Faith in us, the audience, that we will share RuPaul’s irreverent taste in fart jokes (which I certainly do,) but also faith in the queens. By not giving us a whiff of the real game of the sketch until the runway itself, Drag Race pulls off a rare double-blind: shocking the queens and the audience in equal measure.īut in a way, this prolonged reveal is a leap of faith. That’s what makes this particular fart twist so ingenious. By the time we watch the finished product, the various characters and shticks are kind of already old news. Throughout these episodes, we watch the queens read, rehearse, and even film these challenges before finally arriving at the final presentation on the runway. However, even solid writing can’t solve every problem with a comedy sketch. Pick your poison! However, in recent years, there’s clearly been a concerted effort to beef up these scripts with some real, honest-to-God jokes. The reasons for this are many: They tend to be long, unfunny, a poor showcase of the queen’s talents, and include an encyclopedia of obscure references utterly incomprehensible to all but a hyperspecific subset of media-obsessed Gen-X gay. Herstorically, these challenges have gotten a bad rap on Drag Race. The queens star in “The Daytona Winds,” an ’80s soap-opera parody exploring the drama and intrigue of three powerful drag families: the Michaels, the O’Haras, and the Davenports. This week marks the season’s first true acting challenge. But Drag Race’s true magic comes in episodes like tonight: when the show surprises the queens, and the queens surprise them right back. Sometimes the gimmicks work ( All-Stars 2’s “Revenge of the Queens,” this episode’s fart-sound inserts), and sometimes they don’t (season 11’s six-way lip-sync). Double eliminations, surprise returns, and golden chocolate bars are just some of the ways WOW has tried to keep the show fresh and keep the queens’ heartbeats spiking to 140 BPM. Drag Race is always trying to surprise its contestants and (by extension) us.
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