Episode Discussion: The Fabulous Bitch Ball

[keeper-of-stars.livejournal.com]

The Fabulous Bitch Ball

Welcome back, squirrel friends! It’s time for the next leg of the race! Who will make the cutest pooch? Will Phi Phi continue to get on everyone's nerves? And who will make the top three?!?!?

Wigs and heels don’t go on for a few hours yet, but let’s get the T flowing now!

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Comments

[barnacleboo.livejournal.com]

Talk about "mood: discontent"! (Obvious spoilers ahead. If anyone's searching, watchseries.eu has working links online.)

I just watched it online and I have to say I'm not best pleased, though the lipsynch and the challenge were both thoroughly enjoyable. In fact I thought this was one of the best episodes all season until the elimination. Heartbreaking, inspirational, gut-wrenchingly frustrating all at once! Aargh. I'm hesitant to talk about it too much since the episode hasn't aired yet, but my boyfriend and I were definitely left a little depressed.

On a more positive note I loved all of Sharon's looks, it was definitely superb to see her outside of her comfort zone even more. I really hope she takes the crown. Forget about polish - it's far harder to instill wit and creativity into someone than the ability to sew. Also LOVED the dogs they brought in - Chad's initial reaction and Latrice's interactions with Babyface were too wonderful, she was such a proud mamma!

Phi Phi's little spat on the runway was so stupid and so consistently Phi Phi, she should have been called out on it. I'll admit she did do well this week - the necklace breaking on her muppet was inspired, and her Nicki Minaj look pretty well-executed, though talk about channelling Kenya. Oh, wait, she did! (also pretty well...) But I think Sharon's totally right - her constant spitefulness has ruined her completely for me and I'd be so pissed if she won.

OH RU WHAT ARE YOU DOING!

[tehjakers.livejournal.com]

My boyfriend has a theory that Ru and/or the producers are keeping Phi Phi on to add animosity between her and Sharon just to keep viewers interested.

Everybody loves someone to hate.

[karenbcrazy.livejournal.com]

I thought the same thing when I saw Phi Phi come out with the dog park look, I wonder if Kenya left that wig behind for her to use this week. As much as the judges loved it, I was completely underwhelmed by Phi Phi's looks tonight.

I just hope the Phi Phi does out herself as the catty b**ch she is soon because I can't deal with her ego.

[brycelwynn.livejournal.com]

I don't like that Santino and Michelle are perpetuating this whole 'it's okay to be a bitch if you're a drag queen' thing. It seems that when you try to play the game with intrigity it gets you sashayed away, i.e. Nina Flowers, Pandora Boxxx, Yara Sofia, LaTrice Royale, etc. But when you play the bitch, you get to stay on up to the end, i.e., Raja, Tyra Sanchez, Raven, and now Phi Phi O'Hara. The truth is, if any of these girls acted as bitchy off-camera as they did on the show, not many people would support them at their shows.

[nearlynina.livejournal.com]

If you all checked out the girls on youtube then you'd know Phi Phi does Nicki Minaj all the time.

[barnacleboo.livejournal.com]

I'm sure she does, I just found it funny since she did that spot-on Kenya impression at the beginning of the episode - it's like Kenya's ghost is refusing to leave without a fight!

[nearlynina.livejournal.com]

Oh my god poor Phi Phi

[(Anonymous)]

Ru...where is your integrity and your eyes girl?! I am so disappointed.

[nearlynina.livejournal.com]

Hahahaha the dogs in the interior illusions lounge? Priceless!!!

[thethicket.livejournal.com]

Best moment in this season for me, hands down.

[10101110.livejournal.com]

YES!

[pharna.livejournal.com]

Those dogs were great <3 Well done, editors <3 <3 <3

The only thing that tops that?

Hunter mounting Phi Phi. LOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooool

[nearlynina.livejournal.com]

Haha Everyone wants some Phi Phi love, even the dogs!

[pharna.livejournal.com]

Hunter wants so much Phi Phi love, he wants puppy souvenirs!

[amor-remanet.livejournal.com]

+1.

Pandora's elimination was the one I hated most… until tonight. I can begrudgingly admit that Phi Phi's looks were cute tonight, but… they all seemed like a riff on the party girl theme to me, rather than separate themes. Probably because all Phi Phi ever does is some kind of party girl theme.

My grief is so mountainous that I might need to binge on Sondheim for the rest of the night, because only he would be able to express the depths of my melancholia. */useless reappropriation of Glee quotes moment.*

[forlornreverie.livejournal.com]

I have cried over two eliminations. Pandora's and then tonight. If Phi Phi wins, I will never watch another thing Ru does.

[pharna.livejournal.com]

+1. I really don't care anymore now. I wanted Big Latrice to take that crown so bad.

One consolation is that I'm pretty sure we WILL see Latrice in the All Stars and will NOT be seeing Phi Phi. And Phi Phi, if you think you're gonna win Miss Congeniality, you're so fucking wrong and the internet will prove it.

To Phi Phi's credit, when it comes to the looks and stuff, she has pulled a bit of a U turn. She started out as low level trash that would have lost to Kenya, but now she's....holy shit, winning. It's just that smug, smarmy attitude that just needs to get thrown off the boat like a plague infested rat. Her hot pink pooper scooper really gave her a dog park edge.

Latrice...Yeah, I think she's a little out of the fashion loop but BEING IN PRISON DOES THAT TO YOU. Yet you never once used that as an excuse. ;-; OH LATRICEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Chad, oh Chad....Whenever Ru says "Fashion Forward" then you...sadly fall apart. It wasn't a problem earlier since there was plenty of...padding between you and the bottom.

[pharna.livejournal.com]

What are we going to do with Latrice's laughter?!?! I mean, just Latrice's laughs alone made up for any bullshit Phi Phi did. Though I hope a GIF if Phi Phi getting mounted by her dog is somewhere out there on the internet. It has to be made!

If Latrice isn't on All Stars or the next Drag U, then Ru, what the HELL are you smoking?!





;_;

That the gods for youtube. Search for Latrice Laugh. You'll get that hilarious arse laugh she does in like, ep 3 or something.

[shiny-lights.livejournal.com]

As much as I hate Phi Phi I can understand why she wasn't up for elimination this week. Her attitude is TERRIBLE but her looks were pretty good and she was really good during the musical number. I fucking loved her hot pink pooper scooper. I still want to shake Willam for ruining the Sharon/Phi Phi lipsync throwdown, SHE WOULD HAVE GONE DOWN. And while I adore Latrice, her outfits fell a little flat for me this week. They were only "meh" but "meh" will get you eliminated in the top 4.

If Phi Phi gets higher than third place I will seriously have to break someone though, I hate her attitude and her personality on this show.

[brycelwynn.livejournal.com]

I believe Phi Phi will make it to Top 2 and here is why. The Sharon vs. Phi Phi lip sync for you life was EPIC but Willam's disqualification prevented someone from going home. Honestly, based on her performance in the lip sync and overall, I think Phi Phi would have sashayed away that evening.

Now that Chad, Phi Phi and Sharon are in the Top 3, Chad will get eliminated first which will ... dun, dun, dun, leave Phi Phi and Sharon to duke it out again in the final 2 lip sync for your life. If this happens, this will be the first time in Drag Race history where two queens battle it out TWICE.

[teemn.livejournal.com]

I totally agree, but I hope we're wrong!! Chad, Sharon and Latrice have been my faves by far all season. Now that Latrice is gone I, naturally, want Chad and Sharon to be the top two. I don't think that will happen, because as you said a Phi Phi and Sharon throwdown would be epic!

[shiny-lights.livejournal.com]

I agree that Phi Phi has the skills to do it, but ugh I just do not like her at all so my fingers are crossed haha!

[barnacleboo.livejournal.com]

I love that you have an icon from Kathy's House!!! I kept looking at it and thinking "Where have I seen this before?!"

But yes. For me, Phi Phi should have gone after the lip-synch and Willam should have been Top 4. OH WELL.

[shiny-lights.livejournal.com]

I'm always pleasantly surprised with how many fans of Cathy's House I stumble across using this icon :D

[teemn.livejournal.com]

Totally agree!

[thethicket.livejournal.com]

As much as it pains me to say it, I gotta agree with the judges. Latrice's biggest flaw has always been her runway, and at this point, that's just not a mistake she can afford to make anymore. I will miss my beast. : (

I thought that Chad's, and especially Sharon's dog park looks were downright pretty. I want both of those outfits in my closet right now. Am I the only one? Have I been watching this show so long that I actually want to look like a drag queen?

I'm calling it as Chad and Sharon top two, with Sharon to win. PhiPhi can phuck off.

Also I'd like to mention that I have a super huge crush on Rose McGowan. She'd be so flawless if it weren't for all that plastic surgery. Bums me out, man.

[barnacleboo.livejournal.com]

I completely agree about the plastic surgery/Rose McGowan point! I used to love love love the way she looked, I guess I still do, but she's definitely looking a really freaky. I also got a little annoyed at her 'real people' bore me comment. At the end of the day even Lady Gaga or Jocelyn Wildenstein are 'real' people.

[bodacioussylph.livejournal.com]

Totally agreed on Sharon's dog park look. Such a cute dress, I would wear it!

[bodacioussylph.livejournal.com]

Latrice and Phi Phi said Sharon should go home. Chad and Sharon said Phi Phi should go home. And who were the top two this week? Sharon and Phi Phi. Hmmmm.

Phi Phi is using masculine pronouns to refer to Sharon.

Awww, they missed Dita Von Teese! Though here I will be cynical and wonder if she really only had ten minutes available in her schedule and note that that whole thing could have been edited in after the fact.

Latrice. :( (But I have to say, I would be sadder if Chad had sashayed.)

[myswtghst.livejournal.com]

Phi Phi is using masculine pronouns to refer to Sharon.

Yep. And it's annoying me just as much as it did when Alexis kept doing that to Raja.

[electrakitty74.livejournal.com]

I love that icon. That is all.

[10101110.livejournal.com]

When will Phi Phi leave, please Ru knock her out of the race.

[lady-sci-fi.livejournal.com]

I've never like Phi Phi, but after watching the Untucked episode, I really do not understand why the hell she is still here. She said on stage that she's a role model. I'm like "Phi Phi, you're the person who I would point to and tell kids "That's not how you want to be.""
So, Phi Phi is allowed to interrupt Sharon answering Ru's question, but Sharon can't interrupt Phi Phi? Phi Phi can have an ongoing joke (I love everyone!!!), but Sharon can't have one (I want a cruise)?
Phi Phi is allowed to "sabotage" the other girls or purposely give Sharon the short end of the deal, but Chad giving Phi Phi the "worst" dog (based on opposites attract) is absolutely unacceptable?
Chad and Latrice try to give her some good advice (pick your battles better, not everything deserves instant rage), and Phi Phi is all "OMG they're ganging up on me!."

I don't know if Phi Phi is an absolutely unaware hypocrite, or if this is all somehow an act, but I really wish that these types of competitions also had personality/attitude as a factor for elimination.

[bitchyonce.livejournal.com]

ARGH!!! PHI PHI GO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMME!

[tokimekihoney.livejournal.com]

My thoughts exactly.

[myswtghst.livejournal.com]

I just keep wondering how Phi Phi can be *this* delusional and hypocritical without imploding from her own smugness. It's like Tyra all over again, but with less charm, less wit, and far less talent, so it's mostly just painful to watch. I like drama, yes, and it's fun to watch the queens read one another, but only when it comes from a place of respect and humor, not from unfunny and unoriginal drama-mongering, jealousy, and misdirected anger. Pro Tip: When you're making Tatiana look mature and clever, you're doing it wrong, gurl.

I mean, I wasn't shocked that she's apparently not familiar enough with sarcasm to recognize Sharon's "cruise" schtick as a joke (which I thought it pretty obviously was, even if it's entirely possible there was a tiny grain of truth in it), but somehow thought her "I love everyone" came off as a joke, rather than as just her standard fake-y saccharine bullshit.

Ugh, so annoyed / sad right now. I knew Latrice wasn't going to win (she's been unfinished / unpolished far too often and far too obviously far too many times), but I'll take an unpolished gem like Latrice over a polished turd like Phi Phi any day, thank you (and thank you Pandora for being right on that same page with me, gurl).

And agreed with several of you in here - this is probably one of the only times I've cried at an elimination (only Pandora and Delta come to mind). Latrice left with class and grace, and it's gotta be her or Chad for Miss Congeniality (if Chad doesn't go on and steal this competition away from Sharon).

[pharna.livejournal.com]

YES!

I like drama, yes, and it's fun to watch the queens read one another, but only when it comes from a place of respect and humor, not from unfunny and unoriginal drama-mongering, jealousy, and misdirected anger. Pro Tip: When you're making Tatiana look mature and clever, you're doing it wrong, gurl.

OMG. So much truth. This week's untucked was painful to watch. They just ditched the guest to fight.

As much as I love Chad, I can't get sick of listening to the Latrice Laugh Track. Man, an hour of her laughing at shit is all you need for a good show. Not true for Chad.

[kapvik.livejournal.com]

I realize that Phi Phi really is acting - you can tell from the candid footage that they mostly get along - but I still don't think she should have gotten this far, and especially not over Latrice. My only consolation is that I'm almost certain she's getting the Rebecca Glasscock edit.

I also have a huge problem with Phi Phi not being in the bottom for this challenge because she's the only one who did 3 outfits without any sense of her dog. Chad, Latrice, and Sharon all had at least one outfit that really reflected their dog, while the closest Phi came was that metallic brown business suit thing that was her couture look. Fuck Santino, and to a lesser extent Michelle Visage - I will trade Chad's lack of vulnerability on the main stage for Phi's lazy drag any day. Other than her eye and the raging bitch persona she's chosen to affect, there's nothing outright horrible about Phi as a queen, but there's nothing interesting about her either. Latrice may not be "fashion forward", but there is something to be said for having classical sensibilities as well. Plus she's hella compelling. Who wouldn't want to go see or spend time with Latrice?

My other consolation is that Latrice will undoubtedly be a fantastic mentor on Drag U.

The puppet mini-challenge was fantastic. I think Chad's puppet was the most true to life; they even got her super blue eyes. And spray tanning her puppet to replicate Phi's coloring was awesome. But I think Sharon cornered the shade market with the silicone/cigarettes riff. Though it does make me wonder if Ru's stance on smoking has changed; I remember the top four in Season 2 easily being able to go out and have their cigarettes.

[pharna.livejournal.com]

I want an icon of Hunter mounting Phi Phi..