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Directed by	Nick Murray
Original air date	May 18, 2015
Running time	42 minutes
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"And the Rest Is Drag" is the twelfth episode of the seventh season of the American television series RuPaul's Drag Race.^[1]^[2] The episode was directed by Nick Murray and first aired on Logo TV on May 18, 2015. It was followed by an episode of the companion series RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked.

The final challenge of "And the Rest Is Drag" has the remaining four contestants perform choreography in the official music video for "Born Naked", a song from RuPaul's 2014 studio album of the same name, and act alongside RuPaul in a series of three sketches directed by Mathu Andersen. Candis Cayne is a guest choreographer. The judging panel incudes RuPaul, Michelle Visage, Carson Kressley, and Ross Mathews. Kennedy Davenport is eliminated from the competition, leaving Ginger Minj, Pearl, and Violet Chachki as finalists.

Episode

The four finalists competing in the last challenge of the seventh season.

Following Katya's elimination, the remaining four contestants—Ginger Minj, Kennedy Davenport, Pearl, and Violet Chachki—re-enter the Werk Room. Michelle Visage reveals the final challenge, which tasks contestants with performing choreography in the official music video for RuPaul's song "Born Naked", as well as acting in three sketches directed by Mathu Andersen. She also invites the contestants to join RuPaul for one-on-one interviews,^[3] and reveals that the contestant who places in the bottom will be edited out of the music video.^[4]

Guest choreographer Candis Cayne coaches the contestants in the Werk Room.^[5] Her choreography is "in the style of 1980's pop idols like Sheena Easton and Paula Abdul", according to City Magazine.^[6] During her interview with RuPaul, Kennedy Davenport discusses her relationship with her father and his death. Kennedy Davenport also describes how she had to raise her sister, who has an intellectual disability. Ginger Minj talks about her father leaving their family for his high school girlfriend,^[7] and Pearl reveals that she experienced multiple forms of trauma at a young age. Violet Chachki vaguely shares that she feels she was overlooked as a child because of her sister.^[6]

The contestants film their contributions for the music video in front of a green screen, with assistance from Cayne. A fan used to create hair movement causes Ginger Minj and Pearl to have problems with their wigs, and Violet Chachki loses an earring and struggles with choreography.^[5] For the acting part of the challenge, RuPaul joins the contestants, who rotate roles. Entertainment Weekly describes the sketches as a "Klumps-style dinner scene" in which RuPaul plays a "dusty old dad" and the contestants portray a "moody" teenager, an "annoying" young girl, and a "pilled-out" mother.^[8] Kennedy Davenport struggles to differentiate her three characters.^[4]^[9] Back in the Werk Room, the contestants prepare for the main stage and runway, and discuss their first impressions of each other. Ginger Minj and Kennedy Davenport, who have dubbed themselves the "Bitter Old Lady Brigade", question if Violet Chachki is experienced and emotionally mature enough to be a representative within the Drag Race franchise.^[9]

The runway category is "Best Drag". In addition to RuPaul and Visage, Carson Kressley and Ross Mathews are judges. Kennedy Davenport wears a rainbow-colored outfit covered in rhinestones. Violet Chachki says her look is inspired by burlesque, Marlene Dietrich, and Victor Victoria.^[6] Ginger Minj wears a pageant-style dress with white fringe. Pearl describes her look as "sexy" and "vintage", and Kressley calls her look "something from the Dee Snider intimates collection".^[7] Entertainment Weekly called her outfit a negligee with a "gauzy" cape.^[8] On the runway, RuPaul asks the contestants to share words of advice to their younger selves. The judges view scenes from the sketches directed by Andersen, and share their final critiques with the contestants. RuPaul asks the contestants to explain why they should be named "America's next drag superstar" over their opponents.

The contestants leave the stage and the judges deliberate. RuPaul asks all four contestants to face off in a lip-sync to "Born Naked" (featuring Clairy Browne). This marks Violet Chachki's first time to lip-sync on the show.^[4] Kennedy Davenport is eliminated from the competition,^[10] leaving three finalists to advance. RuPaul asks viewers to share on social media who they want to see win, ahead of the season finale.

Production

The 42-minute episode was directed by Nick Murray, and originally aired on Logo TV in the United States on May 18, 2015.^[11] The episode's premiere was seen by close to 310,000 viewers.^[12] Its title refers to lyrics and phrasing ("we're all born naked, and the rest is drag") used prominently by RuPaul.^[13]^[14]^[15] The song "Born Naked", from RuPaul's 2014 studio album of the same name, explores this idea.^[16]

Reception

Writers for The Guardian compared the final looks by Pearl and Violet Chachki to Madonna during her Blond Ambition era (top) and Sally Bowles (bottom, as portrayed by Liza Minnelli in the 1972 film Cabaret), respectively.

The Guardian's Megan Carpentier and Dominic Rushe said the episode "got pretty shady" with "the two bigger, older glamour queens on one side of the room and the two skinny, pretty-girl millennial queens on the other". The writers said Pearl presented "a very Madonna circa Blond Ambition inspired number", and Violet Chachki wore "another super-tight corset looking, for all the world, like Sally Bowles in Cabaret".^[4] Joe Ehrman-Dupre of IndieWire said, "this isn't your typical episode. This time, things get personal, and while the challenge is important, the episode is really all about the queen's stories and interactions".^[17]

Oliver Sava of The A.V. Club gave the episode a rating of 'C' and said it was "a total drag ... losing the energy and character that makes this series so enjoyable and replacing it with sob stories and bitterness as the queens get ready to head into the finale." Sava opined:

The biggest problem with this episode is that it's another final competition episode with four queens instead of three, which means the individual contestants don't get as much time in the spotlight... A four-person lip sync is fun when its two pairs, but four individuals lip syncing is chaotic and unfocused; nobody comes out on top because there's so much happening on stage, so everyone gets lost in the madness. We'll find out who wins it all in two weeks, but this episode doesn't do much to build anticipation for the finale.^[9]

Ruth Boulet of Channel Guide Magazine said of the episode: "It's hard to follow-up Sissy That Walk, which was so fun for last season's finale. Born Naked is just kind of a 'meh' tempo and doesn't seem to give the girls much to do in their lip synch."^[7] In a 2016 review of a similar episode for the eighth season in which the final four contestants appear in a music video to a song by RuPaul ("The Realness"), Michael Malice of The New York Observer wrote, "This challenge is clearly irrelevant in choosing who goes forward. Last year, Kennedy Davenport—one of the best dancers the show has ever seen—ended up sashaying after the equivalent episode, while two-left-feet Pearl remained."^[18] In 2019, Bernardo Sim included Pearl in Screen Rant's overview of ten contestants "who made it to the finale with no chance of winning". He said Pearl "agitated a significant number of fans for making it through to the finale instead of Kennedy Davenport".^[19]

References

^ "RuPaul's Drag Race: Season 7, "And The Rest is Drag" + Untucked Episode 12". Gambit Magazine. May 20, 2015. Archived from the original on February 28, 2024. Retrieved February 28, 2024.
^ Hill, Libby (May 19, 2015). "RuPaul's Drag Race's Very Mediocre 'Final' Episode". Vulture. Archived from the original on April 20, 2023. Retrieved March 3, 2024.
^ Dior, Chiffon (May 19, 2015). "Talking Drag Race With Chiffon Dior: Episode Twelve "And the Rest Is Drag"". WERRRK.com. Archived from the original on December 2, 2021. Retrieved February 25, 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Carpentier, Megan; Rushe, Dominic (May 19, 2015). "RuPaul's Drag Race recap: season seven, episode 12 – And the Rest is Drag". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. OCLC 60623878. Archived from the original on March 22, 2020. Retrieved February 1, 2024.
^ ^a ^b Bates, Bryony (May 21, 2015). "RuPaul's Drag Race S7 E12: And the Rest is Drag". Vada Magazine. Archived from the original on February 25, 2024. Retrieved February 1, 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c Libby, Katie. ""RuPaul's Drag Race" Season 7, Episode 12: And the Rest is a Drag". CITY Magazine. Archived from the original on February 24, 2024. Retrieved March 3, 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c Boulet, Ruth (May 19, 2015). "RuPaul's Drag Race Season 7 episode 12 recap: Born Naked video". Channel Guide Magazine. Archived from the original on March 1, 2024. Retrieved March 3, 2024.
^ ^a ^b "'RuPaul's Drag Race' recap: 'And the Rest Is a Drag!'". Entertainment Weekly. Dotdash Meredith. ISSN 1049-0434. OCLC 21114137. Archived from the original on May 29, 2023. Retrieved March 3, 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c "RuPaul's Drag Race: "And The Rest Is Drag"". The A.V. Club. G/O Media. May 19, 2015. Archived from the original on June 20, 2021. Retrieved February 1, 2024.
^ Guerra, Joey (May 22, 2015). "Kennedy Davenport talks 'RuPaul's Drag Race' elimination". Houston Chronicle. Hearst Communications. ISSN 1074-7109. OCLC 30348909. Archived from the original on April 18, 2023. Retrieved March 4, 2024.
^ Schottmiller, Carl Douglas (2017). "Reading RuPaul's Drag Race: Queer Memory, Camp Capitalism, and RuPaul's Drag Empire" (PDF). University of California, Los Angeles. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 16, 2023. Retrieved March 4, 2024.
^ Metcalf, Mitch. "Top 1000 Monday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 5.18.2015". ShowBuzzDaily.com. Archived from the original on May 21, 2015. Retrieved May 20, 2015.
^ Bryde, Lindsay; Mayberry, Tommy (February 1, 2022). RuPedagogies of Realness: Essays on Teaching and Learning with RuPaul's Drag Race. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-4606-0. Archived from the original on February 28, 2024. Retrieved February 28, 2024.
^ Schulman, Michael (February 21, 2014). "In Drag, It Turns Out, There Are Second Acts". The New York Times. OCLC 1645522. Archived from the original on June 22, 2023. Retrieved March 3, 2024. It seems implausible in hindsight: Even before Ellen DeGeneres came out, America embraced a black female impersonator with the subversive message 'We're born naked, and the rest is drag.'
^ Summers, Claude (April 24, 2012). The Queer Encyclopedia of Film and Television. Cleis Press Start. ISBN 978-1-57344-882-6. Archived from the original on March 3, 2024. Retrieved March 3, 2024.
^ Maples, Anna (February 9, 2018). "A short history of music featuring drag queens". Vox. ISSN 0960-300X. Archived from the original on March 3, 2024. Retrieved March 3, 2024.
^ Ehrman-Dupre, Joe (May 20, 2015). "'RuPaul's Drag Race' Recap: Season 7, Episode 12: 'And The Rest Is Drag'". IndieWire. Penske Media Corporation. Archived from the original on March 3, 2024. Retrieved March 3, 2024.
^ "'RuPaul's Drag Race' Recap 8×09: The Final Four". The New York Observer. Observer Media. May 3, 2016. ISSN 1052-2948. Archived from the original on November 27, 2022. Retrieved March 4, 2024.
^ Sim, Bernardo (December 15, 2019). "RuPaul's Drag Race: 10 Queens Who Made It to the Finale with No Chance of Winning". Screen Rant. Archived from the original on December 16, 2019. Retrieved March 4, 2024.

External links

"And the Rest Is Drag" at IMDb
And the Rest Is Drag at Rotten Tomatoes
IMDb entry for the corresponding episode of RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked
This Week's Drag Center Ru-Cap and Watcha Packin' (May 19, 2015), Logo TV

[1] "RuPaul's Drag Race: Season 7, "And The Rest is Drag" + Untucked Episode 12". Gambit Magazine. May 20, 2015. Archived from the original on February 28, 2024. Retrieved February 28, 2024.

[2] Hill, Libby (May 19, 2015). "RuPaul's Drag Race's Very Mediocre 'Final' Episode". Vulture. Archived from the original on April 20, 2023. Retrieved March 3, 2024.

[3] Dior, Chiffon (May 19, 2015). "Talking Drag Race With Chiffon Dior: Episode Twelve "And the Rest Is Drag"". WERRRK.com. Archived from the original on December 2, 2021. Retrieved February 25, 2024.

[:0-4] Carpentier, Megan; Rushe, Dominic (May 19, 2015). "RuPaul's Drag Race recap: season seven, episode 12 – And the Rest is Drag". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. OCLC 60623878. Archived from the original on March 22, 2020. Retrieved February 1, 2024.

[:2-5] Bates, Bryony (May 21, 2015). "RuPaul's Drag Race S7 E12: And the Rest is Drag". Vada Magazine. Archived from the original on February 25, 2024. Retrieved February 1, 2024.

[:4-6] Libby, Katie. ""RuPaul's Drag Race" Season 7, Episode 12: And the Rest is a Drag". CITY Magazine. Archived from the original on February 24, 2024. Retrieved March 3, 2024.

[:3-7] Boulet, Ruth (May 19, 2015). "RuPaul's Drag Race Season 7 episode 12 recap: Born Naked video". Channel Guide Magazine. Archived from the original on March 1, 2024. Retrieved March 3, 2024.

[:5-8] "'RuPaul's Drag Race' recap: 'And the Rest Is a Drag!'". Entertainment Weekly. Dotdash Meredith. ISSN 1049-0434. OCLC 21114137. Archived from the original on May 29, 2023. Retrieved March 3, 2024.

[:1-9] "RuPaul's Drag Race: "And The Rest Is Drag"". The A.V. Club. G/O Media. May 19, 2015. Archived from the original on June 20, 2021. Retrieved February 1, 2024.

[10] Guerra, Joey (May 22, 2015). "Kennedy Davenport talks 'RuPaul's Drag Race' elimination". Houston Chronicle. Hearst Communications. ISSN 1074-7109. OCLC 30348909. Archived from the original on April 18, 2023. Retrieved March 4, 2024.

[11] Schottmiller, Carl Douglas (2017). "Reading RuPaul's Drag Race: Queer Memory, Camp Capitalism, and RuPaul's Drag Empire" (PDF). University of California, Los Angeles. Archived (PDF) from the original on July 16, 2023. Retrieved March 4, 2024.

[ep12rat-12] Metcalf, Mitch. "Top 1000 Monday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 5.18.2015". ShowBuzzDaily.com. Archived from the original on May 21, 2015. Retrieved May 20, 2015.

[13] Bryde, Lindsay; Mayberry, Tommy (February 1, 2022). RuPedagogies of Realness: Essays on Teaching and Learning with RuPaul's Drag Race. McFarland. ISBN 978-1-4766-4606-0. Archived from the original on February 28, 2024. Retrieved February 28, 2024.

[14] Schulman, Michael (February 21, 2014). "In Drag, It Turns Out, There Are Second Acts". The New York Times. OCLC 1645522. Archived from the original on June 22, 2023. Retrieved March 3, 2024. It seems implausible in hindsight: Even before Ellen DeGeneres came out, America embraced a black female impersonator with the subversive message 'We're born naked, and the rest is drag.'

[15] Summers, Claude (April 24, 2012). The Queer Encyclopedia of Film and Television. Cleis Press Start. ISBN 978-1-57344-882-6. Archived from the original on March 3, 2024. Retrieved March 3, 2024.

[16] Maples, Anna (February 9, 2018). "A short history of music featuring drag queens". Vox. ISSN 0960-300X. Archived from the original on March 3, 2024. Retrieved March 3, 2024.

[17] Ehrman-Dupre, Joe (May 20, 2015). "'RuPaul's Drag Race' Recap: Season 7, Episode 12: 'And The Rest Is Drag'". IndieWire. Penske Media Corporation. Archived from the original on March 3, 2024. Retrieved March 3, 2024.

[18] "'RuPaul's Drag Race' Recap 8×09: The Final Four". The New York Observer. Observer Media. May 3, 2016. ISSN 1052-2948. Archived from the original on November 27, 2022. Retrieved March 4, 2024.

[19] Sim, Bernardo (December 15, 2019). "RuPaul's Drag Race: 10 Queens Who Made It to the Finale with No Chance of Winning". Screen Rant. Archived from the original on December 16, 2019. Retrieved March 4, 2024.

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 == Production ==
 [[File:Candis Cayne 2009.jpg|thumb|American actress and performance artist [[Candis Cayne]] (''pictured in 2009'') is the episode's guest [[Choreography|choreographer]].]]The 42-minute episode was directed by Nick Murray, and originally aired on [[Logo TV]] in the United States on May 18, 2015.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Schottmiller |first=Carl Douglas |date=2017 |title=Reading RuPaul's Drag Race: Queer Memory, Camp Capitalism, and RuPaul's Drag Empire |url=https://escholarship.org/content/qt0245q9h9/qt0245q9h9_noSplash_1c7f5f707748535e094c464a5cdaf7e9.pdf?t=oxrdct |work= |publisher=[[University of California, Los Angeles]] |access-date=2024-03-04 |archive-date=2023-07-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230716223516/https://escholarship.org/content/qt0245q9h9/qt0245q9h9_noSplash_1c7f5f707748535e094c464a5cdaf7e9.pdf?t=oxrdct |url-status=live }}</ref> The episode's premiere was seen by close to 310,000 viewers.<ref name="ep12rat">{{cite web |last=Metcalf |first=Mitch |title=Top 1000 Monday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 5.18.2015 |url=http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-top-100-monday-cable-originals-5-18-2015.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150521143634/http://www.showbuzzdaily.com/articles/showbuzzdailys-top-100-monday-cable-originals-5-18-2015.html |archive-date=May 21, 2015 |access-date=May 20, 2015 |publisher=ShowBuzzDaily.com}}</ref> Its title refers to lyrics and phrasing ("we're all born naked, and the rest is drag") used prominently by RuPaul.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Bryde |first1=Lindsay |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RdBcEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22And+the+Rest+Is+Drag%22+%22Drag+race%22&pg=PA94 |title=RuPedagogies of Realness: Essays on Teaching and Learning with RuPaul's Drag Race |last2=Mayberry |first2=Tommy |date=2022-02-01 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-4606-0 |language=en |access-date=2024-02-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240228030729/https://books.google.com/books?id=RdBcEAAAQBAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA94&dq=%22And+the+Rest+Is+Drag%22+%22Drag+race%22&hl=en#v=onepage&q=%22And%20the%20Rest%20Is%20Drag%22%20%22Drag%20race%22&f=false |archive-date=2024-02-28 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Schulman |first=Michael |date=February 21, 2014 |title=In Drag, It Turns Out, There Are Second Acts |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/fashion/RuPaul-Drag-Race-television.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230622195941/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/23/fashion/RuPaul-Drag-Race-television.html |archive-date=June 22, 2023 |access-date=March 3, 2024 |work=[[The New York Times]] |oclc=1645522 |quote=It seems implausible in hindsight: Even before Ellen DeGeneres came out, America embraced a black female impersonator with the subversive message 'We're born naked, and the rest is drag.'}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Summers |first=Claude |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nwFuDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22And+the+Rest+Is+Drag%22+%22Mathu+Andersen%22&pg=PA248 |title=The Queer Encyclopedia of Film and Television |date=2012-04-24 |publisher=Cleis Press Start |isbn=978-1-57344-882-6 |language=en |access-date=2024-03-03 |archive-date=2024-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240303204817/https://books.google.com/books?id=nwFuDwAAQBAJ&newbks=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA248&dq=%22And+the+Rest+Is+Drag%22+%22Mathu+Andersen%22&hl=en#v=onepage&q=%22And%20the%20Rest%20Is%20Drag%22%20%22Mathu%20Andersen%22&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref> The song "Born Naked", from RuPaul's [[Born Naked|2014 studio album of the same name]], explores this idea.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Maples |first=Anna |date=2018-02-09 |title=A short history of music featuring drag queens |url=https://www.voxmagazine.com/music/a-short-history-of-music-featuring-drag-queens/article_503da4ac-0c67-11e8-bec4-53c60895f45d.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240303204829/https://www.voxmagazine.com/music/a-short-history-of-music-featuring-drag-queens/article_503da4ac-0c67-11e8-bec4-53c60895f45d.html |archive-date=2024-03-03 |access-date=2024-03-03 |website=[[Vox (magazine)|Vox]] |language=en |issn=0960-300X}}</ref>
-Andersen and RuPaul collaborated for many years, until the show's [[RuPaul's Drag Race (season 9)|ninth season]]; Andersen initially did RuPaul's hair and make-up, and later directed challenges and became a creative producer of ''Drag Race''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Raven Dedicates Emmy for 'Drag Race' Work to Mathu Andersen |url=https://www.out.com/drag/2021/1/23/raven-emmy-makeup-rupaul-drag-race-mathu-andersen |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240206152849/https://www.out.com/drag/2021/1/23/raven-emmy-makeup-rupaul-drag-race-mathu-andersen |archive-date=2024-02-06 |access-date=2024-03-03 |website=[[Out (magazine)|Out]] |language=en |issn=1062-7928}}</ref> He was a guest judge on [[RuPaul's Drag Race (season 2)|season two]]'s "Here Comes the Bride" (2010), and he was a special guest on the [[RuPaul's Drag Race (season 4)|fourth season]]'s "The Final Three" (2012), the [[RuPaul's Drag Race (season 5)|fifth season]]'s "The Final Three, Hunty!" (2013), the [[RuPaul's Drag Race (season 6)|sixth season]]'s "Sissy That Walk!" (2014), and the seventh season's premiere episode, which was also called "[[Born Naked (RuPaul's Drag Race)|Born Naked]]". Andersen was nominated in the [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Makeup for a Variety, Nonfiction or Reality Program|Outstanding Makeup for a Variety, Nonfiction or Reality Program]] category at the [[67th Primetime Emmy Awards]] for his work on "[[ShakesQueer]]", the seventh season's third episode.
-Cayne, a [[transgender]] actress and performance artist, has made multiple appearances on ''Drag Race'' as well as the spin-off [[RuPaul's Drag U|''RuPaul's Drag U'']]. Like Andersen, she was a special guest on ''Drag Race''{{'s}} "The Final Three" and "The Final Three, Hunty!" She was a guest judge on the ninth season's "[[Snatch Game]]" episode.<ref>{{Cite web |title=11 Times "RuPaul's Drag Race" Celebrated The Trans Community |url=https://www.logotv.com/news/drws17/rupauls-drag-race-transgender |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231129000804/https://www.logotv.com/news/drws17/rupauls-drag-race-transgender |archive-date=2023-11-29 |access-date=2024-03-03 |website= |publisher=[[Logo TV]] |language=en-us}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Sim |first=Bernardo |date=2019-10-27 |title=RuPaul's Drag Race: 10 Guest Judges You Forgot About |url=https://screenrant.com/rupauls-drag-race-forgotten-guest-judges/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230204125945/https://screenrant.com/rupauls-drag-race-forgotten-guest-judges/ |archive-date=2023-02-04 |access-date=2024-03-03 |website=[[Screen Rant]] |language=en |quote=With that said, fans seem to often forget that actress, choreographer, and trans icon Candis Cayne appeared on the show various times, choreographing the finalists on seasons 4, 5, and 7. Then, on season 9, Candis sat in the judging panel for the Snatch Game episode.}}</ref>
 == Reception ==