- [singing] MTV
- Previously on "RuPaul's Drag Race"...
You'll be starring in the hot new design show,
"Bathroom Hunties."
- [vocalizing] - Louder, Sapphira, louder.
- So our two-person stall is like--
oh, my God, you go.
I forgot. - [laughs]
- Morphine.
- Q was kind of driving the bus in there.
There just wasn't enough of a point of view from you.
- Dawn.
- There was a struggle for you two
trying to find your chemistry.
- Plane Jane and Sapphira.
- You knew the details.
And it allowed you to just be in the moment.
- Condragulations.
You're both winners of this week's challenge.
[applause]
Morphine...
shantay, you stay.
- Oh, my God.
- Dawn, sashay away.
[suspenseful music]
- Girl.
I survived my third lip sync.
I really thought Dawn was gonna go all the way.
all: Can I be honest?
We love you, Dawn.
- She turned her little pussy. She left.
Look, I lost three nails.
But one thing about me, baby, I don't care who's next to me.
You will be slayed.
- Bitch, that body--
Mama.
- It was so good.
- Dawn fought her heart out, but it was like a chihuahua
and a fucking pit bull.
- The Miami girls taking girls out.
- Top five?
Holy cow.
The fact that the judges reacted
so crazy insane to my lip sync,
that's giving me the fire to keep going.
And if I have to lip-synch my way to the top four,
I'm gonna lip-synch my way to the top four.
When I was doing the dance, my--
what is it, clavicle?
Shattered, broken, disintegrated.
- Your clavicle is up here, baby.
- So what's this?
What's this bone right here then?
- Technically, there's no bone there.
It's just meat.
- Yeah, it's--on you it's a lot of meat.
[laughter]
Congratulations to our double winners.
- Yay! - Whoo-hoo!
- Double winners.
- I just had my fourth win,
and it feels right.
I told y'all I was playing the long game.
- Sapphira's been on a little winning streak, Mama.
- She has been.
- Oh, you noticed?
- Sapphira is on a winning streak.
But Mama, I'm gunning for that top spot.
I'm not gonna let that bulldozing bitch
sweep me under the rug.
Watch out, Sapphira.
- This is the final five.
We are close
- It's just right there.
- I cannot wait to be in the top four with three of you.
I don't know who it's gonna be, but--
- But I know it's gonna be me.
- I know it's gonna be me.
[laughs]
- We are so, so, so, so, so close to the top four.
You can literally, like, taste it.
- Honey, nothing but a BBL.
That's you.
- Well, baby, one thing about me...
[blows raspberry] - [laughs]
- I kind of had this moment of vulnerability
in the last challenge.
Now that I'm sort of past that hurdle,
no more doubting myself.
It's back to my usual cocky shenanigans.
And I feel pretty much unstoppable.
[laughs]
- Plane is feeling really comfortable.
But I remember earlier when there was
a little crack in the armor.
And she needs to be careful or she's gonna have
another one of those moments that
might land her in the bottom.
- Sister, not only am I a stunning,
gorgeous little queen, but I'm also a comedic legend.
Like, what can't I do is what I want to know.
- I almost threw up.
- I can taste the end of this competition,
the crown, being in that final spotlight.
And it tastes like sweet, sweet juices of victory.
- You need a beating.
- Ow.
That feels synthetic.
- Ooh.
- [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 Kelsea Ballerini.
[singing] RuPaul's Drag Race
May the best drag queen win
Best drag queen win
[upbeat music]
[laughter]
- Oh, my God.
- Whoa.
- What is this?
What is this?
- Is this Monopoly, "RuPaul's Drag Race"?
- That is so fun.
I love that.
- It's a new day in the Werk Room.
And there's a game of Monopoly, "RuPaul's Drag Race,"
on the table?
I love Monopoly!
- Wait, this is all laid out for us.
Should we play?
- OK, everyone gets money, so I'll be the bank.
- My God. Yay!
My turn.
- "Twern." - Oh.
- Mini challenge.
Your triumphant shriek in the main challenges
is turning the other contestants against you.
- Ooh.
[laughter]
- Girl, at this point in the game,
this close to the finale, we are to the nitty,
nitty, nitty, itty-bitty, gritty, honey.
- Oops, you owe $500.
- Oh, wow.
- You gotta keep the bitter bitches at bay.
- It's getting really serious up in here.
- Your self-help book helps no one.
Go directly to the jail.
Do not pass jail.
Do not collect $200, bitch.
- Hello, hello, hello.
[all cheering]
- Chop, chop, chop.
- Good morning, ladykins.
all: Good morning.
- Lucky for you, what happens in Vegas
doesn't always stay in Vegas.
From RuPaul's Drag Race Live at Flamingo Vegas,
please welcome the amazing Pit Crew dancers.
- Oh!
[all cheering]
- These guys are so hot.
- OK.
- They don't sell shirts in Las Vegas?
[laughter]
Well, it's great to see you, fellas.
Please introduce yourselves to our queens.
- Hi, ladies. I'm Jonathan.
- Hey, my name is Mark.
- Hola, my name is Miguel. - Hi, I'm Nick.
- Hello, ladies. I'm Sebastian.
- Well, listen.
It is so great to have you
on this side of the state line.
Now, six times a week, these incredibly talented dancers
shake their groove things alongside "Drag Race" royalty.
But do they have what it takes to walk a mile in they shoes?
So for this week's Maxi Challenge,
you need to transform these handsome hoofers
into devastating drag queens.
- Oh, my God.
- Yes!
Oh, my God.
- Girl, this is my favorite Maxi Challenge
in Drag Race herstory.
I'm a makeup artist.
I love to do other people's makeup.
Oh, I'm excited.
This is my challenge, bitch.
- They're so massive.
How am I going to transform any of these burly, macho men
into a dainty, little, feminine woman like myself?
- First, we need to pair you up.
Up first, Q.
- Ooh.
- Step over to the pink furry box.
OK.
Reach in and pull out a ball.
The yellow ball.
- That's my ball.
- Now let's see which dancer you'll be working with.
Show me with your eyes who you're hoping it's gonna be.
- I'm hoping it's all of them.
- Oh, that's why your eyes are crossed.
Let 'er rip.
Oh, yeah, we got it!
[laughter]
All right, Q, you are paired with Sebastian.
- Sebastian is definitely my type.
He is like, very kind of daddy-esque.
His pecs, Mama.
- Q, your face is red.
- Oh, stop!
- No, it's true.
- I don't know.
I just--he reminds me so much of my husband.
- Oh, yeah, good answer, good answer.
Morphine.
- I'm scared.
- Orange.
- I need Miguel.
I'm using my witch powers to make sure
that I'm paired up with this man because he's so hot.
- Fellas, let 'er rip.
[cheering]
- Yay!
I won!
- All right, you manifested that.
- I did, girl.
- And by manifest, I mean man-ifest.
- I know.
- Uh-huh.
Purple.
- I just want all of them!
- Let 'er rip.
[cheers, laughter]
- Oh, yeah.
- Nymphia, you are paired with Jonathan.
Last but not least, Sapphira and Plane Jane.
- Two in the pink.
It's gonna be a little crowded in there, girl.
- Plane Jane got blue.
Sapphira got the red.
All right, fellas, let 'er rip.
[cheers, laughter]
All right, Sapphira, you are paired with Mark.
And Plane Jane, you are paired with Nick.
All right, queens, the judges will be
looking for a strong drag family resemblance.
Oh, and one more thing--
- Oh, no.
- You know, it'd be a shame to have
these world-class dancers here and not take
advantage of their talent.
- Oh, God, what now?
- So together, each pair needs to choreograph
a breakout dance moment to debut on the main stage.
Who knows?
This time next year, you may be appearing
together in Las Vegas at RuPaul's Drag Race Live.
Racers, start your engines.
And may the best drag queen win.
- Let's do this shit.
It's completely important to nail this challenge
because we're getting close to the end.
And I need to snatch another win.
So the dance, the outfits, the makeup,
every detail has to be perfect.
- Ah!
- This is a losing table.
- OK.
Goodbye.
- I have to beat him.
- It'll be easy.
She doesn't have the face for it.
This week's challenge is to do a makeover
on the burly dancers from RuPaul's Drag Race Live
and turn them into women, honey.
- I feel like I'm gonna look like a man in a wig.
- I don't think so.
We're gonna turn you out for sure.
- OK. - For sure.
For sure. - I'm ready.
- I ended up getting Nick--
the hairy, big, strong version of Dawn
after a few years in the county prison, honey.
Your arm circumference does concern me.
- Yeah.
- Because you are-- you are--you know,
I'm a little more dainty.
- Yeah.
- You are a little bit more sort of broad and strong.
- Stocky, yeah.
- I'm kind of like a slutty, skanky girl.
- Thank God.
Like, I want to--
I want to be a hot slut.
- OK, you want to be a hot, sexy slut.
- Yes. - A whore?
OK. - Yes.
- OK, so you're a sister is what you're saying.
Perfect.
We are going to be a match made in whore-ness.
Do you have any experience, like, walking in heels?
Ooh, bitch, I'm seeing your feet.
They're so big. - They're big and they're wide.
So I'm expecting the heels to hurt a lot.
- Oh, fuck.
OK.
- I've been waiting for this challenge
because this is something that I love to do.
I'm the beauty queen.
I'm the prettiest one in the room.
It's true.
You know...[speaking Spanish] I don't lie.
But I am--like, I do makeup.
I'm a makeup artist. I'm a dancer.
I've done a lot of makeovers in the past.
I love to do other people's makeup.
This is something that I'm very, very excited to do.
My style of drag is showing body and skin.
I don't pad.
I show my ass.
So--
- Baby, I have the perfect match with you.
- Yeah? Yeah?
Let me see.
Ah!
She's my daughter. She's my daughter.
Oh, my gosh.
OK. [speaking Spanish]
I got the hottest dancer out of everybody.
No offense to the other dancers, but Miss Miguel
is the hottest one.
- I know all the wonderful queens from Puerto Rico.
I start to dance with all of them.
I started to dance with Jessica Wild...
- Wow.
- Yara Sofia, like, all of them.
So I was doing tours.
- Girl, I'm just looking at this beautiful man
and I'm thinking, like, how do I even come up
with a word or a conversation?
I'm just so distracted.
- Um--what was I gonna ask you?
So have you ever been put in drag before?
- Never. - Never?
- Never ever.
- He's all full of testosterone.
Baby, those muscles, that skin, those rough hands--
I forgot where I was going.
- It's caliente. You're gonna do it.
- I just--wow.
He's just--it's hot in here, right?
- Who's your favorite drag queen?
I need to get a sense.
- Aesthetically, I gotta say I love Plastique.
- Plastique?
OK, so you like a pretty drag queen.
- I do love Plastique.
- You're paired with the right one.
[laughs]
Well, a makeover challenge is definitely up me alley.
Like, I have no problem putting makeup on other people.
She is experienced.
I'm sensing that in your normal life,
you're just very, uh, masculine presenting.
But we're gonna have to get the femme out of you today.
- Let's do it.
- Drag, for me, is magic.
Like, it really transforms people to allow them
to really be this bitch.
And hopefully, it will do the same with Jonathan.
Have you ever played with any girl stuff?
Were you effeminate growing up?
- I was not.
- Yeah, I can tell.
- [laughs] I mean--
I mean, I'm also straight, but--
- [screams] What?
- [laughing]
- I fully thought Jonathan was just a more reserved gay.
Straight men are known to be very, uh, uh...
just straight.
OK, what kind of girls do you like?
What's your type?
We'll make you into that.
You know?
- My wife is Australian.
- More and more surprises.
I can't do this anymore.
Is he gonna be able to be as sassy as a gay person is?
Or is he gonna be like, "Hey, man"?
[laughs]
Girl, what am I gonna do now?
- How long you been dancing?
- It's been, like, 15 years. - Oh, wow.
- I just started dancing in college,
and then ended up in Vegas with my husband.
- Nice.
I feel great about this pairing.
Mark is gorgeous.
And he looks very, very excited to be here.
- My best friend is here, Sebastian.
We still have to beat him. - Oh, lovely.
- He's very competitive.
He's over there. - OK, with Q.
Yeah, we have our--we have a--
- You have a thing? - Q and I have a thing?
- Oh, Q and you have a thing? - Well--
- What kind of a thing, like, a competitive thing
or, like, a friendly thing?
- I beat her a lot.
- Oh, you beat her a lot. OK.
- She wasn't happy about either time.
- I'd love to give Sebastian that experience.
- [laughs]
My drag is glam.
I'm, like, the opulent queen.
I'm the queen of excess. - I love that.
- Anything big and, like, a lot.
- I love that.
I feel like I connect with something that's,
like, fierce and showy.
Like, I like drama.
- Luckily, the idea that I have is very big and very dramatic.
I have this geode look that I brought
for this exact occasion.
I have a giant dress for myself with a huge collar
covered in millions of rhinestones.
It is exactly the kind of drama that Mark has in store.
- It's too big. - Hmm?
[dramatic music]
- That dress is too big.
- To dance? I can't--
I don't know how they're gonna do that.
- I'm a little nervous about--
- Losing the beard?
Are you?
- I either have the really thick mustache
or I have the beard.
I don't know that I've seen myself--
- Without...
- Without either.
- Either of those?
Sebastian is definitely the burliest of the men,
but I am a great designer.
I have two design wins, so this challenge
is right up my alley.
What is your personality you feel like,
like--just, like, as--
you know, as Sebastian?
- I think I--
I'm kind of serious.
You know, as a dancer, I have like, one niche, which is...
- Yeah, right.
- Mostly a masculine guy.
- I'm a little bit worried at first
as I'm talking to Sebastian because he seems, like,
really timid and kind of shy.
- If you want a little bit of inside information,
Mark is horrible at walking in heels.
[laughter]
- Yes.
Good to know.
I'll make sure not to hold my leg out or anything,
or throw pearls on the stage.
- You won't need the pearls.
- [screams, laughs]
I'm realizing Sebastian just takes a minute to open up.
With this shady bitch, the drag family resemblance
is crystal clear.
The shade of it all.
- [laughs]
- The shade.
[upbeat music]
- Ay!
These Pit Crew dancers perform with the queens in Vegas.
They know how we work. They know how we talk.
They know how we kiki.
But they don't know what it's like to walk in our shoes.
- How ugly is it?
- Watch out, Bambi's coming.
- No, don't say that, please.
We should do a-- we should do a walk-off.
5, 6, 7, 8.
- Miguel, there's something over there.
- All right, walk back.
Give shade. Give shade.
Hands on your hips.
- Look up and down.
- [shrieks]
- Wow.
- Now, look up.
- Oh, I don't know about that.
She got that--are you gonna teach her how to slewfoot?
[laughter]
- Both Mark and I are slewfoot.
So I have to teach her how to walk in these heels.
Now, your turn.
- Oh.
Miss Mama.
- Hi.
- She's a queen.
She's a queen.
- She said, oh, you mean me?
This right here?
Bitch, hold up.
- Girl, tell me how Miss Sebastian walks 1,000 times
better in heels than Q does?
Bitch, you better hope your daughter does not eat you up.
- Ooh.
- 1, 2, 3.
- Give me a little ass action and me being like--
yeah.
- Absolutely.
- Mm-hmm. OK.
- Mwah.
This week's Maxi Challenge, we're gonna do
a glamorous drag makeover on these dancers
from RuPaul's Drag Race Live.
Drag is a transformation, so it's tucking.
- Right.
Yes, the anatomy of it all.
- These are your balls.
- What?
- And these are your ball sacks.
I know my way around transforming men into women.
This is how tucking works in case you didn't know.
Because that is a big part of drag,
and you will have to do it.
- Wow.
- OK, so hold this.
- Hold my balls.
- And these are the, you know, the thingy.
- Yeah. Yeah.
- Nymphia, what is that?
- An education in tucking.
- Pull up a chair.
- OK, let's go.
- Class is happening.
- That's how I--
I think that--is that what yours looks like?
- OK.
So basically this is, you know, your thingy-thingy.
And this is your ball sack.
And what you do is you squeeze the ball, literally like this,
into a little empty hole inside here.
[quirky music]
And then, you just squeeze both of them together.
And then what you do is you take
this thing, along with the empty balls,
and then tape it back together.
- Girl, the way that Nymphia tucks
is just a recipe for disaster-- just meat everywhere.
- So you grab the tape.
And then, you go like this with the balls.
- You wrap the whole-- - I'm sorry, what?
- No, she's-- - No, you do.
You do. That's what I do.
- You actually do? Ew!
- Why is everyone scared? This is how you tuck.
You wrap the ball sack with the--with the peen.
And then you get tape, and then you go like that.
My way of tucking will ensure that no piece of ball-age
will come out of any of the sides.
- I think for newer people, you could just
use the tucking padding.
- Hey, showgirls.
- Hey!
- Where are the nickel slots?
- What you call me?
- Uh-huh.
[laughter]
All right, Sapphira and Mark.
- Hi. - Hello.
- Hi.
Have you put people in drag before?
- I have. I have 11 drag children.
- You do? - Yes.
- Do you know who they fathers is?
- Not a single one.
- [laughs]
How do you feel going into this challenge?
- I feel pretty strong.
I have a pretty solid concept.
- I see you have a-- what do they call it?
A stalactite, is it?
That's a crystal. - A geode.
- It's a geode.
So is that the story you're going with--
a geode storyline?
- This is my new baby.
- Uh-huh.
- She just came out of the Cristál family.
- OK.
Yeah, OK.
Have you come up with a name yet?
- Hyacinth Cristál.
- Hyacinth?
What do you call him for short? 'Cause I can't say Hyacinth.
- Just say Cinthy. - Who?
- Cinthy. - Cinthy?
- Yeah. - Is that not it?
- Hy--so if you're Sapphira--
see, why didn't you call her Sequoia
or why didn't you call her Shakira?
- [laughs]
You know what? You're brilliant.
If Mama gives you a hint, take the hint.
So we're gonna go with Shakira Cristál.
My favorite thing that someone's ever called me
was Sa'Forest Whitaker.
[laughter]
- So I see some crazy hair up in here.
- Mm-hmm.
- This reminds me of "To Wong Foo."
And that was the movie I watched
with my grandma growing up.
She introduced me to that. - You're kidding.
- She probably introduced me to the most
gay things in my life--
Cher, Golden Girls, Barbra Streisand.
- I love your grandmother.
- Me too.
- What's her name?
- Shirley.
- In what city is she?
- She's in San Diego.
- And what was it like growing up queer in San Diego?
- I didn't come out until college.
- With that bone structure?
I mean, that bone structure is a dead giveaway.
[laughter]
- I mean, my friends might have already known.
- I'm sorry. I'm for real.
- I--well--
- I mean, I saw you.
I was like, ooh, what a pretty lady.
- No, you are a very pretty man.
- Thank you. - Yes.
- Thank you.
- And you're gonna be a real pretty lady.
- Hopefully. - All right.
Well, kids, I cannot wait to see how this turns out.
- Me neither. - Same.
both: Thank you.
- All right, Nymphia, Jonathan, come on over.
Hello.
- Hello.
- So, Jonathan, you work in the dance...
- Yes.
- In the Las Vegas show.
And you are indeed straight.
- Yep.
- Now, this is a twist for you.
Have you ever done drag before?
- Nope.
I dressed up as Tinker Bell for Halloween,
and that's about it.
- And that's about it? OK.
All right, have you come up with a drag name?
- Back home they call me Juanita as a joke.
- Oh, Juanita Wind-- I like that.
- Yeah.
- Juanita Wind.
- Yeah, I like it.
- I need a wind.
I need a win. - I need a win.
- Juanita Wind.
- Oh, my goodness, it's a sort of prophecy.
- We found her name. - Yeah.
- Whoo-hoo!
- [laughs]
So, Jonathan, how long you been dancing?
- I started when I was 14.
- And what made you decide to become a dancer?
- I was pushed into it by my mother.
- You're kidding. Is she a dancer?
- No. I was a sports guy.
I used to do sports.
And one summer, I wasn't doing anything at all.
My mother being very Puerto Rican, she said,
well, you're not gonna be bumming around the house.
So I signed you up for cheerleading and dance camp.
- Wow.
- I got there and I was mortified.
But in two days, I fell in love with it
and then decided to make a career out of it.
So thanks, Mom.
- I love it.
Now, you were praised last week and every week
for your runway looks.
What do you have planned for Jonathan's look?
- So for Jonathan's look, I'm putting him
in this lilac bird fantasy.
So we're basically two birds.
Birds of a feather flock together.
- Uh-huh.
- So we're a bird family, basically.
- That sounds fantastic.
You're not allergic to feathers, are you?
- We'll find out. - [laughs]
- I'm very excited.
I just to have some fun.
- Yeah, that's it.
That's the key right there.
I cannot wait to see and meet Miss Juanita Wind.
- Thank you, Ru. - Thank you, Ru.
- All right, thank you.
All right, Morphine and Miguel.
Hi.
- Hello.
- All right, Morphine, you're known for your butt.
- Yeah.
- Will Miguel also be showing butt?
- Mama, she's gonna be bodied.
She's gonna show her ass.
And she's gonna have a great time.
- OK, good.
Now, you have been in the bottom
the last two weeks, I believe.
- Yeah.
I told him I won the last two challenges,
so maybe we should continue with that narrative.
- [laughing] - Yeah.
- So how are you gonna make this a challenge
that you excel at?
- I mean, I'm a dancer. He's a dancer.
He's gorgeous. I'm gorgeous.
- And you're a makeup artist.
- Yeah.
So this might be my challenge, and...
- This is the time. This is your time.
- Bitch, to come--yeah.
And to be in the bottom and to get a win would
shake the girls up, bitch.
You know, I'm excited.
- All right, well, thank you all so much.
I can't wait to see how it all turns out.
- Thank you. Thank you.
- All right, Q and Sebastian, come on over.
- We're coming. We're coming.
- Why do you think Sister Fate
placed you and Sebastian together?
- Maybe we could just, like, bring
a little bit more out of each other.
He's a very strong dancer, and I am not.
And you know, I'm like,
a very loud bitch, and he's not.
So maybe we're here to, like, help
bring that out of each other.
- Q, when's the last time you put someone in drag?
- It's been a while.
I don't think I'm as strong as a makeup artist
as like, Morphine.
But I have a very strong concept,
so I'm really excited to show.
- So what's your game plan here?
'Cause this is partly a design challenge.
- Yeah.
My game plan is just to really, like, bring out
the fun, shady personality in Sebastian here.
- Are you known as a queen who reads the other queens?
- Yeah.
I love to, like, shade and be funny.
It's, like, part of my drag family
and just, like, the whole kiki of that.
My drag family is the Haus of Couture in Kansas City.
We like to cut up and read the best of them,
but it's all in fun.
- Sebastian, because you are on the shyer side,
a real monster is going to emerge.
- I can already see it coming from under the bed.
- Yes, a real monster is going to emerge.
All right, thank you, kids.
- Thank you, Ru.
- Plane Jane and Nick, why do you think the universe
has placed you two together?
- There was mayonnaise
and white rice in the air.
- A little bit of tuna casserole?
- Just a little bit, yeah.
- Because not only have you pursued your dream
as a dancer, but here you are pursuing
your wild dream of doing drag.
Have you done it before?
- Not really.
Last Halloween, I went as a slutty schoolgirl.
- Oh.
- But I've never been in full drag.
- So, Nick, you've been in the Drag Race Live show
in Las Vegas for many years now.
It's interesting watching you and listening to you talk now.
- I know I'm very timid and, like, quiet.
But when I get on stage, I feel like I'm very different.
- I've seen you on stage.
And you are very different.
Imagine what it's gonna be like in full drag.
- I'm going to really turn Nick out.
You know, I'm gonna make her into a woman.
- The body, the titties--
no couch is safe around Plane Jane.
- Don't expose me like that, Ru.
- [laughs]
Now, if you're Plane Jane, let me guess, Plane Yogurt?
What are you?
- I have bestowed her with the name Lazi Susan.
- [laughing]
- [laughs]
- [laughing]
- Yes, my sweet, sweet Lazi.
- [laughing]
I love that name. It's great.
Lazi Susan.
[laughing]
- Plane and Sapphira have the most wins
in the competition.
And going forward, I really need
to even the playing field if I want the judges
to see me as a true contender for the crown.
- OK.
[laughing]
[upbeat music]
- All right, so take a look at our stage.
- Wow.
- Yes.
You are here to fucking eat.
It's time to come up with some show-stopping choreo
to wow the judges.
I am going to let Miss Lazi Susan
take a lead on the choreo because she is
a trained dancer.
- She's popped in.
- Ooh, so like, a pump, pump.
- And then, even if we just do it like--
- Yeah.
- Something like that.
- OK, so I'm jumping with my right, landing with my left.
Wait, fuck. OK, wait.
Which foot do I jump with again?
There have been some moments in this competition
where you could see me kind of counting steps in my head,
so I need to nail these moves down.
I'm gonna practice, practice, practice.
I'm not gonna let my sister down.
I got my work cut out for me, don't I?
- So I was thinking doing steps that maybe are, like,
kind of like, "Thriller-esque."
- Just make sure your arms are monster-y but still have,
like, some type of movement.
Just have that--to it.
And then, out and out.
- Ultimately, Ru just wants to have a good time.
And I guarantee you, we're gonna look sickening
and have fun going down this runway.
- Oh, shit.
- [laughing]
Don't be doing this to me.
[laughs]
- I want to put some stuff together
so we can bring Latina flavor that we have inside.
- That makes me so happy to hear Latina flavor.
- What about like, hey, here, ba, ba, ba, throw it,
turn it, boom, salsa.
Spot.
- What?
Of course, the one dance that he wants to do is salsa.
I don't know how to do salsa.
- 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, cha, cha, cha.
And 1, 2--
- For some reason, it's not gluing to my brain.
- Let's try this if it's better.
- I need to slay this really hard.
- Taka, taka, ta!
- As hard as his rock-solid abs.
[shrieks]
No.
Whoo!
- We'll be doing none of that for this, girl.
- I feel like you want to do like, birdy sharp movements.
I feel like-- - Should we do this?
[clucking]
- Not the Chicken Dance.
We want to win this thing.
- You know, I'm inputting my vision
for this little dance.
I'm the brains.
And Juanita is the body.
Are we sexy birds?
- Ooh.
- Are we Magic Mike-ing this?
- Now, I need to see if I can dance in this dress.
- OK.
- My dress is hard to move in.
I'm carrying around 60 to 80 pounds
of stones on my body right now.
- We might have to do like a little Electric Slide moment.
- I can barely even do the Electric Slide.
You know what? - Uh-huh.
- I love this dress,
but it does not seem to love me.
I'm gonna get out of it.
And we are gon' dance.
- OK.
- OK?
We're gonna figure something else out.
I'm not wearing that damn dress.
I'm gonna put this dress to the side.
And we're gonna figure out some choreography.
So just watch me. - All right.
- Kick, ball change.
Kick, ball change.
I'm really trying not to stress Shakira out.
She is doing a lot of things for the first time today.
And she doesn't need anything but good energy.
Kick it out.
Twerk it. Twerk it.
But I'm starting to get a little worried.
I have just decided to scrap my dress.
And I am thinking about, what am I even gonna wear?
What is she gonna wear?
What is even the concept of this?
What is I'm gonna do?
[dramatic music]
What is I'm gonna do?
[upbeat music]
- We get to watch again.
- Rawr.
- It's runway day.
And it's time to put our daughters in drag.
Ah!
I'm such a princess.
[giggles]
- OK, Mama, first things first.
Before we can even start the makeup,
we're gonna have to get rid of all the fur.
There's a rug.
There's an Amazon rainforest jungle of hair.
- Wow, bitch, you have a lot of hair.
Girl, I feel like I'm at a salon, Mama.
I see hair flying everywhere.
[shrieks]
- Just kidding.
- Don't do that!
- We have a difficult task ahead of us today.
We have two faces to paint, so I'm just hoping
I can keep my time management on check.
We have to shave your brows too.
- No.
- Can we block them?
- Yeah, we're gonna block them.
- As long as they're not oatmeal-y.
- Yeah, Plane's are usually oatmeal-y.
- Oh, they are?
- Huh?
- I'm saying your eyebrows are usually oatmeal-y.
[laughs]
- You're so annoying.
- Look this way.
- OK.
- We are scrambling here at the House of Cristál.
I had to let go of my original geode concept
and make some different decisions.
The dress didn't work out, so the plan has changed.
You'll be wearing this.
- OK.
- And I'll be wearing this.
- Oh.
I was able to pull one of my own pieces that I had here.
And Plane had something that was matching.
She let me borrow it.
I have a lot more to work on.
Now I have to make some gloves so that we really
bring this look to cohesion.
- Are you ready to become Latina?
- Yeah.
- Latina.
Here we go.
- So how does it feel, like, with all this?
- It's uncomfortable.
My eyelids are weighed down.
- Yeah.
No, it's gonna be weird.
I'm feeling really great about this makeover.
I have the most out-of-the-box concept out of everybody.
It's definitely not a regular drag queen beat.
I swing big and I take risks.
- I just feel like you keep piling--
[chuckles] piling more stuff.
- Mama, welcome to drag.
- What in the gay mime is going on here, bitch?
What? What?
[upbeat music]
- I'm going crazy.
- Did you, like, self-teach how to do makeup?
- I watched YouTube videos and just figured it out by myself.
- So it was, like, a lot of trial and error, I'm assuming?
- For sure.
I used to look so ugly.
- Just a bit of self-criticism, you know.
- Yeah. - I feel like--
- I'm all about the self-criticism.
- Yeah.
- You know, the balance of being self-confident
and self-criticizing.
- Oh, God, it's such a thin line, isn't it?
- Like, I am just really towards
the self-doubting rather than the self-confident.
- I kind of got that about you.
- It's like, what is wrong with me?
Like, why am I standing in the way of myself?
I've always had, you know, I just feel like
I'm kind of, like, the oddball in a group,
and always feeling like I'm kind of
weird and hard to understand.
Like it's hard for people to really understand
or get me or how I'm feeling.
And they always just assume that I'm--oh,
she's just, you know, living her life
in her little world and just--
but, like, I have all these bottled up emotions.
There are many times in this competition
where I was riddled with self-doubt.
And I do low-key have a split personality.
The self-doubt of me and the confident in me
are both real.
It's like, looking at all of these girls,
they're all so confident and so sure of themselves.
It's is so hard to keep up, I feel like.
I don't usually share that easily, my emotion.
And in this moment, somehow it's just bubbling out.
- Sometimes we stand in the way of our own greatness.
You are so talented and so great.
And you wouldn't be here if you weren't.
- Talking with Juanita is kind of a blessing.
Because, you know, I feel like I really needed this release.
- It's OK.
- Now that I've stopped crying,
there's a face ready to be beautiful.
So I gotta focus on that.
- Did you, like, go to, like, a dance--
- No, I actually went to college
originally for engineering.
- How did you end up getting out of engineering
and started pursuing dance?
- I've been dancing, like, my entire childhood and loved it.
It was the world to me.
I just didn't think it was a possible career for me.
I guess my plan was I was gonna go to school
for engineering, get a good job,
and be alone my entire life and...
- Why alone? - Be closeted my entire life.
- Oh.
- I was so adamant on, like, this can't be a thing.
You know what I mean?
Sophomore year of college, I actually got hit by a car
when I was biking home from a class.
- Oh, damn.
- And shortly after that, I was just kind of like,
life is so fucking short.
- Mm-hmm.
- I love to dance.
And I need to follow my dreams.
And shortly after that, I pretty much
came out of the closet.
I sat down with my parents, and they were fully supportive
of me pursuing my dreams.
They just asked that I finish my degree.
And I was like, yeah, I will absolutely
do that for you guys.
- I actually--I do connect a lot with your story.
Like, I literally quit ballroom dance because somebody
told me that it was gay.
You know, I was closeted.
You know, I went to college.
And like, being closeted,
it like, really weighs heavily on you.
It like, affects really every part of your life.
I didn't want to disappoint my family.
- Same. - I was scared.
But ultimately, I found the courage
to come out to my parents.
I didn't embrace being gay
until I started cross-dressing.
So my entry into, like, the gay world
was really just through drag.
We came to a compromise.
You know, I could continue essentially doing drag
if I finished my education.
And now I'm finishing a degree in marketing.
I have now been doing both school and drag
in tandem with one another.
I'm pursuing my fever dream of being
a silly clown drag queen diva.
- It's crazy what you can do
when you truly do what you want to do...
- Exactly. - And live your fucking life.
- Exactly. Exactly.
The chemistry between myself and Ms. Lazi Susan
is fantastic.
And our connection and family bond is just
growing stronger and stronger.
And I feel like, if anything, this is
gonna help us bring that family connection out
in terms of our makeover.
- Look at this beautiful face.
- Oh, my God. - See?
I see it.
I see a woman.
- It's just the base, honey. - Morphine.
- Yeah?
- It's your theme the Beauty and the Beast?
- [screams]
- I'm just wondering.
Oh, my God, it was just a question.
[laughter]
- I keep hearing this bitch talk.
I keep hearing her talk,
and I'm loving every second of it.
Are you guys mimes?
- Yeah.
- You're not supposed to talk, so shush.
- We're gonna mime our way to the top.
- Ooh.
- Somewhere you've never been.
- [shrieks]
[laughter]
First of all, fuck you, hoes.
But I love it because one thing I love doing
is reading a bitch down.
And I love when bitches read me.
And I think Miss Luna is an internal drag queen.
Let me tell you something, little girl.
- Stay back, bitch.
- Let me tell you something, little girl.
Hold me back. Hold me back.
[laughter]
Oh, we're so close to the top four, bitch.
Anyone could be placed in the bottom.
Anyone could get a win.
And I'm still gunning for that top four placement.
[RuPaul's "Cover Girl"]
- [laughing]
[singing] Cover girl, put the bass in your walk
Head to toe, let your whole body talk
- Wow. - Yes.
- Look at them legs.
- Welcome to the main stage of "RuPaul's Drag Race."
She's a Vegas showgirl at heart, Michelle Visage.
- Oh, Ru, that's so sweet.
You think I have a heart.
- [laughs]
- Thank you.
- It's the doll that's got it all, Ts Madison.
Now, have you ever gotten lucky in Vegas?
- Now, Ru, you know I don't gamble.
But yes, yes, I've been very, very lucky.
- See, darling, you are a whore.
- [gasps]
- [laughs]
- And her country breakfast is always ready--
the fabulous Kelsea Ballerini.
- Thank you for having me.
I'm so excited to be here.
- Welcome.
This week, we challenged our queens
to transform our Vegas Pit Crew dancers
into sexy, sexy drag queens.
Tonight on the runway the category is
Drag Family Resemblance.
Racers, start your engines,
and may the best drag queen win.
[upbeat music]
The category is Drag Family Resemblance.
Up first, Q and Luna.
- It's the furries.
- Oh, I see the circus is in town.
- We were having so much fun as these
mischievous little monsters.
And then we start, like, "Thriller-ing"
down the runway.
It is eclectic and animated.
And I don't know if this is how she expected to go down
the runway, but I can tell that
she's absolutely living for it.
It is, like, so playful and, like, fun,
and exactly what I wanted this challenge to be.
- I think we found where the wild things are.
- Mm-hmm.
- Talk about a one-eyed monster.
- [laughs]
Morphine and La Tina.
- Ooh.
- Like mother, like daughter--whores.
[laughter]
- [speaking Spanish]
- Yeah.
- I think the look turned out great.
La Tina is feeling her oats.
She's doing these moves and, like, posing.
And I'm like, oh, my God,
like, she became a Love Dion today.
She's giving ass.
She's giving legs.
She's giving body.
She's a little muscular.
She's a bodybuilder Barbie.
- I hate to see 'em go, love to watch 'em leave.
[laughter]
- Nymphia and Juanita.
- Two flew over the cuckoo's nest.
[laughter]
- It's time for us to soar through
the runway 'cause we're such beautiful birds.
We have this gorgeous feather bodysuit corset that just
makes us so avian and birdie.
And I believe that Juanita is flying, catching that wind,
spreading her wings, soaring through the sky.
For a straight man, that was really good.
- Oh, get plucked.
- [laughs]
- Sapphira and Shakira.
[laughter]
- Orange alert, baby.
Mother and daughter are stomping the runway.
Baby, get over here.
Now walk here.
Turn around and smile.
She's got this showgirl look.
And I've got this mama of the showgirl look.
We had a time getting these looks together.
But right now, we are rocking these orange fantasies.
She is living right now.
I feel wonderful with Shakira.
And we are tearing the runway down.
- Shakira's hips don't just lie.
They're pathological.
- Uh-huh.
- Plane Jane and Lazi Susan.
- [laughs]
Susan don't look so lazy to me.
- Uh-uh.
- Mama, when we hit the runway, we attack.
We pummel.
We serve.
She's not just trying to sell the fantasy.
She is living the fantasy, honey.
We're looking like Bumblebee from the Transformers.
40-inch pigtails, honey, my signature Plane Jane
pads that really brought her hips out in full-on,
you know, Plane Jane resting bitch face.
I have created a true drag queen.
- What you gonna do with all that ass?
- [laughs]
- I'd take that Lazi Susan for a spin.
[laughter]
- Welcome, queens.
Now, before we go to the judges,
I want to see you shake what your mama gave you
in an extra special performance of "Super Queen."
Hit it.
[RuPaul's "Super Queen"]
- [singing] She poppin', she dippin'
She spinnin'
She droppin' she flippin', she winnin'
She's a super queen
- OK. - Yeah!
- [singing] She's a super queen
She's a super queen
- We have a little mess-up with the skirt.
But that bitch keeps it moving because she's a professional.
- [singing] She's a
She's a
She's a super queen
She's a
Super queen
Super queen, super queen
Super queen
Super queen, super queen
Super queen
She's a super queen
- Whoo!
- [singing] She's a super queen
She's a super queen
[applause] [laughs]
- Whoo!
- Wow, that was fantastic.
[upbeat music]
Now it's time for the judges' critiques.
First up, Q.
Now, this is Sebastian before.
And this is Luna.
Mm, mm.
- You all look adorable.
This is very Q.
- When you guys came out on stage
I was like, oh, my goodness.
I live for chaos.
And I was like, there's so much to take in here.
And that's what I love.
- You have to look like you resemble each other,
but you have to have a chemistry on the stage.
And again, Q, I know that these are dancers.
Did you choreograph it?
- A little bit, yeah.
- Well, it worked.
You know, the things that you were doing,
the little "Thriller" moves, they worked for Q.
- I know that Sebastian is a little timid,
but Luna is not timid at all.
- Actually, she's probably the shadiest girl
on this stage right now.
- When you saw yourself
in the mirror for the first time,
what emerged immediately?
- Some type of like, confidence and just
making me feel comfortable and not
getting out of that timid shell that I am as Sebastian.
- Well, thank you. - Thank you.
- Up next, Morphine.
Now, this is Miguel before.
And this is La Tina.
- Your chemistry was wonderful.
You turned La Tina's face out.
I was like, oh, I'm having a sapphic moment tonight.
And I saw you struggling, La Tina, with the skirt.
You know, the show must go on, and you pushed through.
So I thought, good for you for doing that.
Where you lose me is the look.
I think the look is a little simple.
And I think she needs more than that.
- You are more broad here at the top.
The key is camouflage.
I would have liked to have seen a boa or something
around her shoulders.
- And you need to balance those arms with more hair.
- Feminize her.
Because, baby, that ass she got back there
ain't nothing to be tampered with.
Where did you get all that ass from?
- It's a Puerto Rican ass, baby.
- Oh, Rican, honey, Rican.
- I'm a Puerto Rican.
- Ooh. Yes.
- Miguel, what do you think emerged from your personality?
- She brings the bitch side of myself.
I'm a bitchy...
[speaking Spanish]
- Oh. - I like it.
- Well, thank you very much.
- Thank you.
- Up next, Nymphia Wind.
Now, this is Jonathan before.
And this is Juanita Wind.
- Performance is all about self-expression.
It's all about connection.
Watching you made me feel so much joy.
- This was very, very cute.
Family resemblance?
Yeah, I'll buy it.
It makes sense.
- But I haven't had the opportunity to see you
outside of yellow because I haven't
been here every single week.
I would have loved to see you wear what she has on.
The creation, this is your daughter.
I really would have loved to see you look at yourself.
- Did you consider switching the colors?
- No, I just wanted to wear the yellow.
I'm sorry.
I will not apologize for it.
- And of course, it naturally takes care
of the tucking business 'cause it's all covered up.
Did you still tuck for the hell of it?
- I did.
- Well, for the sisterhood,
one must tuck.
Exactly, and what was your first thought
when you turned around and looked in the mirror?
- I actually out loud, I said, "I would."
- Did you?
- Not yet.
- Good answer.
- Well, honey, the night is young.
- And so am I.
[laughter]
- Up next, Sapphira.
Now, this is Mark before.
And this is Shakira.
[laughs]
- Sapphira, I'm happy the dancing biscuits are back.
I loved your performance.
I felt like you were in the choreo.
- You guys had a beautiful synergy and energy together.
- My issue is the family resemblance.
- The colors are together, but the outfits are different.
So it is telling a completely different story.
Ms. Shakira ate you up in the outfit.
It's no shade.
- Honestly, this was not my first choice.
I did not bring something that was danceable--
oh, at all.
And so I had to pivot.
- This challenge in particular,
you do have to have a family resemblance.
And you kind of can't talk your way out of it.
And it's not there.
- How do you feel, Shakira?
- Me? [chuckles]
I feel like the last couple days
have really been, like, a lesson for me.
I learned it's not gonna be perfect, but it can be fun.
- Ultimately, it is what it is.
- Yeah. - Diana Ross was in "The Wiz."
- Mm-hmm.
- But you just gotta let go and go with the flow.
- Well, thank you.
Up next, Plane Jane.
Now, this is Nick before.
And this is Lazi Susan.
[laughing]
- Ain't nothin' plain about your Jane.
You hear me?
And ain't nothin' lazy about that Susan.
- Nope. - OK?
Her cunt and pussy was on fire.
- [laughs]
- When y'all rounded the corner,
it was like the power just hit us in the face--
palpable.
- I loved the choreography.
What I love most is that ass on Lazi Susan.
- [laughing]
- Damn!
But my favorite thing besides that ass, Lazi,
is your stink-ass face that you were, like, mean-mugging
through the whole thing.
Today, a monster was born.
- [laughs]
- Completely family-- sisters, whatever.
Plane, you let Lazi Susan shine.
- We kind of have--have had similar journeys in life.
We've spent so long, you know, trying
to conceal that part of us that wants to be femme,
and be fierce, and be free.
I'm so, so happy that I was able to help my sister
let it out tonight on stage.
- And Nick, is there anything you'd like to say
to the queens back at Drag Race Live?
- Oh.
- [laughing]
- Monster.
- A monster is born.
Where's my contract?
[laughter]
- Very nice.
Thank you, queens.
I think we've heard enough.
While you untuck backstage,
the judges and I will deliberate.
[suspenseful music]
All right.
Now, just between us squirrel friends,
what do you think?
Let's start with Q.
- She and Luna did something completely
off the rails and different.
She did something smart.
- Q really played to her strengths.
And I wouldn't have known that she was not a great dancer.
- Q went for the absurd.
It stood out.
Morphine.
- I think Morphine played it just a little safe.
I wanted more.
I wanted more drama.
I wanted more hair.
Should I say more again?
Let me say more again.
- [laughs] No, I agree.
I think that she needed to do a lot more proportion-izing.
- Mm-hmm.
- Nymphia Wind.
- It is a very nod to their showgirl, you know,
partners that they have with all the feathers.
- The showgirl look was great.
The beaks were great.
The dancing was nice.
However, I've only seen her in yellow.
That is the only critique that I have.
- But I didn't mind it because "RuPaul's Drag Race"
is a big part about branding.
So when she leaves here, she's gonna get all the yellow
deals that she wants. - Sapphira.
- Listen.
This was a big drop tonight for Sapphira.
She was giving us Shirley Temple,
and the other one was giving us Latin ballroom competition.
She didn't look bad.
She just looked totally different to her daughter,
sister, cousin, friend.
Whatever she is, the family resemblance was not.
- Sapphira and Shakira, to me, had the least
amount of connection.
- All right, Plane Jane.
- Plane Jane just got it for me.
And they both ate it up.
- They looked great.
They danced great.
- The family resemblance was phenomenal.
Because the transformation, not just physically,
but the energy and the fierceness in her eyes
was mesmerizing. - Yes.
- And of course, it goes without saying, that ass.
- Mm. - [laughs]
- That ass spoke volumes to me.
- Silence.
I've made my decision.
Bring back my girls.
[dramatic music]
Welcome back, queens.
I've made some decisions.
Q, you turned Luna into a real party monster.
And we were over the moon.
Nymphia, you proved that birds of a feather are sluts.
[laughter]
Plane Jane, you served ham hocks on a Lazi Susan.
[laughter]
And it was finger-licking good.
- [laughs]
Plane Jane, condragulations.
You are the winner of this week's challenge.
[cheering]
- Let's go, Lazi Susan.
- Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
- You've won a cash prize of $5,000 courtesy of Monopoly,
"RuPaul's Drag Race" edition.
- I just want my fourth challenge!
I am in shock.
I'm in disbelief.
But at the same time, I am in belief.
- And your sister, Lazi Susan,
will also receive a cash prize of $5,000.
- [gasps] - Bitch.
- For that ass.
[laughter]
And as a token of our appreciation,
all of our dancers will receive a tip of $1,000.
[cheers and applause]
You three may step to the back of the stage.
- Thank you. - Thank you.
- Thank you, Mama.
- That means, Morphine and Sapphira,
I'm sorry, my dears,
but you are both up for elimination.
- This is my first time ever in the bottom,
but I already have the victory.
It is already done.
It is written.
And it shall be.
- Two queens stand before me.
Prior to tonight, you were asked
to prepare a lip-sync performance of "Miss Me More"
by Kelsea Ballerini.
Ladies, this is your last chance to impress me
and save yourself from elimination.
[dramatic music]
The time has come for you
to lip-synch for your life.
- Girl, my heart is pounding.
This is my fourth lip sync.
I don't care about my track record.
I want to make that damn top 4, bitch.
- Good luck, and don't fuck it up.
[Kelsea Ballerini's "Miss Me More"]
- [singing] I retired my red lipstick
'Cause you said you didn't like it
I didn't wear my high heeled shoes
'Cause I couldn't be taller than you
I didn't want to lose my friends
But now it's hard to even find 'em
It's what you wanted, ain't it
It's what you wanted
I thought I'd miss you when it ended
I thought it'd hurt me
- You know, I noticed Sapphira trying to go a little bit more
of like, a--
no, baby, I'm here to actually entertain the masses.
- [singing] But I miss me more
I miss my own beat to my own snare drum
I miss me more
I miss my own sheets in the bed I made up
I forgot I had dreams
I forgot I had wings
I forgot who I was before I ever kissed you
Yeah, I thought I'd miss you
But I miss me more
- I'm not worried, like, at all.
I'm annihilating this lip sync.
[laughter]
- [singing] I thought I'd miss you
I thought it'd hurt me, and I'd want to kiss you
I thought I'd miss you, but I miss me more
I miss my own beat to my own snare drum
I miss me more
I miss my own sheets in the bed I made up
- I'm secretly rooting for Morphine
to just...[pops lips]
Sapphira out of the competition.
Please.
- [singing] And I thought I'd miss you
But I miss me more
I miss me more
[cheers and applause]
- That's Mom.
- I hope they both stay.
- Ladies, I've made my decision.
[suspenseful music]
Sapphira, shantay, you stay.
- Thank you.
- You may join the other girls.
I love you.
- Morphine, my queen, you are a hard habit to break.
Now, sashay away.
- Thank you so much for this opportunity.
It's been an absolute blessing.
And I hope I made my city proud.
- Thank you.
- We love you, Morphine. - We love you, Morphine.
- We love you.
- Well, shout out to everybody.
I had fun.
Now I can't wait to book my second BBL surgery.
Ow!
[laughter]
How rotted.
I cannot believe I went home with
the makeover challenge, bitch.
You know, I expected to go all the way to the final four.
But you know, I made it really, really far.
And I'm just really proud of myself.
[speaking Spanish]
Love you.
- My top four queens, condragulations.
And remember, if you can't love yourself,
how the hell are you gonna love somebody else?
Can I get an amen up in here?
all: 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"...
For your final Maxi Challenge,
I want you to write memoirs.
Now, this is for your book cover.
- A photo shoot with Mother?
Dream.
- Put this here.
Chin down but long neck.
Lift one leg.
Relax into this pose.
- I was riveted.
- I needed to hear you.
And I didn't get that.
- We're hoping it's gonna be a top four,
but you never know with "Drag Race."
[dramatic music]
- I've made my decision.
- [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 when you up and say
Everybody say love, love, love, love, love
Love, love, love, love, love
Love, can you feel the love