If only we could read Ru's mind. Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the “Drag Race” moments that had us questioning what was going on inside RuPaul’s mind.
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00:00It's chocolate.
00:02Orion.
00:04Welcome to Ms. Mojo,
00:06and today we're counting down our picks for
00:08the drag race moments that had us
00:10questioning what was going on inside
00:12RuPaul's mind. Beware of spoilers
00:14ahead. That outfit off the rack
00:16was a huge
00:18disappointment to me.
00:22Number 10. The Baby Got Back
00:24Mini Challenge. So for today's mini
00:26challenge, you need to shake,
00:28rattle, and roll for Baby Got
00:30Back. Like the art form of drag
00:32itself, Drag Race has constantly
00:34pushed the envelope of what's appropriate.
00:36But this mini challenge had people wondering
00:38if it was time to leave the envelope alone for a little
00:40while.
00:42Now that's a queen who likes to
00:44pamper herself.
00:46In an apparent
00:48callback to a talk show improv challenge
00:50a few seasons before, the queens
00:52were asked to create a naughty baby character.
00:54Whoever misbehaved the most
00:56would win. But we'd say the viewers
00:58who conveniently forgot about the whole thing
01:00are the lucky ones.
01:08The rest of us have to wonder what audience
01:10Ru and the producers were trying to reach
01:12with this one. Number 9.
01:14Pearl Wins The Lip Sync Against Trixie Mattel
01:16First things first, we love Pearl.
01:18Without her, we wouldn't have gotten
01:20some of season 7's most iconic moments.
01:22But it has to be said. When she
01:24went up against a fan favorite in a lip sync
01:26to Blondie's Dreaming, the judging
01:28seemed awfully wonky.
01:30And it wasn't just because audiences were in their feelings
01:32about Trixie Mattel being eliminated.
01:44Many fans felt that
01:46Trixie's rendition just went with the song
01:48a lot more than her competitor's version.
01:50In fact, RuPaul even said that Blondie
01:52members Debbie Harry and Chris Stein
01:54preferred her lip sync.
02:02It seems Ru respectfully
02:04disagreed. Whatever anyone thinks,
02:06Pearl did bring us the iconic
02:08Pearl smash. And that's worth something.
02:16Too Many Acting Challenges
02:22Some of these girls
02:24look like their Shakespeare is gonna be
02:26shaky dear. Speaking of Pearl and
02:28Trixie, their season was truly
02:30stacked with talent. However,
02:32it must be said that it was a cast full of
02:34fashion-oriented queens in a season
02:36full of atrocious and nonsensical
02:38acting challenges. We're not looking for
02:40Pulitzer-worthy scripts here, but
02:42this even stretched the limits of sketch comedy.
02:44Hey, Hogwarts rejects, what's your
02:46prediction?
02:48If I'm not here cheerleader, it's truly
02:50fanfiction. Ru's now-famous
02:52tirade against the queens who failed the
02:54Shakespeare challenge was a stunning moment,
02:56but it honestly rings pretty hollow
02:58considering how ill-conceived the episode
03:00was. Ru and the producers
03:02cast queens who turned some of the best looks
03:04in the show's herstory. But when it came to
03:06the bizarre acting challenges, they were
03:08underserved. Basic witches
03:10not wanted.
03:14What is happening?
03:16I'm lost.
03:18Number seven, the fame games.
03:20In 2023, RuPaul
03:22introduced a twist to the All-Stars
03:24formula. On this season of All-Stars,
03:26there are two
03:28ways to win.
03:30What? The eliminated queens
03:32were given the chance to walk the runway in
03:34looks they would have worn had they continued in the
03:36competition. Fans would then vote for
03:38the winner. While we can imagine it was a great
03:40showcase for some expensive ensembles,
03:42it ended up not adding much to the season.
03:44Eventually, the fame games winner
03:46ended up being decided not just by the fans,
03:48but by a final variety
03:50show challenge that allowed the winner to multiply
03:52their votes to an obnoxious degree.
03:54If you think I'm done, you're wrong.
03:56I have a light and I'll shine it.
03:58You don't like what I do?
04:00Open our eyes, the world is at war. The picture
04:02is big, let's rip off our wig. I'm mad.
04:04That's certainly not to say the victor,
04:06La La Ri, was undeserving. The twist
04:08would just need an overhaul if it came back.
04:10Still, it did give us some great memes.
04:12Not a soaking clock.
04:14Not a soaking clock.
04:16Not a soaking clock.
04:18Number six, making over straight men.
04:20The makeover challenge has been a mainstay
04:22of Drag Race since the beginning.
04:24Usually, it's a great opportunity
04:26to show the power of a good drag transformation.
04:28Leland's missing a couple of cues,
04:30but I'm not worried about it. We're working it out
04:32the best way we can. However,
04:34two particular variations didn't
04:36go over well. Rue tasked season
04:38four and six queens with dragging up
04:40straight men who seemed very uncomfortable
04:42with the whole endeavor. We can give you some
04:44padding, too, so you can have some wider hips,
04:46so you'll have some body.
04:48Oh, man, I don't know if I want
04:50body.
04:52According to Jocelyn Fox,
04:54her partner was essentially tricked
04:56into appearing on the show by his fiancé
04:58as punishment for cheating. It begs
05:00the question, why pair the queens
05:02with people who are clearly not
05:04into it? It makes what should be a
05:06celebration of drag into an uncomfortable
05:08spectacle. So, Madonna, was there anything
05:10you were uncomfortable with? Just
05:12my manlihood being questioned.
05:14And who was questioning it? No one
05:16here, but it will be questioned.
05:18Hopefully, Rue keeps the makeover
05:20challenge light and inspirational
05:22from now on.
05:24Rue didn't just
05:26declare a losing team in this episode.
05:28She declared a bottom six.
05:30For the first time
05:32in Drag Race history,
05:36all of you
05:38will be lip syncing for your lives.
05:40Almost half of the
05:42season 11 cast had to lip sync for their lives
05:44to J.Lo's Waiting for Tonight.
05:46And it was chaos incarnate.
05:48Yeah, the diva worship challenge was bad,
05:50and having six queens fight for their
05:52lives at once probably seemed exciting.
05:54But as far as watchability
05:56goes, it isn't cute.
05:58Even
06:04with the split screen, it's hard to savor
06:06any particular performance.
06:08The only queen we get to spend any
06:10real time with is Honey, whose
06:12thrashing on the ground is clearly
06:14indicating her as the loser, robbing
06:16the elimination of any suspense.
06:24The host tried to shake things up,
06:26but it was just a jumbled mess
06:28of footage.
06:32Once again, the host threw another
06:34game-changing twist into the mix.
06:46Season 14's eliminated queens
06:48were teased with the promise of another shot
06:50at the crown if they just chose the candy
06:52bar with the golden ticket inside.
06:54Willy Wonka who? The only thing
06:56that worked here was the countless memes
06:58viewers made of June Jambalaya's deflated
07:00announcement that her chocolate bar was just
07:02that, chocolate.
07:08But as a component
07:10of the game, fans agree it was just
07:12Rue and the producers' way of rigging the
07:14outcome right in front of our faces.
07:16Why they thought that would be compelling,
07:18we're not sure. The chocolate bar twist
07:20can stay wrapped.
07:24Number 3. Teams.
07:34The first edition of RuPaul's Drag Race
07:36All Stars was more of a ploy to fill
07:38airtime than a celebration of the series to that
07:40point. So, when Rue decided
07:42to team up some of the most legendary queens
07:44from the first four seasons, the
07:46contestants were as baffled as us.
07:54This is
07:58just as much a case of what was
08:00Rue thinking as it is why did they
08:02go with the presumably first idea?
08:04Wasn't there another way to have a
08:06shortened run?
08:10The whole thing was such a
08:12fumble, many participants have been invited
08:14back to participate in subsequent All Stars
08:16editions, at least getting some well
08:18deserved do-overs.
08:20Number 2. The jury twist.
08:22Speaking of All Stars rigoury, season
08:24three took the cake. In a move
08:26seemingly inspired by the likes of
08:28Survivor, Rue decided to invite the
08:30eliminated contestants back to vote
08:32for the final two.
08:34As you see, I've asked the eliminated
08:36queens, a jury
08:38of your queer peers,
08:40to help me make my final
08:42decision. Up to that point,
08:44it was pretty obvious Shangela would at least make
08:46the finals. Instead, it was
08:48Trixie Mattel and Kennedy Davenport
08:50who advanced to the last round.
08:52And Trixie Mattel.
08:58The reason a jury works in other shows
09:00is that the contestants know they have to
09:02convince the people they've possibly wronged
09:04to vote for them in the end. Here, it was
09:06just a twist that negated a lot of the work
09:08the queens had done to that point in the competition.
09:10So, what exactly was the point?
09:12All the questions that are coming
09:14have nothing to do with my track record
09:16in the whole process being here. It's almost
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09:37RuPaul stirred up controversy when
09:39announcing that trans women who had gender
09:41affirming surgery were akin to
09:43Olympic athletes who took
09:45performance enhancing drugs, saying
09:47they likely wouldn't be cast on the show.
09:49It understandably left many fans
09:51and former contestants feeling
09:53incredibly hurt on several levels.
09:55To be able to walk through a door
09:57as yourself
09:59and then showcase, you know,
10:01what you got, nobody can take
10:03that away from you. Considering drag and
10:05queer history in general, it was strange
10:07that RuPaul would want such distance from
10:09the trans community. Luckily, Ru
10:11seemingly had a change of heart.
10:13They say God is a woman
10:15and I am. And I'm also
10:17a drag queen. Since making those comments,
10:19several out trans women
10:21have competed and even won the show.
10:23Contestants like Sasha Colby and Kylie
10:25Sonique Love have brought endless talent to the
10:27competition, making the hosts earlier
10:29thinking even more baffling.
10:31Since season two, so much has happened
10:33to me and I feel like
10:35it's time for me to
10:37reintroduce myself. I am
10:39Kylie Sonique Love. Which drag race
10:41moment had you saying, Ru, please
10:43be serious? Tell us in the comments.
10:45What do you think you could have done
10:47to make this case go
10:49better? When? But you know
10:51what they say, fake it until you
10:53make it. Do you agree with
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