After being in the bottom three times, Darienne Lake was sent home last week. Back in the Werk Room, everyone is having a good time spanking Heidi in her Eeyore look. The queens then look at the lipstick votes from the voting box and Darienne received seven votes to go home while Jaymes Mansfield only received one. Jimbo does a fake out as if she chose Alexis Michelle’s lipstick, but she actually chose Darienne’s as well.
In her confessional, Alexis says that since Jimbo is the first queen to win two challenges that she might need to “sleep with one tit open” since she could be a target to go home.
The next day, Ru enters the Werk Room to announce that this week’s maxi challenge is the Snatch Game of Love. We all know the rules, but for those who don’t, the queens will impersonate celebrities to charm guest celebrities.
Lala Ri will be impersonating Sukihana from “Love & Hip Hop Miami,” Jessica Wild is doing Puerto Rican singer Iris Chacón, and Jaymes will be Jennifer Coolidge. Jimbo and Alexis talk about feeling pressure having won the Snatch Game on their original seasons, but honestly it seems like Alexis is stressed while Jimbo is being nonchalant and probably trying to not show any anxiety. Alexis will impersonate Bea Arthur and she has pages of notes for her performance. In her confessional, Jimbo says Alexis is her biggest competition for this challenge.
For the walkthroughs with Ru, Kahanna Montrese only brings a big container of cheese puff balls because she’s going to impersonate Coco Monstrese. Jimbo is next and Ru laughs at her simply walking to the table. Jimbo will be doing Shirley Temple and Ru brings up how Jimbo won as Joan Rivers on Canada’s Drag Race season 1. Jimbo admits she never impersonated Shirley and hasn’t even tried on the costume yet. Heidi N Closet will impersonate the famous pirate Blackbeard and says she kind of lets the competition get to her at times.
Finally, the Snatch Game of Love begins. The first celebrity contestant is Matt Rogers from Fire Island and the co-host from the podcast “Las Culturistas.” Blackbeard is pretty fantastic with the bit about her wooden peg falling off, Iris is naturally hilarious (because Jessica is), Coco flops, and Jennifer Coolidge does great. Since Kahanna keeps flopping, Heidi takes the opportunity to respond to her bad jokes so that a joke actually lands and to create some sort of volley between them. Heidi also volleys with Jaymes and Jessica and it’s hilarious. Kahanna keeps flopping and thinks Heidi is kicking her while she’s down, but the only thing I hear is that she’s insecure since she’s doing really bad. Rogers chooses Jennifer Coolidge as his Snatchular.
The next celebrity contestant is Bowen Yang from Saturday Night Live, Fire Island, and is the other co-host from “Las Culturistas.” We find out that Kandy Muse is impersonating Renee Graziano from “Mob Wives,” but to no surprise it’s an opportunity for Kandy to impersonate Kandy. Sukihana does great and Shirley immediately makes Ru laugh even though I didn’t laugh. Alexis embodies Bea Arthur fantastically and Shirley is mostly funny because it’s psychotic for a 39 year old man to play a five year old while tap dancing like she’s on crack. Yang chooses Shirley Temple as his winner and jokingly says “I might be put on a registry for it.”
I don’t know who approved this but Rogers and Yang lip sync to “Read U Wrote U” by RuPaul. I’m curious who was forced to choreograph something that shitty.
Heidi then proceeds to respond to Kandy who asks if she’s going to regret this, “No, I’m not gonna regret this.” In her confessional, Heidi makes a departure statement: “No amount of money, no $200,000, no $50,000 from the Fame Games is worth my happiness.” You go Heidi. Lala is a good sister and respects her decision and tells Heidi she loves her.
Did the biggest cunt in the room get even bigger? Alexis Michelle begins to cry while doing her makeup. Girl bye. She’s acting out a monolouge saying drag is what’s saved all of them, goodbye Alexis. Jimbo says she’s bummed and that she can’t trust anyone.
On the runway, Ru is in a mini dress with navy, blue, maroon, red, silver, and purple waves on it. Bowen Yang and Matt Rogers are also the guest judges and the runway category is “Ruveal Yourself.” Ru quickly addresses that Heidi has left the competition and won’t be participating in the Fame Games. Michelle looks pissed and I’m so happy to see it.
- Up first is Jessica Wild in a big yellow coat with chicken feather trim, revealing into a pretty modern dress that looks like a white teardrop egg-shaped mini dress, which reveals into an eggs-over-easy white bodysuit. This is a reference to when she won a challenge on season 2 acting like a chicken.
- Kahanna Montrese is in a beautifully stoned gold, silver, and purple bra and panties set with dripping jewels, and a Vegas headpiece with yellow and orange ostrich feathers on it. She also has a yellow ostrich shawl that she uses to move around as she takes off her bra to reveal pasties and her panties to reveal a little piece of jewelery covering her private parts.
- Jaymes Mansfield is holding a pink furry puppet over her top half with a shiny pink mermaid dress and light pink tulle on the bottom. She moves the puppet to reveal her face. Then she takes off the dress to reveal into a showgirl corset and panties look, which then reveals into a bra and panty set but the nude illusion on her midsection is saggy. I feel bad. Then she takes off her bra to reveal pasties.
- Kandy Muse is in a light blue ‘50s housewife dress with white flowers and a white lap apron with black polka dot pockets and waistband. Kandy then spins to reveal a red flowy dress that is not cute. She pulls on a string in the middle of the corset that reveals into a silver iridescent bra, I’m guessing that’s a skirt, and garter look. Honestly, she has a boxy shape in this last look.
- Lala Ri takes off a purple-blue blanket to reveal a silver stoned, ribbed bodysuit with a big bow on her backside and forearm gloves and leggings in the same fabric. This is not a reveal. She does look good though.
- Jimbo, but wait, is that really Jimbo? She walks in backwards with a mask of a man’s face on the back of her head, and a nude full bodysuit with rhinestone leaves scattered throughout his body, and his feet look like rubber. Jimbo reveals herself as Eve from the Garden of Eden when she turns around with a big red apple covering her vagina and pulls out a snack from her apple. It’s fantastic.
- Alexis Michelle references a look she already did years ago. She looks like some homeless witch with rags covering her and a disturbing half mask and ghoul gloves. She then throws the cape over her which reveals into a black dress underneath and spins around until her dress has covered the rags. She has on black gloves and has one white eye contact to give the look some edge.
Kandy and Lala are deemed safe and Jessica Wild gets somewhat mixed critiques about her Snatch Game of Love performance but they loved her runway look. Kahanna is read for her Snatch Game performance because it was repetitive and when Ru and the other queens (oh wait, Heidi you mean?) tried interacting with her, it fell flat. Her runway and presentation are praised, though. Jaymes gets great critiques for her maxi challenge performance but her runway looks didn’t fit her too well and her looks are getting repetitive. Alexis Michelle received amazing critiques for her Bea Arthur and good critiques for her runway look. Jimbo is praised for everything she did on this episode and Matt Rogers says Jimbo “ is the best physical comedian Drag Race has ever seen.”
Jimbo is then deemed the winner of this week’s challenge and wins a cash prize of $5,000. Jaymes and Alexis are safe while Jessica and Kahanna are in the bottom. The producers make the queens vote for one of the bottom two to go home even though Heidi already left. Jimbo is then in a stoned pink mini dress with garter boots, a headpiece, velvet gloves, and a massive pink and purple feathered collar with the feathers also on top of the headpiece.
The lip sync assassin for this week is the legend, the trans icon, the dancing diva from New York City: Jasmine Kennedie. She’s in a champagne colored robe with a ruffled trim and a beautifully stoned dress underneath that basically consists of draped gold jewelry. They lip sync to “Hallucinate” by Dua Lipa and, once again, Jimbo loses by a long shot. Jasmine does a backflip, lands on one leg, and falls right into a split with the grace of a trained dancer. Also Jimbo trips and catches herself, which made me laugh. Jasmine Kennedie clearly wins and the $20,000 rolls over to next week’s tip. But Ru interrupts the elimination process to share that no one will be going home tonight since Heidi already left.