MiniCap: Drag Race

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   J-Mo
   Posted February 26, 2013 at 2:15 am

   hahahahaha and that’s pre-nose-job Kathy Griffin on the left in that entire video!

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   cbc-cca
   Posted February 26, 2013 at 6:38 am

   Ha! Great catch, J-Mo!

   I wish they had the extra scenes from Snatch Game on logotv because I feel like Alaska’s Lady Bunny was probably she-larious. Not to take away from Jinkx though, she was Little Edie personified. Awwwwnestly. Waving that little US flag and the magnifying glass … slayed it!!!

   Ivyyyyyy Winterz … lucky lucky queen. *shaking head sadly at her non-performance*

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   April
   Posted February 26, 2013 at 6:43 am

   I loved both Julies back in the day. It dates me because I was just a little girl too. I was raised by a gay man though who let me watch whatever I wanted so I saw that whole movie the Madonna and the Julie Brown version and loved them both!

   I am totally watching Grey Gardens now. I love Jinxx. She wins me over more each week. Sometimes I have found the plucky Queens overrated but not Jinxx. She does need the glamour but she is just so cute.

   I am so glad Detox is staying. I would have been sad to see her go. Lineysha was boring. I normally live for the PR Queens but not Lineysha. Just not personality on that one.

   Alyssa reminds me a bit of myself. She really does not like criticism and if someone insults her she will come back with a below the belt insult. I do that too. I am really a nice person. But, just don’t insult me or I will start talking about how your mother was a crack whore. I am not afraid to hit where it hurts.

   Detox has worn big poofy dresses two weeks in a row. She better be careful or they will out her like they did Honey with her bedsheets.

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   April
   Posted February 26, 2013 at 6:45 am

   Okay BTW does anyone know if like they send you the themes or looks ahead of time before coming on the show? It seems they do. Like for phisy glamour she actually had a fish. I doubt that was coincidental. I really like Ivy’s style. She comes up with some neat stuff.

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   badgerfreak
   Posted February 26, 2013 at 7:47 am

   Jinxy Cat! I love your Edie to bits and pieces. The voice, the style, the antics. ALL of it was perfect! Those other queens need to watch themselves some movies and learn about Edie. Or there’s a thing called Wikipedia.

   Tell me that awkward seat switch on untucked wasn’t forced. Whatever.

   I was surprised Detox was in the bottom.

   Overall, those queens pretty much all sucked with their choices for Snatch Game. It felt like it was getting out of control like it did last season. Oh man. I want more clips of Edie.

   Ms. PR needed to go. She was long overdue. She has no personality at all. And there have been plenty of other queens that are from PR that can make the language barrier work. She didn’t. At all.

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   badgerfreak
   Posted February 26, 2013 at 7:49 am

   And Alyssa’s shocked faces in her interviews KILL me every time. I love it.

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   Jessi
   Posted February 26, 2013 at 8:43 am

   I had so many feelings about this episode. Mostly I was appalled at the willful ignorance of some of the queens. It’s bad enough to be a drag queen and not know Grey Gardens, but to lash out at someone and try to make them feel stupid about your own unwillingness to learn just infuriated me. Also, why was Ru acting like no one in the audience would know it? Not only would the audience for THIS show know it, but Sharon did Little Edie in the magazine challenge last season!

   I was really disappointed with Coco this week. Also, I expected Detox and Ivvy to be much funnier. Jinkx is my little engine that could hero/ine and Alaska and Roxie were wonderful as well. Thank GOODNESS some of the queens came to work today!

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   PacoSauce
   Posted February 26, 2013 at 9:41 am

   I wish you could have seen my face when Detox/Ke$ha got up to “pee.” It’s like I could tell what she was about to do, but I couldn’t stop the trainwreck. Flashbacks of Jiggly’s “SNOOKI WANT SMUSH SMUSH” and the romper-room fuckery of last season came flooding back. Get it TOGETHA, Detox! I thought Ivy’s Marilyn Monroe (when you can’t do a joke that Ru easily set up for you, it’s game over) was a little worse, but runway can mean life or lip-synch.

   And I’m supremely annoyed that the judges are demanding that Jinkx do some glamor. I think it’s good for queens to be well-rounded, but you’re not going to see Michelle chastising a glamazon queen for not being campy enough.

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   chaosbutterfly
   Posted February 26, 2013 at 10:55 am

   Snatch Game was a hot mess and I’m disappointed that so many of the queens didn’t come with a character ready.
   Like, you know that Snatch Game is gonna happen and that it’s gonna be a big deal. Why would you not be ready? Half of them were boring, some were acceptable, and only Alaska and Jinkx came correct. And then all those who sucked were definitely warned about sucking during the walkthrough. Have they not watched prior Snatch Games? When Ru warns you about your character, change that shit to something funny!
   Just disappointing.

   I’m also surprisingly happy to see Lineysha sashay. I thought she was so great in the beginning, but besides her look (and her lip sync was pretty good), there isn’t much there.
   I belly-laughed when she called Detox a piece of silicone with legs and eyes though.
   An oxygen mask after that one.

   Also, I don’t like Detox’s jaw wiggle thing during her lip syncs, especially when it doesn’t really go with the song. It freaks me out.

   And everyone picking on Jinkx. And Coco’s behavior in Untucked…ugh I have so much to say.
   Can’t wait for the full recap!

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    juddfan
    Posted February 26, 2013 at 11:00 am

    what’s sad is, I’m sure if Ke$ha did pee like that in real life, it would have been just as thuddingly wrong. Ivy . . . grrrl, even that wig was all wrong! I’m on the Edie train with the rest of you!!!

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    cbc-cca
    Posted February 26, 2013 at 12:27 pm

    Facebook is blowing up about Sharon Needles posting a pic of her doing Little Edie in the magazine challenge and saying, “Who did it first?”. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=474053449308683&set=a.241340819246615.52365.210739222306775&type=1&theater

    Jinkx fans are blasting Sharon saying Jinkx did it better and Sharon should be above all of this.

    To be fair … Jinkx had some time to prepare for the Snatch Game episode. Ever since she learned she was cast, she was honing that Edie character. And a superb job she did. She was amazing at it.

    However, Sharon came up with that photo shoot on the fly. Given the “p*ssy” topic, she worked it like the rent was due. Sharon knows her her-story down and Little Edie was the perfect pitch for the magazine.

    Plus, with all of the hoopla and shock surrounding the queens regarding the fact they didn’t even know who Little Edie was, I think Sharon was reminding us that not everyone is ignorant of history and culture. I don’t like to think she posted maliciously. She doesn’t seem like that kinda ghoul.

    Regarding the queens not knowing who Little Edie is, Mark Blankenship from NNN summed it up perfectly: “The problem last night wasn’t that queens didn’t know Little Edie: It’s that they made fun of Jinx Monsoon because she did know. Nothing makes you look stupider than being proud of your own ignorance.”

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    vallegirl
    Posted February 26, 2013 at 1:31 pm

    If I’ve learned anything from Tumblr, it’s this: fandom’s are batshit crazy.

    But Sharon should be above having to toot her own horn about Little Edie. Yes, we remember her pulling it out last year on the magazine challenge and yes she LOOKED like Little Edie, but she didn’t really perform as Little Edie which is a lot more difficult. Jinkx may have had a few months to prepare the look and even practice the voice but her performance was on par with Chad’s Cher. Sharon may have been able to put together a reasonable look on the fly but Jinkx wasn’t likely influenced by her.

    The “Who did it first?” seems kind of petty for a past winner. But I will give Alaska a pass for knowing who Little Edie was. It just wasn’t part of the storyline.

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    sarcasatire
    Posted February 26, 2013 at 1:54 pm

    Jinks is my fave!! So sweet, so determined, and so damned talented! And I love that little smack-down of Michelle Visage. She’s been getting dismissed lately by guest judges on her tacky aesthetic so when Jinks said this, it was just perfect. I just hope they don’t get mad because she didn’t pack any ball gowns.

    I also find it highly suspicious that this is episode 5 and only one sewing challenge so far. I’m thinking some or Ru’s (or the producer’s) favorites don’t sew. Everyone is just wearing random drag on the runway or possibly a color them (pink!). But where are the fashion challenges?

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    juddfan
    Posted February 26, 2013 at 2:04 pm

    @sacra, I’m not sure how many of the challenges ever involve sewing . . . I know they had the one.

    I have no idea why two different people can’t like Edie, and both do her justice . . . how many millions of Drag Queens have done Cher, and Madonna etc . . . it’s shouldn’t be exclusionary.

    I heart Jinx, and kind of have from the beginning. I also didn’t like Detox’s jaw wiggle, even if it was awesome, it was too much of the same thing.

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    chaosbutterfly
    Posted February 26, 2013 at 2:18 pm

    I agree that “make your own costume out of this random junk” runways were more prominent in prior seasons. It’s a good point that they really haven’t had to do that much this season, but I hope that they have to do it more later. I always think the costumes are much more impressive when they’re made there, rather than being brought from home.

    “Nothing makes you look stupider than being proud of your own ignorance.”

    So true.
    And CoCo even made a point of bringing up how she didn’t know who Little Edie was during the snatch game, like it was supposed to be funny.
    It’s not funny that you’re old as hell and a drag queen and even a former Miss. Gay America (by default but still) and STILL don’t know who Little Edie is. That’s not funny at all, that’s straight embarrassing.

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    sarcasatire
    Posted February 26, 2013 at 3:43 pm

    Awwwwwnestly.

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    sarcasatire
    Posted February 26, 2013 at 3:47 pm

    If you want to fall even more in love with Jinks, check out her Funny or Die series Monsoon Season. She’s pretty darn funny!

    (the first mini-webisode)
    http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/5bc7337465/spillin-the-t-with-michael-strangeways

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    snowshoecat
    Posted February 26, 2013 at 4:43 pm

    @Chaos, luved the comment about the old as hell drag queen who is also even a (not) former Gay America NOT knowing who Little Edie is as straight embarrassing.

    Very punny my dear.

    And @Sarclassy, I too heart Jinkx. Heart, heart, heart.

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    S-Natch
    Posted February 26, 2013 at 6:54 pm

    @Paco – great point about the judges not demanding the Glamazons do more camp. Touche. I am glad that Santino pointed out that Jinkx was reminiscent of Pandora Boxx.

    I was not a particular Jinkx fan at the beginning, but she is really growing on me. A pox on Coco’s house for being such a freaking mean girl. Here’s hoping karma (or the producers) get sick of her and Alyssa’s antics sooner rather than later.

    Team JinkxLaska!

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    April
    Posted February 26, 2013 at 7:13 pm

    I am also not a fan of Detox’s lip thing when lip synching. It is not good like Jujubee’s lip thing that looks at least realistic. Detox’s is just distracting in a bad way.

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    sarcasatire
    Posted February 26, 2013 at 7:20 pm

    Lineysha’s lip sync was better. With that said, Ru is waiting for a more dramatic moment to break up Rolaskatoxx so he kept Detox around.

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    sarcasatire
    Posted February 26, 2013 at 7:29 pm

    I could see why Coco was mad at Alyssa’s shade throwing while they were doing makeup. Alyssa, while I like her, is definitely one of those people who will hit you with the lowest blow, smirk, and say, I was just playing.

    Her beef with Jade is justified, I’m sure any of the queens would have reacted the same way if their name was called and they weren’t on the stage. So Alyssa can’t really be surprised at raising Jade’s ire, no matter how justified she thinks she is by calling Jade out.

    I think she felt a little double-teamed because she was in a room with both of them and no one to act as a buffer, but I do think that their anger was justified. She and Coco both dish it and take it. I don’t think one is more innocent or guilty than the other. I’m sure plenty ends up on the cutting room floor.

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    J-Mo
    Posted February 26, 2013 at 8:41 pm

    Um, I just want to point out that Coco claimimg she’s the “star” six nights a week in her show is not quite true. She does Janet and Rihanna at Divas Las Vegas, and honey, the unapologetic STAR of that show is FRANK FUCKIN’ MARINO. Also, the last FOUR times I’ve seen that show, Coco’s only been in it ONCE. And she doesn’t look nearly as much like Janet as she thinks she does. Ok, I guess I’m trying to say that I’m kinda over Coco, and I’m especially over her doing 1814-era Janet and pulling out that lame costume change THAT IS A PART OF THE ROUTINE SHE ALREADY DOES. This is not being prepared to do Snatch Game… it’s being downright LAZY. UGH. And please, making a joke about Alyssa’s DEAD-OBVIOUS OVERBITE??!?! Drag queens are supposed to be better and smarter than that. Not this season, apparently…

    love, J-Mo
    P.S. I’m just really pissed off about the lack of cultural literacy amongst this group, it’s one thing not to know who or what Little Edie and Grey Gardens are, but to not be aware of Marilyn Monroe’s connection to JFK?!?!?! I’m betting half those queens didn’t even know who the Julie Browns were! UGH!

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    sarcasatire
    Posted February 26, 2013 at 11:11 pm

    Yes, J-Mo!!! I can’t believe so many of them don’t know who Little Edie is. I mean, even if they never picked up the Grey Gardens dvd off a bookshelf in the library (I was intrigued by the cover alone), you would think their exposure to other queens would have given them a tangential reference or two. Not only have they never heard of Little Edie, in 10 years as drag queens, they’ve never come across another queen who does? That means they are in a small effing pond. Branch out, girlie!

    Coco may be good at dancing to Janet Jackson’s music, but she does not embody her character. Ham it up, talk about a rivalry with Latoya, snark on Jermaine, do something referential. Snatch Game is never just about the look, and any queen who thinks so always ends up with her ass handed to her.

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    April
    Posted February 27, 2013 at 6:36 am

    Yeah there are so many jokes you can make about the Jackson family and from what they showed she never made any of them.

    Comedy is hard. I give them that. But this is one time they had plenty of time to prepare and get some jokes ready. For them not to do that is just sad. Hell they could even have hired someone to write jokes for them before they got on the show just in case and used those! Just no excuse.

    From what I heard about Grey Gardens is just reminds me of Great Expectations so much with the old mansion and the crazy older ladies flouncing around.

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    MellyMel
    Posted February 27, 2013 at 10:53 am

    There are always the queens who go for who they can \look\ like, rather than who they can \act\ like. It makes for a very boring Snatch Game.

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    juddfan
    Posted February 27, 2013 at 12:25 pm

    I think the worst parts were, when asked -opened her (blank)- Janet should have said-nipple clip or her lapel. I would have gone on with her innocent act, esp with Letterman,-oh David, I don’t want to talk about it, over and over. She could have also mentioned the super bowl half time show. Or Miss Janet coz I’m nasty . . . seriously, she really only needs two or three comebacks.

    And also Alyssa, Ru says-I heard you kissed a girl-seriously . . . she hasn’t ever heard that song or heard of it. She could have faked it and said, I’m just a Firework, or Last Friday Night, perhaps . . . it just goes on.

    Finally saw Untucked too, and it is sad when Alyssa does those nasty insults . . . Jade is not talentless.

    I did rewatch it last night, and even tho I never watched the Braxton show, I think Roxxxy did a great job with her choice and role.

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    MyrnaTyrna
    Posted February 27, 2013 at 3:28 pm

    I realize this is a little off topic – but each week, I just LIVE to hear Ru finish off with “Now, canna getta Amen up in HEAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH?” It’s been getting longer and longer every time, and always makes me laugh out loud.