"RuPaul's Drag Race" Recap: "The Girl with the Hungry Eyes"

Hey, Drag Race fans! This week's episode had it all: fabulous guest judges, a great main challenge, cool drag costumes and perhaps most important, pendulous latex titties flopping everywhere!

Things kick off with poor Shangy down in the dumps over being in the bottom two for last week's Christmas drag costume challenge. I imagine she's going back to her workstation to exact revenge on that snowman for dragging her down.

On the way, she erases eliminated contestant Venus D Lite's farewell lipstick message, which was something like "Don't be Shady – Be a Lady!" Meh. Venus could maybe have asked Bruce Vilanch to punch that up a bit.

I might have gone with "Go tuck yourselves, bitches!" Or perhaps something more cerebral: "Don't you realize you're all acting out a camp version of Sartre's No Exit? This workroom is purgatory – and only I ESCAPED!"

Okay, maybe that's a bit existentialist for Drag Race.

As mentioned, Shangela is in a foul mood and not particularly receptive when Manilla Luzon comes over, hugs her, and offers hard-to-decipher words of encouragement. Later in the ep, Manilla's gibber talk will come in really handy, but right now Shangy just wants to clock her.

Phoenix (who looks way cuter out of drag than he does in) starts pontificating on how Venus deserved to go home because of her unladylike – some might call it violent – lip sync for your life performance.

"It's all about a line of professionalism. You guys will never have to deal with that from me."

Okay Phoenix, we're going to hold you to that. Maybe in this episode.

The She Mail siren goes off and RuPaul's dewy, airbrushed, gauzily-lit countenance announces the episode's theme: "Drag: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the of the starship Drag Race. A one year mission to boldly tuck where no man has tucked before."

Then RuPaul Charles (Ru's male alter ego) and the hunky pit crew guys show up for a mind-reading mini-challenge.

Two guesses what your recapper is thinking about at this moment?

The contestants are paired off in teams of two and then separated by a screen. One team member has to "use ESP" to guess the other person's fashion accessories. What color boa, what kind of jewelry, what color cat, etc.

This is really lame. Since there is no such thing as extra-sensory perception, it's all about random luck. Unless you cheat. And since every team completely sucked at this, it's sort of apparent that no one cheated.

The pair given the win for getting maybe two out of ten questions right is Phoenix and Mariah.

Their reward for winning? They will be competing team captains for this week's sci fi movie challenge.