Behold: Two of the Best RuPaul's Drag Race Skits Ever, Via John Waters
EntertainmentOn Monday night, beloved director and gross-out camp icon John freaking Waters was one of the guest judges on Drag Race. In honor of his blessed presence, RuPaul brought out the big guns: the queens were tasked to reenact scenes from iconic Waters movies starring none other than Divine—in musical form. It resulted in some of the funniest segments in the show’s history.
In the first clip, my personal fave, Kennedy Davenport and Katya reenacted the “cha-cha heels” scene from Female Trouble. For reference:
So yeah, I am a person whose first introduction to musical theater was Beach Blanket Babylon (age six; thanks, Tía Josie) and whose first introduction to the oeuvre of Western film was Lust in the Dust (age eight; my mom covered my eyes a lot). Personal biases aside, trust me when I say this was Katya’s finest moment in the whole of season 7. She should have won the challenge, to my mind, but there was some serious competition in the form of Ginger Minj and Trixie Mattel, who translated the infamous egg scene from Pink Flamingos: