Episode 521: RuPaul's Drag Race S18 Ep1 - "You Can't Keep a Good Drag Queen Down!"
Alright Mary: All Things RuPaul's Drag Race
Colin Drucker & Johnny Also
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2026
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
Drag Race kicks off its 18th season with some of the oldest bitches in the cut. (Okay, 8 of them are in their 30s.) We get an extended Florida family reunion of the Love Dions and Aunt Starr, a biter from Boston, Trash reclaimed and renamed Darlene, some disrupted Discord, a former mechanical engineer bagging the lip sync and Kenya Pleaser literally trapped in her skirt. Cardi B gets an A as guest judge, Jamal Sims appears on screen to watch the girls reenact Scream 2, and in a dystopian twist it turns out the whole thing runs on the blood, sweat and farts of Bob, Kim and Raja on stationary bikes in a basement bunker.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, |
| 0:02.0 | All right, Mary. |
| 0:18.0 | We have seasoned girls this year. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm thrilled. |
| 0:21.6 | I'm not the only person over 30. |
| 0:23.6 | Wait, wait, wait. |
| 0:24.6 | How many of us are over 30? |
| 0:25.6 | Why are we doing this now? |
| 0:27.6 | Let me put your hand up. |
| 0:28.6 | This is correct. |
| 0:29.6 | No, I agree. |
| 0:30.6 | I love that it's a bunch of old bitches. |
| 0:33.6 | I am feeling a different vibe. |
| 0:36.6 | I could. I am feeling a different vibe. |
| 0:42.7 | I could have clipped that sooner, |
| 0:45.2 | but I needed to keep that little musical tale on the end or else what was the point of doing a clip of the week. |
| 0:47.8 | Athena, put your hand up. |
| 0:49.8 | Yeah. |
| 0:51.7 | If we didn't have that, then what are we doing? |
| 0:54.5 | But otherwise, I don't know if you know this, Mary. |
| 0:56.8 | They mention it briefly. |
| 1:00.0 | But this season, there are queens over, that's right, folks, 30. |
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