'...and DON'T *bleep* IT UP!' -- the RuPaul's Drag Race thread

Nice find!

Meantime, a fun, not too academe-speak NPR article here exploring themes of identity and projection: "Drag Is Raw: Wrestlers, Queens And Gender As Performance Art"

http://www.npr.org/blogs/monkeysee/2014/04/16/303652716/drag-is-raw-wrestlers-queens-and-gender-as-performance-art

But there is a WEIRD glaring absence, namely no mention of the Season 4 pro wrestling challenge episode. Which given Sharon Needles is mentioned is...odd?

http://queerty-prodweb.s3.amazonaws.com/wp/docs/2014/04/tumblr_n41gsblO5d1qzqtn5o1_500.gif

Me every day, really.

Give yourself more credit, your hair looks better than that.

ned you are SICKENING

Thanks Leee ! I actually rewinded that part a couple of times, now I have a gif of it.

str8 fyah

It's all in the delivery.

Some recent photos from all sorts of folks.

http://www.newnownext.com/courtney-act-hooks-up-with-simon-sherry-wood-carmen-hangs-with-jlo-bianca-and-adore-in-orlando-drag-race-on-social-media/04/2014/

Very sweet one of Willam there, actually!

yeah Willam looks cuet

Meantime, relevant, especially given the constant Puerto Rican presence season for season (and April is briefly mentioned):

http://gawker.com/tribeca-a-gorgeous-portrait-of-puerto-ricos-trans-and-1564444087

I really hope Adore doesn't flame out now, I'm kinda worried she's getting in her head too much.
Sorta wish Courtney had been in the bottom, just because I think that the way she showed up her bride was definitely on the nose.

And Darienne's bride gave me the creeps. Something about that weird flat affect to his voice or something just, yuk. and SHADY as fuck, him and darienne were two peas in a pod

I kinda liked the little arc they had with Jocelyn's bride...the things he was saying early in the show felt like he was going to maybe have a bit of a meltdown or shit was gonna get a bit tense at some point, but watching him and his wife root for her during the lipsync on untucked and how pissed he was getting at everyone cheering for adore was really cool to watch

Bianca did a bang-up job on her bride. And what a cutie!!

Joslyn's bball player initially didn't really seem to know what he was getting into. Did his fiance drug him to get him there or something?

this whole challenge was pretty bizarre imo

bianca looked a lot like her bride but the skin coloration was... weird

she should've won tho obv

It was kind of a strange one

Unless maybe the bball's player's wife was a fan and roped him into it? It seemed like a few of the couples were fans of the show already

FYI - Ru and Michelle have a new podcast called 'Rupaul What's the Tee with Michelle Visage'

Only one up right now. Flagship ep they go in deep on what they are looking for in auditions etc and it's kinda cool
...so far anyway

also sidebar re the podcast -- listening to ru talk, and this has struck me before while watching the show, I'm really blown away by how many people in her circle have been with her for 20, 30 years. That is one loyal queen.

Brandon's freak out was strange since he must have known before hand was he was getting himself into. IMO his team mates would've respected him more if he had fun with it and owned it.
I thought the sport jocks from season 3 had the best and most surprising attitude. I loved how protective of their girl they were and how they genuinely seemed turned on by Raja and Carmen's lip synch !

I think my favorites were the older veteran queens last season, but yeah the sport jocks were pretty fun.

Loved those season 3 jocks, yeah.

Just caught up with yesterday. Okay, Darienne out next, please.

What's sad is Joslyn's guy made it clear the worst thing that can happen to a player is to be presumed gay or associated with gay people. He was so scared it made him throw up.

I can't believe Darienne is still here. Top 5 wtf ???

RIGHT? She better be the next to go.

It was a very Willam moment, with much the same results.

xps Aww leave Darienne alone.

darienne has had her moments but she's clearly the next in line, though if it's another challenge not geared towards adore's skill set I could see her getting dropped

yeah she was sweating this challenge

her drag is boring tho and adore is a killer lip syncer

i was vibing with the theory that bianca was gonna cruise to the finals but not win but the way adore has performed recently i dunno who else could really take it from her... ben de la? maybe? courtney? i'm skeptical

adore was on some marilyn manson janet jackson shit last night, that lipsync was straight up awesome, made jocelyn look like a wax dummy

yeah it was sick

adore has that deep hunger/fire that ben & courtney haven't shown yet...they need it to beat her

this is like when alaska got real last season, love watching it happen

this is pretty great if you are into Adventure Time at all

http://www.newnownext.com/adventure-times-lumpy-space-princess-as-adore-delano-is-lumpin-awesome-watch/03/2014/

I guess Adore's lipsync wasn't bad if you like that kind of stuff.

http://37.media.tumblr.com/dcf6f5cca652f396ababe56342f3ea79/tumblr_n2nii3JYux1qgb5p1o1_500.gif

I thought the bball guy really redeemed himself in Untucked.

definitely

Okay tonight is already amusing.

Also my theory that it's going to be a final showdown of *four* not three is coming clearer. This kind of episode was ALWAYS done in the past when there were only four remaining.

Waiting for everybody to see it before I comment...

And the promo for next week reconfirms my thought. Hmmmmmmm. I almost have a feeling something else is going to happen on top of that.

adore's banjee girl was SO GREAT

proud of her for burning it down tonight

also lol @ dela dostoyevsky and her lipstick mirror novel jesus fucking christ

Yeah Adore was killer. I'd been waiting to see that final look all season thanks to the Untucked intro bit!

And LOOOOVE the message Bianca got in the lounge. That was really sweet.

I demand we get the full mirror message somehow.

"Dear top 4- howz it going? I'm doing pretty good. Sometimes you have to have Mama Ru you atcha a bunch of times before it sinks in. I guess I neverreached that number of times, Darian. I knew the second I was up against you i waz out the door. You get it lady. I wish you all the luck in the world and only harbor enough resentment to write a long pointless message that you will have to clean and clean and clean and clean. But fo real tho you girlz are my heroes. XX BDLC"

*And Ned, it's a bummer you didn't stay in Seattle another 36 hours...you could sat between me and Matos at the live show hosted by Dela!

ANYWAY, Dela, once again, was robbed. That final outfit of Darienne's looked like pantyhose.

oh the sag of it all

"We do not want to loose faith in Ru Paul's Drag race judging."
http://www.change.org/petitions/ru-paul-s-drag-race-bring-ben-de-la-creme-back?recruiter=66699251&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=share_twitter_mobile

If Darienne weren't a) very good at lipsyncing and b) a lot more level-headed in Untucked than most after being trashed on the runway I'd be more ARGH about it all, I admit.

Darienne's three looks were BAD. Dela is well put together but at least two of her looks did not fit the category. Her Banjee Girl look was well off the mark, and her Executive Realness look was way too whimsical. not that they were bad looks as they stood, but compared to what the other 3 put on the table, there was no question she was going to be in the bottom. Courtney's coasting on a look but she hit the mark in at least 2 of the three categories. so that's one more category than Dela. And she lost the lipsync - Darienne owned that. I like Dela, I'm sad to see her go, but I don't think it's that much of an outrage.

I thought Courtney only hit the mark with her eleganza look. Her executive realness was really just Good Penny with a cellphone and a clipboard.

As for the outcome of the episode, the internet is already exploding so I'm gonna leave it at that. I will just say that I find it disapointing and unfair that a lipsync counts more than a challenge and an overall "body of work", especially at this point in the game.