- [singing] MTV
- Previously on "RuPaul's Drag Race"...
You've got to let your voice be heard in the anthem "Power."
- [singing] I got the power
And I know how to use it
I got the power
[cheering]
- Plane Jane, do you wish to use your immunity potion?
- I would like to give this
immunity potion to Nymphia Wind.
[dramatic music]
- Sapphira.
- You were so funkdafied.
- Morphine.
- I really saw you shine.
- You are the top two queens of the week.
And tonight, no one is going home.
[cheering]
Sapphira, you're a winner, baby.
[laughs]
[upbeat music]
- Whoo!
[laughs]
- Whoo, whoo, whoo, whoo!
- We are back in the Werk Room, and nobody is eliminated.
And I have another win.
I feel fabulous.
- Can we just take a minute to congratulate
Miss Sapphira on her second win?
Yes! - Yes.
- Congrats, Sapphira.
- And congratulations, Morphine,
on getting to lip-synch. - Ugh, I hate that you won.
- Why? You got a problem?
- I got a fucking problem. I got a problem.
- What you gonna do about it?
- I got a problem.
[laughter]
- Finally being in the top only to lose in a lip sync?
I am angry.
I definitely feel like I should have won,
period point blank.com Dupree.
So I don't want her to feel good about her win, OK?
Is that so wrong?
Is it wrong for me to, like, make her not happy?
Oh, God.
- Speaking of sisterhood, you gave your immunity
to Nymphia. - I did, yes.
- Thank you, Plane.
- In a moment of sisterly love. - Yes.
- I decided to give this immunity potion
to Nymphia because she is actually
a girl that I really enjoy.
And also, I was thinking if I knock a bottom bitch
off that runway, perhaps that'll leave
Q and Dawn in the bottom.
- Do you wish you had used it on yourself?
- No.
You know what?
At the end of the day, I didn't end up needing it.
- I don't know.
Tonight, I would qualify as a bottom for you.
- I don't recall myself being, you know, announced
the bottom three, proclaimed the bottom three
in front of the world.
- You live on another planet, bitch.
Plane was in the bottom.
That is absolutely-- roll the footage back.
- Plane Jane, this week, you were slightly
overpowered by Nymphia.
- Plane was called last in the judging.
We all know what that means.
That bitch was not even bottom two.
She was bottom one.
- Plane, listen, baby, we all have bad nights.
- This wasn't a bad night for me.
- It seems like it is.
You're-- you're very upset.
- The notion that I was in the bottom--
do you see this? Do you fucking see this?
- Yeah, I see it.
It's a boring, sparkly dress.
- Ooh. - Yeah, OK.
So you want to-- OK.
- Get her.
- Can I be honest?
I'm having a lot of fun getting a little rise out
of Miss Planey at the moment.
- So you want to do this right now?
So let's fucking do this. - Baby, I'll do it.
- Let's fucking do this.
This is a boring fucking dress?
You're wearing rags from a fucking kid's bedroom, babe.
- No, baby, but mine-- - Yes, you are.
- No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
OK, no, no. - You look a fool.
You look a fool.
Doo-doo clown mess.
You're so obsessed with concept.
You know, this is gorgeous.
This is all concept and no gorgeousness.
You're a creature from the Black Lagoon that needs
to go back into the depths.
- Plane Jane is-- [cracking]
That porcelain skin is cracking.
She is pissed.
- Ugh.
- Mhi'ya, save me.
These bitches crazy, Mhi'ya. These bitches crazy, Mhi'ya.
- I'm just saying, it's a gorgeous, gorgeous,
gorgeous, gown.
It's a gorgeous, gorgeous gown.
- These queens want so badly to see me flop.
It's just not happening.
Sorry, girls.
You know, my track record is still squeaky clean.
And you can all suck it.
- Ah!
- Girl, I have never seen anybody get Plane like that.
- The way you were shook.
- You thought I was gonna let a bitch fucking read me?
A bitch looking like that?
- [laughs]
- Tensions are high.
All of us are like this right now.
We're like-- we're, like, so close to the top four.
Any little thing will struck a nerve.
And I am here for it, honey.
- Justice for Morphine Love.
You know, it's just, ah.
- [laughs]
- [singing] "RuPaul's Drag Race"
- The winner of "RuPaul's Drag Race"
receives a one year supply of Anastasia
Beverly Hills cosmetics and a gag-worthy grand prize
of $200,000 served by Cash App.
With extra special guest judge Joel Kim Booster.
- [singing] RuPaul's Drag Race
May the best drag queen win
Best drag queen win
[upbeat music]
- Girl, what you doing?
Ooh, ooh, ooh. - Ah, ah, ah.
- It is a new day in the Werk Room,
and there are still seven of us.
- Are we still annoyed that we are still seven of us?
Because I am.
- Damn, bitch, let a bitch sit down first.
Hold on. - You're still sitting.
- Ooh, she's struggling.
Come on, fat mom.
Do you need help?
- Having seven was cute last week--
unity, equality, kumbaya.
But I'm trying to win $200,000 and a crown.
So these bitches gots to go.
- It was nice knowing you, Nymphia.
- You said it was nice knowing Nymphia?
- What are you talking about, Miss Mhi'ya?
- You're next.
- Are you sure?
You haven't seen my full potential.
- I mean, all I've seen is bananas.
- It's a quiet fight, you guys.
We might need subtitles.
We might need subtitles for the whispers of this season.
- Hello, hello, hello.
- Hi. - Hello!
- Come on with the surprise.
- Ladykins, drag is a sisterhood.
So at this point in the competition,
I want to see how well you know each other and yourselves.
- OK.
- So for today's mini challenge,
we're gonna play a little game we call Spill the Tea.
[cheering]
Served by Cash App.
- Ooh, Spill the Tea.
This should be good.
- OK, now here's how Spill the Tea works.
I ask a question, like who's the prettiest queen?
Then you all vote for yourself or one of your fellow queens.
Now each time your answer matches the majority,
you get $100.
In the end, the queen with the most money wins.
Queens, you ready? - Yes, mama.
- Let's spill the tea.
[children cheering]
First question--
which queen is the most passive aggressive?
- Ooh.
- OK, paddles up.
Nymphia is the most passive aggressive.
[laughs]
- I know I'm a passive aggressive person,
but I didn't know everyone knew that.
So I should have voted myself.
Goddamn it.
- Plane, Q, and Sapphira each get $100.
- Ooh. - You bitch.
- Question number two-- which queen
is most likely not to know what passive aggressive means?
[laughter]
Morphine is the least likely to know.
In fact, Morphine voted for herself.
Which queen are you most likely to block online?
- Oh.
- Paddles up.
- Oh. [laughs]
Everyone voted for Plane Jane,
except for Plane Jane.
Which queen is the flirtiest?
[gasps] Oh, my goodness.
It's unanimous.
Which queen is the gassiest of the bunch?
Paddles up.
Dawn is the gassiest queen.
- Period.
- Let's check on the scoreboard.
Ka-ching, ka-ching.
Next question-- which queen is the most likely
to blame the edit?
[laughter] - Oh, shit.
- Paddles up.
- Ooh, Morphine is the queen most likely to blame the edit.
Which queen is most likely to spend
her $200,000 grand prize wisely?
Ooh, Sapphira.
Next question-- which queen is most likely
to blow her $200,000
on latex breastplates?
OK, paddles up.
Plane Jane. - [laughs]
- That means the majority get $100,000 each.
Oh, wait, what? - Yes!
[cheering]
- Not $100,000, bitch.
$100.
Next question-- if you're performing
for your drag sisters, which queen do you trust
to give you the biggest tip?
Just the tip, ladies.
Oh, my goodness.
It's unanimous again--
Sapphira.
All right, final question--
which queen is the most delusional?
- Oh.
- This is gonna be very difficult for you.
You have to think long and hard.
[gasps] Oh, my God.
[laughs]
Plane Jane. - Huh? Why?
[laughter]
Me? Certainly not me, honey.
Dawn is the most delusional for thinking
that my outfit wasn't good.
[laughter]
Bitches.
- OK, queens, with $900, the winner of today's
mini challenge is Sapphira.
- Hey!
- Condragulations.
You've won an additional $2,500 cash tip served by Cash App...
- Ching-ching.
- Which takes your total winnings to $3,400.
- Oh, I win that money, too? - Yes.
That's money, honey.
- [laughs]
$3,400 for spilling the tea?
That's not a bad gig, honey.
Call me, She-MZ.
- And yes, the rest of you get to keep your cash, too.
- Yes.
[applause]
- Ladykins, the human resources department
has asked me to make a very important announcement.
This week is Drag Awareness Month.
So for this week's maxi challenge,
I want you to come up with your own silly and sickening
drag awareness employee seminars.
- Oh, shit.
I do have experience in hosting,
but an informative speech?
Mm.
- Now you'll be working as teams.
Q, Plane Jane, your topic is
"Do you know your drag herstory?"
Mhi'ya and Dawn, your topic is "Drag in the werkplace."
And I do mean werk.
- [laughs]
- Sapphira, Nymphia, Morphine, your topic
is, "Are you a drag queen?
You might be surprised."
Ladykins, this is your chance to be
ambassadors of confusion, unemployment,
nerve, and telekinesis.
[laughter]
Racers, start your engines,
and may the best drag queen win.
[laughter]
- Let's do this, sister. - Pew, pew, pew, pew!
- Okey-dokey.
Hello, Miss Mhi'ya. - Yes.
- How are you?
- I'm ready to get this going.
- Yeah, I'm excited.
This is a test of not just hosting skill
and comedic skill, but also how well can you
present a slide show presentation.
I literally think this challenge is perfect for me.
I have a degree in engineering.
I'm very used to making presentations,
and I'm a very silly person.
And so I think that those skills
will tie in nicely here.
- This will be my first time doing
a presentation like this.
I'm nervous, but thankfully Dawn is a smart girl.
So hopefully we can get through this
together and come out on top.
- Drag in the werkplace.
Do you have any thoughts about that so far?
- Tell jokes, read.
- Uh-huh.
- Have fun.
- I love Mhi'ya.
However, I am a bit concerned because I know
that she can be a little quiet,
and this is, like, a hosting-banter challenge.
What is a drag queen?
How to spot one, how to speak to one, how to engage.
Do you have any thoughts about the direction
that we're going right now?
- Um...
yeah, this is gonna be interesting for me.
- Of everybody left in the competition,
the only people without a win are me and Morphine.
I want to be in the top four, and I think that to get there,
you need to have a win.
This is it. This is game time.
Oh, we could have, like, a drag queen
in the werkplace emergency kit that includes bear spray.
Do you know what I mean? - Um...
wait, say it again.
- I think Dawn and Mhi'ya's seminar is gonna be like this.
Dawn's gonna be like, "Oh, my God. Can I be honest?
Mhi'ya, how do you feel?"
Mhi'ya is gonna be like, "Well, I'm all right, you know?
I'm here. I'm good."
[laughs]
- I feel like we're in high school,
and we're preparing for, like, an English presentation.
- Exactly. Very that.
- For this challenge, we have to write and present
a presentation about drag.
Do you know anything about seminars?
- I don't think I've ever been to a seminar.
I'm not really sure what that is.
- People talk on a podium.
[quirky music]
Like Steve Jobs?
Yeah. Girl, what's a seminar?
- So what we're gonna do is deliver, project.
We're gonna be funny.
- I feel very stressed out.
I can do this. I can do this.
I can do this.
- I'm a host, so this is something I am pretty good at.
However, I got Tweedledee
and Tweedle Banana working with me,
two people who are very clearly anxious.
Ah!
- You know a fun fact?
Actually, when I started drag,
I made, like, a presentation to show my mom justifying
why I was doing drag.
I prepared, like, a little presentation,
and I came to her room and when I presented it to her.
And I was like, so this is a little bit of drag history.
- Oh, my God. That is crazy.
- This is what drag is today.
And this is me, and this is why I want to do drag.
The end. It wasn't very funny.
- She wasn't laughing? - She wasn't.
She was-- she was crying.
- I feel actually good about my teammate.
We've had our little tiffs in the past,
but I'm glad I have someone with me that's, you know,
so driven and-- and ready to just give 100%.
- Maybe we do something like Aristotle, who first,
you know, developed the philosophy
of the inner saboteur or something like that.
- That was a good one.
- I kind of think Plane and Q are gonna nail it.
- I'm so pleased with myself.
- Plane has the jokes, and Q has the ability
to learn the jokes. [laughs]
That was so hateful.
- Oh, girl. - Ah!
- Oh. - You thought like that.
- So what makes a drag queen?
- Hello, hello, hello.
- Oh! - Oh!
- Hi.
Please give a warm "Drag Race" welcome
to the multi-talented Joel Kim Booster.
- Oh, my God.
- Happy Drag Awareness Month, queens.
We are here to help. - Yay.
- Joel Kim Booster is, like, a very successful
comedian and actor and writer.
I'm excited to get critiqued by him.
- Oh, my gosh.
He is so hot.
I know he's a comedian, but I mean,
he should sign up to OnlyFans or something because,
girl, gorgeous.
- Plane Jane and Q, come on over.
- That's us. Hello, hello.
- Hi. - Hi.
I want to know what you have in store.
- We're gonna teach drag herstory to--
to the breeders of the world.
[laughter]
- So you two, how do you work together as a team?
- I can sense the energy differences,
like, right off the bat.
- We do hate each other, but we've gotten past that.
I feel like we do kind of work well together.
- What are you most nervous about, Q?
- Right now, we have, like, a bunch of content.
But now we have to, like, really finesse it.
- But you're a theater kid. - Yeah.
- This is where you excel.
You know how to massage a scene, right?
- I've massaged a few scenes in my day.
- All right.
Plane Jane, are you nervous about anything?
- I'm approaching this cool, calm, and collected,
and I always just assume that I'm gonna be in the top.
- [laughs]
- I wish that she was, like, not being truthful,
but she really, like, always thinks
she's gonna be in the top. - Really?
- It's part of my sort of just defense mechanism.
- And your delusion.
- Yes, I feel like delusion is an integral part of--
of drag. - I agree.
- You know? So I try to approach everything
with a deluded sense of confidence
to hopefully actually get there.
- They really need to add that to the acronym--
charisma, uniqueness, nerve, talent, and delusion.
It's very important.
But if you have confidence and you're able to back it up,
it's worth it.
- Do you have any sort of ways to really nail a punchline?
- Well, I think for you guys right now,
because you have these slides,
is to think about the ways in which it's punctuating
the jokes because the last thing I think
anybody's gonna want to see you do is be like, "Uh,
and then next."
- Like a TED Talk.
- Oh, right, and then this and then, you know?
- Don't turn it into a TED Talk.
Use it to your benefit. - OK.
- Knock 'em dead. - Thanks.
- We'll try.
- No, you will do.
Mhi'ya and Dawn, you're up next.
- Whoo. How are we?
- You are drag in the werkplace?
- Yes.
I went to school for computer science.
I, like, had an office job, like, before I even came here.
- Wow.
- I'm like, what if, like, I showed up to work one day
and there was a drag queen sitting next to me?
Like, what would I need to know to stay safe in that scenario?
- Safe? - Yeah, literally.
Safe, exactly.
And so I'm kind of, like, bringing
the, like, corporate aspect. - OK.
- And then Mhi'ya has been doing drag for 82 years.
So she's being, like, the drag, right?
- Well, be careful, though, because it sounds a little bit
like you're getting into straight man territory,
comedically, obviously not the other one.
But the thing that could get you in trouble
is if you give all the comedy to her.
- Right.
- Then what are we, you know, getting from you comedically?
- Absolutely.
- Do you get on the mic, Mhi'ya?
- Yes, I do.
- Huh?
I don't think she's ever hosted in her life.
I've never heard her talk on a mic.
- When you're on the mic, what do you do?
- I'm interacting with the crowd.
- Do you ever tell jokes? - I try.
- Mm-hmm. Like what?
- Um...
I'll be speaking to the crowd,
and then I'll see the people on the sidewalk.
I'll say, "Hey, it's free to come in.
You can't catch the gay."
- OK. What about you, Dawn?
- Me and my friend on the mic, were very, like,
kind of nonsensical.
We're almost there to annoy the audience.
Yeah, exactly.
- You need to be funny, and you need
to get to the point, and if you're setting them up,
set them up well and deliver it.
All right, well, good luck. - Thank you.
- Nice to meet you.
- Let us get Sapphira, Morphine, and Nymphia.
- Hello. - Who's the funniest?
[upbeat music]
- Probably me. - Yeah.
- And the most modest.
- I'm more, like, naturally kiki funny,
like, with the girls.
- Do you have some good jokes?
- One of the things I was gonna say
for the intro was, "Did you know
after every drag brunch, seven drag queens are born?"
- Ooh.
- You're not laughing, so I'm gonna
have to change that. - Yeah, what I--
I'm sensing is that you have a really good premise.
And then what is the funny thought beyond that?
Like, seven drag queens are born,
and then what happens to them?
- This challenge really triggers me
because it makes me feel like I'm in high school.
I graduated with a 2.3 GPA for a reason.
Thoughts and prayers.
I'm trying to get out of this mindset.
It's not good, not good.
- I have a question.
Many threesomes I have been in...
- Where are you going with this?
- Definitely have wanted to be two instead.
Threesomes are really difficult.
There's a lot of needs to service.
How are you guys handling making sure that she is not
the star of your threesome?
- Beyoncé right there.
- I consider each of us Beyoncé as well.
- Well, I mean, you should.
The chorus does have to come together,
though, for it to make sense. - Of course. Of course.
[dramatic music]
- Sapphira tends to be kind of dominating.
- Good luck,
and we'll see you out there.
- So I need to find a way to not be the sideline girl
and stand out from the group.
- Gather around, queens.
Queens, gather round.
Tomorrow, you will be making your drag awareness
presentations on the main stage
in front of a live audience of bored employees,
who are only there for the free snacks.
- Oh.
- Live audiences are hard, Mary.
I am praying that this crowd is not
full of Karens and corporate devils
because if that happens, I will pass out.
- And on the runway, category is flashback--
DragCon 1980.
[cheering]
- And one more thing.
Good luck, and don't fuck it up!
[cheering]
- You got it. - Bye!
- Bye. - Bye.
[upbeat music]
- Ah!
- Today, we're doing our drag seminars
in front of a live audience and the judges.
Q and I feel fairly confident.
We have all the jokes. We have our slides.
- A lot of our jokes are actually, like,
really smart and funny, and I think everybody
will, like, kind of get them. - Yeah.
- It's gonna be bloody hilarious.
- How are you feeling about the challenge?
- You know, I'm in my positive area where
I'm super self-confident.
So I am ready and excited for the challenge.
But deep down, this was so fucking tough.
This morning, it definitely felt a bit better.
I feel good and comfortable with what I came up with.
And hopefully, I'll just, like--
- Knock it out the ballpark. - Yeah.
I am ready to surprise myself this challenge.
With this live audience, I'm going to give them
the best, memorable night they'll ever experience.
- If I mess up, keep going, be funny, do something stupid.
- We got this. - I'm ready.
I'm not ready, but I'm ready.
- What an odd pairing, you and Mhi'ya.
I really was like, "Wow."
- Honestly, like, when I found out that it would be me
and Mhi'ya, I was like, "Damn, they got, like,
"the-- the two most opposite bitches
in this room on the same team."
This pairing has definitely been a challenge for me.
Going into the challenge today, I am prepared.
I know my lines. I know my bits.
But I can also tell Mhi'ya is really anxious.
So I am stressed.
I think we're gonna give good cop, bad cop,
but not cops and not good or bad,
just opposite. Do you know what I mean?
- So it sounds like you're not giving anything.
[laughter]
- I think it's kind of up in the air
as to how this is going to go.
I know the song. I'm not going home tonight.
The idea of lip-synching against Mhi'ya is horrifying.
However, lip-synching against someone
who's been in the bottom three times already,
much less horrifying, if--
if, you know, God forbid, that were to happen.
[blows raspberry]
- I'm excited about the runway today.
- I am very excited about the runway today.
I'm just, like, in awe at...
- OK.
- How astounding and gorgeous I look.
- OK, forget I asked.
- I am doing something very sentimental
for the runway today.
- Are you? - Yes.
It's, like, inspired by the generation of, like,
gay people that we lost, like, to the AIDS epidemic
in the '80s. So it's like...
- Fierce.
- Really, really special to me.
And, um, um.
I have also been HIV positive
for like two years now.
[soft dramatic music]
- Sister.
- When I, like, first got my diagnosis, I felt like--
I felt, like-- like, really lost and, like,
I was, like, super alone.
I tested positive when I was 24.
I was mostly, like, scared about, you know,
how I was going to be treated by family and people
around me who don't understand it because,
you know, it is so stigmatized.
You know, people have, like, said, like--
like, really, like, awful, nasty things to me and, like,
almost, like, dehumanized me.
But like, I'm here.
I'm on "Drag Race."
Like, you know, I'm living my dreams.
And like, you know, I have a loving husband that,
like, really--
that really supports and loves me,
no matter what and--
- Mama, kudos for--
for saying that, for spilling.
Like, seriously.
I want to be there for her because
I've come to really love and value and respect Q,
and I really do feel for Q in this moment.
- It's crazy, like, how much, like, people with, like, HIV,
like, have to deal with.
I've been treated differently by, like,
healthcare providers.
I think it's so important to have just, like,
queer people in, like, healthcare.
- Uh-huh.
- You really feel that difference in care, like,
between, like, those providers.
- Do you hear that, gay people?
Stop doing drag and start going
to medical school.
- No, just you, stop doing drag.
[laughter]
- You wish, bitch.
[upbeat music]
- When I tell you I'm sleeping in until 5:00 p.m. tomorrow.
- Mm-hmm.
- You mean on the plane on the way back?
- Not today.
Not today, mama.
- Sorry, you set yourself up for that one, mama.
- Not today.
[RuPaul's "Cover Girl"]
- [singing] Cover girl, put some bass in your walk
Head to toe
Let your whole body talk
And what?
Welcome to the main stage of "RuPaul's Drag Race."
Michelle Visage.
Now how are you celebrating Drag Awareness Month?
- Well, Ru, I already gave it the office.
- What did you give?
- Anything you want.
[laughter]
- The hilarious Ross Mathews.
Now how are you celebrating?
- Well, for the very first time ever,
to show solidarity, I tucked. - Oh.
- Do I look taller?
- I don't know, but your voice is deeper.
- Thanks, man. [laughter]
- And our extra special guest judge,
Joel Kim Booster.
Are you ready for your drag orientation, my dear?
- Ooh, that sounds like fun.
Is there an anal option?
- Oh, absolutely.
[laughter]
This week, we challenged our queens
to make silly and sickening drag awareness presentations.
Racers, start your engines,
and may the best drag queen win.
Yes, I do have another arm.
- The whole time.
- In recognition of Drag Awareness Month,
please welcome Plane Jane and Q.
- Hello. Hello.
Hello, everybody.
Thank you for having us here at HeteroDynamics Corp.
I am Dr. Q. - Mm-hmm.
And I'm Dr. Plane Jane, MD.
- We were actually invited here by HeteroDynamics
CEO Ross Mathews
to educate you all on drag herstory.
- Mm-hmm, we'd like you to take a look at the following slides.
[laughter]
- Yes, yes.
And now some herstoric clips.
- Let it all sink in.
[quirky music]
- Brilliant. Brilliant.
- Now that that's over with, welcome to--
[together] "Our Herstory Drags On:
"Heels, Wigs, and the Tenacity
of the Human Spirit." - Oh.
- We're gonna get started with famous people
you may not have known were drag queens
throughout herstory.
- Our 16th president, "Honest Abe"
was actually a drag queen. - Wow.
- But some of you may know him better as Babraham Stincoln.
- Ah.
- Four whores and seven queers ago.
- Beautifully said, Dr. Q.
Couldn't have done better myself.
- Thank you, Dr. Plane. - Of course.
Benjamin Franklin, who was known better
by her stage name BJ Bottoms,
was also a glorious drag queen.
In fact, when she was struck by lightning,
she became the first queen
whose pussy was actually on fire.
- Ah. - Oh, my gosh.
Ouch, that had to hurt. - I'm sure it did, Dr. Q.
- Oh, my gosh.
The first drag queen ass-tronomer on the moon
was Shaneil Armschlong.
- And, mama, you couldn't see under her spacesuit,
but, honey, if she had to lip-synch
for her mother-tucking life--
- Bitch, she was ready to lip-synch
for her motherfucking life, bitch.
She was ready to do so, bitch.
- Doctor, doctor, compose yourself, doctor.
- Doctor, I just--
I get so inspired by drag herstory.
So moving on, some of the most famous drag queens
have also been used as inspiration for monuments.
- That's right.
Most notably, Mount Rushmore was
built in the likeness of the "RuPaul's
Drag Race" judging panel.
Just as in life, their faces are cold,
unmoving, and birds love to shit on 'em.
[laughter]
- Did you know that drag queens shaped
a lot of universal events? - That's right.
Who's heard of the Big Bang? Yeah? Yeah?
Well, forget all you know about it.
It didn't happen.
What actually created the universe was the big tuck.
Dr. Q, correct me if I'm mistaken,
but I believe it was the great.
Albert Einstein that once said, "All that's tucked
must come untucked."
And when the big tuck popped,
all matter came flying out of it and hurtling
through space and time.
- Doctor, doctor, doctor. - Oh, doctor.
[together] Doctor.
- Doctor, doctor, doctor.
Girl, it's funny.
- Drag queens have cinched in herstory's waist.
- And they've carved out the hip pads that have
shaped the known universe.
On that note, be kind, breeders.
- You never know if the queen sitting next to you
is the one that will shape the herstory of the future.
- Thank you so much.
[together] Go tuck yourselves.
[cheers and applause]
- Oh.
- Plane and I crushed this challenge.
- I love you, doctor. - I love you, doctor.
- Oh, doctor. Oh, oh.
We're leaving the stage feeling, like,
on top of the world.
- Please welcome Dawn and Mhi'ya Iman Le'Paige.
[applause]
- Hey, everybody. Oh, my God.
I'm Dawn.
Are we all partying?
We're drinking, right? No?
Is that my other gig?
Oh, fuck, sorry.
Hi, I'm Dawn, and I've been working
in the corporate sphere for the past 35 years.
But I'm also a sickening drag queen.
And on set today, we also have
a full-time drag queen herself, Mhi'ya Iman Le'Paige.
[applause]
- Oh, my gosh.
Oh, my gosh, I just came from this afterparty.
It was lit, but hi, everybody.
I'm Mhi'ya Iman La'Paige.
- And welcome to "You Betta' Werk."
- And this is the guide to how to tame a drag queen.
[together] You don't want
to fuck with a drag queen.
- All right, everybody, with the mainstream success
of "RuPaul's Drag Race,"
we've had the craziest number of crunchy baby queens
that we've ever had in the world.
We've also seen that some seasoned queens
that are used to the nightclub are now returning
to their corporate roots.
[laughter]
- In the past year, there have been 18 broken limbs
due to drag close encounters.
- So we're here to keep you safe
as you venture into the dangerous world
of being 10 feet from a drag queen.
On your first day working with a drag queen,
you'll probably have many, many questions,
such as, why am I sitting next to this clown?
But I want you to remember that that clown
is a human, a delusional human with grandeur in her brain.
So you cannot get in her way, or she will come for you.
- As you settle into your new life
with your new drag partner,
here are some keys to disregard
or disarm what she has going on.
- Huh?
- Here are some help-- helpful phrases to avoid that.
- It is... [whistles]
[imitates explosion]
Crash, mama.
- Hey, boo.
Damn, ma, you look fierce.
Or, ooh, where you get that from?
Remember that she is not there to do her job.
So you make sure you tell her to do her damn job.
- But in extreme cases, we will be providing
each and every single one of you with a--
[together] Drag queen in the workplace
emergency kit.
- It comes with a mint and deodorant,
a shot of Hennessy, a taser, and bear spray.
- Disclaimer, this kit will not ensure your safety.
But if all hell breaks loose--
[together] Run, bitch.
- We really do wish you the best.
And maybe you won't just survive
your next encounter with a drag queen,
but you'll actually enjoy it.
- And-- and don't forget to tip us
and tell us we look gorgeous.
Or else--
- It's your ass.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen.
- Thank you. - Whoo!
[applause]
- Dawn and Mhi'ya, chemistry zero.
- You've been lovely.
- I got to go back to the afterparty.
- Mm-mm.
It's a no for me, dog.
[applause]
- Please welcome to the stage Sapphira,
Morphine, and Nymphia.
[applause]
- Hey, y'all.
How's it going?
- Hello, sweetie.
Future drag queens!
- Well, they told me y'all would have drinks and snacks,
but let's do a toast anyway.
Everyone raise your hand.
There once was a woman named Alice.
She used dynamite as a phallus.
They found her vagina in North Carolina
and her asshole in Buckingham Palace.
Cheers. Yeah.
- Drag is in the air.
It is quite contagious.
We are here to help you identify the signs
and symptoms of being a...
[together] Drag queen.
- I am the Reverend Dr. Sapphira Cristál.
- And I am drag expert in cunning linguistics,
Morphine Love Dion.
- And I am professor in bananaology
at John Hopkinson, Nymphia Wind.
- And this is, "Are You a Drag Queen?"
You don't look like a drag queen.
[together] But you feel like a drag queen.
- Feel. - Feel.
- Like a drag queen.
- Did you know 365 drag queens are born every Halloween?
- Wow. - Ah!
- Ooh! - Oh, my God.
- Ghastly. Ghastly.
- That is dirty, mama.
- How many of you have put on a wig on Halloween?
And I want honest answers.
Raise your hand. - Mm.
- I'm not really feeling the truth
coming from this entire audience,
which gets us for our first behavioral symptom.
Drag queens are pathological liars.
- Mm-hmm.
- I don't know about that.
I am the premiere Jane Goodall impersonator,
winner of Snatch Game. - Oh.
- And I am the first lady of Florida.
- And I am Wesley Snipes.
[laughter]
Lying is not only fun.
It is compulsory.
And if you don't know what compulsory means,
neither do I. Speaking of other things
I have no idea about, being on time.
Drag queens are perpetually late.
This seminar was supposed to start three hours ago.
But it's starting right on time for us.
That's the magic of--
[together] Drag time.
- Drag queens have amazing, delusional attitudes.
- Mm-hmm.
- In addition to that, we are way in--
we are extreme narcissists.
- I notice that Sapphira seems to be slipping up.
- You should really see your doctor
and then go home and stare in your mirror.
- But then she, like, does her little Sapphira chuckle
and, like, moves on.
- What makes fashion drag?
Have you ever wondered what that makeup stain is
on your man's collar?
Ladies, don't be quick to think it's another woman.
He might be the other woman.
Girl, that's a drag queen.
- [laughs]
- Does anyone here have long nails?
Oh, I can't do the dishes.
Oh, pick this up for me.
Oh, wipe my ass.
Bitch, you're already a drag queen.
- [laughs]
- You match this with that trousers?
Honey, you are very lucky.
You have natural drag immunity.
You know what?
It's better you don't do drag.
- Now I think it's time for drag vocabulary.
Whoo.
Thank you, Nymphia.
Drag queens are known to add pizzazz, sparkle,
and spunk to certain words and phrases.
For example, if you say...
- That's sick, bro.
- Then you might not be a drag queen.
But if you say it like, "That's sickening, mama."
Bitch, if you start saying--
wait. [clears throat]
Drag queen flopping.
- Why would you clue the audience into the fact
that you're flopping?
Now everyone clocked your tea, honey,
and you clocked yourself.
- And, bitch, if you start every sentence
with bitch, then, bitch,
you might be a drag queen, bitch.
- If you relate to anything you've heard tonight,
please stand up.
There we go. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you.
Now raise your hand and repeat after us.
[together] Bitch, werk.
all: Bitch, werk.
- Oh. - Thank you so much.
You have now been indoctrinated into the drag queen system.
- Thank you, everyone.
Thank you. - Thank you.
Have a good night.
Bye-bye.
- Whoo, that was something.
I felt pretty good.
I dropped the ball for a second,
but I think I picked it back up.
Bitch, I think we did good.
[applause]
[upbeat music]
- Category is Flashback:
DragCon 1980.
Up first, Plane Jane.
Ooh, climax is back.
- I'm wowing the judges yet again
with a different silhouette
for Plane Jane, a severe power suit.
It's tailored perfectly to my body.
I don't own 51% of this company.
I built it from the ground up, and now I own everything.
- I said I wanted a bagel, not a Nagel.
[laughter]
- Q. - I knew it.
She's a red Haring.
- This dress is made with a Keith Haring inspired print.
He was a really popular activist in the '80s
for, like, you know, AIDS awareness.
And the lapel of this is like the AIDS awareness ribbon.
This look is an homage to all the queer people that were
lost during the AIDS epidemic.
I'm giving a message, but, you know, I'm also
giving something beautiful.
- You know, I love it when a queen acts up.
Dawn.
OK, Haysi Fantayzee.
- This look is '80s rocker punk bitch.
I'm wearing kind of, like, chappy pants,
but they're, like, being suspended by a coat.
I made this by myself.
What would a punk rock drag queen
wear to DragCon in the 1980s? This.
- Lisa Frank BDSM fantasy.
- Mhi'ya Iman Le'Paige.
All right, Patti LaBelle. - Mm-hmm.
- I literally googled DragCon 1980s,
and this look popped up.
I wanted to add more to the look,
so I added the flowers on the shoulders.
So I'm feeling like the queen.
- You guys know what they say about big hair, right?
- No, what? - No, I'm asking.
Do you guys know what they say about big hair?
- Sapphira.
- She is cute as a button.
- Baby, I got the biggest hair in the building.
It's giving 1980s prom, "Dynasty."
It is quintessential 1980s princess.
These girls don't even know what the '80s are.
I, at least, was born in the '80s.
- You know what she's gonna be doing later?
- No, what? - The neutron dance.
- Oh. Morphine.
- So this outfit is rhinestoned for the gods.
However, this hair is borrowed from Q because my wig broke.
So this is not the wig that I'm supposed to wear,
but I love this outfit because I'm giving
business in the front and puta sucia in the back.
- Frederick's of Dollywood.
Ooh, that's gonna leave a mark.
- This is what Angeline wore to her bat mitzvah.
[laughter]
Up next, the Nymphia Wind.
Put some grace in your face.
- I'm serving hot, mysterious vampire.
This is my take of Grace Jones in the movie "Vamp".
So I hand-painted these white lines inspired
by Keith Haring's art.
I'm giving you the big hair and the broad shoulders
and just shapes.
- Her pussy is not on fire. It's electric.
- Yeah, that's right.
I'm not perfect, but I'm perfect for you.
Welcome, queens.
This week, you worked as teams.
But tonight, you'll be judged individually.
Up first, Plane Jane.
- This look is just everything I hope to be when I'm 50.
- Thank you.
[laughter]
- I just love it.
- And I really loved your presentation.
I was so into it.
I felt like it was the most joke dense
of all three of the presentations.
You two are so stupid.
- [laughs]
- There were moments when the rhythm got off track,
and the rhythm is gonna get you.
OK? It is.
But you were able to sort of pull it back in.
My favorite part, "I need you to look at some slides."
It doesn't need to be more complicated than that.
- So who came up with the slides and the clips?
- The slides and the clips was Q's idea.
- Mm-hmm.
- And all the other jokes, we spitballed
those off of each other, and it was great working with you.
- Yeah, sister. I love you, sister.
- Thank you. Up next, Q.
- The slides and the clips, that was my favorite part.
- The rhythm of the way in which you even
just went from slide to slide...
- Babraham Stincoln.
- The timing of it was always so perfect.
- You did a very strong showing.
Was it the funniest thing I've ever seen?
No, but I love what you're wearing tonight.
I love the dotted tights with the red pumps.
That's so '80s. - I love the silhouette.
I love the colors.
- So this is a Keith Haring inspired print,
and this is the AIDS awareness ribbon,
and I have been HIV positive for the past two years.
[soft dramatic music]
So to be on this platform and just
to be able to be open about that,
that's really important to me.
None of my family knows, but I'm really
taking this as a moment to, like,
try to open up to them about it.
- Thank you for inspiring us with your dress
and being so beautiful with your truth.
We love you,
and we really love your courage.
- Thank you so much. - Up next, Dawn.
- So, Dawn, this look, to me, isn't quite '80s,
but it's very Dawn. - I think this look is '80s.
Michelle, we're talking about the 1980s.
- Oh, I thought you meant the 1880s.
Thank you, Ross. Thank you.
I was like, "Where's the horse and buggy?"
[laughter]
Thank you.
- There's a group called Sigue Sigue Sputnik.
This is an exact replica of what they wore.
I love this outfit. I love it.
- Let's talk about the challenge.
You've got a wonderful personality
where it's like, "Oh, God, I love her right away."
And then there was a lot of heavy lifting for you to do.
- My major qualm was that it was very confusing.
- We lost the storyline.
The setups that explained the jokes weren't there.
- It was a mess, but you held the center
in a really sort of comforting way.
You know, we didn't quite know what we were watching,
but, like, every time it got back to you,
like, I felt a little bit more secure.
- We saw you doing the work to try
to get it back on course. It just-- it didn't happen.
- Up next, Mhi'ya Iman Le'Paige.
- Hey. - Yeah.
- Tonight on the runway, this Patti LaBelle
hair is life. The makeup is gorgeous.
But I would have liked to have seen you
corseted in this look.
It would have been, like, goop.
- OK, let's talk about the presentation.
It started strong.
When you came out in that wig and that suit,
I thought, "OK, I'm gonna watch whatever she is doing."
And then it just felt like you were in quicksand.
This week was a stumble.
[tense music]
- Coming on this stage was just a complete disaster for me.
It was just so many things just hitting
my brain left and right.
- The lucky thing is is the chances of you ever
having to do a drag seminar with a presentation
ever again, really low.
- I would love to watch you do one
as if you were doing it for your mama and your cousins
in the living room.
That's the you that needed to do this presentation.
All right, thank you.
Up next, Sapphira.
- This runway-- yeah, yeah, it's everything
I'd want from DragCon 1980.
- It's fucking everything.
The height of the hair, everything.
This look will go down in history
as one of the stupidest looks we've ever had on this stage.
- Let's talk about the challenge.
You have the goods.
You started so strong with a toast.
Got everybody in the mood.
- But tonight was the first time
that I saw you fumble, and I was shocked.
- That is so tough because if you let the audience start
to feel unsafe or distracted, to get them back in the seat
and to trust you again, it's way more difficult
than people understand.
- And I think you did a really great job
of getting back to the center.
In terms of the writing, I think everybody had moments
to shine, but there were a lot of moments where
it was somebody else's turn, and my eyes
kept going back to you.
And that is presence, and you have it.
- Thank you.
- Up next, Morphine.
- So I'm not getting so much '80s
as I am deflated Dolly Parton, but--
but I don't-- I don't hate that.
- All right, let's talk about the challenge.
So you were with a couple of heavy hitters.
- Sapphira was a juggernaut, and Nymphia,
too, was very, very strong.
You looked like you were just struggling
to keep up with those two.
- Wait. [clears throat]
Drag queen flopping.
- Your instinct to call attention to your flub
was the right instinct.
It was just the wrong execution.
Like, sometimes the way out of that
can be even funnier than the joke.
No, no, no, you misheard me. I said it right.
You heard it wrong, you know, or something
along those lines.
- Up next, Nymphia Wind.
- I love this red with this purple.
The work that's done with the metal, the painting.
- I love the homage paid to Grace Jones' movie "Vamp."
- In a runway that is about the past,
you're somehow also giving the future of drag.
It is such a relief to come and see Asian excellence
on this runway.
- All right, let's talk about the challenge.
You chose to create a character from scratch.
You were funny.
- And I was amazed that you were able to pull
this character out.
This is a far cry from that Snatch Game.
- You laid heavily into a characterization.
It was actually, you know, I don't know
if I should be laughing without getting in trouble.
- I can't do the dishes.
Oh, pick this up for me.
- What is your position on that?
- Well, I just like any sort of accent.
And I think it's good to, you know,
share the different sounds of the world.
- Listen, it was a real risk to do it.
But that being said, because you made a choice
that was so different from everybody else,
it stood out.
- Thank you, queens.
I think we've heard enough.
While you enjoy delicious House of Love cocktails
and mocktails in the Untucked Lounge,
the judges and I will deliberate.
All right, just between us squirrel friends,
I want to know what you think of our girls.
Let's start with Plane Jane.
- I think Plane Jane and Q had a real relationship going.
I think they were two that were very cohesive.
- I had a higher standard for Jane
after everything I've seen her do in this competition so far.
She's so great, and tonight, she was just good.
- All right, let's talk about Q.
- Q was a theater queen.
So when she gets out on stage, I kind of know she's got it,
and tonight was no exception.
It wasn't the funniest.
It wasn't the worst.
But I felt super confident every time Q was talking.
- Where Q shined the most tonight was that runway,
the message behind it.
By letting us in, getting to know her
a little bit, it makes me love her even more.
- Dawn.
- In the presentation, she kept them afloat,
and that was tough.
- It is, like, that thing of in case of an emergency
on a plane, you're supposed to put your own mask on first
before helping somebody else,
and I think she was trying to help Mhi'ya too much.
- All right, let's talk about Mhi'ya.
- I want to start with what went right for Mhi'ya
during the presentation. Now that I'm done with that--
- [laughs]
- She dropped the cards at the top of the stage,
and I thought, "I wonder if that was planned."
- Mm.
- I think she really needed them.
If you don't know the character that you're playing,
you're not gonna be able to play the character.
- Sapphira.
- She has this gravitas, this energy about her.
I couldn't take my eyes off of her,
even when she was sort of floundering a little bit.
I still felt, like, a power there,
and it's really exciting to watch.
- What a pro, right?
- Tonight on the runway, it was everything I'd want
and a bag of chips. Home run.
- All right, Morphine.
- Tonight on the runway, it just wasn't giving me '80s.
- It didn't stack up to the other looks
that were standing on that stage.
- Her in the challenge, it didn't work for me.
Maybe because Nymphia and Sapphira
were so much stronger, she got lost a little bit.
- And she really tried, but she was
so nervous and unsure that it took us
so completely out of it.
- Nymphia.
- Her performance is gonna be a little, uh, divisive.
- Might be the other woman.
- She went with the accent.
Given time, she would have pushed it further
and made it more than just that one characterization.
- It was interesting.
I think there were some funny things
happening with it. I'll just leave it at that.
- Yes, I'm with you. I don't know that--
I wouldn't recommend anyone else do it.
- No, no. You don't do it, Ross.
- I will not do that.
- Neither will I. - No.
- I could do it. - Yeah, you could do it, Joel.
- OK. - All right, silence.
I've made my decision.
Bring back my girls.
Welcome back, queens.
I've made some decisions.
[dramatic music]
Sapphira, you gave good love on the runway
and in the presentation.
Nymphia, in the challenge, you went bananas.
And on the runway,
you put some Grace in our face.
Sapphira, condragulations.
You are the winner of this week's challenge.
- Oh!
- [laughs]
- Thank you.
This is my third win,
and I'm so excited, my second in a row.
I am getting up there, miss thing.
- You've won a cash prize of $5,000.
- [laughs]
[laughter]
I look over, and Q's very sour in the face.
Mama is about to pop.
- Ladies, you may step to the back of the stage.
- Thank you. - Thank you.
- Plane Jane, Q, you are both safe.
- Thank you, mama.
- Thank you.
- Mhi'ya, you are giving Patti LaBelle,
but your presentation needed a new attitude.
Morphine, you were busting out all over,
but your presentation fell flat.
Dawn, you gave us high punk,
but your presentation was no slam dunk.
Dawn, you are safe.
You may join the other girls.
- Thank you so, so much.
- Mhi'ya, Morphine, I'm sorry, my dears,
but you are up for elimination.
- Even though this is my fourth time lip-synching,
I'm not going out like a sucker,
and may the best Miami bitch win.
- Two queens stand before me.
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.
- I don't give a fuck if it's the queen of flips.
Let's get the show on the road, bitch.
- Good luck, and don't fuck it up.
[Donna Summer's "Dim All the Lights"]
- [singing] Dim all the lights, sweet darling
'Cause tonight, it's all the way
When you find the perfect love
Let it fill you up
- Yes, baby. Whoo!
[cheering]
[tense music]
- What's going on? Everything goes pitch-black.
Oh, she wants to play this dirty? OK.
[upbeat pop music]
- Yeah.
- [singing] Dim all the lights, sweet honey
'Cause tonight, it's you and me
Want to be your woman
If you'll be my man
- [laughs]
- [singing] Let yourself go freely
And I'll show you things
That you've dreamed of
- Did this bitch just throw her tits at me?
It's gonna take more than a fake boob to stop me, bitch.
- [singing] And I'm like a cup
Come fill me up
Oh
Dim all the lights, sweet darling
'Cause tonight, it's all the way
- Oh, my gosh.
- Whoo!
- [singing] I know what you want
You can use me all up
- Is she gonna drop here?
It starts. It's great.
Too long, ugh.
- [singing] Don't leave even one drop
- But then so long, it's great again.
- [laughs]
- [singing] You know the moment's so right
Turn my brown body white
- Hey, hey.
- [singing] Come on, dim all the lights
- [laughs]
- [singing] Turn up the old Victrola
Gonna steal your heart away
Keep on dancing
[laughter]
[cheers and applause]
- Yeah! - Whoo!
- Ladies, I've made my decision.
[tense music]
Morphine, shantay, you stay.
You may join the other girls.
- Thank you so much.
I love you so much.
- Mhi'ya, my queen, it won't be the same
here without you. Now, sashay away.
- Thank you all for this opportunity.
I'm so grateful.
Thank you, judges, and I love you all.
- Thank you.
[applause]
- From the palace to the queendom,
the queen of flips is exiting the group chat.
[laughter]
- Love you.
[soft dramatic music]
- I'm gagging and shocked that Morphine,
out of everyone, beat me.
And I hope I didn't let you guys down.
A lot of the critiques the judges gave me,
I still remember everything.
I wrote 'em down.
And I'm just ready to take on the world now.
[upbeat music]
- 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?
[together] Amen!
- All right, now let the music play.
[singing] A little bit of love goes a long, long way
Lifting you up to a brighter day
Can you feel the love?
- Next time on "RuPaul's Drag Race"...
You'll be starring in the hot new
design show "Bathroom Hunties."
- Welcome to the naughty potty.
- Whoo! - Whee!
- Oh, it's moving.
- Louder, Sequoia, louder!
- Oh.
- Your physicality really sold it to me.
- It left you as a afterthought,
and you're fiercer than an afterthought.
- Plane or I deserved that win.
None of it makes sense.
I still feel like it wasn't deserved.
[dramatic music]
- Bitch, what?
- [singing] A little bit of love goes a long, long way
Lifting you up to a brighter day
A little bit of love goes a long, long way
Turn it around with you up and say
Everybody say love, love, love
Love, love, love
Love, love
Love
Oh
Love
Can you feel the love?