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When a queen drops a confessional line that cuts straight to the truth, you know the moment is instantly iconic. Join us as we count down the “Drag Race” reads, reactions, and shade that perfectly captured what viewers were already thinking. Our list includes unforgettable moments from Alaska, Aja, Valentina, Bianca Del Rio, Alyssa Edwards, and more!
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00:00The CDC should really look into making a drag delusion vaccine because I think that at this
00:05point in the competition, the drag delusion might be contagious. Welcome to Ms. Mojo. And today,
00:10we're counting down our picks for the times when drag race contestants read our minds.
00:15Is it fan favorite or is it congeniality? If it's fan favorite, then I guess she deserves it.
00:20We should call it fan favorite, but congeniality, I just don't see it. Yeah, fan favorite.
00:26Number 20. Detox might be getting outdanced by Jinx. Alaska, season 5. In one of the defining
00:32lip syncs of a great season, Detox and Jinx Monsoon faced off to Ima Sumac's Malambo No. 1.
00:38Detox had slayed two lip syncs already in her season. Jinx was the lovable underdog.
00:42This is a perfect song for me to play up a shtick. Thank God I'm not wearing that hoop skirt.
00:54Clearly, Jinx's style of performance was more well-suited to the song. As one-third of
00:58Alaska Talks tried to fight her way out of the bottom, it was clear by the edit that she wasn't
01:03making it to the final three. If Michelle Visage's skeptic glare didn't seal the deal,
01:07Alaska's assessment did. Jinx is kicking and dancing and she's bumping her hips.
01:12I hate to say it, but Detox might be getting outdanced by Jinx.
01:17Yep. Detox was getting outdanced by the queen everyone had underestimated.
01:21Number 19. How do you walk into the workroom without knowing how to sew?
01:26Aja, season 9.
01:27I don't want to do this.
01:31I don't know. This is hard. I don't know what I'm doing.
01:34For years, we've heard the same piece of advice for hopeful queens.
01:38If you want to make it on Drag Race, you need to know how to sew. By season 9,
01:43it was so familiar to us that it was almost a trope all by itself.
01:46During her design challenge walkthrough with RuPaul, season 9's pheromone coyly admitted
01:51she wasn't necessarily the most talented seamstress.
01:54I'm smart in a lot of other ways, but when it comes to fabrics and needles and stuff,
02:01I'm just not as, uh, uh, what's the word?
02:07Proficient. Proficient, yeah.
02:09Aja pretty much summed up our sentiments exactly.
02:12In her confessional, she wondered how you don't immediately learn how to sew
02:15as soon as you get that call from the producers, if not before.
02:19It's season 9. How do you walk into the workroom without knowing how to sew?
02:24That's just saying.
02:26Number 18. She fell hard.
02:31The big burlesque number pheromone planned for the talent show did not go her way.
02:35In the All Stars 4 premiere episode, one stumble brought the challenge to a screeching halt.
02:40Whoa. She fell.
02:44And she fell hard, bitch.
02:47While some queens recover from spills like this, Farrah hit the ground so hard she was visibly shaken up by
02:52it.
02:52Valentina's not just describing what happened here.
02:55She's as embarrassed and concerned as we are for Farrah when she falls and doesn't get up right away.
02:59Being shady would have felt a little too mean for that moment.
03:02That almost makes it more brutal.
03:04America, she might be in the bottom.
03:08Because it's not stunning.
03:10Number 17. I just think you're annoying.
03:12Vivian Panay, Season 5.
03:14Sometimes it's okay when the queens are mean.
03:17As early as Episode 1, the cast of Drag Race's fifth season was experiencing some interpersonal conflicts, and we loved
03:23it.
03:24Does it bother you I keep saying I'm 21?
03:26Well, no, not at all. I mean, because honestly, I look just as young as you, but you just keep
03:30dragging.
03:30Are you sure about that?
03:32Oh.
03:33Easy.
03:34Girl, you ain't that pretty.
03:36Super young competitor Serena Chacha had a lot to say.
03:39What's more, she wasn't shy about her confidence or her feelings about being much younger than her fellow queens.
03:44She even accused Vivian Panay of being jealous.
03:47It wears thin very quickly.
03:49You know, I have a feeling you just like to be the only pretty one.
03:52I just think you're annoying.
03:53It made for good TV.
03:54It also made Vivian's simple retort all the more delectable.
03:58It felt like the older, wiser queen keeping the young ones in line.
04:02Serena tries to read bitches like she can.
04:05She is loud, she won't shut her mouth, and I have had it with her.
04:09Number 16.
04:10It's immature, but I'm kind of living.
04:12Anitra, Season 15.
04:14Leaving the queens to come to an agreement about maxi-challenge matters always feels like a form of psychological warfare
04:20on RuPaul's part.
04:21This time, the Season 15 queens were tasked with picking what genre of song their groups would record.
04:26We, personally, would love to go with metal.
04:30Does that conflict with anybody?
04:32We won metal.
04:32We won metal.
04:35Mistress Isabel Brooks and Lux Noir London were not backing down.
04:39Neither were Sasha Colby and Malaysia Baby Doll Fox.
04:42You would think this was life and death.
04:43Really, it was just metal versus country.
04:46Anitra, who seemed to stay pretty quiet during the fracas, was all of us in her confessional.
04:50To be honest, I feel like it's the slightest bit immature, but at the same time, I'm kind of living.
04:59Was it a bit juvenile?
05:00Maybe it was, but that's what made it hilarious.
05:03Girl, this metal battle.
05:08I can't.
05:09Number 15.
05:11She's a little bit more upset that she had not won this challenge.
05:14Jada Essence Hall Season 12.
05:16It is the face crack that cracked open a thousand safes.
05:20Jan's tears in the workroom after her New York sister Britta's elimination were suspicious, to say the least.
05:25Jada Essence Hall clocked it for what it was.
05:28Yeah, she's a little salty that her friend left, but I'm thinking she's a little bit more upset that she
05:34had not won this challenge.
05:36Jan wasn't crying because she's just disappointed for her friend.
05:38At least, that wasn't the only reason.
05:40She was upset that she was still being denied a challenge win week after week.
05:44Jackie clocked it too.
05:45I think this is a buildup of weeks and weeks of her not breaking through to the judges.
05:50She also says she's really upset about Britta, but I think it's more that she's upset that neither her nor
05:56Britta have been able to live up to their reputations.
06:00Jan's tears could be an understandable reaction to the pressure cooker that is Drag Race.
06:05At the same time, Jada and Jackie are just stating the obvious.
06:08Every bitch thinks that they're going to be that star and they're going to be that bitch and they're going
06:12to win, win, win, win, win.
06:13Child, look, we all want to win this competition.
06:16Number 14.
06:17I don't think that's an apology.
06:19Scarlet Envy, Season 11.
06:21Reunions can be a place where the queens of a season can finally let bygones be bygones.
06:25From deeply personal comments about Evie Oddly to her general energy throughout the season,
06:30Raja O'Hara had a lot to answer for when the Season 11 cast reunited.
06:33Well, I will apologize that you feel some type of way.
06:36I will even apologize for even having-
06:38I don't think that's an apology.
06:39No.
06:39That is that.
06:40Though a fan favorite now, Raja's reunion apologies didn't feel totally sincere.
06:45I'm sorry you felt that way isn't a great way to show accountability.
06:48And Scarlet Envy casually called it out.
06:51You don't apologize because someone's feeling some kind of way.
06:55You said some hurtful s*** for making them feel that bad.
06:57Well, can I finish what I was saying?
06:59Absolutely.
07:01Because you can direct it this way when you're done with Evie.
07:03It felt like a moment that was bigger than personal drama.
07:06There was a life lesson in it for everyone, drag queens and fans alike.
07:10Well, duh!
07:12Is that why we're here?
07:14Is that why we're all here?
07:15Number 13.
07:16There might be a case of drag delusion.
07:18Mistress Isabel Brooks, Season 15.
07:20Lucy LaDuca was not pleased with her placement for the Daytona Wind Challenge.
07:24And she let her Season 15 sisters know it.
07:27They weren't exactly feeling the situation either.
07:29I'm very, very upset that I was not in the top.
07:33I'm surprised and annoyed.
07:39Lucy's insistence that she was one of the best performers that week was countered by the simple fact that she
07:43was not in the top.
07:44Though not always the most charitable when it comes to her competitors,
07:47Mistress is pretty dead on when she diagnoses her fellow queen.
07:50Lucy's running storyline had a lot to do with her overly generous perspective on her own work.
07:55Lucy, if you think you're perfection, there might be a case of drag delusion, girl.
08:01Number 12.
08:02It's not for you to get.
08:04Derek Ferry, Season 8.
08:05Trixie Mattel was a fan favorite from the jump, but her video message for Kim Chi in Untucked inspired some
08:11controversy.
08:12Acid Betty, unprompted, offered her opinion of Trixie's iconic, if exaggerated, makeup style.
08:17You got her her first drag gig in Chicago?
08:20I did!
08:20Yeah.
08:21So it's your fault?
08:23You're to blame.
08:24I am to blame.
08:25No, I actually love Trixie.
08:26She's actually really good.
08:26I love Trixie.
08:27She's got to fix the makeup.
08:28Of all people, it was Derek Barry who decided it was time to light it up.
08:32She was very collected but incredibly straightforward about the value of Trixie's makeup
08:36and pointed out how it doesn't matter if Betty gets it or not.
08:39You've done it quite a few times on Trixie.
08:41I just don't get the makeup.
08:43I know, but it's not for you to get.
08:44It's what she does.
08:46Even Bob the drag queen agreed with Derek, which is major considering how testy their
08:50relationship was at this point in the competition.
08:52I cannot believe I'm saying this.
08:56It happens often.
08:57Derek is absolutely right.
08:59Number 11.
09:00That's a lot of emotion for safe.
09:03Trixie Mattel, All Stars 3.
09:05It has to be said.
09:06Milk came back to the workroom a little spoiled.
09:09She stamped her feet and had a tantrum when she was declared safe for her Céline Zion impersonation.
09:13And the tears that followed worked her fellow competitor's last nerves.
09:16When I know I did a really great job, call me selfish, but I want, I want to hear it.
09:22Why was she crying?
09:24For someone who wasn't even in danger of going home, Milk was sure having a cow.
09:28She was utterly inconsolable.
09:30Trixie Mattel's response was as diplomatic as it could be without being mean.
09:34Rather than judge her fellow queen outright, Trixie opted instead to express her confusion
09:39at the display.
09:40I think that's a lot of emotion for safe.
09:42It's stupid.
09:44Girl, do you want Celine to come over here and sing you a song?
09:49Girl.
09:50Number 10.
09:51I feel very uncomfortable right now.
09:53Max.
09:54Queens argue on Drag Race all the time.
09:57It's honestly one of the best parts of the show.
09:59But getting into it with the host?
10:02Um, I think that I have a great personality, actually.
10:06Ooh, that gets awkward.
10:08No fan will ever forget the moment that Rue and Pearl faced off.
10:12Do I have something on my face?
10:15Rue was not having the future finalists' lackadaisical approach to the competition.
10:19And frankly, Pearl was not having it right back.
10:22This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
10:25Yeah, I'm aware of that.
10:26Caught in the middle, the almost hopelessly polite Max broke the intense silence with a
10:31comment that matched our sentiments exactly.
10:33I feel very uncomfortable right now.
10:38It was the most appropriate punctuation mark on an awkward and intense moment.
10:44Number 9.
10:44Liza Minnelli Lies.
10:46Vivacious.
10:47Adore Delano is a fantastic queen.
10:49But she was not known for strategically strategizing.
10:52Who is this?
10:53Where did you get this number?
11:01Adore, that's your cue.
11:03Her team struggled through the Scream Queens challenge.
11:05It was clear to everyone watching that they didn't properly rehearse the script of their
11:09parody horror movie.
11:10When Rue asked her if they knew their lines, Adore wasn't exactly truthful.
11:15Do you all have your lines memorized?
11:17Yeah.
11:19Vivacious's confessional in response really says it all.
11:22Liza Minnelli Lies.
11:25It's still quotable to this day.
11:27She had every right to call it out.
11:29Their lack of preparation affected her the most.
11:31And she sashayed away at the end of the episode.
11:34If Vivacious left us with anything, it is a barrel of amazing catchphrases.
11:39And also Ornacea.
11:41Number 8.
11:42Two Left Feet and Vertigo.
11:43Bob the Drag Queen.
11:45Whenever we needed a heaping dose of reality, season 8 winner Bob the Drag Queen was always
11:49there to provide.
11:50I don't think you know what she looks like.
11:52She's still a virgin because she's not aware that she's like a good looking 6 foot 4 man.
11:58You gotta own that.
12:00Episode 2's mini challenge saw the queens dancing down the line to Rue's new song.
12:04Now ladies, who likes to dance?
12:08Most of them could manage to not make a complete and total fool of themselves.
12:12Others were not so successful.
12:14And it was hilarious.
12:16Bob summed up competitor Kim Chi's moves in a pretty hilarious fashion.
12:20This is sad.
12:21Kim Chi has two left feet and vertigo.
12:24Call her Bob the Doctor because her diagnosis is spot on.
12:28Some queens are known for their makeup.
12:30And some are known for their dancing.
12:32You can trust Bob to tell you which is which.
12:35Number 7.
12:36What do you do successfully?
12:38Bianca Del Rio.
12:38Speaking of reality checks, here's a queen who was always happy to provide.
12:43Not today, Satan.
12:44Not today.
12:46Season 6 winner Bianca Del Rio had a lot of opinions.
12:49And she never missed.
12:51Her castmate Trinity K. Bonet struggled throughout the season.
12:54After a while, it arguably got a little tiring to hear how the challenges weren't letting her showcase her talents.
12:59Another challenge that I wasn't able to do.
13:01And it's frustrating.
13:02Apparently, Bianca Del Rio had had enough too.
13:05In Untucked, she took it upon herself to ask Trinity a question.
13:10What do you do successfully?
13:12Quickly.
13:14Insert shade rattle sound effect here.
13:16After all, it's not like this was the first season of the show.
13:20What kind of challenges was she expecting?
13:22Number 6.
13:23Pick a struggle.
13:24Vanessa Vanjie Mateo.
13:25Season 11 queen Mercedes-Eman Diamond gave us some unintentional comedy.
13:35However, her low-key personality and lackluster runway looks hindered her progress early on.
13:41Vanessa Vanjie Mateo, a.k.a. Miss Vanjie, took to the confessional booth to offer her perspective.
13:55It doesn't matter how much she wants to succeed in the competition.
13:58If she's not ticking any of the judges' boxes, she's sure to be sent home.
14:03As the audience, we have to agree.
14:05You have to have a big personality to stand out on Drag Race.
14:09If anyone can vouch for that, it's Miss Vanjie.
14:12Miss Vanjie.
14:13Miss Vanjie.
14:17Miss Vanjie.
14:18Number 5.
14:20That was a choice.
14:21Tatiana.
14:22Expectations were high when we finally got a long-awaited second season of All-Stars.
14:27My darlings.
14:28I can't believe you're back.
14:30No, really, I can't believe you're back.
14:32I thought the restraining order was still in effect.
14:34In the premiere episode, almost every queen brought her A-game to the stage for the talent show main challenge.
14:41Coco Montrese performed an old-fashioned dance number that was cute.
14:44But on All-Stars 2, cute just didn't cut it.
14:47Fellow All-Star Tatiana had a very simple response that pretty much summed it up.
14:51We all make choices, but that was a choice.
14:55This season 2 fan favorite is fond of a one-word reaction.
14:59Choices.
15:02Choices.
15:03Usually, it's her shady way of saying,
15:05that was a bad choice you made right there.
15:08Number 4.
15:09It looks like she's telling children to get off her lawn.
15:12Aja.
15:12Did you know that 99% of the drag acts in London stand in one spot during a lip sync?
15:17Performer.
15:1899% of the acts in London sing live.
15:21Okay, so maybe that's not an official statistic.
15:23When season 9's Charlie Hydes decided to give up during her bottom two lip sync,
15:27it was hard not to scream,
15:29let's go, do something, at the TV.
15:32Keep both my hands above the black blanket
15:36When the light's out
15:38Oh yeah!
15:40The other queens couldn't even keep quiet about it.
15:43Rather than let her flounder,
15:44they tried to give her some support from the back of the stage,
15:47but to no avail.
15:49Aja's description of her as an old lady telling kids to get off her lawn
15:52in particular was hilarious and so true.
15:55Trinity is selling the song.
15:58Charlie, on the other hand,
16:00it looks like she's telling children to get off her lawn.
16:03Number 3.
16:04I've had it.
16:06Officially.
16:07Detox.
16:08Drag race is a pressure cooker environment.
16:10Even someone who annoys you just a little bit
16:13is probably going to get to you more than they would in the real world.
16:16When Serena Chacha alienated practically everyone in the room
16:20by calling them uneducated,
16:21it was open season on the young queen.
16:24I'm sorry, I'm sorry at this point.
16:26The ghetto lexic and language is gone.
16:33Detox really was all of us
16:35when she threw out her catchphrase in response.
16:38I've had it officially.
16:40It really was too much.
16:42Serena was in over her head
16:43and everything she said was basically just making it worse.
16:46Maybe she should have taken the sage advice
16:49from more experienced queens like Alyssa Edwards.
16:52Bitch, set your ass down and shut the house.
16:54I love you.
16:55Number 2.
16:56They're both lacking energy.
16:58Alyssa Edwards.
16:59The vibes were off from the jump with the season 5 lip sync.
17:03Honey Mahogany was swallowed by her outfit
17:05and Vivian Pinay barely seemed like she wanted to be there.
17:08Oops, I did it again.
17:11You know there's something wrong when the edit focuses almost as much on the judge's blank stares
17:16as the lip sync itself.
17:18Alyssa Edwards' confessional was validating for those of us
17:20who were still waiting for the queens to kick it into high gear.
17:23We're both lacking energy.
17:25It's Britney Spears.
17:27Bring it.
17:28They just weren't bringing the fire.
17:30Oops, I did it again may be one of Britney Spears' more subdued songs,
17:34but it's still Britney.
17:35Not that innocent.
17:39Alyssa's words turned out to be prophetic.
17:42The lip sync ended with both queens being sent home
17:44in the series' first double elimination.
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18:14Number 1.
18:15Is she gonna jump from there?
18:16Milk.
18:17Well, is she?
18:18When Aja came voguing down the runway at the start of her variety show performance,
18:22we couldn't help but notice that big block sitting on stage.
18:29The raised platform came into play near the end of the performance.
18:32Watching with the other queens on the side of the stage,
18:35Milk asked the now iconic question we all had on our minds at that moment.
18:40The answer is yes.
18:42She is gonna jump from there.
18:44And no, we are not ready.
18:45We thought we were ready, but we were not.
18:49Paramedics.
18:49Paramedics make sure she's okay.
18:51Because I was not ready.
18:55Not.
18:55Did your favorite drag race moment make the list?
18:58Tell us in the comments.
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