Shante, You Stay! Polling The Greatest 'RuPaul's Drag Race' Queens

Okay come on, I KNOW I'm not the only person on here watching.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, February 26, 2013 10:38 AM (four years ago)

Im a hipster and went with Sharon.. my honorable mentions go to Adore, Latrice, Chad and Alaska

I'm gonna have to give this some thought

right now my short list is

Raven
Alaska
Katya
Bianca
Willam

(yay for putting together this poll, Eric!! )

And I have to pick one?

ARRRRGH.

yeah this is like the least fun game of lifeboat ever

I dunno if I can support Willam as my greatest drag queen. He was too inside-baseball for his own good and it got him kicked off the show ...besides you can't be great if you don't fucking win! That's the whole point of doing the show!

god

I love him so much tho

Willam won in life though.

I have to be a pedant and note that the name of the season 5 winner is spelled Jinkx.

Also Alyssa never won but her career has exploded because of the show.

Anyway, my shortlist:

Jinkx (season 5 was the first I watched)
Sasha (recency bias!)
Nina Flowers (without whom Sasha wouldn't exist)
Alaska
Miss Fame
Shangela

i considered sasha but checked my recency bias lol

shangela?

leee

cmon

She did a commentary track on an episode with Alaska, and Shange was 10 times funnier. Also, box jokes.

you are easily charmed, my friend

Nina Flowers is straight fire tho

she's like Drag Race's Nina Hagen - complete badass who defies category

Alyssa Edwards
Bob the Drag Queen
coco montrese
Jinkx Monsoon
Latrice Royale
Pearl

Write in for Chi-Chi Devayne.

Worst: Courtney Act.

Also worst: the Britney Spears one.

Derrick Barry

Argh! Sorry about the Jinkx typo.

This is too difficult. Just one?

Amusingly, this poll has accidentally spoiled season five for me. I'm in the middle of rewatching it, and had sort of got it into my head that Alaska won it. Why did I think that?

I never really get on with the queens who spend their time telling other queens what to do. It was fine when Latrice went off on one about the Snatch Game, because that was ridiculous carry-on, but Bianca's constant disapproval of everyone else's behaviour kind of got on my wick a bit.

I think Alaska, Raven, Sharon, Jinkx, Jiggly, and Jujubee are my favourites. I will have to think about this, though.

jujubee is so fun

Haven't seen a ton of this show but Alaska is kind of definitive.

Always and forever... Alaska Thunderfuck!

Runners up: Alyssa, Sharon, Raja and Raven.

Amusingly, this poll has accidentally spoiled season five for me.

That's a shame, it was a thrilling shock when we found out that Roxxxy won.

where is Valentina??

voted Katya

Could've sworn I had Valentina down! Ah well. Chalk another hit up for Farrah Moan.

argh. this, as Ned said, requires much and deep thought. but if pushing to get 50 and top 4 being one of the criteria how come no chi chi devayne? another write in from me at least for consideration.

<3 Chi Chi!

chchideVAYne

Robbed!

Season 5 update: someone needs to shake Roxxy Andrews and say, chill out love, you're a bloke in a dress.

I never understood the big deal about Roxxy.

This, on the other hand....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyPpQxNH__w

It's Alyssa. In a walk.

katya
valentina
bianca del rio
willam
trixie mattel
alyssa edwards
latrice royale
tammie brown
ongina
milk

Instantly my new number one choice

Hey @realDonaldTrump " look how fucking Orange you look girl"

— Coco Montrese (@cocomontrese) July 26, 2017

LOL <3

Coco milking that one joke for all its worth.

And, um, it was Alyssa's joke.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

After careful consideration, and with particular apologies to the two queens that got me into the show in the first place (Sharon and Jinkx), this is Katya.

i think so for me too. her improv is like, amy sedaris-level good

and her style is a dumpster fever dream

I loved Katya on Season 7, but I feel like Trixie has showed she has the better comedic chops on UNHhhh. She is very quick witted and has a great delivery and basically just makes Katya laugh the whole episode.

trixie is pretty magical, it is true

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Polling while the iron's hot.

Evidently not.

Understandable tie

Biggest surprise is Bianca Del Rio getting 0 votes. She's usually the most beloved and respected queen among the fans.

Bianca never hit my funny bone; for me, that season, aside from Joslyn and Ben, was awful to watch.

i love that season

on a personal note I saw a job listing to work as a paralegal at world of wonder and the connection was lost on me.. I emailed them about the job a month too late yesterday secretly hoping they haven't filled it yet. =|

SPY ON THE INSIDE

Ben and Joslyn were my favorite from Season 6 too, but I thought it was a great season. I mean, Milk, Adore, Gia, Laganja! Trinity's lipsyncs! The Rusical! The Snatch Game! Those Untucks! "Sissy That Walk"! Ornacia! It's a classic.

The only season I remember being a letdown in real-time was S8. Never got where S7 got the horrible rep.

I disliked S7's random "shocking" eliminations (Trixie, Max, Katya). The editing was very heavy handed and they seemed to be trying to recreate the same thing that happened in S6 with Milk and Dela. Also way too many acting group challenges.

Never got where S7 got the horrible rep.

Same. Katya alone elevates it, and I love Miss Fame for all her space cadet beauty. I mean, chickens!

Katya, Ginger, Miss Fame, Trixie, Katya, Violet, Katya ...