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Dangerously In Drag - The Villain's Roast: When Karma Strikes Fast on Drag Race
When joke theft meets instant karma, you know the library is officially open! The Queens take on the dreaded Villain's Roast challenge in a comedy showdown that has everything - unexpected performances, backstage tension, and the unprecedented accusation of stolen punchlines.
The episode opens with a shocking elimination that leaves everyone stunned, setting the tone for high-stakes competition. Backstage dynamics reach a boiling point when Onya confronts Susie with the now-iconic line, "Girl, just shut the fuck up and let a bitch be mad" - a sentiment anyone who's had their feelings invalidated can appreciate. Sometimes you just need space to process emotions in a pressure-cooker environment!
The roast itself delivers hilarious highs and cringeworthy lows as queens target Mistress Isabelle Brooks, Kandy Muse, and Plane Jane. Lana and Butthole surprise everyone with razor-sharp comedy skills, while drama erupts when Jules accuses Arietty of stealing her jokes - something unprecedented in 17 seasons of Drag Race. This apparent theft seems to seal Arietty's fate in what the hosts call "the fastest karma they've seen."
Beyond the comedy challenge, the episode sparks conversations about the unspoken rules queens must follow to survive - from Michelle Visage's well-known aversions to certain fashion choices (green, kimonos, caftans) to the dangers of repetitive aesthetics that plagued contestants like Lexi Love and Susie Toots. These critiques highlight how even in Season 17, queens must constantly reinvent themselves while honoring drag traditions.
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Welcome to Dangerously in Drag it's your boy, sdr and we have our new main stage co-hosts. The group called Amaya, michelle, visage, phoenix, dior Bouton.
Speaker 2:Thank you, Dr Zizmore.
Speaker 1:So this episode was the villain rose. Oh, before we proceed, we are spoiling everything. Can we give a moment of silence? Because my homegirl at home and I'm really sad I don't know her, but I wish to know her.
Speaker 2:But this was not her week. I was so shocked. I thought it was so going to go the other way.
Speaker 1:You were shocked the way that she was prancing across that stage. I was like duh. And then the track record. And then they both had wins. But who was the more recent win?
Speaker 2:Again, I was shocked that Lana did not win, but I think she didn't win because of her runway, because her runway was very basic compared to a no-shade to Naomi Campbell. But in D-square, if her runway, her runway was very basic compared to Naomi Campbell in D-Squared.
Speaker 1:If her runway would have been better, she would have ran. She would have ran Ran.
Speaker 2:That was a challenge. You're going to be so shocked and so mad at me. I'm over here watching Traders. I'm looking at the clock. I'm like, okay, I got like 30 minutes. I'm thinking watching Traders. I'm looking at the clock. I'm like, okay, I got like 30 minutes. And I'm just looking. I'm thinking like, wait a minute, something's telling me to check and check and go on, and I look I was like I'll turn on Drag Race. I'm like, okay, no, this ain't new. I'm like, nah, they doing last week. I click on it and they're talking about and they doing the table read. I was like, oh fuck, this the new read. I was like, oh fuck, this is the new one. Shit, I missed like 20 minutes, but I'm like I'm cool though, because they're going into the challenge.
Speaker 1:So the table read wasn't nearly anything. It was just them trying to get their bearings together. Lexi Love to give you guys. I like Lexi Love, but it was kind of giving me like.
Speaker 2:She let her hers get to her.
Speaker 1:Her interceptors were really giving her interceptor tour, is really getting into her and like there's only so many chances you can have before they like and I'm hoping we show me a clip. But what? What took me out the game was when rupaul was like such and such, arietti, arietti, you're up for elimination. I was like she ain't ever did that before, just cut right into it yeah, ruby changing, changing it up.
Speaker 2:but she really changed it up this season. I ain't gonna lie, I would have laughed along with Anya in the workroom when she said you got these bitches wrecked. I would have laughed too, because Jules did.
Speaker 1:On your nerve. I have to say that it was just on your nerve and Susie, and it was just on your nerve and suzy, and it was just. It was just crazy. It was just crazy. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 2:But I mean I fell for ariana because I'm glad she told suzy. She's like girl, just shut the fuck up and let a bitch be mad. It's like yes, girl, please, we are mad right now. Let me be mad. Don't try to put a band-aid over the situation. Let me be mad. Oh child, I can't this. This is why I'm so glad every cast that I have worked with when I did, when I do shows thank god, I know everyone and I get along with them and we are just back there kiki and having a good time but also focused on getting ready because, baby, if I was in that work room and Susie 2 would have said that I'd have slammed whatever makeup brush was in my hand on that table and be like bitch, let me be the fuck man, shut the fuck up, baby. It would have been drama.
Speaker 1:But this is the thing, it's a competition.
Speaker 2:It is, and that's where they get lost when it becomes a competition.
Speaker 1:And you don't get to make friends, the whole thing. And I'm proud in my opinion of Lydia, because Lydia was like, you know, tori King is in me and my stomach. And then Kev Boone was like you know, tori King is in me and my stomach. And then, and then Kep Bull was like Lydia surprised me.
Speaker 2:Let's just go into this roast. So Anya did a very good job.
Speaker 1:She did a great job as an intro. I just think that she wasn't selling it enough in the intro and even the end is the very last place to be, like hard place to be. But baby, you talk about going into the roast. I loved how Lana was just like bang, bang, boom, boom, boom. Y'all all catch these hands, everybody. And they had Mistress Isabel Brooks playing and Candy Muse and I crack up because Candy not too much, not too much on me.
Speaker 2:And then to the root why are you laughing?
Speaker 1:It literally was nothing but fat jokes and then essentially making fun of racism, Like that's all that they had, because it's like what can you say about these three aside from that?
Speaker 2:That's basically it, I mean for me hold on, boy, go, go, sit down he wants to be a part of the thing he already pooped, ate, pissed.
Speaker 2:he's good my dog y'all. For me it's like everyone knows when you go into a roast, like you said, the opening and closing are the two worst spots to be in Cause if you open the show, you're setting the tone, you're setting the stage for everyone, you're setting everyone up. Closing it, you basically are on pins and needles, sitting there the whole time, nervous as a wreck, and you have to close the show. So it's like, but I feel like Anya did good as an opener. You know, I feel like Anya did good as an opener. She did good. But the ones that surprised me well, the two that surprised me was Butthole and Lana.
Speaker 2:Their jokes they land, they were landing and it was everything.
Speaker 1:But the thing that cracked me up was Jules and Arrietty. Arrietty stole Jules' jokes. Maybe when Arrietty got up was like Jules and Arrietty Like Arrietty stole Jules' jokes.
Speaker 2:Baby, when Arrietty got up there and Jules said, bitch, stole my jokes, I was like, oh, this is. I want to see how she going to come back from this, because you basically just had to write a whole new set in your head, right there.
Speaker 1:And she didn't mention that you stole her jokes. She just kept it pushing and I'm sorry it was karma. She kept it cute, but that's why Arietti went home this week. That's why.
Speaker 2:Because I've never seen karma swooping that fast.
Speaker 1:I mean not even that. They probably talked about it, they probably just didn't show it, true. You know, so, between Phoenix and SGR, who would you guys like to go home this week and why I'd like to vote? That's probably what happened. We didn't see it. That's probably what happened. Who do you feel did the best in the roast?
Speaker 2:That shit right there now. I know I got to watch Untucked now because I know it has to be some shit that went down.
Speaker 1:It doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense and I'm really trying to be super cool and culture with it. But there's something we're missing, because how did it go from where it's going from to go where it is? I don't know. This whole roast wasn't bad. I'm glad that they actually did the roast for once, because they're trying. It's season 17. How many ideas can you re-ideal an idea? You're going to keep on making it happen.
Speaker 2:The roast of RuPaul on season five. Was it season five? Yeah, it was season five. I smashed it. They did a lot of roasts. They did the roast of Michelle, they did the villain's roast, they did the roast of Lady Bunny, which was fucking hilarious.
Speaker 1:They did a lot of roasts. They roasted each other, yeah they roast each other.
Speaker 2:I think the hardest, in my opinion, one of the hardest, one of the hardest roasts to do since they did Ross and they did Michelle. If they try to do Maddie baby, they better come hard, because Maddie can read like a motherfucker.
Speaker 1:And she claps back too. I think this, with you and me again, was Ariadne's time to go home. As much as I liked Ariadne, it was Ariadne's time to go home because Michelle still kept her mouth closed and we talked about this, this, this is what is. This is our second week, or third week, because my brain don't be like. This is our second week this is our second week but we.
Speaker 1:I feel we've had this conversation where it's like you gotta paint differently, you gotta be different, you gotta bring it. And it is season 17 and it's like I feel like Michelle was just tired of it. And then here she comes no cap, tits, what is? Well, one of the things that Michelle doesn't like no caftans, no green Alexis Mateo oh, it wasn't Alexis Mateo, but it was Alexis something she immediately she came green. Alexis Michelle, alexis Michelle, here we go. Alexis Mateo Alexis Michelle came green in the roast.
Speaker 2:And then she got sent home that week, didn't? She Didn't she, I think she did, I can't remember. Oh, and of course, the infamous kimonos.
Speaker 1:I'm saying caftan, it's kimonos. Oh kimonos, better don't she, better don't. There's just certain things that are absolutely no-nos.
Speaker 2:You know what, though, I'm going to tell you? When I saw that episode, I remember so vividly season eight, with all those fucking kimonos. When I tell you, it became so cringeworthy to keep watching, because after the third one it's like what the fuck Did y'all not see each other backstage? What the hell.
Speaker 1:The thing is, they keep them in their own rooms.
Speaker 2:There's no main stage.
Speaker 1:To me it's one of those types of situations. You come through the right or you come through the left, you walk on the stage and you go back.
Speaker 2:But no, when they're back there they see each other backstage getting dressed. But it's like, did y'all not notice? All y'all except Bob and I think one other queen didn't have a kimono.
Speaker 1:And that's why Bob won that part. There are so many different things about Drag Race. That makes me laugh.
Speaker 2:Oh, it was Bob and, oh my god, chi Chi. They were the only two because Chi Chi came out as the Vogue Madonna with the comb bra.
Speaker 1:But it just they don't to me, they're not putting effort and energy in, and that's one of those things, Like I will tell you that I don't know. I feel like Anya could basically unalive somebody. I'd be like, yeah, Anya, that's my girl, that's my love for Anya, but I don't know, Like this week it was giving out of five, Because I always rate things out of five, it was giving like a three. So I usually be like you know, this could have been an episode we missed. We got a little bit of tea, we got a little bit of drama, but to me the drama was more internalized and then exposed versus in the end, Because I never understood Lexi Love's gripe this week where she was like well, I want to be last, but you put me last.
Speaker 2:I'm like you got what you wanted.
Speaker 1:Exactly Now. I could understand Arietti's, but Arietti was shady because in 17 seasons we've never heard nobody steal somebody else's jokes, or have we?
Speaker 2:I feel like we might have one time before. We've never heard no one steal no one else's jokes, but your girl Fifi. When she was on Snatch Game she kind of cheated, or tried to cheat, by writing down the answer.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that Listen. I love Fifi she can't do no wrong. 're the only one well, I feel like jeremy again. We already talked about the 365 days of drag that's the only only grace I give him is that shit, okay. So this week and again this has nothing to do with your brain 365 days of drag. Jeremy o'hara did jeremy o'hara. Jeremy's last name is not O'Hara, fifi O'Hara, jeremy is had did him and him from the Powerpuff Girls.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's right, because we talked about this offline. That's right.
Speaker 1:Ha, you see the CW Powerpuff.
Speaker 2:It's crazy you brought that up. Yes, it came across my feed on Facebook and I started watching a little bit of it. I stopped it. I was like I'm glad this did not make TV, I am glad it didn't either.
Speaker 1:I'll be honest with you. I was in my CW phase and I would have been oh, this is good, no, I'm good today.
Speaker 2:Looking back at some of this stuff. No, I'm good today. Well, it's not like looking back at some of the stuff. I'm like y'all made.
Speaker 1:Y'all made Bubbles, a fucking bum ass street seller y'all made her influencer and that would have made more sense you could have made. There were shout out to Tiffy Star I love her to death. You may or may not follow her. She's like all pop culture-y. She's kind of what I aspire to be.
Speaker 1:She's amazing, gotta be super awesome. She's just cool. She's real cool. She's an influencer. I don't even want to call her just that, but anything Marvel, anything superhero, anything pop culture she doing she was just like y'all could have made Buttercup a wrestler. It would have made more sense and like they, I agree with you and I'm happy that that never saw the light of day, because when I took it I was like what are we watching?
Speaker 2:I was like what does this have to do with the Powerpuff Girls? I was like, what the fuck Honey, the fact that y'all made um Is the green one Buttercup. Yeah yeah, y'all made her a fucking dyke and be a fucking firefighter.
Speaker 1:They were going to, because she was always, I was Okay. I'm not going to lie. What I would have loved to see is the Rowdy Rough Boys. Don't know why. I would have loved to see a live action version of that, and even the casting to me wasn't terrible, but I feel like they were trying to do something that wasn't going to work ultimately.
Speaker 2:I kind of wish we would have gotten a live action recess you think that would have been good. If they did it correctly, it could have came off good. I mean, we still waiting on guard oils. They're saying it's in development. So hope, pray to God we get it, because I would love to see that.
Speaker 1:Anyway, back on the subject at hand, Back on dangerously a drag, because you know me and you will be able to like.
Speaker 2:I think the same thing with the repetitiveness is with Lexi. Like Ruth said, you have drags on the behind you almost every time, so it's kind of getting old now. And the same thing with Suzy 2. It's like you're painting your face. The same it's. I mean it's giving Max with the gray wigs like the fuck.
Speaker 1:I think that they have to be in jeopardy for them to change and I think that we may see Lexi in the bottom next week, because some of these cuts, like this week, I was like uh, and I thought that the cuts were pointing to her, but I think we may see Lexi in the bottom and we may. She was close, bless you. We may see Lana win next week. I don't know, it's giving typically, when you get that one, those good critiques, and even if you were, you know, not in the top and not in the bottom, because after she had been judged hard and she was in the bottom, that one time Lila was like I don't want to be back there, no more.
Speaker 2:I don't want to have that, because I would have judged her hard too for that god damn finger dress. Like what the fuck is this?
Speaker 1:it just but they, I feel like you have to be grazed with that to come back from it, like you got to be grazed with being sent home for it to be. I don't know. There's not really much to say on this roast not, not really.
Speaker 2:I mean other than because I can't wait to go on Wild Presents and watch the uncensored version of this roast, because I want to know exactly. I know what Candy said, but I still want to hear it though, because that shit was funny as hell.
Speaker 1:You don't be giving a who, and neither does Mistress, and neither does Free Candy. Oh, mistress, don't give a damn. Mistress is like well, my favorite one. It was like, yes, your drag daughters are sugar and spice, and that was the only time that you've ever given up sugar. I'm like y'all know y'all wrong, coming at her like this. Let her live her life.
Speaker 2:Like she said, if I hear one more fat joke, I'm going to lose it.
Speaker 1:But it's the truth Like let her live her life. That's all you got to say.
Speaker 2:That's kind of it, I will say, like the best, like the best out of all the roses, where the queens that were getting roasted and they come up and say something, heidi and Closet had the best baby when she came up there giving us the smooth criminal. But when she said, I just want to say I mean this from the bottom of my heart fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, not you, you, fuck you, not you. You cut the checks, but fuck you Baby. That took me an hour. When she said that, I didn't know who.
Speaker 1:What was it? What did she used to say? Sweet and simple. Sweet and simple, yeah.
Speaker 2:Damn Della. Have you ever seen on YouTube the short of? I don't know what queen it is, but she goes up to the queens at DragCon and call them by their real names.
Speaker 1:Oh, did you listen yeah?
Speaker 2:Who was it? Which one of them picked up the chair? Oh, it was Taomi she was. She was like, oh, bitch, fuck she's like.
Speaker 1:Oh, I'm gonna fucking kill you listen, but because you gotta think about it, I mean granted, like Phoenix as well as SGR, like stage name, so to speak, but like when I was on TikTok streaming and like getting a lot of like SGR I'm like huh SGR score huh. I was like it didn't win.
Speaker 2:So for some If someone came up to me at a drag show after the show, you know, because when we're getting ready for a show we're back, so you can't really see us. So if after the show I'm at the bar chilling with my sister and someone comes into my head, I'm like what you had to press pause so you don't let people know.
Speaker 2:Baby, I had to mute that mic. Baby, you ain't finna know, and you know what? Hold on, let me do this instead. Oh boy, let me do this instead If they come up to me talking about head, because you know, bitches know how to read lips, so it's like uh-uh.
Speaker 1:My friend, so we do different segments. Obviously, on Straight Gay Reviews, my friend will be like so, ramil, I'm like yes, no, I don't know, it bothers me, it doesn't bother me, it's just like. It is what it is.
Speaker 2:They did that to me at work, so they call me. I tell everyone at work I go by AJ Y'all can get AJ Y'all not going to get my actual government name. But my boss did it just to fuck with me and I was like who the fuck is that?
Speaker 1:Listen, it'd be like this Back when I was in a relationship and they didn't call me bae or boo, and he called me my name. I'm like this, I don't like that, I don't know. Called me my name. I'm like this I don't like that, I don't know her. That's very much giving that same energy.
Speaker 2:I don't know her. Listen. Who sent you? Come on, don't ever get a dog.
Speaker 1:I feel like this is basically it. We can't really say much else. What else can we say?
Speaker 2:Other than next week looks like it's going to be good as well.
Speaker 1:Hopefully it actually turns out to be a little bit better, because this week is.
Speaker 2:I mean, I think, like I said, I don't know, was it you that I said this to? I feel like it was you that I said this to. Today, like certain challenges, the Queens had their downfalls, and this one was definitely Lexi's downfall because she came close. This was Arietti's downfall. And Jules definitely had it, and Jules, you can tell Michelle was pissed with that, or Marie Antoinette, because it's like girl, she don't like saying that either. That's why Roger said she's the originator. She is the originator of Marie Antoinette, honey.
Speaker 1:Well, all I have to say is Phoenix, we will see each other next week again to talk more about Dangerous League of the Dark, and I hope that there's actually drama, because this is why these episodes are getting shorter and shorter, because I'm no, next week.
Speaker 2:no, I won't be here. I'll be out of town. Oops, Just for the day. I'm just going to LA, okay, and I'll be back that same night, but when I come back it'll definitely be after 6 o'clock.
Speaker 1:Well, listen, we'll figure it out. We'll figure it out, mm-hmm, alright. Well, again, this has been SGR with Phoenix Dior Vuitton and we'll be back again soon. Bye, y'all, bye.