The Last Ball on Earth

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"The Last Ball on Earth"
RuPaul's Drag Race episode
Episode no.Season 10
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"The Last Ball on Earth" is the fourth episode of the tenth season of RuPaul's Drag Race . [1] [2] [3] It originally aired on April 12, 2018. Logan Browning and Tisha Campbell are guest judges.

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Aquaria wins the mini-challenge as well as the main challenge, which has contestants create three looks a climate change-themed ball. Dusty Ray Bottoms is eliminated from the competition, after placing in the bottom two and losing a lip-sync against Monét X Change.

Episode

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Logan Browning (left) and Tisha Campbell (right) are guest judges on the episode.

For this episode's mini-challenge, the contestants photobomb celebrity pictures. Aquaria is declared the winner.

For the main challenge, the contestants are tasked with creating three looks for The Last Ball on Earth: Alaskan Winter Realness, Miami Summer Realness and Martian Eleganza Extravaganza. [4] Climate change is the ball's theme. [5]

Dusty Ray Bottoms (pictured at RuPaul's DragCon LA in 2022) is eliminated from the competition. RuPaul DragCon 2022 (52072217457) (cropped).jpg
Dusty Ray Bottoms (pictured at RuPaul's DragCon LA in 2022) is eliminated from the competition.

RuPaul wears a Leigh Bowery-inspired outfit. [6] Logan Browning and Tisha Campbell are guest judges. Aquaria wins the main challenge. Dusty Ray Bottoms and Monét X Change place in the bottom and face off in a lip-sync to "Pound the Alarm" by Nicki Minaj. [7] During the lip-sync, Monét X Change does a death drop "fake out". [8] [9] Dusty Ray Bottoms is eliminated from the competition.

Reception

Oliver Sava of The A.V. Club gives the episode a rating of 'B+'. [10] Screen Rant said RuPaul's outfit was the episode's most memorable. [11] The "Pound the Alarm" performance ranked number 31 in The Spinoff 's list of the show's 162 lip-syncs to date. [12] In 2022, Bernardo Sim of Out magazine ranked the performance tenth in a list of Drag Race's best lip-syncs with stunts. [9]

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