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When things go wrong on the “Drag Race” stage, queens either crumble or shine under pressure. Some flub moments become unforgettable cringe, while others turn into comedic gold or iconic recoveries. From runway disasters and roasting mishaps to lip sync slip-ups, this countdown captures the unforgettable fails that still sting—and those spectacular recoveries that made us cheer.
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00:00I'ma tell you when it's over, gotta get to play.
00:02Oh, she doesn't know the words.
00:06Welcome to Ms. Mojo.
00:08And today, we're counting down our picks
00:09for the drag race mistakes that queens
00:11were able to turn into successes
00:13and the missteps that still make us cringe.
00:15And I'm just like, try to move off stage
00:17without breaking a limb.
00:19Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
00:20Nice day.
00:23Number five, Irredeemable, Utica's Roast.
00:26The judges love you so much in this competition,
00:30especially Ross.
00:31You know, Ross and Simone,
00:33I think you guys would make a great couple.
00:35Simone and Pumbaa.
00:39Hakuna Matata.
00:40Utica Queen was a stunner on the runway.
00:43When it came to fashion, her taste level was unmatched.
00:46When it came to comedy, though,
00:48the taste level was in the basement.
00:50Utica's jabs at the Nice Girls Roast are so bad,
00:52they almost come back around to being iconic.
00:54Nina West.
00:55Yeah, yes.
01:03Oh, I'm sorry.
01:04I thought you could speak whale.
01:05Not a single joke lands.
01:07Whatever jokes she does manage
01:09are either too outside the box
01:10or simply too mean.
01:11Once RuPaul and the guest judge
01:13start roasting her back,
01:14it is curtains.
01:15And she's sent packing in the top six.
01:17Our faces still hurt from the cringe.
01:20But you have this diva attitude
01:21that's really hard to swallow.
01:23I do.
01:24It's just as hard to swallow
01:26as Lonnie Love's comedy career.
01:31You're the one bobbing.
01:34Number five, Recovered.
01:36Simone gets her Jennifer's mixed up.
01:38The season's eventual champion
01:39took a huge risk impersonating
01:41Harriet Tubman for the Snatch Game.
01:43This could either go amazingly well
01:45or read as totally offensive and unfunny.
01:48You've evaded the white folks for a long time.
01:51I've evaded them for years on the Underground Railroad.
01:54But here for the Snatch Game, babe.
01:56Yes, it's all for a good cause.
01:58It's all for a good cause.
01:59Sabrina!
02:00Simone gets tripped up on a question
02:02about who should play Tubman in a movie,
02:04thinking RuPaul was suggesting Jennifer Lawrence
02:06and not Jennifer Lewis.
02:08Realizing her mistake,
02:09she's able to correct herself in character.
02:11Yes, Jennifer Lewis.
02:12You know the white people,
02:13they always think they can do every goddamn thing,
02:14so let her go.
02:15Well, Jennifer Lewis is not white.
02:19Jennifer Lewis!
02:20Yeah!
02:20Not Jennifer Lawrence.
02:22No, no, not Jennifer Lawrence.
02:23Oh, I done got my Jennifer's messed up.
02:25We know RuPaul can be a stickler for details.
02:27If she wanted to send Simone home,
02:29she could have easily made this the reason.
02:31But it's just too funny.
02:33And it had the host in hysterics.
02:35So you know what I did?
02:36What?
02:36I just put myself on a $100 bill.
02:40How about that bill?
02:41Harriet Tubman, she keeps it 100.
02:44Okay, all right.
02:45Number four, Irredeemable, Laganja's Roast.
02:49The Drag Queens of Comedy episode
02:50was not Laganja Estranja's finest hour.
02:53And it was not very easy growing up
02:55looking like this.
02:56Whether I was playing in my grandma's clothes
02:58or putting on a show for my well-organized,
03:01alphabetically ordered Beanie Babies,
03:03I was g-g-gay.
03:06Bombing on Drag Race is always devastating.
03:09Bombing in front of RuPaul, Michelle Visage,
03:11and an audience full of confused senior citizens
03:13is even worse.
03:15Laganja's brand of plant-based humor was a major failure.
03:18The only thing louder than her personality and outfit
03:21was the crickets.
03:22It's hard to imagine Laganja would have stayed
03:24even if she did well.
03:25I went to Valencia where they filmed the TV show Weeds.
03:28Now, y'all, it's very dry.
03:31It's almost kind of like your vagina.
03:34Can I get an amen?
03:35This was also the episode
03:37where she had her famous untucked meltdown.
03:39She had too much working against her
03:41and she ended up going home in eighth place as a result.
03:44Well, how am I supposed to feel in this moment?
03:47Laganja, I didn't want to make it that everybody was attacking you.
03:50I feel very attacked.
03:51Relax, relax.
03:53Number four, Recovered.
03:55Jada Essence Hall as Prince.
03:56They're all winners, but they're not all great at Snatch Game.
04:11Jada Essence Hall seemed to realize pretty quickly
04:14her impersonation of Prince wasn't giving Prince at all.
04:17In this case, that's what makes it so funny.
04:19Her little moments of exaggeration and hilarious gestures
04:22aren't much in the way of imitation,
04:24but it is enough to keep RuPaul in stitches.
04:26I wrote old, old, old, old road.
04:34That's a poet right there.
04:35If this were an elimination season,
04:37we probably would have heard all sorts of shade rattles
04:40and cuckoo noises.
04:41But here, we get to revel in the joy
04:44of someone committing to the bit.
04:45Now hear me out.
04:47It's a new hair product for people with gray hair
04:51as Shine Volume Luster.
04:53Yes.
04:55I'd like what he's smoking.
04:56Number three, irredeemable.
04:58La La Rie's bags.
05:00If you want to give Drag Race fans nightmares,
05:02just say these three words.
05:04La La Rie's bags.
05:06You have to hand it to La La Rie, though.
05:08She certainly embraced the bag ball runway theme.
05:10Of course, when we say she embraced it,
05:13we mean she stuck a bunch of dollar gift bags
05:15on her body and called it a dress.
05:16I've added the purse on my head
05:18because I want them to focus on, like,
05:20the head up when they kind of look past
05:21the construction of the actual outfit.
05:24And it gives me, like, this whole Grace Jones vibe.
05:26There's a reason it's called a lip sync for your life.
05:28Without it, La La Rie's bag look would have been enough
05:31to have her escorted off the premises
05:33and banned from all future seasons.
05:35But why not cut it or do something
05:37so they're not just literal bags glued to you?
05:41Yeah.
05:42Okay.
05:43I get it.
05:44So if something doesn't work,
05:45you've got to have a plan B.
05:47She managed to eek by Joey Jay in the lip sync.
05:49But if looks could kill,
05:51no one in the vicinity would have been safe.
06:03Number three, Recovered.
06:05Bob the Drag Queen's robot look.
06:07We're not saying Bob the Drag Queen
06:09got this look off Amazon,
06:10but only because Bob already told us
06:12she got it off Amazon.
06:13I didn't have enough time to finish
06:14a Transformer outfit.
06:16So I do my backup plan.
06:17I'm like a Tron robot-inspired character.
06:20She's a broke...
06:21Oh, yes, girl.
06:22Be careful.
06:22And I'm just, like,
06:23trying to move offstage without breaking a limb.
06:25Her runway presentation
06:27for the roller girl realness theme
06:28is off to the shakiest start imaginable.
06:31We can't fault the queens
06:32for their roller skating skills,
06:34but that didn't help.
06:35It just so happens
06:36that Bob actually wins this episode,
06:38based on her performance
06:39in the acting challenge only,
06:41we have to assume.
06:42I love this look.
06:43You did this glamazon girl from Tron.
06:45Tin man, I have to say,
06:48needs some lubricant.
06:49A win is a win, though.
06:50And if this couldn't sink Bob's chances
06:52in the competition,
06:53nothing could.
06:54Now the other girls can see what I can do.
06:56I feel like everyone knows
06:57I'm a girl to beat now.
06:59Number two, Irredeemable.
07:01Jocelyn Fox's interview skills.
07:03Please welcome someone
07:04who has come out twice
07:05since coming out of Cher
07:07and someone who's came back 66 years
07:10after Cher came out of her.
07:12The queens were tasked
07:13with hosting an interview segment
07:14with Chaz Bono and Georgia Holt,
07:16the son and mother
07:17of pop icon Cher.
07:18It was supposed to be
07:19a lighthearted talk show.
07:21Jocelyn Fox took the opportunity
07:22to ask the hard questions.
07:24Now, if it weren't
07:25for a last-minute decision
07:26at the abortion clinic,
07:28the world wouldn't have known Cher.
07:31Are you pro-life?
07:32Has your stance changed at all
07:33throughout your lifetime?
07:34Her line of questioning
07:35was way too intimate
07:36and completely inappropriate
07:38to the moment.
07:39Barbara Walters herself
07:40would seem like an amateur
07:41if she were asking questions
07:42like these.
07:43Jocelyn didn't even have
07:44to lip-sync that week,
07:46which is kind of shocking.
07:47It remains one of those
07:49Maxi Challenges
07:50that we would rather forget.
07:51We do not discuss these things.
07:54Really uncomfortable
07:55as if you were watching that.
07:57You say your character
07:58skins animals alive.
08:00Number two, Recovered.
08:02Roxy Andrews'
08:03Read You, Wrote You Verse.
08:04The second season of All-Stars
08:06introduced the now-iconic
08:07Rumix Maxi Challenge,
08:09where the queens are asked
08:10to write and perform
08:11a verse to a RuPaul song.
08:17Read You, Wrote You
08:21was the first and the best
08:23for all the right
08:23and wrong reasons.
08:25From a songwriting standpoint,
08:27Roxy Andrews' verse
08:28is the worst.
08:29However, she dances
08:30and lip-syncs it
08:31like it's a pop masterpiece.
08:32I'm Roxy Andrews
08:33and I'm here to make it clear.
08:35I know you love me, baby.
08:36That's why you brought me here.
08:37Was a bitch on season five.
08:38I'm gonna make it right.
08:39Give me a sewing challenge
08:40and I'll give you what you like.
08:41She doesn't make it
08:42into the top three,
08:43but that was probably
08:44never gonna happen anyway.
08:45If her verse proves one thing,
08:48it's that sometimes
08:48things that are bad
08:50are better.
08:51Roxy's is the part
08:52you remember the most.
08:54I'm gonna show you
08:56what I can do
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09:30Number one,
09:31Irredeemable,
09:32Asia O'Hara's Butterflies.
09:44If a queen is lucky enough
09:46to get to the finale,
09:47that final lip sync
09:49can be the difference
09:49between securing the crown
09:51or going home empty-handed.
09:53Asia O'Hara wanted
09:54to make a statement.
09:54At strategic points,
09:56she would release butterflies
09:57during her lip sync.
09:59Unfortunately,
10:00these were the most
10:01lethargic butterflies
10:02we have ever seen.
10:04I'm not a queen.
10:06I just want some respect.
10:08So close the door
10:09if you want me to respond.
10:11Everyone watched in horror
10:13as Asia tried and failed
10:14to get them to fly.
10:16Instead,
10:16many of them
10:17simply landed on stage.
10:19We shudder to think
10:20what happened to them
10:20from there.
10:21RuPaul really had no choice.
10:23Asia lost the lip sync
10:24and her place
10:25in the finals,
10:26even though she had
10:27one of the best track records.
10:29Asia O'Hara,
10:30I'm sorry, my dear,
10:31but this is not your time.
10:33But I want to thank you
10:34for making it
10:36such a sickening season.
10:38Now,
10:40sashay away.
10:41Number one,
10:42Recovered,
10:43Kylie's Stumble.
10:44Talk about
10:44make-or-break moments.
10:46A final lip sync
10:47to Lady Gaga's Stupid Love
10:48was all that stood
10:49between Kylie Sonique Love
10:50and the All-Star Six crown.
10:52Nobody's gonna heal me
10:54if I don't open the door.
10:58Kinda hard to believe.
11:00Gotta have faith in me.
11:02That is when
11:03the unthinkable happens.
11:04She trips on her feather boa
11:06and falls mid-song.
11:08The show draws it out
11:09for all the drama it can.
11:11Kylie, however,
11:12taps into her
11:12gymnastics background.
11:14She rolls into the fall
11:15without missing a beat,
11:16turning it into an iconic
11:17and unplanned lip sync stunt.
11:28It's a recovery
11:29worthy of a win.
11:30Moments later,
11:31RuPaul crowns her
11:32the season's champion.
11:34For your millions of fans
11:35around the world,
11:37you have anything
11:38you want to say.
11:40Live life in your truth
11:41and love always wins.
11:43What drag race fail
11:44lives in your head rent-free?
11:46Tell us in the comments.
11:47Friends.
11:47Let's get started.
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