my daughter. Juicy said you're my, she's her grandmother. So who do you believe? Juicy or Athena? I believe that Athena said that to that girl right to the face. And she said, Mom, as your mother. And Juicy said, yes, Mom. But who's her drag mom? Bob, Juicy got accepted. She's her mother. Well, Juicy, I believe in Juicy. I stand with women. So they've just, so Mikey chooses to go in week two so she doesn't have to go up against all the dancers. And it ends up being Nimi, Vida, Darlene, Mia, Juicy, Sierra. Those are the week one girls. And then Nini, but Kenya, because they're all trying to decide who's going in what week. And then Nini's like, yeah, I'm going to go week one of whatever. No, week two. And then she goes, actually changed the last minute. And Kenya is exasperated. She's like, bitch, I just asked you the question and you said week two. Bitch, what is it? She's like, I'm sorry for yelling. She's like, I'm sorry for getting angry. I'm like, I don't know. I'll be irritated. I don't know. Kenya's doing a lot. I was like, girl, why do you care? You're not going. I'm like, why do you care? What? I think she's thinking about how she's going to stack up. Like, I think it's going to inform who she's on a week with and how she might line up with that. But I think we're about to see toward the end of this episode. Obviously, none of the alliances worked out because the girl who started the glam alliance is in the bottom. So none of the glam girlies gave her their favor. Like, well, drag race. This is obviously this was not about alliances. They were just basing it off of Mary, which is fair. you can vote however you want to vote well why do we spend all that time discussing alliances when none of you guys are under the alliance well because we'll get into it when we talk about Ritter Queen because some people defect it but Bob that is the danger of an alliance this happens in Survivor all the time people set an alliance and you get backstabbed you get betrayed your alliance does not fall through or you're in the wrong alliance well the alliance is already falling apart because it cuts straight to Nene in the confessions being like, oh yeah, I don't care about the glam alliance. I gotta worry about myself. Like, immediately. Like, we haven't even made it to the main stage, and she's already like, girl, we haven't even started putting on makeup. And she's like, girl, I'm worried about myself. And it's like, well, y'all alliance is destroyed. Yeah, it's gaggy. While they're doing the makeup, the girls are really being like, so Sierra, you really want to do a poem? And she said, I said what I said. And they said, okay, Miss Mama. we shall see ladies we shall see oh let's go into the runway looks they did runway before they did the runway first yeah um um rupaul looks this is a pretty standard dress for rupaul i mean again this is the i think it's a standard sort of rupaul this hair we love the hair zara larson is so draggy like that eye makeup i want to do that but it's also i can tell y'all that makeup probably looked so beautiful in person because of all the stonework once just a man i said i was like i can only imagine how it looked when the stage lights hit when the stage lights hit her eyes it was very pretty makeup yeah i love that she dressed up so much for the show i really appreciate when the girls put in the effort it just means a lot to me um yeah and i love rupaul's dress i love this dress uh i love this corset top michelle has that's cool yeah that is really who who made that that's that's kind of i want to go into sierra mist uh i do not like this look and i really hate the way sierra's walking on the runway like girl just walk just just walk i don't understand it either like just fucking like i just do a walk like why are we doing all this extra girl just gets to be runway this is your supermodel moment just give us a model runaway walk everything doesn't need to be this it doesn't even need to be crazy model runway but just what are you doing like you don't need to be just just literally put one foot in front of the other and i will say this everyone's making fun of discord adams i think sierra miss actually has the worst runway walk of the season i just look at it closely again you think so so okay so you're saying sierra miss sierra miss walk is worse than Discord's walk. Yes, at least Discord has like a point of view and it's iconic and it's like it sticks out in your mind. Iconic? It's the most iconic walk of the season. Can you name any of this season whose walk is more iconic? Quickly. Quickly. Thank you. Thank you. Anyway. It's more iconic for your walk. Discord's walk will always go down the history more than your walk will. So now what? This outfit, I did not like this outfit. I think the titty the black I do like the mixing of leather and this like satin because the category was what is it not today satin not today satin and so she's doing this play on like obviously that's a play on words with not today satan she's doing the devil she's doing dark whatever but I think the weird the pointy things from the bustier They're weird lengths. Like, if you're going to do that, it should have been more dramatic. When I was in high school, there was a girl in our classroom that had, in middle school, and Kamika knows this. She has scoliosis, and she had to wear literally something very similar. That's literally where my brain went to. It looks like one of the braces you wear when you have scoliosis. I think that, okay, I did not think of that. But I feel like this is what I was saying, hip pads but no titty pads. Like, why are titties so small? yeah the titties are bigger they're so big those little point things they should have been like they should have been like gigantic and like pointy and like come on that way then that would have given us more uh more texture there not texture more um uh to scale to it would be to scale of her shoulders to make it seem small but it just looked like she's wearing someone's tiny little thing it just doesn't what is going on with no titties i don't understand what the no titties I know you do no titties. What's happening? I don't do no titties all the time. I do no titties sometimes. I don't do no titties all the time. When I don't do titties, it's because I think that it makes a dress look a certain way. I normally wear titties. I'm not trying to be funny. Don't you see how big your shoulders are? But it's not always a problem for me. Let's go to the next person, shall we? Jacob. I thought this was a beautiful look. It is beautiful. It makes her look even shorter than she already is, though. Yeah, it does. It swallows. It squabbles her up a little bit. Are you in the spirit of swallowing? Have you ever been swallowed? Where is that from? I told you it's the pastor, T.D. Jakes, I think. Oh, swallowed. But she looks beautiful. She looks beautiful. I love that she's not getting clocked with a short hair. You love it or you actually love it? I love it. As someone who was, a who who who was a short head kitty cat girl i love that she's doing all these iterations of different short hairs she's doing she's finding interesting ways i mean they are oftentimes a some version of a finger wave but um she hasn't been clocked for yet by the judges not once well money maybe that's because you were dragged so that she could walk have you ever thought about that the doors you care when i did it i was only wearing blonde it was the same it was a blonde pixie wig it was literally also in her defense these are styled wigs yeah in her defense her wigs are styled and yours came out of your pocket I look like I look like a Republican do you remember that wig I used to keep in my pocket it was that wig with the hair kind of flopping up in the front. It was a black wig with blonde hair. I hated that wig. We all hated that wig. Everyone hates the wig you're wearing, and the internet told you. Juicy looks great. I look like Ken from Bizarro World. Juicy looks fantastic. Her legs look really great, and this is a beautiful garment. Up next... I thought this was cool, this is the first look, Nene, this is the first look we've seen of her is that she did not create and design herself, she commissioned this by someone that she respects and she likes and I'm like, it's like a jellyfish it's like a starry jellyfish, yo I hate this really? I don't understand their perspective, I don't understand the silhouette I do not think it looks good uh I don't I do not like this look this hat is kind of like swallowing up her head I mean chat am I crazy like everyone loves this look am I insane I don't I'm not I'm not like like you know yeah I'm like oh my god it's a great look but I thought it's interesting I thought it's not ugly I don't look at it look at it like Sierra Miss look I think it's a good look okay the chat is still saying it's still on your way they're never talking about this doesn't another thing like Fred from Scooby-Doo what's his name who's the actor what's his name uh Ryan Phillips? No. Freddie Prinze. Freddie Prinze. Someone said you like a barb in 2026. Ew! At Joey Stone says this is garbage. Josh says it is ugly. DJS Black said it was something not my favorite. so it's interesting for me like I don't understand and then like the judges liked it I was like am I losing my mind here well but I don't think it's ugly like I think it's interesting she has a waist she has a silhouette and it's interesting to the eye I'm not like oh my god it's a great look if I on a scale of 1 to 10 I would give this look a definitely a safe probably like a 7 I like what Starlight of Venus said here they said no this look is ugly but I can tell it looks pretty as a drawing maybe the sketch was beautiful let's move on let's go on to the next okay up next we have um bita bantese star bita her makeup this episode was so strikingly beautiful to me in this look and in her talent show i was like her mug i was like i want to look like this. Her mug to me was so fucking gorgeous. I like her with this red hair. It looks really good on her. Is this supposed to be a little nod to Death Becomes Her? What's the actress's name? Isabella Rossellini. Is this like an Isabella Rossellini inspired look? Kind of. Is it? She wears something like this in the movie? I don't remember. Jane Don't tweeted, maybe not, someone from the cast tweeted that she made it in her hotel room two days before this runway. Yeah, why did two girls not have satin looks together? Is that why she wore these mixed-match shoes? Because her having all this emerald on and this gold and having them crystal AB pumps took me out. I was like, bitch, crystal AB shoes with this outfit is crazy. Well, that's gaggy. I will say that it's not giving noodle it's not as good as the her whole chest is supposed to be noodle isn't it yeah but i think it's definitely giving noodle illusion to me it's just giving a big piece of mesh i think that noodle illusion there's only so much you can do before the illusion is lost and the fact that she's nude illusion from the neck all the way down to the waist makes it a little bit uh less but that being said i think she looks really good though i would have rather i would have rather seen it over like a green mesh than over this New Delusion mesh? I think the New Delusion looks great actually. I like mixing this gold and this emerald together. I think that's very stunning, especially with this red hair. The bottom half I guess now that I have the knowledge that she made in her hotel room in two days, I'm like, oh, blah, blah, blah. 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Ready to make some healthy swaps and become a member? Join Thrive Market with my link, thrivemarket.com slash rivalry for 30% off your first order plus a free $60 gift. Okay, so up next we have the one, the only, the iconic. Girl! Bitch. She looks like Brooklyn Heights in the face here. You don't see it? I can see it, but do not ever insult Brooklyn Heights. How dare you insult my gorgeous sister Brooklyn Heights like that? I think you just said you saw it. I said slightly. No, you said I see it. You did not say slightly. Everyone rewind back. You did not. Yeah, rewind back. I can't. I, I, I, you almost sent me to the moon. I hate a rewind back. Bitch, how, how else should I, or should I rewind? You know what I meant? How else should I rewind? Tell me. Communication is about, can you communicate? How else should I rewind? Would you like me to rewind forward next time? Yeah, maybe. I think that, first of all, what color are her tights? I literally can't tell. Okay. I think it's just a picture because on video, I did not remember. I didn't have this. When I watched it, I didn't see this. So it has to be just the camera. Yeah, I think she borrowed Vita's tights because this is crazy. No, but it was not like that on screen. It's just a picture, Bob. This is a screen grab. What do you think this is? but yeah but i think the colors are distorted i think a little bit with the screen grab when she was walking the runway i would have wrote down she had black legs they were normal when she was walking on the runway i need to go back and watch uh this dress is absolutely hideous uh this was this was the fucking reveal the dress kept getting uglier and uglier i absolutely hate this dress this is a bad no matter her tights are still black in video form what i don't remember saying that i don't know i do not i do not know whose tight she's wearing she was wearing she's rupaul on the bottom michelle on the top oh no she's no no she's those are raven's tights yeah y'all she and you can tell this bitch walked on that runway like she was wearing custom Schiaparelli. In her mind, she was giving Haute Couture Paris Fashion Week 2026. She said, this is the most beautiful I've looked. This is the most glamorous woman that I am. And revealing to this hideous fucking broke down Cinderella with this like weird aubergine like gauntlet opera glove with this tiny kitten heel bow shoe girl I was like darling come on and then we'll talk about it later when she says this and wasn't it untucked she's like this one we don't talk about untucked here we don't talk about untucked here we'll talk about untucked later but I want to say this is the best she has well I think she actually looked better last week when she made the look herself on stage I would agree in a way shout out to our biracial queen I wouldn't think about this hair apparently she's going to wear some other hair no she switched shoes no she said here no shoes she brought another she was going to wear another wig with this look initially but Athena convinced her to change it so they changed her shoes her hair and her tights so imagine this look Bob with those old chunky white heels let's move on to the next queen wait Bob imagine this look with her chunky heels that RuPaul said do not wear again. That's what she's going to wear with this outfit. I want to know what the wig was going to be. She posted it on, someone said she posted it on Twitter. Jacob, can you pull it up? Ship of Thesis? The Ship of Thesis? It's like like this is not exactly the analogy, but say your grandfather, you have an axe and you're like, this is my grandfather's axe. My dad replaced the handle and then I replaced the shaft. Like, is it the same axe? And a ship of theses is similar. I'm not 100% sure. I guess it's a completely different look. Everything was moving away. Gavin says, I need y'all to see the Meemaw-ass wig. I need to see this original wig. What was she going to wear with this outfit? Yeah, where is it at, y'all? Where should Jacob go look for it at? We don't know. It's on her Twitter. I'm just, it's taking a moment, sorry. We'll come back to when Jacob finds it. Let's move on to the next look for now. So for now, I found it. Okay, okay. This is the wig she's going to wear. Sorry. Can I just say, I think Darlene might be iconic. I'm sorry to say it. I think Darlene might be iconic, guys. I think Darlene might be actually one of the most original queens we've ever had on Drag Race. I really do believe a lot of queens go on pretending to be kooky. I think this bitch is a nut for real like I don't know why she's not getting the you're just stupid at it but I think she it might be a nut for real like for real for real she's gonna wear that brown mullet I wish she had I wish she had that's crazy I really wish she had to be honest she said she tweeted this is the wig I plan on wearing y'all this is the wig I planned on wearing lol Athena said absolutely not and gave me this one the day before. And you know you're really batting a thousand when fucking Athena Dion is giving you fucking fashion advice. What? Is she your fucking fashion queen? Oh my God. That's crazy. Someone said that Darlene had a COVID test because this thing is... Let's give them their credit. That's Rick Petita said that. has Arlene had a COVID test because the taste level again if you want to watch us record live you can join our Patreon at the top tier let's move on to for all of our gen alphas who don't know about COVID when people had COVID they lost their sense of taste everyone knows that COVID is still happening I know but gen alphas probably don't get the reference there's gen alphas watching this go to fucking sleep go to fucking sleep alright next up on the runway is Mia Starr you roll we're having fun with our patrons I was trying to move it on but okay listen this dress is fucking hideous Mia Starr and I know your drag mother made this I'm so sorry to your drag mother but god damn god damn this dress is fucking hideous yeah this is not a good dress and like this big ass bow um i just don't think that it looks good i don't understand yes i guess she was i think that maybe this dress could have been saved by maybe making the bow not so sad and droopy and it being big and then having like the two what do you call the things at the end of the bow like the two legs the pleat thing you know what I mean? You mean the tears that come down like the or the actual bow in the fells? Yeah like maybe like that was actually a thing that could look nice but this just looks sad and droopy and it's all one color. I think if the bow was on her butt instead of across her chest or if again I mean the bow looks asymmetrical this bow looks sad. It doesn't even look like a bow. Yeah it's not. It looks like a bull. yeah we gotta move on this is this is killing my mood we gotta move on mikey meeks looks incredible i thought this was pretty i think mikey looks really beautiful mixing the satin satin with this leather was really gorgeous her face is beautiful this hair was fun i think mikey looks incredible yeah i've been saying for weeks that mikey is stunning i think she's my beauty queen of the season i think she's the prettiest queen this season easily she looks so so so so good truly this is really cool I would love to see what Mikey can do with this makeup and these cool ideas when she has a little more TV money I think Mike I feel like Mikey on All Stars would be crazy Mikey on All Stars would go crazy she looks great this is probably my favorite look of the week to be honest yeah so stunning let's keep moving shall we let's go on to we have Athena Love Dion what do you think about this look Bob? price your fashion guy con your fashion queen god that dress is so stiff and just unappealing and the way she walks the runway is also irritating this is a season full of bad runway walks and it just makes me grimace that final dress also all this all being this one fuchsia tone of um satin is not it's not a flattering color on her and her like i don't know it just doesn't look good on her the shape's not flattering she looks like a she looks like a spicy loofah this looks like you know what it looks like if you took this dress off of her it would stand up by itself and that's not a good thing it looks like she can't walk on it it looks like she can't bend in this dress yeah i do not think this is good this is not a good look and again y'all never this length glove does not work on anyone when you're doing a glove either do opera length or you do a little t glove this mid-length glove is never a good look like rarely i don't think i can count on my i can count on my hand one time when that length glove looks good on someone that's the length glove you do huh what was the one time no no i said no i didn't i said then i corrected myself i said i said i said i can't i can't find a time i've ever thought seen that length like that length just never looks good on anything that's the length that i did when i was a baby queen and i was just going to the garment district and just buying gloves at the at the store like oh yeah this will work that length glove is not good I just hate this dress so much and the sad part is I can tell this dress is very well made I guess it does with the boning and the rouging I can tell it's well made but the idea is really hideous the execution is fine but the inspiration the idea for the dress is just really I hate this dress so much and this wig and why is the wig the same color of the dress of the fabric well she went to a monochromatic fantasy obviously it doesn't look good it does not look good and i know this is your fashion queen for me this doesn't work though steve now you're trying to spin a narrative which we which i see what you're trying to do let's move on to your fashion queen can you please i love can you please her and i hate this look yeah first of all that she didn't this look was given to her by who gave her this look no no no it wasn't video it was jane oh yeah sorry jane girl jane is writing people's verses Jane is giving people legal advice Jane is giving people And apparently Jane had this black African queen look in her back And Kenya because Kenya's designer didn't come through for her because we all know designers are fake as fuck Okay but girl you need to figure it out before you get there Vida Bunti starred didn't have a look she pulled it together in the hotel room Girl figure it out before you get there I'm sorry They have more than two weeks now Back in my day, we had two weeks. Figure it out. I'm sorry. Figure it out. This is the Olympics for drag. And also, I will say this too, not to be like a spoil sport, but like I don't even understand why the queens who were judging were even on the runway. Like it doesn't matter. You're not being judged. You're not being critiqued. You're just wasting clothes. No, but I know I disagree. I like when Dragos does that because girls spend a lot of money on runway looks, and you don't know which runway looks are going to land where. So the more chances to show off these looks that you spent, I mean, she didn't spend money on this one, but other girls may have spent like, Juicy, probably, no, Juicy was being judged this week. But anyway, you spend money on runway looks. You want the world to see them because you spend the money on them. So I like when the show does this, actually. Yeah, I'm going to answer it. Let's go on to Jane Don't. I thought, so Rob says, I thought this is the best Kenya has looked so far. Really? But then they said, but she didn't even bring the look. It was not even hers. No, I think Kenya's best look so far is probably my favorite of hers is her entrance look i would say we're talking the wrong way miss mama you know you know what you mean no no no but no he said look so far and i think her baby her entrance look is the best she looks so far i think you know what he can clarify in the chat um i i i don't really like what jane don is wearing what is happening i agree i was like i don't know I'm going to be on Lonely Island here, but I don't... It was too much going on. It's like bird. Is a phoenix rising through the sun? I don't get... I don't like it and I don't get it and I want to move on. Because the hair looks like it's like phoenix also and like the bird around her shoulder. I don't like it. I don't get it. I want to move on. Wait. Jacob, go back. Okay, keep going on. Talk more. Are you going to say are you going to say bird rising again? Go ahead. What are you going to say again? Go ahead. No, because I'm intrigued by, is it, is the dress supposed to be, I think the dress is stained glass. And now that we're seeing it in the picture, I'm like, oh, maybe it's a stained glass dress, which is cool. No, it doesn't look like stained glass. This looks nothing like stained glass. Why are you trying to make us look at this fucking ugly dress longer? Can we move on from this ugly fucking dress? God of mercy. This dress is the hideous. do you think this is the worst dress this is the worst look this week? no but it is hideous it is a hideous dress can you find one thing nice no I want to move on from this dress Jesus Christ Jade Donne says I'm giving very woman with a bird on her vibe what? I have nothing to contribute I want to read this I can't believe we're supposed to do this dress this look was sort of a last minute pivot but that part all coalesced drew and cut the clouds, stole the shit I cannot believe we're still talking about this dress this is insane you're only doing it on a fight we have to move on you have to give these girls respect they got their chance on Drag Race she showed her ugly dress on Drag Race Jesus Christ let's go on to Discord Adams who, Jacob, I didn't even clock this until Jacob just, did she say this or you just clocked this, Jacob? No, I just clocked it So Discord is doing this newspaper thing and this is a recreation of what Emma Stone did when she played Cruella DeVille in the DeVille movie and this is the Discord version of that dress, the newspaper garbage can, garbage truck dress. I gotta say, that fucking moment in... I didn't love that movie, but that moment was so brilliant. Whoever came with that idea in that movie was so, so good. That being said, I do not like Discord's take on it. I did love her walking up her own runway. That was really cute. And she kept going on and on about how much she loved this wig. I can't tell if she was joking or not. Was she joking? I don't know, but I don't like. This is on your recreations thing that you hate recreations. I don't love recreations. It's not an exact though, but it's still not good. It's pretty. Oh, no, it is. Oh, that's her tattoos. Oh, I thought that was a sleeve. No, girl, that's her tattoos. Oh, shit. she had a mesh glove on I think but yeah this is pretty much a recreation like a team recreation but a recreation nonetheless yeah this does not look good and now I'm singing next to Miss Cruella DeVille Discord's hair looks crazy next to the original yeah it's not great let's move on to the talent show shall we let's go to I'm still so furious with you for making me look at that fucking dress for as long as you make me look at it I'm so I'm so mad at you right now God that thing was so hideous let's go into okay what do you think about this look let's start with the look Sierra's look first of all and just so you know I rated them I rated the queens myself one through six and I would love to share that with you when you're done did you already rate them I didn't rate them one through six now maybe we can do it together um i think that discord look is actually cool i like that i like the opening look a lot and i didn't i did not see the i did not see the the reveal coming so that was like i was like oh that was cool but i and and i think she made this herself this opening look is giving like very like sasha velour like sasha velour tees back in the days but i think the construction of this is very pretty and the look was fun yes i like the opening look more than the reveal um but i will I say this is is Hobo Johnson Chat can y back me up Her entire performance was Hobo. It was Hobo Johnson. Who's Hobo Johnson? I want you to just take a brief moment to look up Hobo Johnson and come back. Chat, please tell me y'all don't think I'm crazy on this. Hobo Johnson. This performance is Hobo Johnson. I mean, go on Spotify, anything. Just click Hobo Johnson. click through the song and just be like, oh, this is Hobo. This is literally Hobo Johnson. Hi, what's your name? How are you? How's your life? Oh, you got a man. Are you a love of so type? Is it just play tonic, strictly justice, friends? Are the type that ties you two together till tomorrow's end? If it is, disregard every time I call you pretty. Though it's meant sincerely, it's just my imagination drifting. Girl, this is her entire performance is Hobo Johnson. The whole thing. it was it was peach scone she's gone a peach scone being so i was like this i can't this is crazy yeah i did not love this performance i think trying to like like she she was trying to do like a a more serious like a deeper subject matter and i don't think it she accomplished that goal in the 60 seconds that she had and it just felt really it felt a little uncomfortable it was more than a little uncomfortable and i understand it was a message to her her uh late drag sister but it was it was a very tough watch and yeah but i don't think i didn't understand was how her friends didn't understand what the message like her her sisters were like i don't get the message y'all the message is so clear it's not like i don't think that she was doing like allegories and analogies and she was like, I used to not like myself and now I'm figuring out to love myself. They're like, what is she saying? What do you mean what she's saying? How do you not know what she's saying? Let's keep on going. Up next we have Juicy and I think her performance was really good. I really did not like that song, but her performance was amazing. I think something that RuPaul pointed out too, I think her commitment to the character, like she's playing this like robot character thing i think i think that i think that's what sold it to like it wasn't just like i'm gonna come i'm a fierce dancer i'm gonna dance like i'm gonna commit to this character dancing i think that's what made it a good performance because it wasn't just which i think goes back to her like days of like because because alissa was telling me like this girl is like a competitive dancer i think i think alissa's kids competed against her and um she's known in the dancing world for like these character pieces and you can that's so clear in this yeah it was a really good performance uh i was going to nini coco yo nini ate this was amazing this little also she was like bitch i do flips too now what it sure does i'm like she's an engineer she's a fucking uh uh she did a whole back she was like a back answering yeah girl They have covered the entire workforce. Load equations and fucking litigation and fucking... You can't forget Mandy Mango. Mandy Mango, Nurse Mango, and then apparently a marine biologist. Did you see this number in the world? Did this come across your party? I heard the numbers. was doing, I was like, oh, I bet this is Woman Who Ate. I think when she first did it, she actually did it to the song Woman Who Ate, and they kind of redid it for this so that she can have her own track. Yeah, I didn't see the viral number. I never heard it until I saw it today. I thought it was excellent. Yeah, I mean, it was really a really good number. This was one of my favorite numbers of the week, easily. Let's go on to Vita, baby. Now, I really like Vita Von Teese. I think, as I said before, I think her makeup in this fucking episode is stunning. The hair makeup would be beautiful. This Jazzercise. Get to the critiques. We don't need a compliment. I'm going to critique how I want to critique. We don't need a compliment sandwich from you. This Jazzercise fucking 80s, boring ass number in flats. It felt geriatric. And it felt like it lacked energy. I was like, girl, where's the energy? I'm like, you don't know what to work on number. Are you doing like, okay, guys, let's do it. One and I'm like, girl, where is the energy? You know, if I see a workout number on the show, all I want to see is one of those 1980s aerobics Olympics exercises. The D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D. You know what I'm talking about? With the kicking and the uh, uh. If it's not that level, I don't want to see it. I'm going to go ahead and say it right now. If it's not that level, I don't want to see it. I don't want to see you stepping up on a two-step thing with leg warmers on and doing – I don't want to see that. And if you are going to do that, subvert it. Give us some, like, I don't know, something to subvert being a workout. If you're going to go this basics, again, it's also something we've seen this on Jaggers like four times now. I think the most iconic one was when they did a season three with Delta Work, and they did that challenge. remember the shake weight with stacy lane the shake weight thing and like yeah like like that was probably the most iconic time we've seen this on draggers if you're not gonna meet that level of camp and ridiculousness don't even bother also i guess working out so having the weights that were cookies was that the joke like i'm i'm i'm eating i'm working out but i have my weights are cookies but also i don't think she know all the words for sure bitch half the number was upstage yeah no this is this was a very bad number it's a very very bad number um let's go on to Darlene Mitchell um in her number honestly this is what in her runway look I mean anything anything in her runway look um this is also not a great number but it really solidifies that Darlene is really nutty like she's nutty I did not like this number I didn't think it was funny I did not think it was I did not like this number I mean I said that a lot of the innuendo was very campy and you know drag but I think for her also it was lacking energy I'm like she was listening to herself even like there is something like even to her lip sync when she recorded the lip sync the lip sync didn't have energy either So like when we're listening to her, listening to herself, it feels like double lack of energy. Like it's like, where is the like, you're like, I don't know. I just felt like she could have made this bigger and she had these like big props and everything. But it just it felt very like lackluster. Yeah. Yeah. Very. Yeah. I did not like this number. Let's move on to Mia Star. God, this was the best number of the week. This number, this song was great. The performance was great. the wig reveal was fun i did not love her look but outside of the look y'all this number just like brought the house down the lyrics were amazing that's where the star line was so good she is such she is truly such a star like mia star is just amazing i'm so impressed by her i don't know if she's still the lowest followed on fucking instagram but she should not be because this number was but it was insane she showed the difference between being like a a working dancer this is no shade to juicy or anyone else but like a working dancer and someone who can do a lot of tricks like mia star is like it is a a like you can tell that she knows how to hit the stage use her body every every movement i mean there is not a movement that she did that was not so powerful and so fucking strong. It was just so good. Yeah, I thought it was a good number, too. I thought the lyrics were very clever, very funny. I mean, I'm sorry, just really great. I don't know if she wrote her rap herself, but it was very well done. The titties were bothering me the whole time. I know Mia Starr loves titties. Every outfit she does is centered around her silicone tits, but that little bandeau top thing was taking me out. Every time she would move, half the nipple was off. I was like, girl, just wear, just get something that covers your titties, or put double-sided tape on the thing to keep it secure. I will say that she also needs wider titties. I mean, as a big back, she needs a big rack. I rated them. This is how I rated them. In number one, I put Mia Star. In second place, I put Nene Coco. in third place I put Juicy in fourth place I put Darlene Mitchell in fifth place I put Sierra and in sixth place I put Vita if I had to do it I would put Mia Star first I would put Nini second I would put I don't know Juicy or Nini I don't know because I think that I just thought Nini was a little bit more creative you know yeah I'll put Nini second I'll put Juicy third I would put I would put I would put Darlene I would put Darlene Sierra and who Vida 4, 5 and 6 fucking awful I would put Darlene next because I think there was some creativity there and she did do her thing I would put Sierra Miss and I would put Vida last We have the exact same ranking. Is that what you said? Yep, exact same ranking, yep. And, Rob, you have to lock it in. And that's the T. So let's go ahead and move on to the judges' critiques. Well, they were hallucinating. And apparently, RuPaul wasn't kidding. I think they were hallucinating. Because they were going on about how much they fucking loved Nene Coco's look, which sent me to the moon. I was like, I guess y'all motherfuckers are hallucinating for real. Because I hated that look so much. I don't remember that. I didn't remember them raving about it that much. Well, they didn't rave, but they said it looked nice. The judges said if they were rating, which they're not, they would put Juicy and Mia in the top and they would put Vita in the bottom, which came really close to being what happened. Yeah. They didn't show all the voting. I wrote some of them down. But Athena did put Juicy as number one. Kenya put Mia as number one. well I wrote Kenya has broken her alliance because she plays CRLO she literally had a she literally agreed that she would follow the glam the glam girl group and she broke the alliance girl drag race is not for alliances unless apparently unless Monet is there and she'll save someone from you know something but it is clear to me that like these girls broke the alliance because they all not all but a lot of them put what's the name in the bottom a lot of them put Sierra Miss in the bottom and Sierra was the one who was like let's all do a thing she was an architect and I put Athena for Rita Queen I said Athena is still holding on to the grudge of being picked not being picked by Nini or Vita girl let it go bitch let it go she said what she said she said what she said let it go babe well I will say this the girls have to realize that these votes are going to come out. Y'all know that after next week's episode, so two weeks from now, RuPaul's going to come out with a fucking three-ring binder, drop it on the table, and it's going to have every girl's voting in it. And they must know this is coming, right? I mean, if they really want to gag us again, sneak another Raider Queen in later on in the season. But then there'll be less, because there'll be less girls, so it actually wouldn't work. So Nene, Vida, and Darlene are all safe based on the results. Juicy and Mia are the top two, and they go ahead. And then Sierra is in the bottom. um so the glam thing just crumbled completely yeah i feel bad for her because she really tried to get this thing going and the uh the the it comes down to uh juicy and mia who lip sync for the win and to zara larson uh what's it called pretty ugly pretty ugly and uh this is i really liked it yeah i i already just got into zara larson i saw randomly on my youtube her Zach Sang interview came out and I was listening to it and I was like oh wow she's like I was saying this on the podcast a few weeks ago how she was saying like you know she's like more in control of her music now and being more part of writing the songs as opposed to listening to write songs for her and I like Zara Larson's music they keep on calling her which I think is really weird Beyonce's white daughter and I'm like what but um I don't hear any similar no I think it's because of her sound and her talent but I don't hear many similarities between the two of them, but go off. But I tell you, I did not know Zara Larson existed until yesterday when I watched this episode. Really? No, you knew. I told you about her. I don't be listening to you when you talk. I know, that's very clear. But I thought it was a great lip sync. I thought that Juicy and Mia were so divine together. And again, you saw just these two different types, two different schools of dance, right? As Mia said, she's this young ingenue dancer her bucking on stage and she was like i was happy i could like keep up with her because she was like i was in my own thing she's doing her own thing and it was nice to see these two do it yeah i'm such a big mia star fan like i feel like if mia star was in the town i was doing dragon we would be really close like i could really see us being friends her how old is mia i know she's all she's a probably already maybe a little bit older she's probably 37 36 maybe 39 i don't know jacob can google it real quick um but yeah i just really i really i think mia star darlene mitchell kenya pleaser she's 40 she's 40 wow yeah i think that i think that i would be if i if i were on the if these girls were in my town i would be friends with kenya darlin kenya darlene and mia and i would be like really close yeah i could i could see darlene twirling around with uh the bars in New York City, like, doing her weird little trash numbers of saliva. We're like, Darlene, you're so crazy, girl. Yeah, actually, yeah, I don't know if me and Darlene would be close, but I would always have a lot of respect for Darlene. I'm like, here come Darlene, y'all. And I want to say, by the way, I like Darlene. I like Darlene, like, you know, on Draggers. I just think her runways and her choices on the show are so interesting. I find Darlene, Kenya, and Mia so fucking charming. I really want to, I would like to hang out with them. They just seem like so much fun. Anyway, it ends up being a tie, and we find out next week that Sierra Miss is going to have to lip sync against somebody. They want to be so bad. They want to be me so bad. And maybe they want to be Trinity. I don't know. And then we find out that Sierra Miss kind of insinuates in the, like, the, you know, thing for next week that she's like, I'm going to have to vote for who I want to lip sync against. Who do you think she wants to lip sync against? Out of the, let me see, out of this other group, I think, not knowing how Ciara Miss lip syncs, I don't know much about her. Well, no, you've seen her lip sync. She lip synced her own performance during the girl group. That is lip syncing. Oh, from the pops. I don't remember. What group was she in? Do you remember? Wham! We just had a whole thing where she tried to get together. I don't remember her performance enough. The first was like, butcher, da-da-da, the butcher fan, you be they and they be them. That was like one of the... That was very Miss Kasha Davis. Love yourself and you'll be true. Go to the moon. Whoop-de-doo. Yeah, if I was looking, I think she might be targeting next week to lip sync against maybe Nathena. But we haven't seen Nathena lip sync. who out of the next group do you think is a is a bad lip syncer bad at lip syncing yes that's the target you think Mikey is a bad lip syncer I don't see it for Mikey I don't see it for Mikey I don't see it for Athena and I don't know about Jane do you think Jane is a good lip syncer probably I think Jane is probably clever I can't imagine Athena eating the girlies up in a lip sync there's no point in my mind where I envision Athena just like eating in a lip sync. I can't even imagine it. That's so mean, Bob. You couldn't see it either. Don't fucking fake the funk, bitch. Don't speak for me. Ask me. Don't speak for me. Ask me. Do you think Athena could eat in a lip sync? I don't know. Take out the I don't. Take out the I don't and there's your answer. All right, y'all. I can't believe this journey you've taken us on this whole recording from the shock of your blaming me for not having a hat on I don't blame you okay I didn't say it's your fault I just said wow it's crazy you didn't say anything I didn't say it's your fault I did not blame you when I see this is a very specific kind of gaslighting that you do where you change the narrative just a little bit. I never said it was your fault. I said you didn't say anything. And then you fucking making me look at this fucking hideous fucking outfit for almost 40 minutes. I will say the pictures, okay. The pictures are so beautiful. Stop talking about this look. The pictures are gorgeous. Stop. Goodbye, everyone. We will see you all over the Patreon if you want to hear our thoughts on Untucked and this week's drama on the internet and on Drag Race. Goodbye. No.