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An Unforgettable Runway Saves a Sinking Snatch Game At Sea On \u2018RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n

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We are all living in a post-\u201cSorry Not Sorry\u201d lip sync world, and I for one could not be happier. <\/p>\n

Every season of RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race<\/em>, fans anxiously await the Snatch Game. It\u2019s a make-or-break moment for the queens each time, and it\u2019s responsible for the series\u2019 most memorable moments. <\/p>\n

Although last night\u2019s Snatch wasn\u2019t one of the best, the episode shocked with not one, but two ICONIC, LEGENDARY moments that will be etched in the annals of herstory forever and ever, amen.<\/p>\n

But first, the drama from our last Untucked<\/em> still lingers. Yvie insinuated Sikly was talentless and someone flipped Vanjie\u2019s freak-out switch. Silky opts to ice Yvie out, while Vanjie goes full fire screaming. Is it the most well-articulated argument? No. Was Yvie acting with malicious intent giving Vanjie some tough love? No. Does any of that stop Vanjie from an unrelenting screaming fit? Also, no.<\/p>\n

The mini-challenge this week is a fun little excuse to plug Ru\u2019s new book, GuRu<\/em>. The gals all need to pitch a self-help book of their own. Silky runs away with this one, shilling for her book, Eat It: Chronicles of the Buffet<\/em>. It\u2019s pure Silky, and it\u2019s got the most fully-realized vision of the bunch.<\/p>\n

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Her win comes with a chunk of change from Postmates, which brings All Star <\/em>alum Morgan McMichaels in to do a cute little segment with Ru that involves a callback to pingpong balls being shot out of her \u2026 well, you get the idea.<\/p>\n

Of course, this week is all about Snatch Game at Sea, which is really just regular Snatch Game with Ru in a captain\u2019s hat. The ladies<\/a>\u2019 choices had me feeling both too old and too young. Silky was doing T.S. Madison, Plastique picked Lovely Mimi, Vanjie picked the \u201cCash Me Outside\u201d girl<\/a>. I have such cursory knowledge of these folks. Are they \u2026 a Snapchat? <\/p>\n

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On the opposite end, Nina picks Harvey Fierstein (as Edna Turnblad) and Jo Anne Worley, pulling a Bob the Drag Queen double Snatch. They\u2019re obscure picks, especially for a crowd that thinks \u201cCash Me Outside\u201d girl<\/a> is a celebrity, but you know Ru will eat it up. Shuga Cain picks a perfect Snatch character in Charo, while Yvie is taking on View<\/em> moderator and EGOT winner Whoopi Goldberg. <\/p>\n

Most concerning is Brooke. Despite her frontrunner status, Brooke is Shooke<\/em> about Snatch. She doesn\u2019t do characters, but she\u2019s going to try her best at Celine Dion. It\u2019s a choice that a better comedian could absolutely slay, but Brooke doesn\u2019t have much to offer beyond the backward tuxedo jacket and some kind of Canadian accent. <\/p>\n

Ru\u2019s walkthrough is joined by season five winner and Snatch champion, Jinkx Monsoon. Yvie and Brooke are clearly in trouble, and they warn Vanjie to maybe think more expansively about where the jokes can come beyond \u201cCash me outside.\u201d There\u2019s also some concern that Plastique\u2019s nail tech character may be too close to what she did in the Black Panther<\/em>-themed acting challenge earlier this season.<\/p>\n

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That last critique seemed to be unfounded once the ladies<\/a> are on stage. Veep<\/em>\u2018s Clea DuVall and Tony Hale are our contestants, and both are definitely game. The Snatch itself is something of a letdown. Silky bulldozes the competition by basically being Silky, but you can\u2019t deny she\u2019s funny doing it. Nina has a lot of fun starting as Harvey Fierstein, but it\u2019s her transformation into Jo Anne Worley that really deserves high marks. She hits the signature singing \u201cWooooooh!\u201d and does a very cute little bit that transforms Snatch Game to Snatch Word, a reference to Worley\u2019s time on Password<\/em>. <\/p>\n

Shuga also puts on a strong performance. It\u2019s very Charo 101, but she stays in character and imbues the performance with real love from the Love Boat<\/em> staple. Plastique as Lovely Mimi and A\u2019Keria as Tiffany Haddish both exceeded my expectations with a few successful gags landing throughout.<\/p>\n

Then we\u2019ve got the real tough stuff. As Whoopi, Yvie fully misses the mark. The look is right, but the joke she keeps harping on is that Whoopi hasn\u2019t had any good roles in a long time, which doesn\u2019t feel remotely true, much less a definitive characterization. There are so many ways to tackle Whoopi, and Yvie chose none of them.<\/p>\n

As predicted, Vanjie got nothing on \u201cCash Me Outside\u201d girl<\/a> (whose name I refuse to commit to memory). She starts with a weird high-pitched voice that she immediately drops. The rest of the performance is just Angry Vanjie. <\/p>\n

But the real bottom of the barrel is Brooke as Celine, who doesn\u2019t even attempt a joke. It\u2019s just a Canadian accent (that really doesn\u2019t even sound like Celine). At least Yvie was trying. This felt like a real retreat in the face of challenge.<\/p>\n

Before the runway, Yvie attempts to smooth things over with Silky, but Dr. Ganache still ain\u2019t having it. Vanjie has better luck making nice with Yvie, attributing their spat to the way sisters fight. Again, Vanjie\u2019s self-awareness is on display, knowing her behavior was not becoming for a woman<\/a> of her age. It was another example why there\u2019s so much more depth to this sometimes silly character.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s all sequin everything on the runway, and all the queens BRING it, but none more than Brooke. Knowing her Snatch performance is going to land her in the bottom, she goes all the way out. She emerges in an afro and sequined cape, tossing both off to reveal the sexiest little barely-there pink swimsuit and long blonde locks. Not only is it one hell of a reveal, she sells all over the runway, posing and dropping like none other. It is truly one of, if not THE, greatest runway presentations of all time. The judges are literally SCREAMING the whole time. It\u2019s art.<\/p>\n

The judges feedback was all pretty predictable. Silky is the clear winner, but Nina and Shuga both get praise for their work. Vanjie is called out for yet another swimsuit and a character that was nowhere near fully baked. Yvie is also on the chopping block for missing so many chances to play up Whoopi\u2019s most notable roles, like View<\/em> moderator and Sister Act<\/em> star.<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s Brooke. The judges can barely verbalize how much they love it, but it\u2019s just not enough to save her from the bottom two.<\/p>\n

Just when we thought we peaked with Brooke\u2019s runway, she and Yvie are tasked with lip syncing to Demi Lovato\u2019s \u201cSorry Not Sorry.\u201d It\u2019s a PERFECT song for this. It\u2019s got attitude, it\u2019s got clear shablam moments and it\u2019s part of the Gay Community DNA in terms of songs everyone basically knows. <\/p>\n

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And yet? Brooke and Yvie outdo even the loftiest expectations. They do a perfectly timed dual drop\/flip and both spend more time than one would think is humanly possible lip syncing while COMPLETELY UPSIDE DOWN. They burn the whole friggin\u2019 house down. I watched this lip sync no less than six times, and I got chills every time. It\u2019s a THRILL. It\u2019s Drag Race<\/em> at its absolute best. <\/p>\n

Ru clearly can\u2019t send either home, so it\u2019s a double shantay.<\/p>\n

Where does that leave us? Check out our rankings below, and leave yours in the comments!<\/p>\n

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  1. Yes, Snatch was a huge fail for Brooke<\/strong>, but she survived. Not only did she just survive, she murdered that runway and lip sync. It was masterful. She looked fantastic and gave us iconic moments. With her biggest roadblock now in the rearview, she can continue her dominance. <\/li>\n
  2. Silky<\/strong> is surging. I\u2019ve been saying from the jump that she\u2019s a star, and the judges clearly agree. I know very little about T.S. Madison\u2019s whole thing, but Silky had me laughing. She also never looked better than in the green gown she wore on this runway. It was a stellar week for her all around.<\/li>\n
  3. Like Brooke, Yvie<\/strong> can bounce back from this abysmal Snatch like she bounced off the floor during that lip sync. Her runway lewk wasn\u2019t as strong as Brooke\u2019s, but she still got high praise from the judges for her glam rock jumpsuit (even if Michelle didn\u2019t get the wig). Yvie knows who she is, and she\u2019s done a good job thus far channeling that into the challenges and runways. <\/li>\n
  4. Don\u2019t sleep on A\u2019Keria<\/strong>. Her Tiffany Haddish played to all her signature bits. She was quick, she was funny and she looked great. On the runway, A\u2019Keria is consistently excellent (save for that unfortunate shoulder pad last week). Her wig was big and beautiful, and I love the little cat tail she added for an extra layer of camp.<\/li>\n
  5. Vanjie<\/strong> is on the decline. I\u2019m getting less and less convinced she\u2019ll make it to the finals each week. She was a fool not to heed Ru\u2019s warnings in the workroom, and it seems like she\u2019s committed to walking the runway like it\u2019s a plank each week, just waiting for Michelle to send her overboard. She can still turn it out, and I could see her surviving lip syncs against all the gals down further in the rankings, which makes me think she\u2019ll outlast at least a few more queens.<\/li>\n
  6. This should\u2019ve been Nina<\/strong>\u2018s challenge to slay, but she was merely \u201cgood.\u201d Not great. In the absence of a big win here, and with runways that never blow anyone away, it feels like a matter of time until Nina sashays away.<\/li>\n
  7. It\u2019s not that Plastique <\/strong>did poorly last night, but when sizing up the competition, she\u2019s just starting to fall a bit behind. Maybe it is the personality gap, or maybe it\u2019s her youth that makes her look a little less seasoned than the rest. Lovely Mimi isn\u2019t someone everyone, especially Ru, seems inspired by. Maybe she would have done better with a character more folks could recognize.<\/li>\n
  8. It\u2019s a shame that Shug<\/strong>a still feels like the bottom of the list despite her top-three finish here. Charo was an excellent choice, and the judges ate up her purple gown on the runway. Personally, I felt the flamenco-style hair was a bit too on the nose and wish she made a different choice in the styling to elevate the whole thing. Like Plastique, other queens\u2019 star power is outshining Shuga. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    How would you rank the queens?<\/p>\n

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