- [singing] MTV
- I've been nice to everybody in this competition.
And today, I will stand my ground.
- No fucking class or decorum, honey.
- Are you serious? - Oop, oop, oop!
- I'm fucking pissed. - Say the name!
- This is "Untucked," backstage at the competition
to become America's Next Drag Superstar.
Girl, if you're not watching "Untucked,"
you're only getting half the story.
- Five minutes to the main stage.
- Queens walking.
Prep "Untucked" cameras on the main stage.
- Rolling, rolling.
- Thank you, ladies.
I think you've heard enough from us.
Now it's time for each of you
to rate your competitors, top to bottom.
Now you may leave the stage.
[tense music]
- [laughs]
With Rate-a-Queen, I feel fine
giving ratings to the other girls
because I feel like I'm very fair.
But I fear a little bit being rated
because I have no idea if these girls are gonna
appreciate the talent show piece that I put together.
Like, it's not something
that the everyday drag queen might appreciate.
So I'm a little bit nervous.
- I think I did very good.
I have a lot of talent, and I have a lot of layers.
And I'm just hoping that I was nice enough
for them to vote me in the top and not be shady
and place me in the bottom.
[laughs]
- Repo "Untucked" cameras.
- Send the queens in three, two, one.
- [gasps] Yes. - Girl.
Yeah, give me that alcohol. All right.
Enough of this standing up shit.
- Yeah.
- It's my first "Untucked."
And I'm very excited.
Not only are we back in the "Untucked" lounge,
but I'm very excited to have a little beverage.
This is still only the first week.
And this challenge is going to set the precedent
for the rest of the competition.
It's going to show all of us who to really be watching.
- Would it make anyone uncomfortable
if my tits were out?
Oh! There it goes.
- How's everybody feeling?
- Wait, does everybody have their drink open?
- [grunts]
- Well, I just wanted to propose a little toast.
We may have walked in second,
but, diva, look at everyone here.
I think that we're placing first.
Like, this is drag excellence. - We are.
- Here's to season 16, the B team.
[laughter] - B team.
- Is everybody, like, feeling more comfortable
now that we've done everything and we got--
- Yeah.
I mean, like, it was kind of surreal being on the runway.
I wish I could have seen it.
- Oh, because your lenses.
[laughter]
- The whole time, I'm like, follow the light.
Follow the light on the floor.
Don't let me go falling off the stage now.
- Plane Jane, how does it feel to be, like,
the stupidest queen on cast B?
- You know, I am the dumbest bitch in the world,
and I love it.
all: Yeah. - I was dying.
Like, what the hell?
- It was the mustard and ketchup at the end for me
because they would not stop coming out of bottle.
- Yeah, yeah. [laughs]
- I wanted it to last forever, you know?
I wanted to just, like, keep looking
at that camera and just-- - We could feel that.
- It felt like it.
- It was the sound of it hitting the floor,
bouncing off your tits.
- [gagging] - It was like--
[mimicking squirting]
- And that last drop--
- We were all just, like, sitting there, like--
- I was like, mustard? - Yeah.
I was like, I don't feel so good.
[laughter]
- That was truly, like,
a dream come true moment for me,
you know, having Ru, like, live for my idiocy
and stupidity and, you know, my titties and--
- And your burger finger. - My burger finger.
- I've never heard those two words,
"burger finger," together before.
And I am living for it.
- Oh, my gosh.
- They can do whatever they want in Congress
and all their little thing.
We have burger finger.
[laughter]
- Cheers to burger finger. - Burger finger!
- Ahh! - To burger finger.
- Coming--coming soon. [laughter]
- All right, Miss Mhi'ya,
are you genuinely physically OK?
- Yeah. - OK, good.
[laughter]
No, no-- - Are you mad?
- That was shade. - That was not me being--
- That was shade. - Yeah, no, no, no.
That wasn't shade at all.
- The headstand, bitch? - Oh.
That was fucking fierce.
- Yeah. I don't even know.
I couldn't even describe to you
how you got up on that box.
I just saw your limbs flailing.
And all of a sudden, you were up.
- So for me, like, for the talent, I was comfortable.
I was confident and energised and feeling it.
But when it came to the runway look,
like, it all went down.
You know, coming from where I'm from in Miami,
you like to give the whole glamour look.
And I just kind of feel like I'm in a incomplete outfit.
- You still looked good. - Thank you.
But I'm going to redeem myself definitely.
- Yeah.
- I felt the same way.
This was not my first choice.
It was supposed to be like a candy wrapper.
But I tried to make it all in the hotel.
I ran out of fabric, so I tried to--
I said, maybe I'll cut it in half
and, like, make it a little
Hershey's Kiss type of situation.
But then I would have to, like, squat
and like, do this onto the runway.
And I'm like-- - I mean, that'd be so good.
- But I felt complete--like, stupid, but in a bad way.
- I thought you like stupid?
- I like stupid, but I don't like stupid stupid.
- You like tasteful stupid. [laughter]
- So does anybody else have any excuses
why they looked like shit today?
No, I'm kidding. [laughter]
- Let's talk about you. - You start. You start.
- Would you like to start?
- You start. - In your own style.
- My designer-- I was supposed to have
three reveals, actually.
- Stop relying on those buns. [chuckles]
- Miss banana queen. - Yes.
- You gagged me because I thought--
- Did I? Did I gag you with bananas?
- No, I thought your reveal was just going
to be, like, the green thing.
So when you kept taking more and more stuff off,
I was like, oh-oh, oh-oh!
- Baby, I am showing you
the whole evolution of a banana
and how it rots.
- Who did this fucking hair? It is so good.
- My friend from Taiwan.
- Will you send us their Insta when we're out of here?
- Of course I will. - OK, great.
- They're getting--
- We all come out for a reunion with--
and we're all a different fruit or vegetable.
- Hello. - She got hers.
I got mine. What y'all gonna do?
- Mine's self-explanatory-- melons.
- I'm more of a passion fruit myself.
- Ooh, yeah.
- Bitch, yeah, an impassioned fruit.
- [laughs]
- Your talent show-- no, seriously, like,
also being someone who grew up in Texas,
I got the hell out of there as fast as I could.
And knowing that-- no offence, but, like--
- Oh, none taken. - Knowing that this shit
is still incredibly real--
I don't know, in New York, I feel like
sometimes we live in a bubble,
because most places that we go in drag are safe places.
- But, I mean, even in places like New York,
in the last year, I've been feeling the unease.
So, you know, maybe it wasn't the most entertaining thing.
But I'm still so insanely proud
that I could do that on national television
and speak that message to millions of people
who maybe do love drag
but don't realise, like,
we're more than just characters.
We're actual human beings.
You have to protect us too.
So I do not regret a single second of it.
- Yeah. - Werk.
- Your number definitely conveyed,
like, an important message.
And it was clearly very important to you.
But do you think that your number was the best
representation of, like, what you bring and your talent
and what you do as a drag artist?
- I fully don't expect to be, like, in the top.
But I'm happy with what I did.
That's the kind of drag that I love doing
and that speaks to my heart,
doing numbers about issues in the world.
- Yeah.
- There was a moment where I was kind of like,
damn, maybe I should have just leaned into the comedy
and done something super wacky and funny.
But at the same time, for me,
making a statement is kind of worth the risk.
You don't change the world by doing things safely.
You kind of have to, you know, break a few molds
and do something out of the box.
I mean, I get it.
So I feel like I just have to now go
the extra mile of showing them that, yeah,
I'm fucking stupid as hell too.
But I got to send a message that I really believe in.
So I'm happy.
- I think it's really hard because I feel like
everyone showed something so different.
Like, no two of us, like, were the same.
Everyone brought something personal to them.
- How do you feel, Miss Hershii LiqCour?
- So I was glad that everybody, like, got the performance.
That made me feel so good because I was nervous as hell,
especially when I squatted behind the trees
and everybody was looking at me like,
what the hell happening over here?
[laughter] - I'm not going to lie.
At the beginning, I was like, is she peeing
or what's she doing?
What's Miss Thing doing over there?
- What is happening? - Yeah.
- And I like to be glamorous and stupid.
So I knew the performance was going to be, like, dumb.
Like, why were you in the wilderness?
Because that's what I was looking for, the whiplash.
- You were wild. [laughter]
- But yeah, a mix of emotions because it was really good.
But I was telling good sis over here earlier, I have two kids.
So being here this week has been
very emotionally all over the place for me,
because going to sleep, I can't hear them.
It's weird not hearing their voice.
And it got to me a little bit.
- Well, Hershii, if you miss them so much,
we can send you home.
- I'm OK. [laughter]
- You can just ask one of us.
We can always outperform you in a lip sync battle
to help you out, you know?
- The flip side of that is, this is also
a vacation from two toddlers.
So I think I will make it work. - There she goes!
[laughter]
- They're with their other father,
and they'll be just fine.
[laughter]
- Cheers to that.
both: Cheers to that, girl.
- Cheers to some alcohol at the end of a long-ass week, bitch.
- Literally. - Period.
- Girl. - So did anyone have a critique
that they didn't personally like?
- [laughs] I did.
- You did? - Come on.
- Listen, I like my little old lady shirt skirt.
[laughter]
- Get up. Show us the length again.
'Cause I was, like, standing right next to you.
And I was trying not to go like--
- [laughing] Me too. Me too.
- Like, looking right at you, yeah.
- You know, the church mother hem.
You know, they cover their shins.
You don't show too much leg.
That's not ladylike.
[laughter]
- So since it's up to us to decide,
like, who is in the top, do we think we should go by--
- I think we have a new queen, sorry.
both: Oh!
- Now, what the fuck is she doing here?
- Hi, bitches! I'm in this competition!
- Bitch. - Is this an actual Poundcake?
- Is she a straight up motherfucking dick pig or not?
- [gasps] - [gasps]
- You broke-- you broke an heirloom!
- Put stuff back!
- Put it in her tuck. - Put it back!
- Poundcake loves you.
- I love Poundcake.
- I think we should let Lil Poundcake
decide who's in the top.
- I don't think she's saying much.
- She's not--yeah, well...
- So who do we think would be,
like, the top talents of this week?
- How much does runway weigh into it?
- Since we're talking about immunity,
I'm looking at everything to everybody.
- Yeah, same. - So I'm looking at performance
and the runway. We talking about immunity?
I ain't about to let you have it easy.
- OK. [laughter]
- If we're talking about critiques,
I think we can all agree that Jane got the best critiques.
- I appreciate that. Thank you.
- Well, I have ears, so I heard what they said.
- [laughs]
- But it's up to--
you know, it's up to my sisters to judge fairly.
So...
I feel good about Rate-a-Queen
because I got amazing critiques on the runway.
And there is no doubt in my mind
that I will be in the top this week.
But we'll see how it goes.
So full disclosure, like, I'm going to lay
my cards out on the table.
Everybody gags me, in a good way.
Like, I have to admit, you know, I feel like
I underestimated, you know, probably, you know, most of you
when I first walked in here.
But I feel like I-- - Put a name on it.
- OK. OK. Let me just go for it.
So I think that I really enjoyed you.
You killed it.
And I really enjoyed Geneva's.
- Thank you, Miss Burger Finger.
- Of course. You have the burger finger
seal of approval, certified fresh!
- So do you get to-- - You've been burger fingered.
- Do I get to smell your finger?
- Yes! Smell it, baby. - Ew!
- Plane Jane, you and Geneva, I didn't know
what y'all were coming with.
So I was, like, waiting for y'all.
You gagged me the most, like, out of everybody,
to be completely honest with you.
- Miss Plane, you also really, like, impressed me
and shocked the fuck out of me because I was like,
what the fuck is this bitch going to do with mustard
and ketchup and burgers and--you know.
And then also, Nymphia, like, honestly, like,
I kind of did underestimate you.
- [in baby voice] Oh, really?
- I'll say it to your face, girl,
because that's how we do it in Texas.
You did actually amazing, and I'm like, fuck, you know.
So for me, y'all two would be the ones for me to get rid of.
[laughs] I'm kidding.
- Oh, get rid of? Try, bitch.
[laughter]
- So for me, banana lady and my Mexican diva, Geneva.
Y'all did something no one ever did on the show.
So kudos to that.
- You see, that's why I kind of wanted to do--because I'm like,
no one's actually ever danced Mexican folklore much
twisted with, like, a little bit of comedy.
Just like, talking about, like, sucking dick
but with a chile.
- You gave us a little bit of everything, you know.
- Yeah, girl.
- [singing] I'm Geneva
- Now I know your name for sure.
But I don't know what's going on
behind, like, Geneva, the--
[mumbling] The diva.
- You know, I just wanted to come here.
And being the first Mexican-born queen on the show
and also the first one from Brownsville, Texas,
I wanted to just showcase that there's a lot of talent
that's, like, hidden over there deep in Texas.
- Deep in the heart of Texas, baby.
- Yeah. [laughs]
- I think it's a toss-up
between the three of you on the sofa over here for me.
Plasma, despite what Michelle had said,
I fully enjoyed everything you did.
And your voice is fucking amazing.
First of all, fuck you.
- Oh, yeah. You can sing.
- You were good. You were good, girl.
- I--singing was, like, my first love,
like, in this life.
Thank you for saying that. I appreciate it.
I sort of agree with what Michelle said.
Like, my approach with the talent show was,
if, like, Plasma had an hour or two hour variety special,
what would she do?
She would do impressions-- - Hi, ladies.
- Hi! [all scream excitedly]
- [singing] Girly-girl
- I love an onstage moment,
but I also love a backstage moment.
Can I come hang?
- Yes! [all talking at once]
- Becky G! Oh, my God.
I'm so excited for her.
And it's kind of like, oh, my God.
We get another chance to, like, talk to her
and ask her more questions.
And I never gotten to go to one of her concerts.
So maybe I can slide into the backstage now.
- We were all discussing the fact
that we're impressed with the group as a whole
being, like, so different and so versatile.
And not to, like, toot our own horns, but--
- Toot the horns. [laughter]
Where are the horns? [air horn blares]
Where are the horns?
- This will be the-- [imitating horn toot]
Yeah. - I love that.
I'm so happy that you guys feel that way.
I wanted to ask you guys how you guys felt
after everything, like, about each other,
but more importantly, of course, how you guys felt
about yourselves.
- Honestly, I feel great about my performance
because I was nervous that nobody would get it.
People got it. So great.
One of my goals being in the competition,
I want more drag friends.
And everybody here, in one way or another,
has been, like, really sweet to me.
So I'm enjoying my week.
- I love that. - Wait till next week.
[laughter]
- Oh, my God. - Best comment!
- I may come back just for fun because the claws will be out.
- Yeah. - Period. Yeah.
- In Spanish, I like to say, juntos somos mГЎs.
Together we are so much more.
And I love what you were saying about enjoying
this week and this process because I really do think
it is about community. - Yeah.
- Like, being able to come together
and lovingly push each other
to become the best that we can become.
That is sometimes putting a little fire
under each other's asses.
But it always, I think, should come
from a place of love, for sure.
- You have a genuine spirit. - Thank you.
- Yeah, you have a good energy around you.
- I feel so safe to be myself here with you guys.
Like, that I think is, like, the best part for me.
And you guys know how it is as entertainers and artists.
It's hard to take things in life
and then make them into something beautiful
and then present it to the world
and then put it out on a stage for people to judge.
So when we get to have these backstage moments
and we get to just kick the heels off,
it's a breath of fresh air and it's really nice.
I feel so lucky to be able to share in this moment
with you guys, truly.
The feeling is so mutual.
- Oh. - Oh, you good?
- Oh. - Yeah, I can't see anything.
[laughter]
Not even my own hands.
That's where my eyes are. - I know.
It's because the eyes are a little ocupados right now.
- Uh-huh. - Yeah, she heard you walk in
and she was like, "Oh my God, Michelle."
[laughter]
- I love that. What a compliment.
- Do you have any advice for us, like,
moving forward in the competition?
- I would say everyone you see on the way up
is everyone you see on the way down.
Always be a good person.
There's so much behind the outfits, the glitz,
the glam, the makeup, the charisma
that we have to have to turn on that switch.
But I think to be a professional
and really be in this for the long run,
it's being a good person.
Yeah.
- It's going to be hard for all these rotted bitches.
But thank you. Thank you, Becky G.
- Shut up, the stupidest one. [laughter]
- I'm going to leave you guys to it.
- OK. - But keep loving one another.
Keep loving yourselves, and keep being proud.
And yeah, I love you guys.
- Mwah. - Thank you.
- Nice to meet you.
- Becky G. - In the house.
- Te quiero, Becky G.
- Te amo. Bye, guys. - Thank you!
- Bye, mi hermosa.
- Queens, this is your five-minute warning.
Standby to Rate-a-Queen.
- Thank you, Justin.
- Five minutes? - Thank you, five.
- Five minutes.
Does anybody have any campaign pitches as to why
they should be, you know, picked?
- I don't, but y'all--
ain't none of y'all about to buy Whiplash?
That was a good commercial. - [chuckles]
- I just want to say, I thought it was
a Bob the Drag Queen song when I first heard it.
I didn't realise that you sang it.
- Bob the Drag Queen is my mom in my head.
So I'll take that. That's a compliment to me.
I love Bob.
Bob, you heard it here first.
- Bob, you have your new daughter.
- [chuckles] - All right, queens, follow me.
It's time to rate a queen.
- Oh, no. - Stop yelling at me.
- Let's hit it. - Yes, thank you.
- I need carrying. - This way? OK.
[laughs]
- Get all cameras up for voting in the Werk Room.
- Copy.
- Rolling, rolling.
- OK.
In first position...
So now it is time for Rate-a-Queen.
I'm a little nervous.
I'm not going to lie to you.
I'm a little shaken.
Because are we going to get an opportunity
to see the other seven girls?
Who knows?
I have a lot to prove to myself.
I have a lot to prove to my children.
I have a lot to prove to the other girls in the competition
because nobody is really looking at me
like I'm something to worry about.
And I hate that.
- I understand the game that I'm playing.
And I understand the risks that I took.
And you kind of have to accept the consequences
of taking a risk.
But I have so much more that I want to do and show.
And I cannot go home right now.
It's kind of terrifying.
- And that's the tea, honeybee.
- Welcome back, queens.
This week, no one is going home.
- Ahh! [laughter]
- Oh, my God.
- This week, the top two queens will lip sync for the win.
Based on your Rate-A-Queen results,
our top two queens of the week are
Plane Jane and Geneva Karr.
This is your chance to impress me
and earn immunity from a future elimination.
The time has come for you to lip sync
for the win!
[dramatic music]
Plane Jane, condragulations. You're a winner, baby.
[cheers and applause]
- I think the queens knew that I was the one to watch.
And this just confirmed it for them.
There probably will be some fiercer bitches
that I'm going to have to watch out for
in the group to come.
But who knows?
Maybe they're all just dead weight.
I guess we'll see, girl. [laughs]
- [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, oh, oh, oh
Love, love, love
Oh, oh, oh-oh, oh-oh
Love, can you feel the love?