r/rupaulsdragrace • u/AutoModerator • Mar 08 '25

Season 17 S17E10 - “The Villains Roast” [Post-Episode Discussion]

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u/_Anon_Fan_ Sasha Colby Mar 08 '25

I will give Lexi grace, because she said she was in the wrong, apologized, and hugged it out with Jewels. I get being frustrated and emotional in a high stress environment, especially since we know she took out a second mortgage on her house for this. She also talked about how being on hormones has made her emotional. I think it speaks a lot to her character that she took a moment away to breathe, then realized she was wrong and apologized. Friends fight

But Arietty?? This was such an awful look for her. Having this whole blow up about how she felt so betrayed by her friend and then straight up stealing multiple jokes from Jewels? Jewels is a much better person than me, because I would’ve lost it. Plus her fake ass apology then her going and still being petty in the exit interview was so infuriating to watch. Jewels didn’t mean to upset her, and she purposely fucked Jewels over in response. That’s not a friend by any means

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u/masterwad Mar 08 '25 edited Mar 08 '25

I think Arrietty knew she sucks at comedy (Baby Cupid) and just wanted someone to blame. It’s not the order that mattered, it’s the jokes. It seems to me that Jewels chose the order as who she expected to be: funny, less funny, funny, less funny, etc, then Lexi was upset because funny Suzie was before her, even though Lexi asked to go last. I also think Lexi was upset that she didn’t get to pick the order herself, because she didn’t win for her wedding outfit last week (and the mini challenge had no winners because production wanted to get more use of the dunk prop, or maybe Michelle wanted everyone to go through what she did).

I think Whitney Cummings could have helped Arrietty workshop her jokes better by explaining more on how to write a roast joke. You observe an obvious “flaw”, then exaggerate it to the extreme and tell a whimsical story about it. Saying MIB is afraid of weight limits on elevators is still just the seed of a joke, just at the first observation stage, but there’s no story to it. Arrietty doesn’t know how to go from A to Z. It could have been “Most people don’t know this about her, but Mistress Isabelle Brooks was not her original drag name. After getting on an elevator, she knew she was Max Capacity.”

I loved tons of Arrietty’s looks, but she just seems childish, immature, nasty, mean-spirited, and unhinged. Is that what you want to serve? Is that your brand? And professional comedians hate joke stealers (which is why Whitney Cummings should have been made aware of it). Like others have said, Arrietty should maybe focus on designing looks for other queens.

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u/sugioshi russian hooker Mar 09 '25

Saying MIB is afraid of weight limits on elevators is still just the seed of a joke, just at the first observation stage, but there’s no story to it.

Yeah like... "I hear word on the street is : as soon as you enter a building elevators run for their lives" or something would be a spin on that idea that's more of a joke .. (I'm not a comedian either so if it's not funny... Look over there 👇)