- Previously on "RuPaul's Drag Race"...
Welcome to part 2 of the Rate-a-Queen Talent Show.
- Who's gonna fuck me in the ass?
[laughter]
- Jane Don't still is great at everything.
Condragulations, you are in first position.
- In first position, Athena Dion.
That's my girl.
So I'm gonna keep my promise, OK?
- In fifth position, I will do Miss Myki Meeks.
I just wasn't as entertained.
- The top two queens of the week are
Jane Don't and Athena Dion.
Athena Dion, condragulations.
You're a winner, baby.
[cheers and applause]
Myki Meeks, you've been rated the bottom queen of the week.
- Damn.
- That means that you and Ciara are up for elimination.
[dramatic music]
Myki Meeks, shantay, you stay.
Ciara, sashay away.
♪ ♪
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
- We are back in the Werk Room,
♪ ♪
and this is the lowest I have felt in the competition.
From Ciara, "You all are stars, but consider bigger lips."
[laughs]
Not only did I lip-sync for my survival.
I now have to face a group of queens
who thought I did a bad job.
- We love you, Ciara. - We love you, Ciara.
- I feel like, am I delusional?
I thought I did a good job, but my ego is bruised.
- Athena, I'm recruiting you for my punk band.
Congratulations. That was absolutely amazing.
- Thank you.
- Jane, how did it feel being up there as well?
First time lip-syncing, right?
- Yeah.
I'm a little disappointed in myself.
You know, we keep getting close,
so I will go back to our accommodations
and tear up a picture of Athena Dion.
- You wouldn't be the first queen to do that, by the way.
- No, I know.
I feel like every other girl in Miami.
- Miami won the talent show, so that's a nice thing.
- It's halfway through the competition,
and the Florida alliance is still going strong.
Not a single casualty.
- So now that y'all were in our shoes,
how did it feel having to vote?
- Not good. - That was shitty.
It's tough as hell.
- I think there was a vast difference
in the way both teams approached the voting.
Our group, when we voted, it was almost
like we were a little naive to kind of
what was going on overall.
And then I think that we did feel--
- What do you mean? - Well, I'm gonna get to it.
I think that we did feel a little pressed this week
when everybody was kind of rallying
to vote for certain people.
- Athena, shut the actual fuck up.
We literally had a plan together for us to--you know.
Why is she getting pressed about this?
I'm so confused.
- It felt a little like, wait a minute.
Were we supposed to do that too?
- But is that the tea?
Is that--did y'all-- is that what y'all did?
- I want to get some clarity on the difference
between the picking process that you
feel was done between last week and this week.
- There was a lot of grouping going on, and I don't know--
I don't know what y'all were talking about.
And from the outside, it looked like there was, like,
some kind of strategy going on.
I, in my head, I had certain people at the lead, but they--
- Which is strategy just the same.
- But--excuse me. But excuse me one second.
But they shined bright enough for me to place them up there.
So for me, it was honest by their performance
and something I was gonna do anyway.
- At the end of the day, relationships came into play
on both sides, so to try to say that one was sneaky
and one was honest is just not the truth.
- Discord and I, that's my sister.
And just how some of you ladies have pacts with other ladies,
I had a pact with my sister, so I placed her,
you know, a little higher than I placed Myki.
- If Ciara wouldn't have vocalized that she wanted me
to be in the bottom, then other people wouldn't have
felt the need to protect me.
It was kind of like a domino effect.
- Everything was very strategic as far as how I went about it,
but at the same time, I knew that you could eliminate
some big competition.
- That sucks.
I got the short end of the stick with all of this shit.
It feels a little dirty to me.
Now I have a stain on my record because of
the strategies from others.
- At the end of the day, this is a game, and everybody is,
you know, weaving and sneaking and all this type of shit.
But it is what it is.
- I feel frustrated.
I feel hurt. I feel shocked.
That just really sucked to know that other people's opinions
are like, well, someone else wasn't as strong,
but, eh, I'm gonna put this girl on the bottom.
- But that's not fair.
And then what happens is she knocked me out?
- Bitch.
- Don't give me a challenge to prove you wrong.
Girl, let me get out of this disgusting-ass wig.
I'm Myki motherfucking Meeks.
I worked incredibly hard to get to this position.
I'm turning that volume all the way up,
and I'm about to prove to these girls
you messed with the wrong one.
♪ ♪
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The winner of "RuPaul's Drag Race"
will snatch an official makeup collaboration
with Anastasia Beverly Hills cosmetics
and a cash prize of $200,000,
courtesy of "RuPaul's Drag Race
Match Queen,"
with extra-special guest judge Leland.
♪ "RuPaul's Drag Race" ♪
♪ May the best drag queen win, best drag queen win ♪
[upbeat music]
- Superstar!
It's a new day in the Werk Room.
Brand-new week.
- We're here.
[indistinct chatter]
- The Miami hos brought it home.
[chuckles]
[indistinct chatter, laughter]
♪ ♪
- Chile, I skip in the room happy-go-lucky,
and the next thing I know--
Oh, what the fuck? - Oh, shit.
- We have a little Rate-A-Queen receipts.
- Who was lying, and who wasn't, ho?
- This is shady.
Shady, shady, shady.
- ♪ Dun, dun, dun ♪
The secrets are about to be exposed, girlies.
- Part 1 rankings.
In first, we have Juicy Love Dion.
- Yes. - Second, Mia Starr.
- Yo. - Third, Nini Coco.
Fourth, Darlene Mitchell.
Fifth, Vita VonTesse Starr.
And sixth, Ciara Myst.
OK, so Juicy... - Oh.
- Was voted first by Athena, Discord, Jane, Myki,
with Kenya voting you second.
- Thank you guys.
[laughter]
- Mia, fierce.
I think that's fair.
- For Nini Coco--
- This is--this is some shitty shit.
I thought I could have been a contender for the top,
so I'm a little confused
how all these ratings are shaking out.
These girls are not voting off of what they saw onstage.
Does everybody not like me?
- Darlene Mitchell.
- Quite the gap there.
- Right, the gap. - Mm.
- All right. Vita.
- I mean, it is what it is.
I honestly don't give a fuck because I'm not here
to prove my worth to these girls.
- And then Ciara, sixth.
All right, well, that's week 1.
Week 2.
First, Jane Don't.
Second, Athena. Third, Kenya.
Fourth, Discord. Fifth...
[sobs] Myki.
Jane, fourth from Mia.
All right. - Here's my reason.
I already promised these two what I was gonna do,
and it wasn't anything besides things that I promised.
- Athena Dion, second.
- Thank you for all my supporters
who made this win possible.
[laughs]
- Kenya, third.
- Ooh. - Ooh.
- You got every single ranking.
- Royal flush. - [laughs]
- Bitch, I'm smart.
This is a competition, so I needed to have
a locked-in first vote to make sure, no matter what,
that I was still gonna be safe.
Y'all playing ch-- y'all playing checkers.
I mean y'all playing chess, and I'm playing checkers.
What's the thing?
Duh, duh, duh. OK?
And thank you, Mia. - Of course.
I already gave her my word.
I was putting her first no matter what.
- Can I share my logic? - Yeah, girl.
- Your number, I felt was super-high energy.
It just felt more predictable...
and unoriginal. - Predictable?
- I mean-- - And unoriginal?
- Just--yeah.
Like, I didn't see-- there was nothing
that surprised me in the number.
- Damn, bitch.
He does come in a little hot.
You know that friend that can't read the room?
That's Nini Coco.
- Let's keep it pushing.
All right, Discord.
Oh! - Mm.
- Plot twist, America.
Ciara did not vote me last.
So I am surprised that Ciara put me in fourth,
but I will say I did kind of walk by Ciara
and mention that I do love dancing to Britney Spears.
Britney was always my diva growing up.
So I don't know, maybe she heard that
and second-guessed who she wanted to lip-sync against.
Or maybe she genuinely loved my performance.
- OK, and for MVP.
- [laughs]
- Oh. - Myki Meeks.
[clears throat] Wow.
This is just bananas to me.
But I won the lip sync.
I'm still here.
This revenge shirt is steaming.
Oh, these girls!
- Can we never do this ever a-fucking-gain?
I went home. My blood pressure's up.
My ankle's swollen. Bitch, it's too much, girl.
- Hello, hello, hello.
[all cheering]
- Looking good.
- Wow.
- Good morning, citizens.
all: Good morning, Ru.
- You know, the midterm elections
are coming up, and voting for your rights
and the rights of others is serious business.
- Yep.
- But today I give you permission
to be seriously silly.
For this week's Maxi Challenge, working in pairs,
you need to produce and star in totally twisted political ads
that parody today's most polarizing issues.
I deserve a fucking Emmy for that line.
[laughter]
Now, to pair you up, we need a little help.
Oh, Pit Crew.
[all cheering]
- Whoo! - Shit. Ah!
- In Bruno's sack are 10 Brazilian nuts.
[laughter]
One at a time, you'll pull out a nut.
- Oh, my God.
- If the color of your nut matches
the color of another queen's nut,
you'll be working together.
- Sounds nutty.
- Darlene Mitchell, you're first.
- Ooh.
- Step right up and reach into Bruno's sack.
So Darlene Mitchell has a pink nut.
- OK.
- Vita. - Pink.
- Vita will be paired with Darlene Mitchell.
- Black. - Ah.
- Blue. - Oh.
- Polka-dot! I "woon."
- Little red dots all over it.
I would see a doctor as soon as possible.
- What did you do to me, Bruno?
- Brown. - [laughs]
- Oop, I just rated Discord in the bottom spot
last week, so hope she's not having hard feelings.
- Now that you're all paired up,
I'll leave it to you to decide which propositions
you'll be working on.
Now, later today, you'll shoot your spots
with the always progressive Michelle Visage.
- Oh, werk.
- Racers, start your engines,
and may the best drag queen win.
- I feel great about the pairing
because Jane is a funny-ass bitch.
But also, Rate-a-Queen definitely
has opened a lot of these queens' eyes
to how these girls truly feel about them.
It's gonna be interesting to see
how the remainder of this competition is really gonna go.
[indistinct chatter]
- This week's Maxi Challenge is to create pro
and con political ads,
and it is time to pick our propositions.
- Proposition 6969 opposes all relations with foreign men.
- Wow. - Jesus.
- Proposition Kiki will make kai kai
between drag queens illegal.
- Ooh. - Oh, my--
- Proposition C wants to officially add
the letter C to the LGBTQIA,
and the C stands for clown.
Proposition 4Real, which aims to ban
all social media/look queens.
Proposition DDs, which will make
padding, tits, and lace fronts mandatory for all drag queens.
- OK. OK. - OK?
- Proposition DDs is for me.
This is who I am.
- Well, we kind of want to take 6969.
- OK. - I think we want the Kiki.
- Kiki. - OK, so Kiki.
6969. What else?
both: Clown. - You want Clown.
- We're kind of leaning towards the padding.
- I would--yeah, we were leaning towards
the padding one as well, the DDs.
I have shown you guys that I have some ass.
I got the titties and big-booty bitches.
- And I also famously don't wear pads.
- To kind of, like, sell you on the social media aspect,
like, you do have a bit of an age gap.
- Oh.
- But aren't you a bedroom queen,
so you have that experience as a social media queen?
Bitch, back down now.
Listen, I'm the only one who wears breastplates here.
I'm the titty girl.
- I just truly, truly believe in the padding.
- Listen, do you have DD big tits here with you?
- All right, we are going into every station
to look for traces of a DD breastplate.
- So is there a retattle for the rebuttal
to the other rebuttal that was retattled?
- Darlene, when we were casting "RDR Live,"
you automatically got the one you wanted.
I wanted Daisy, but I was like, fine.
Let my bitch get Daisy.
So I took whatever that was open.
- All of a sudden, Mia pulls out this, like, receipt book
that's, like, well, I gave you this and I did this for you,
and I'm like, girl, where was that?
I don't remember you wanting Daisy.
- I didn't want to argue with you because I just didn't--
- So then I feel like it can't be used as an argument now.
- But what I'm saying is, you have gotten your way
in other challenges, and I haven't.
- Gotten her way... both: In other challenges.
- I just want to sink into the couch
and get to work on my proposition,
and these girls are not budging.
- You got what you wanted.
- Because nobody else was wanting it.
- Like, how much time do we have here?
Somebody just concede and take the other one.
- Do you want to rock, paper, scissors?
- I don't want to do rock, paper, scissors.
[tense music]
- [sputters]
♪ ♪
Mia is not backing down, and I'm
just imagining that angry poodle on the end of the couch.
- We not gonna do that, so go ahead.
- I'm like, oh, God. OK. I'm not gonna win this fight.
Can we make a deal that in the future,
if there's anything else that we will be taking care of the--
perfect.
Hug it out. - Oh, my God.
- Oh, my God.
- Kenya looks pleased.
- Now that the decision has been made,
let's get to writing our scripts.
- Hey. - Let's do this.
- Girl.
- Political.
- It's a good day to be a clown.
I'm Myki Meeks, and I approve this message.
- If you went, pageantry is mandatory,
and then if I was kind of making fun of all
the different, like, social medias,
like, there could be, like, only drag,
you know where I'm, like, on a Pit Crew like,
and you can make money, you know, and I'm, like,
straddling you like a Pit Crew.
This is kind of what I do at home.
Like, me and my fiancé, we build sets and create
these little worlds.
So this kind of worked out better for me.
So thanks, Mia.
- I am definitely against pads, making pads mandatory.
- I feel really excited being paired with my niece.
We just came off of a win.
However, I'm nervous because I'm
still trying to wrap my head around what I need to be doing.
- Double--what's the name?
DDs?
- [clears throat]
[laughs]
Just the two ADD pissy bitches.
It's like-- [laughs]
We're writing our storyboards,
but we are in a two-way dead end.
Hmm.
It's banging two empty coconuts together,
and nothing's coming out.
- "Naturalist" a word?
"Naturalist"?
I kind of wish I was paired with Jane and Myki
because I know they're both very good with character work.
Myki helped me out in the "RDR Live" challenge.
- Maybe you say it like her, stop relying on that body.
- Mm. - You know?
- You me and Mia are very good dancers.
[dramatic music]
- How you feeling?
What are you doing?
- I'm stressing out a little bit.
- OK.
We have to keep reminding ourselves that this is us.
♪ ♪
[exhales heavily]
[upbeat music]
- Hello. - Oh, hey.
- Hey, Michelle.
- Are you kids ready to get political?
- Yes. - Yes, ma'am.
- I'm feeling excited to get
in front of the camera again,
and I think we're gonna have a really good commercial.
- What is your proposition?
- I'm anti-foreign trade for the skit only.
- Right. Right. - For the skit only.
- Let it be known. - Let it be known.
- After being in the bottom, I have something to prove.
But this challenge is right up my alley.
- And action.
- Hey, what's up?
I'm concerned American citizen Stephanie Miller,
but you can call me Lollipop. [clicks tongue]
- [laughs]
I think you have a fun character here.
Like, you're just regular girl Stephanie Miller.
Lean into it.
- What do these have in common?
Foreign trade, girl.
- Yes.
- Myki is killing it.
She has Michelle in stitches. - [laughs]
- Everyone is loving party girl Stephanie Miller.
- Myki's living her best life back there.
- The scene's over, whore.
- Why are my nipples hard?
- OK, so, Athena, we're gonna get a voice-over first.
Trade should be American as--
- So am I not gonna be on this part physically?
I want to be in it too.
Like, it's, like, raining wieners behind me.
- But you're gonna--
- It's like a zoom-in dramatic kind of moment
where it's like, yeah, like, wieners, everywhere, wieners.
- OK.
- Kind of like a cut.
- Yeah, no, I know what you're saying.
- Athena is giving director, producer, cinematographer.
- Here we go. And...
- Piggies in a blanket.
- Action. - Mm.
- [laughs]
Juicy Love Dion and Mia Starr.
- I'm feeling very nervous.
However, I am just trying to smile and shake my tits.
- And action.
- Prop DD would offer free silicone breastplates.
Bitch, why you crying?
You getting free titties.
It's just like food stamps but just for tits.
- Oh, my God.
- She's already getting a couple laughs out of Michelle,
and now I am more nervous.
- Juicy, tell us what you're doing.
- I am an environmentalist who is against padding.
- You are the Greta Thunberg of drag.
- Yes.
- Looking like Velma from "Scooby-Doo."
- [laughs] She does.
- Action.
- Drag does not have to be unnatural.
Look at me, a meaty tuck and bare feet.
- Cut.
Shouldn't you have bare feet?
Yeah.
One more time.
- Look at me, a meaty tuck and bare feet.
But I'm comfortable.
- Cut.
I think you need to do it again and give us--
here's the truth.
I'm bored.
- Oh, my God.
Like, top five words you don't want to hear.
Just have to shake off the nerves.
I'm sorry. - You were great at "RDR Live."
You know what you're doing, so do it.
- When she says that, the weight on my chest
becomes 10 times heavier.
Vote no on Prop--
[dramatic music]
- I know that Juicy is in her head.
I'm just hoping that she can bring
that "RDR Live" character out.
- Padding is not just bad for our--
- Juicy, girl, get it together, girl!
- All right, let's try it again.
Discord, let's try. Here we go.
And action.
- I'm a drag queen for drag queens,
because who can please a sister...
[whispering] Better than a sister?
- [laughs]
- That was really fun. - Thank you.
- I like seeing that character come out of you.
- I told you I'm here to have fun.
- Tell your shoulders that and you'll be good.
- [laughs]
A lot of people don't expect me to be funny
because I am so elegant and edgy,
things you don't really associate with humor.
So this is a moment to show that there is
a funny side to Discord.
- OK, Nini Coco, you're up.
- The concept is like,
your drag sister is just not capable
and you need a big, strong man to do it.
- Mm-hmm. - It would be--
I think it was supposed to be a cutscene of her
separate from me.
♪ ♪
Does this make sense?
- No. - OK.
- So I'm trying to figure it out.
Where do you want him walking?
- Yeah, I think he can--
♪ ♪
- Honestly, here's what I would do.
I would say, no, you're a traditional king,
and then just have him walk up to you.
It doesn't have to be a cutscene,
and you're like, ding.
- Yeah, walk up and land next to her, Bruno.
Thank you, Discord.
- I feel like Discord is just dragging me
through this challenge.
I'm just praying that everything
comes together and makes sense
when we see it on the main stage.
- Hello. - Hey.
- Hello, Michelle.
- Tell me your proposition.
both: Proposition C that will add Clown to the LGBT.
- I'm assuming, Jane, you are for it,
and you borrowed Darlene's shoes.
[laughter]
You're gonna go first, Jane. - Yes.
- Here we go. And action.
- I'm Daisy Fun Buttons. - [laughs]
- The teehee community has been marginalized to the sideshow
for far too long.
My prep work is paying off.
[giggles]
I'm getting the shots that I need
relatively quickly.
[flatulence]
Oh!
And Kenya is so naturally funny and entertaining.
- Gagging on my extravaganza, darling.
- She's making me laugh, so I'm pretty happy
with where we landed.
- Oh, OK. Thank you.
Darlene Mitchell. - Yes.
- Is that a-- a stiletto you're wearing?
- It is. Get into it.
I'll spray-paint 'em every color.
- Yes, please.
- I'm feeling really good going into this.
Like, my character is strong.
The look is whack-a-doodle. [laughs]
They like me.
They really, really like me.
- [laughs] - Cut.
You are on the precipice of something really good here.
- OK.
- Like, create a character here.
- Got it. OK. - Think of Jennifer Coolidge.
You need to go with that 'cause it could be really fun.
- They like me.
They really like me.
- Great. Cut.
So, Vita, we're gonna do your B-roll.
What is it that you want to do?
- OK, what is a B-roll?
- You know, like, the little vignettes, the little scenes.
- OK, gotcha.
OK, so, hello, world.
I'm Vita Starr, world-renowned drag queen and house mother.
- So you don't really need B-roll for that
'cause you're doing that. - Yes.
- OK.
On the paper, it says rolling bags in a club.
- Yes. - So--so let's shoot that.
- When we are on set, things are moving fast, very fast.
Just in general, I don't think Vita moves
very quickly at very many things.
- Action.
- Hello, world.
I'm Vita Starr, world-renowned drag queen and house mother.
♪ ♪
Keep going?
- Well, that's your call, isn't it?
- I'm standing in front of Michelle Visage right now,
and I'm nervous as hell.
I plan on forcing Prop4--
oops, messed up on that.
- I need you to just be passionate.
Sell me on what you're saying.
- Time is ticking, and every time,
I'm asked to give more energy or, you know, blah, blah, blah.
I don't just have this, hi, I'm Vita, like, personality.
Like, no, I'm just very mellow.
Like, I'm just chill.
- If we're gonna knock all of these scenes out
that we discussed for Vita's ad, like,
we need to pick up the pace.
- Next part.
Nightclub dance floor, rolling in money.
- Yes.
Rolling in money.
Just money all over.
- Like, the race has begun, and we got to sprint, girl.
- So, Vita, we're just about out of time.
So you can pick one more thing that you really want to do.
♪ ♪
I would choose wisely.
[upbeat music]
- New day.
- Good morning.
- Today the judges are gonna watch our political ads,
and I'm very excited to see how this turns out.
If this goes all as planned,
I feel like I can pull out a win.
♪ ♪
- This morning, I feel a little unsettled.
I do know that I had some good parts,
but I definitely have concerns if we're judged in teams.
- How was your team yesterday?
- Discord carried, bitch. - Really?
- She was so funny.
After working with Discord in this challenge,
it's definitely opened the door to my relationship
with her even through all the moments where I didn't see
eye to eye with her at first.
The one thing that I'm curious to see is,
Discord and I had this make-out scene.
- What? - Girl.
- There was some tongue involved.
My mouth was so dry, so I feel so bad for Nini.
- Like, you know a cat tongue when they lick your hand?
It was like that but across my face.
- No! - I'm so sorry.
- Yeah. - A cat tongue?
What? Who? What even is that!
♪ ♪
I wish I had hair so my ponytail
could just be like, ooh. - Yeah.
- Now, look at that. That's too cunt, bitch.
- Listen, back in 2008, when I did my first pageant...
- Yes!
- Kennedy Davenport was back there.
- Yeah. - And I was like, bitch,
throw this tight-ass ponytail in my head right now.
And that bitch yanked my scalp.
- Bitch, I knew she had that brush up here.
- And I was like, golly.
Kennedy Davenport is drag royalty.
- Well, hello.
- From season 7 and "All Stars" 3,
this is my auntie.
- Mia, can you emulate some of her dance moves?
- Oh! - You know what?
I could teach you. Come on. - OK. Let go.
- Honey, we have the choreographer extraordinaire
up in this Werk Room, honey.
- Hold your hand.
You go rock, rock, up, and pop.
- Oh!
- And pull back, back, poof.
5, 6, 7, go.
We got rock, rock, around, and pop.
And pull, round, round, round.
[all cheering] - Yes.
- That's gonna be our next girl group challenge number,
so if you do have--
- Oh, yeah, here's your dollar, girl.
♪ ♪
- So, like, obviously yesterday we got to have, like,
a lot of fun with, like, politics,
but when I moved to Florida,
I moved in with my best friend and her brother.
- Uh-huh. - And he became radicalized.
One day, we were best friends.
Like, basically the next week, something just, like,
flipped in his brain, and he, like,
fucking hated me and my partner.
I brought the majority of my drag down to Florida with me.
And one day, I came home, and he destroyed 98% of it.
- [gasps] What the fuck?
- Threw it in the pool, shredded it up,
destroyed my drum set.
Everything was just, like, fuck.
Just finding pieces of art that you love so much
and things that you made yourself--
not just things I bought but things that were
handcrafted by myself and my partner--
there aren't even words that can describe how that feels.
- I can see how someone would easily get
radicalized, especially in the recent years
with what's been going on.
- This was a person that I've known their entire life.
And to watch this mental decline happen
so quickly by being wrapped up in a--
let's call it what it is-- a cult.
- Worst part about it is that it's politicians and people
in power that are using what we do to create a false narrative
and call us dangerous and make people afraid.
- It's all just a smoke screen because it's a lot easier,
I think, for people to, like, look at a drag queen
and say, that's bad, than to turn around
and say, actually, maybe we need to,
like, really overhaul things in a pretty major way.
- This happened to us personally in Miami.
We had just been doing drag brunch.
Like, there was nothing but a daytime drag show going on,
and somehow they whipped up this frenzy
to get their base really fired up
so they could have a platform.
And it was at our expense.
- A lot of people are like,
well, why don't you just move out?
This is my home. - Right.
- Yeah. - This is--I built myself here.
My community is here.
I have lived there my entire life,
and it's not fair to say that Florida
is terrible, 'cause there's a lot of amazing people there.
So we just got to empower, raise our voice, and make sure
that our safety net does not get dissolved.
- Well, speaking of red states,
Alabama is not a place to be, honey.
- Bitch, especially for our Black ass.
- Yes.
So many cases of gay murders and trans people murders
within our city.
It's horrible.
And the best thing that we have that we're holding on to
in Montgomery is the legacy of the boycott
and the civil rights with Rosa Parks
and Martin Luther King.
But other than that, we're not a progressive state at all.
It is not easy living there at all.
It is absolutely horrible.
Hearing the other queens talk about the political climate
makes me feel as if I'm not alone.
You're not in this alone because at the end of the day,
we are a queer community.
- Well, ladies, I love you hos.
- Yes. - Love you too.
- This has been a great time together,
but let's keep this energy up, y'all.
We got a runway today.
[all cheering]
- It's sad to see that we're still
experiencing so much hate for our community,
but we will definitely win.
You can never beat a man in a dress.
[laughs]
- Can we do the "Slave 4 U" choreography?
- Yes, God.
- Can you show it to me, like, the actual version?
- 7, 8.
- Hey!
- Oh! Oh!
Oh! [screaming]
- What the fuck?
- Aah!
- If it's Mia and I tonight in the bottom,
we're gonna make sure to give them a show.
♪ ♪
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
[laughter]
♪ ♪
- ♪ Cover girl, put the bass in your walk ♪
♪ Head to toe, let your whole body talk ♪
[applause]
♪ And what ♪
Welcome to the main stage of "RuPaul's Drag Race."
She's always happy to reach across the aisle.
It's Michelle Visage.
- Yes, Ru, I love to reach across,
but, you know, I'd much rather reach around.
[laughter]
- He puts the D in democracy.
It's Jamal Sims.
- And in case you're wondering, I swing left.
[laughter]
- He writes the songs that make the whole world lip-sync.
It's Leland.
- Aw, thank you, Ru, and I approve this message.
[laughter]
- This week, we challenged our queens to put the ass
in grassroots politics.
And tonight on the runway, category is
I Can See Right Through Ha.
[laughter]
Racers, start your engines.
And may the best drag queen win.
[dance music]
♪ Move it ♪
Category is I Can See Right Through Ha.
Up first, Jane Don't.
You heard of Houdini.
Well, this is Face-dini.
[laughter]
- When I started drag, I loved this subversive
alternative sensibility.
So I have chosen to do an homage to the greatest
club kid of all time, Leigh Bowery.
- This is sheer excellence.
[laughter]
- Kenya Pleaser.
- She's from the alien cast of "Saved by the Bell."
[laughter]
- Come on, bitch.
I'm giving you "Zenon: Girl of the 22nd Century," honey.
My little dress that's pointy, and I have on
a skintight, perfectly fitted pink catsuit underneath,
you know, to hide all my lady bits.
- This bitch ain't biodegradable.
[laughter]
- Juicy Love Dion.
- I was wondering where my old Rolodex went.
[laughter]
- Not only is it see-through, but it's also
moving in such a special way,
completely made of crinoline
and thousands of pieces of tulle.
I am obsessed with the unconventional.
- Who doesn't love a big pink tulle?
[laughter]
- Mia Starr. - Ooh, she's a shady bitch.
[laughter]
- Y'all know I got a big back.
Well, I got a big pair of sunglasses too.
This look is bright. It's vibrant.
You can see the skeleton underneath.
Big bones, baby.
Big bones.
- Get a load of that ass-tigmatism.
[laughter]
Darlene Mitchell.
- Oh, wow.
- How much for all the ribs?
[laughter]
- This look is inspired by the campiness
of "Rocky Horror Picture Show" meets "Frankenhooker."
And it wouldn't be drag if you didn't have huge fake tits,
so we went for it.
- I can see your coccyx.
[laughter]
Vita VonTesse.
- Wetter really is better. [laughter]
- I am giving water couture goddess,
alluring all of the men from the shore
to fall into my spell.
A wave across these sexy curves.
- That's how you make a splash. [laughter]
- Athena Dion.
- Life in plastic, it's fantastic.
[laughter] - Yes.
- I am walking with all the confidence in the world.
It's giving executive realness.
This woman is the HBIC of See-Through Land, honey.
- I think she's made herself perfectly clear.
[laughter]
- Myki Meeks.
This is what the whores wear in Seattle.
- Myki Meeks stars in "Working Girl."
I'm wearing a see-through business suit
because the quality I cherish most in the workplace
is transparency.
She has a job to do, and she gets it done.
- It's a wrap.
[laughter]
- Discord Addams.
- Wow.
- I am a biblically accurate angel.
I am wearing a custom headpiece from my partner
that has so many eyes.
I think my walk is fierce.
♪ ♪
- [laughs]
- She's sheer.
She's queer.
Get used to it.
- Nini Coco.
- That's butterscotch realness.
- Yes. [laughter]
- This look has my name written all over it.
The sweetest little candy treat
that you have ever tasted.
How many licks does it take
to get to the center of Nini Coco?
You're about to find out.
- I'm gonna get you, sucka.
[laughter] - Sucker?
I don't even know her.
Welcome, queens.
It's time to let your voices be heard.
First up, Jane Don't and Kenya Pleaser.
- Proposition C:
add the letter C to the LGBTQIA officially.
- Hi, I'm Daisy Fun Buttons,
professor of nose honking
at Pacoima Community Clown College.
As a clown queen, I believe my community
has been marginalized to the sideshow for far too long.
Now it's time for us to leave our big tops...
[laughter]
And take center ring.
Shouldn't you be able to visit your partner in the hospital
after they've been hit by a teeny-tiny car full of people?
Shouldn't health-care providers be forced
to cover conditions like clown lung,
red nose rash, and gonorrhea?
[laughter]
Maybe that last one's just me.
Clown queens are just like you.
We feel pain like you.
[chicken clucks]
We love like you.
[flatulence]
[laughter]
We tested positive for gonorrhea, just like you.
[laughter]
OK, I can't seriously be the only one.
So vote yes on Prop C, and send in the clowns.
- Oh.
- Can somebody just treat my gonorrhea?
This ad was paid for
by the Jimbo Institute for Tig Ol Biddiessss.
- Hi, I'm Tasha St. James Alexander Dupree Van Michaels,
your current reigning Miss International Diva Queen.
And I believe drag should be fierce and not clowning around.
For so long, drag bars have been held captive
by silly-ass drag queens who prioritize
jokes and concepts over gowns.
If this proposition is passed,
there could be a nationwide drag shortage of diva-dom
and a 100% tariff on gagging on my extravaganza.
Why wear red nose when you can contour it?
Why are you teasing kids at a birthday party
when you need to be teasing that wig?
Every queen should be forced to learn
a donkey kick, split, and high kick,
and, of course, learn your words.
Vote no for Prop C if you want to stop
these silly-ass queens and their "experimental makeup"
and physical comedy.
This ad has been brought to you by the Roxxxy Andrews Fund
and Jinkx Monsoon Can Still Catch These Hands
Organization.
Where my people at?
- Hey. [applause]
- All right, let's hear from the judges.
- So, Jane, I didn't have to give you much direction at all.
You knew what you wanted to do, and you did it.
- I love a clown.
I thought your physical comedy in the video was fantastic.
- So funny, so ridiculous. - Yeah.
- And then this outfit, it's everything that you are.
You're so effing clever. - [laughs]
- Now, Miss Kenya, I love this look.
Very "Jetsons" 2026.
- In your proposition, I thought you had
a good time with it as well.
You know that girl.
So I thought it was really fun.
- If I could add one thing, I would just
add a little more frustration, right?
That's just in opposition to what Jane was doing.
- Up next, it's Juicy Love Dion and Mia Starr.
- Proposition DD: make padding, tits,
and lacefronts mandatory for all drag queens.
- My name is Juicy Love Dion.
I'm an environmentalist, and I believe
padding is not just bad for our queens
but bad for our environment.
The unnatural ways of old-world drag queens
are ridding our community of comfortable places to sit.
Breastplates don't biodegrade, and lacefronts
are ripping apart the foreheads
of third world countries.
Drag does not have to be unnatural.
Look at me, a meaty tuck and bare feet.
Am I still a drag queen?
I don't know.
But I'm comfortable and biodegradable.
So kick off those tights and those shoes
and be one with nature.
Vote no on Prop DD and let your natural hog body shine.
This message was brought to you by SOS, Save Our Sofas.
[laughter]
- Hi, I am Mia Starr, the first lady
of the First Baptist Church here in sunny
West Palm Beach, Florida.
There must be an end to lazy drag queens
who don't pad or take advantage of the silicone
that God has intended us to use.
Prop DDs would offer free silicone breastplates
for all flat-chested little Latin boys in drag.
Why you crying?
You getting free titties.
It's just like food stamps but for tits.
[laughter]
Some people think it's OK to leave the house
without pads...[gags]
Breasts...[gags]
Or heels.
[retches]
Vote yes on Proposition DDs to make
padding, boobs, lacefronts, and high heels
mandatory for all drag queens.
This message is paid for by WWDD.
What would Dolly do?
[laughter]
- So, Juicy, I definitely think
you needed to go further with it.
You could have looked dowdier and brought it
really back to nature if that's really what you were going for.
- Also, you're a dancer, so you're physical,
and I would have just liked to have seen you do
more of that and sell it in that way.
- But tonight you need to walk the Met Gala red carpet
in this look.
You know, this is truly unbelievable.
It's just an absolute masterpiece.
- Thank you.
- Mia, what I loved about what you did was,
you brought a character,
and I felt like she was fully realized.
- I've written down, show us your tits,
because you keep talking about them.
I wanted to see titties.
Everything could have just been exaggerated.
Even tonight, your look, you exaggerated the sunglasses,
so everything about this should have been just exaggerated.
- Up next, Darlene Mitchell and Vita VonTesse.
- Proposition 4Real: ban all social media and look queens.
- Hi there.
I'm Darlene Mitchell, and I'm a business owner,
all from the comfort of my home.
Prop 4Real is trying to strip me of my rights.
This proposition wants me to...
go outside?
What the heck?
Meet real people?
- [screams]
- Touch germs?
As if.
All you need to be a queen
is a phone, a super-cute bedroom,
and a special talent.
- Oh, my.
- And that's 5K.
Real friends are so outdated.
And so is cash.
[laughter]
DaddyPig69 just sent me $500.
[messages pinging]
They like me.
They really like me.
[laughter]
Vote no on Prop 4Real, because nothing is really real.
[laughter]
This message was paid for by showing my h--
[beep]
- Hello, world.
I'm Vita Starr, world-renowned drag queen and house mother.
The problem here are social media queens
who are messing up our way of life
by interfering with our money and our tips.
Real drag queens get out and grind to make money.
They're the ones taking it easy by rolling out of bed
while I'm rolling in dirty, filthy cash.
I plan on enforcing Prop 4Real by challenging
social media queens to get up, get out, and get active.
Hello!
Why are you looking at that online fantasy
when the fantasy's right in front of you?
Why just be a social media queen
when you can be queen of the scene?
Vote yes on Prop 4Real.
This message was paid for by me, ho.
- All right, let's go to the judges.
- Darlene, from the moment I saw your character,
I knew who that was.
- It just felt so real.
So I commend you on that.
- Thank you.
- Really funny. Really stupid.
I love PigDaddy69.
[laughter]
Fantastic.
- And then on the runway tonight,
I'm so proud of you not wearing those ugly-ass witchy clunkers.
[laughter]
It's kind of "Rocky Horror" meets just demented,
and I think this was really, really fun.
- Vita, this look is so special.
I love all the colors, and the way that it's
reflecting the light is really nice.
- However, fitting the brief, I would say 80%
and your proposition,
it just needed to be more.
The best part was seeing Darlene, and that's not good.
- One thing I will say, I wanted to see you
working hard for the money.
Darlene was, like, making it seem so easy.
Just so we had that opposition.
- You've got to deconstruct what this proposition
really is all about, you know, to argue
the difference between a look queen
and a real queen who has done the hard yards,
and I didn't see that comparison.
[dramatic music]
[upbeat music]
All right, up next, it's Athena Dion and Myki Meeks.
- Proposition 6969: oppose all foreign trade.
- Hello, America.
My name is Connie Cumminside from the great state
of Alabraska.
I'm a mother, I'm a tucker, and I'm a God-fearing citizen.
But, America, do you know what else I fear?
Foreign trade.
We have allowed foreign trade onto our streets
and into our sheets, and they have
diluted and polluted our homegrown, born-and-bred
all-American trade.
Trade should be as American as a wiener on Wonder Bread.
Too often, I lie awake at night with visions of foreign trade
sliding into my beloved, precious...
country.
They must be stopped!
Vote yes, and plug our borders and breed our trade
the American way.
Paid for by The Women Against Trade Foundation.
- Chorizo, bratwurst, Vienna sausage:
what do these have in common?
Foreign trade, girl.
Hey, what's up?
I'm concerned American citizen Stephanie Miller,
but you can call me Lollipop. [clicks tongue]
Prop 6969 would outlaw all relations
with international trade.
To that, I say no.
[dramatic music]
And in Spanish... no.
[laughter]
Imagine all the contributions we'd miss out on:
Pierre...
- Hon-hon. [laughter]
- Bruno...
- To the bay?
[laughter]
- And Mark.
He's from Canada.
Get a load of that moose knuckle.
[laughter]
Supporters of the bill have a lack of taste,
whereas women like myself want to try every flavor.
- Mmm. - Ewww!
- Obrigado.
[laughter]
I'm Lollipop, and I'm for foreskin.
Paid for by the International Society of Party Girls.
And Mark.
[laughter] Oh, yeah.
[applause]
- Athena, I think this tonight is really beautiful.
What I love most about it is the gold lining
on the inside of that.
It's just another level.
- You know, Athena,
while I don't agree with your platform...
- [mouthing words] - I thought you killed this ad.
- Thank you.
- I thought the world that you built was easy to understand,
and I think you executed it just perfectly.
- Thank you.
- Myki, this look tonight is super fun.
Are you a doctor?
- I'm a She-E-O 9:00 to 5:00
and then a slut 5:00 to 9:00.
- Yep. Perfect.
- Your character was so thought out.
Foreign trade is a platform I can get behind, and I have.
[laughter]
- You knew exactly what you wanted to do.
It absolutely paid off.
It was just funny.
- That no and in Spanish no took me out.
Took me completely out.
- Myki, bitch, you turned it.
You understood what it was your proposition was all about.
Loved it. - Thank you, Ru.
- Thank you.
- Next up, Discord Addams and Nini Coco.
- Proposition Kiki: ban kai kai between drag queens.
- Hi, I'm Lydidia Liquoro, and I'm a drag queen
for drag queens on drag queens and...
[whispering] Inside of drag queens.
[normally] I'm voting no on Proposition Kiki,
because who can please a sister...
[whispering] Better than a sister?
[normally] Are you doing drag on a budget?
[whispering] Date a sister.
[normally] Double your wardrobe overnight.
Tired of men not being able to find that spot?
- Oh, my God.
- [whispering] Date a sister.
[normally] Yeah.
My opponent believes
drag-on-drag love is unnatural,
and if this is unnatural...
both: Lock us up.
- Vote no on Proposition Kiki.
And remember...
[whispering] Date a sister.
[normally] This ad was paid for
by the Queen on Queen Coalition,
Sister for Sisters by Sisters,
and Lesbian Lovers Last Longer.
- Hi, heathens.
I'm Trisha No Touchy, a drag traditionalist.
I believe a drag queen is only as strong
as the king by her side.
[organ music]
Queens kai kai-ing with other queens
is unnatural, impure, and absolutely sickening...
[gags] And not in a fierce way.
Proposition Kiki grants queens the right to be just friends,
not friends with benefits.
- [screams]
- Kai kai-ing with your sister leads to all kinds
of messy situations.
If your girly swirly takes a peek
as you untuck after the gig, remember,
sister dick makes you sick.
- [retching]
- Who's gonna carry all your shit?
That skinny bitch?
No, your traditional king.
[laughter]
So vote yes on Proposition Kiki
to protect the sanctity of one queen and one king.
Keep it clean.
No queen-on-queen.
This ad was paid for by the Chastity Belt
Tucking Panty Supply Company.
[laughter]
- Discord, tonight I think this is beautiful.
Gaga's gonna see this and absolutely love it.
- I feel like it's another Met Gala moment.
This is gorgeous.
- Thank you.
- I think your character was really fun,
and what I loved about it, it's unlike anything
we've seen from you.
So I thought that was really smart of you to do that.
- The whisper, it acted as a hook.
I think that it drove the point home.
- This is a great night for you.
You've sort of mingled in the middle.
- Chronically safe.
- Yeah, yeah, but you really stepped ahead.
- Nini, you like to bring fashion that has
a point of view to it all the time.
- I love the headpiece coming off as an accessory.
The reveal of the makeup and the face was just fantastic.
- Your video was hilarious.
- [mouthing words]
- There are some one-liners in there that were so funny.
- I didn't peg you for a tradwife situation,
and here we are.
You two had a great duo, and I really enjoyed it.
- Thank you so much. - Thank you.
- Good job.
- Both of you did very well tonight.
Thank you, queens.
I think we've heard enough.
While you untuck backstage,
the judges and I will deliberate.
[dramatic music]
Welcome back, queens.
I've made some decisions.
[dramatic music]
♪ ♪
Darlene Mitchell, you gave the judges an election
that lasted longer than four hours.
[laughter]
Myki Meeks, your love for international trade
had us bent over... in laughter.
Jane Don't, tonight you took us to clown town,
and we loved it.
♪ ♪
Myki Meeks, condragulations.
You're the winner of this week's challenge.
- Oh, my God. [applause]
- Yes, queen.
- Oh, fuck.
I just had to fight for my life last week,
and now my first time in the top, I win the challenge?
Oh, it just feels so good.
Thank you.
- You've won a cash tip of $5,000.
- Thank you so much.
Oh, man, it's so cool.
It's so cool.
♪ ♪
- Mia Starr, tonight your DDs were not big enough.
♪ ♪
Juicy Love Dion, tonight your DDs fell flat.
♪ ♪
Vita VonTesse, tonight your political ad
did not connect with the voters.
♪ ♪
Juicy, Vita,
I'm sorry, my dears,
but you are both up for elimination.
♪ ♪
Mia, you and the rest of the queens are safe.
You may join the other girls.
- Vita versus Juicy, two people I thought
were gonna make it to the end?
I don't even want to watch this.
- Oh, my God.
- Two queens stand before me.
- This is crazy, girl.
I'm shocked that only one of us
is gonna continue on in the competition,
but I know what I have to do.
- Ladies, this is your last chance
to impress me
and save yourself from elimination.
♪ ♪
The time has come
for you to Lip-Sync
for Your Life.
♪ ♪
- It does not feel good going against Juicy,
one of the best performers here,
but I'm ready to fight.
I am ready to prove that I should be here.
So let's just get at it.
- Good luck, and don't fuck it up.
[dance music]
♪ ♪
- ♪ I'm not here for long ♪
♪ Catch me or I go Houdini ♪
♪ I come and I go ♪
♪ Prove you got the right to please me ♪
♪ Everybody knows ♪
♪ Catch me or I go Houdini ♪
♪ Time is passing like a solar eclipse ♪
♪ See you watching and you blow me a kiss ♪
- Go, girls!
- ♪ Maybe you could be the one ♪
♪ To make me stay ♪
♪ Everything you say is sounding so sweet ♪
♪ But do you practice everything that you preach ♪
♪ If you got it, baby ♪
♪ Give it to me ♪
♪ They say I come and I go ♪
♪ Tell me all the ways you need me ♪
♪ I'm not here for long ♪
♪ Catch me or I go Houdini ♪
♪ I come and I go ♪
♪ Prove you got the right to please me ♪
- Vita is holding her own, honey,
but Juicy is not gonna let this one
slip through her fingers.
- ♪ Maybe you could be the one ♪
♪ To make me stay ♪
♪ Make me, make me, make me, make me ♪
♪ Whoa, oh ♪
♪ I come and I go ♪
♪ Tell me all the ways you need me ♪
♪ I'm not here for long ♪
♪ Catch me or I go Houdini ♪
♪ I come and I go ♪
♪ Prove you got the right to please me ♪
♪ Everybody knows ♪
♪ Catch me or I go Houdini ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Houdini ♪
♪ ♪
♪ Catch me or I go Houdini ♪
- Yeah! - Oh, my God!
- Give it, bitch.
[upbeat music]
♪ ♪
- Queens, I've made my decision.
[tense music]
♪ ♪
Juicy Love Dion, shantay, you stay.
- [sobbing]
♪ ♪
- You may join the other girls.
♪ ♪
- [crying]
♪ ♪
Vita VonTesse Starr, you've made Mama Ru
and Montgomery, Alabama, very proud.
Now, sashay away.
- Thank you.
♪ ♪
- I love you.
- Yes.
- [sighs]
Final words, Vita, Vita, Vita...
all: You know you want to eat her.
- [laughs]
- I love y'all.
- Love you, girl. - I love you, Vita.
- I am feeling very sad but fulfilled at the same time.
This emotion that I'm feeling right now
is just a huge sense of gratitude.
Oh, God.
I'm definitely taking a part of each one of those girls
back with me.
They are my sisters, and I love them dearly.
And I miss them already.
I miss them already.
♪ ♪
- Condragulations, queens.
And remember, if you can't love yourself,
how in the hell you gonna love somebody else?
Can I get an amen up in here?
all: Amen.
- All right, now, let the music play.
♪ Good luck and don't ♪
♪ Good luck and don't eff it up, up, up ♪
- Next time on "RuPaul's Drag Race"...
You'll be starring in the "Snatch Game of Love Island."
all: Oh!
- What's your worst habit?
- I'm no stranger to a dirty Sanchez.
- [laughs]
- Hello.
I am the pope.
[laughter]
- You into big Black women? - Absolutely.
Have you ever fucked one of them?
- Girl, where are the jokes?
- Your impersonation was really honest, sweet.
- And it was really enjoyable.
- But at this point in the competition,
we need to see you.
[tense music]
- Insert rattlesnakes right now.
♪ ♪
- ♪ Good luck and don't ♪
♪ Good luck and don't ♪
♪ Good luck and don't eff it up, up, up ♪
♪ Good luck and don't ♪
♪ Good luck, baby ♪
♪ Good luck and don't eff it up, up, no ♪
♪ Give yourself permission to take the script and flip it ♪
♪ 'Cause if you're not like other bitches ♪
♪ Then show me something different ♪