Episode #5 - Snatch Game
Part Four
Big Dee is next to be interrogated, and Ru’s eyebrows raise as much as the Botox will allow when he sees what looks like a man’s wig on Big Dee’s work bench. “Either you’re doing Dame Judi Dench,” Ru says, “or that’s a menses, Maury.” When Big Dee explains that she’ll be impersonating none other than Ross Mathews, Ru reacts as someone who just swallowed a particularly large fly might. Once she’s finished choking, Ru asks what led her to make such an awful decision (I’m paraphrasing). Big Dee seems surprised that Ru is so immediately sceptical. “I know it’s an unconventional pick, but I was thinking, or hoping, I could make it work. But now you’re making me doubt that!” Ru says that in her experience, highly risky Snatch Game choices go one of two ways, and she doesn’t want Big Dee to take a risk that could damage her chances unless she’s completely confident. “Well, I have a backup option,” Big Dee says, “in the form of Janice Dickinson, who’s somebody I adore and have done in the past. And maybe it’ll be best not to question RuPaul on this occasion.” Finally, Ru spots Honey dressing up in her Nina Simone outfit and is already on board, but asks to hear some of her impersonation anyway. Honey drawls something or other about jazz that has Ru in hysterics, and in a confessional hopes that Snatch Game proves she’s more than just a pageant queen.
Big Dee, who is in the process of swapping her original choice of Ross Mathews for the somewhat safer Janice Dickinson, notices that Drü is struggling to finalise her celebrity. Drü asks for “an old bitch’s advice” on the matter, and Big Dee takes her over to the sofas to talk. Drü puts on a mini talent show for Big Dee, giving her excerpts of each of her potential impersonations. “Personally, I’m leaning towards doing Vivienne, but I definitely need a second opinion on the matter,” Drü says, taking off her Anna Wintour wig. Big Dee pulls a pensive face. “I’m not sure, girl,” she says as Drü begins to look worried, but nods along anyway. “From one queen to another, I’m not sure that your Vivienne’s strong enough. I know it’s pretty late in the day, but I enjoyed your Gloria Swanson most, so if I were you I’d switch to her. But hey, it’s up to you, honey.” As Drü mulls over her options and Big Dee’s advice, Dee admits in a confessional that she did in fact think Drü’s Vivienne Westwood was the strongest of her potential choices. “But I’m not going to tell her that, am I? Truthfully, I didn’t think much of her Gloria Swanson, but the farther we get through this competition, the more ruthless I’m going to have to get to make sure that Ru sees my star shine. Any queen that isn’t me going home at this stage is a bonus, and if that just so happens to be last week’s winner, then it’d be even better. It’s a dog eat dog world out there, and sorry Drü, but you’re the bait.”