- Oh, hey there.
It's Bob the Drag Queen and welcome to the Pit Stop,
the only official recap show for
season 12 of RuPaul's Drag Race.
With me today is the iconic bootleg queen herself,
Miss Yuhua Hamasaki. (laughs)
- Well, thank you for having me
and thank you so much for supporting local drag.
(upbeat music)
- It's important to support the little people.
You're what, 5'4"?
- I'm 5'3" and three quarters.
- Don't forget those three quarters.
That's 75 cents.
- Because I used to lie on my ID
and it says that I was 5'6" for many years.
And then I realized that boys like it when I'm short.
- Ooh.
- Yeah.
- You're like some tiny trade.
- Trade, excuse me?
Oh my god. (both laugh)
Thrilled to be here.
- You look really thrilled.
- I look really thrilled?
Thank you. - You're like,
"I'm very happy to be here."
- Well, I really am, honestly
because this season has been so great.
But, how are you?
- I feel very rocka tee tee ta ta.
- What do you think of season 12 so far, though?
- You know, I haven't been watching.
- You haven't been watching?
(Bob laughs)
You haven't been watching?
- (burps) Oh, that was the one.
That was it, and we're in the game.
Last week we saw Brita send home Rock
in a really emotional.
I mean, she was crying.
She was really falling apart.
- [Yuhua] I mean, I was too when I was set home.
- [Bob] Did you really cry a lot?
- I cried.
I bawled my tears out, and I usually don't cry.
Because it's such an emotional journey
that when you work your entire life towards it
and then to be judged, and then to be sent home
at such an early stage,
you get emotional.
- Do you think that Brita being in the bottom
is gonna actually make her do better?
- Sometimes it can because it can light a fire up your ass.
But then it can also destroy you
because it got you thinking, "Oh, am I worthless?"
You start playing games in your head.
Am I good enough?
Am I good for this competition?
It just starts playing mind games with you.
So, it can go either way.
- [Bob] Ru walks in and she wants
to set up the main challenge.
She's the doctor, they're all the patients
and she passes out pills.
If you get a pink pill, then you get to do the casting
for the main challenge this week.
Of course, the Fashion Girls.
- [Yuhua] Mm-hmm.
- [Bob] Gigi.
- [Yuhua] Neck on neck, right? - [Bob] And Nicky.
- [Yuhua] How does that happen?
- [Bob] I know, coincidence.
- [Yuhua] It was like God saying,
"You both need to deserve each other
"and compete against each other."
- But, I don't know if they've been on the same team
or worked together at all yet.
- No, but they've also been
the two fashion queens of the season.
- Yeah.
Would you wanna do the casting?
- No, because that's a lot of pressure for me
and also, what if I (beep) up the people?
- And it's a good way to get enemies.
- Yeah, I don't want that.
I just wanna mind my own business,
do a good job at what I do, and stick to myself
and that's it.
- It's like you wanna do a drag race show
where there's no other competitors.
- Exactly, just mind your own business.
- I think you just want a TV show.
- Yeah.
- (laughs) Where there's no competing.
- [Yuhua] What if I pick the wrong people
for the wrong role?
Then that's on me.
- [Bob] Then you might fail the competition,
and you'll be good.
- [Yuhua] Yeah, so I don't want that big burden on me.
- [Bob] Honestly, if I pick the wrong person
for the wrong role and they don't do well...
- Then it's on you, right?
Sometimes that happens.
- My bad.
I should have been Blac Chyna.
- I should have been just Chyna.
- [Bob] Aiden and Widow have characters
they don't wanna play.
So Aiden's like, "I don't really know a lot about Mae West."
And another girl goes, "You don't know Mae West?"
And I was like, "She didn't say she doesn't know Mae West.
"She doesn't know a lot about Mae West."
And then the Widow is like,
"I just didn't want this part she wanted to be the mom."
Why do you think Fashion Girls
gave Aiden and Widow those parts?
Do you think they were being shady?
- I think what happens when it comes to the parts like that,
is when you're giving up parts that you don't wanna do,
you make the best out of it.
- [Bob] Yeah. - Right?
If you are a queen
that can do whatever you think you can do,
apply that skill of your character
and apply it to that character.
- In my opinion, the role that was given to Widow
was good for her, and she did a good job.
Aiden, I think they were like,
"She's not doing that great in these acting challenges.
"Give her someone who dies."
(Yuhua laughs)
So Carson directed this scene, all right?
He directed Gay's Anatomy.
What did you think of this scene?
- The one that stood out to me
was literally (laugh) Aiden Zhane.
It was just hilarious, hilarious.
- When I looked at Aiden Zhane
with that horrible, horrible wig, in that bed--
- Who gave her that wig?
- Girl, I don't know.
Whoever it is was the enemy.
(sighs) She just is not doing a great job.
She's not going a great job
and I think there's a lot of queens struggling
in this particular scene,
but some of them are using the struggle
and somehow making it work for them.
- And cut to the scene where Brita was spitting on Aiden.
- Let's say-- - Golden!
- Let's say the filter was leaking.
Can I just say that? (Yuhua laughs)
Literally spewing.
- [Yuhua] Showering, sprinkling.
- [Bob] I was like, "Girl, tt tt tt tt tt tt."
- [Yuhua] Acid rain.
Who else stood out to you?
- I thought Widow did a really good job.
- Oh yeah, Widow.
I thought she was hilarious.
She was very dynamic.
She came in as this really complaining woman
who has to give birth to a baby,
and then she pulled out, "Hey, girl,
"I was at the white party
"and that's where that bomb came from."
- [Bob] Right?
- [Yuhua] I thought she was brilliant.
- I'm not gonna let anyone
just brush over how good of a job Jan did.
One of the funniest moments to me
was in the slow motion scene,
and then Jan just throws her to the ground and just like...
- What about the scene where she was looking at the mirror.
She just kept screaming. (screams repeatedly)
- [Bob] Yeah, it was good.
I think Aiden struggled in this scene.
- I think she struggled too,
but it was still entertaining to watch.
- And Nicky struggled.
- Nicky struggled,
and also I would say Heidi struggled too.
- Really?
- Yeah, she didn't really give much of a character.
It was very flat.
- I will give you that.
The thing about Nicky Dolla
is they were forcing her so hard to give personality.
And I feel like when they give
pretty queens good personalities,
their thing is like,
"What I should do is do a really intentionally ugly face.
"That'll show my personality."
Maybe in French, she's hilarious.
Maybe she is la fou.
She's probably wild and crazy.
But in English...
- Sometimes that doesn't translate, right?
- Yeah. - Literally.
Also, Dalias made an appearance.
- Sexy broccoli is back.
- [Yuhua] Dalias is back.
- [Bob] Is she just hanging out in that broccoli suit?
- She's making a cameo.
- They're steaming this-- - (laughs) Hot and zesty.
- Fucking vegetables.
Honestly, I'm obsessed with the sexy broccoli,
broccoli with nipples,
and that's a healthy thing for kids.
- Yeah, teach them a lesson.
Greens are good for you.
- Eat your broccoli.
Category is Planet of the Capes.
(electronic music)
It's capes, capes, capes galore.
Cape Cod. - Capes across the world.
- [Bob] Jada Essence Hall.
This is fine.
- [Yuhua] It's cool but I don't wanna see the lining
behind the cape.
You can see the white, you can see the seams.
- [Bob] Wow.
Oh, she's coming for details, hunny.
This is RuPaul's Drag Race, mama.
- [Yuhua] Season 12, come on.
- [Bob] Season 12 of drag. - [Yuhua] Come on.
- [Bob] A dozen seasons, mama.
- [Yuhua] Yeah.
- [Bob] Next we have Brita.
This cape is thin, thin, thin.
- [Yuhua] I agree with the judges.
When I'm looking at this look,
I am easily drawn to the gown.
I'm not drawn to the cape.
The cape looks like an accessory.
- [Bob] True. - [Yuhua] To the gown,
whereas the gown is the main focus.
I wish that it was bigger, it was more dramatic.
More about the dress itself.
- [Bob] You right.
- [Yuhua] Yeah, but she does look great, though.
- [Bob] Yeah.
I cannot tell if Jackie Cox...
- [Yuhua] Is Persian?
- [Bob] Is Persian. (both laugh)
- I knew where you're going with this.
- [Bob] Jan does this.
She comes out with a backpack,
then she drops the cape out of nowhere.
Okay, let us see it as a backpack for a second.
- [Yuhua] Mm-hmm.
- [Bob] Actually, she literally let us
see it for one second,
then fa-bloom she's like, full on,
get out, sprinting to the edge of the stage.
- [Yuhua] I wish she would have walked
all the way to the end of the stage
and then turn around, bam! - [Bob] Boom!
- [Yuhua] Cape!
- [Bob] Gigi Goode.
This is a cute look.
I like the capelet with the arms that go through.
- [Yuhua] Like she's walking in the UK.
- [Bob] If I saw this at the club...
- [Yuhua] I would have been...
- [Bob] And there's if I see it on Drag Race.
At the club I'd be like, "Work.
"Where'd you get this?"
And on Drag Race, I'm like "Work, it's cute."
- [Yuhua] Right. Yep.
- The club, we don't expect you
to bring your top, top, top, top of the game
every single time.
- Right, because usually you're walking around
with spilled drinks and cigarette butts.
- Yeah, exactly. - Urine, feces.
- What?
Where are you performing?
- (sighs) Local bars.
- Are you in the rambles - Local bars.
- of Central Park?
- Local bars.
- Feces? (both laugh)
Okay, now we have Lil' Mama, Heidi N Closet. This is--
- [Yuhua] She should put that back in the closet.
- [Bob] Yeah, Michelle hit the nail on the head.
This is three different looks.
- [Yuhua] This looked like she just found
something in the closet.
"Oh, I have a cape, I have this wig, I have this outfit.
"Let me just make it work for this runway."
- [Bob] Crystal Methyd.
- [Yuhua] That's a cape.
- [Bob] Yeah, okay. Two things.
This is a cape wobble.
Wobble.
This is a--
- [Yuhua] A cape pph!
- [Bob] Yeah, and the whole thing is lined.
- [Yuhua] Mm-hmm.
We like lined because when it's lined,
it just takes it to another level
where you see differentiations of the fabrics.
- [Bob] Oh yeah. - [Yuhua] And you can see
what's underneath and be wowed by it.
Because other than that,
you don't wanna see the seams behind it, right?
Aiden comes out and this Silence of the Lambs reference,
which is really cute.
- [Yuhua] I do like this look, though.
I thought it was very creative.
When she came out with the butterfly in her mouth.
- [Bob] Yeah, real cute. - [Yuhua] I was like, "Wow.
"Creativity right there."
- Aiden, stop wearing this wig.
Mama, this is garbage.
This wig, you have worn this wig too many times.
- I actually don't mind it.
Maybe it's less for her to pack.
- Yeah, obviously.
Widow Van'Du. I like everything but the cape,
and the cape is the main thing.
- [Yuhua] I like the hair, that's about it.
- [Bob] Finally, Nicky Doll.
It looks good.
- [Yuhua] It looks good, but where's the cape?
- [Bob] It happened to me again.
- [Yuhua] What?
- I ended up liking Gigi. (laughs)
- What's wrong with liking Gigi?
- Because I start the episodes out
and I don't wanna like her.
- Why?
- I don't know.
- Why? - Because she's young
and can do a backflip, and her mom loves her.
- [Yuhua] Oh, and her mom makes all her costumes.
- She has all the great things going for her
and I wanna hate that.
- Yeah, I know what you mean.
- So who was your favorite?
- Jan.
- Jan?
- Because she surprised me.
- Yeah.
I just like Gigi.
I think she's really doing a good job,
and Gigi is really good at makeup.
Because she has this, when you see her,
she has like a (beep) Jay Leno chin out of drag.
But somehow in drag, she becomes like Uma Thurman.
- Right, right, right.
- Where did you do with the rest of your chin?
So, Ru mixes it all up.
She calls up the top queens first,
and the winner this week is Sherry Pie.
- I thought it should have been Widow.
- Widow.
I've been rooting for Widow a lot and I agree with you.
- I actually thought it was gonna be Widow
because she actually--
- But that cape!
That fabric following her around the god damn place.
- Oh, true.
That would have been the point.
- I really like Widow.
- I like her too.
- I really like this queen, yeah.
- I like her too,
especially that blitzing in the premiere, girl.
- Yes.
And also, I'm a little jealous.
I think Widow is the only queen on Drag Race
blacker than me.
Okay, so RuPaul asked a question.
This is my favorite question.
Some fans hate it, this is what I came for.
This is why I'm watching Drag Race.
Who should go home and why?
That's what makes it even better.
And why?
When she says that, I'm like, "Bitch."
I was there and RuPaul goes,
"Who should go home and why?"
And everyone else was like, "I don't want to--"
I was like, "Derek!"
- You know, this is really the point to really sell yourself
and say why you shouldn't,
but the other person should.
Because it's supposed to make the other person look bad
and make you look good.
- [Bob] Nicky Doll says, "I should go home."
- [Yuhua] That dumb bitch. - [Bob] And would you believe
RuPaul took her (beep) advice?
RuPaul was like, "You know what?
"You right."
- [Yuhua] Because the thing is, when you admit that
you are the worst out of the group, you're defeated already.
- You done.
- Even if you think you are the worst,
you sell yourself to a point and say that,
"I'm not the worst."
- Bitch, Nicky sent herself home.
So the bottom two, it is Heidi, Nicky.
What are your first thoughts?
- Well, I first thought that
there's no way that Nicky is surviving this lip sync,
but then the song came out and it was Campestris.
- Yeah, yeah.
- So it was an easy bippity bop song.
- [Bob] Yeah, it wasn't a flip--
- [Yuhua] That Nicky can get used to, you know.
- [Bob] Once I see that they're lip syncing,
I'm already thinking, "There's no way Nicky..."
Unless RuPaul's like, "You'll be lip syncing
to Edith Piaf."
I'm like, "Bitch, you're done."
- [Yuhua] Heidi didn't overdo it
because she is a dancing queen.
- [Bob] She paced.
- [Yuhua] Right.
- [Bob] Heidi won the lip sync and she set Nicky home.
Nicky's gone.
Do you agree?
- [Yuhua] Yes, I think the right person got sent home.
Yes, the lip sync wasn't as great as Heidi's.
It was good but it wasn't as good.
And she didn't slay in the challenge
so I think the right person went home.
- [Bob] I agree. - It's sad
but someone's gotta go.
- I wanna thank the amazing Yuhua Hamasaki
for joining us here today.
Thank you for being here, girl.
- Well, thank you for having me.
- Love you, lesbian.
- I love you too.
- Thanks for watching The Pit Stop
and be sure to tune in next week
for episode 6 of RuPaul's Drag Race season 12.
Au revoir.
- Au revoir.
- Enchanté. - Bye bye.
- Une, deux, trois.
- I want a last word.
- Je suis la jeune fille
- Bye bye.
- Merci.
- Bye bye.
(upbeat music)
- So, listen.
Me and you went out on a date years ago.
- (laughs) It was a date?
- It was a date.
- Surprise to me. - We went to Avenue Q
and then Yuhua sat there the entire time,
throughout the entire play.
Because I wanted to take us to Page Turner
and I was like...
I invited Yuhua,
and the whole time Yuhau was like,
"Why are there puppets?
"This show is stupid.
"This does not make any sense.
"This is the weirdest thing I've ever seen.
"This isn't even funny, I don't get it."
And I remember going home being like,
"That was the strangest..." (laughs)
- You were like, "I am never texting that person back."
Now, looking forward to 10 years later,
would you still have asked me out?
- Yeah.
Sure, yeah, yeah.
- Okay, okay.
- But, I didn't ask you out again. (Bob laughs)
- Okay, yeah, I know, I know that for sure.
The bitch ghosted me.