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Snatch Game is a tricky beast.
While its presented as merely about giving your best celebrity impersonation, in reality, its so much more.
No matter how accurate, the imitation alone isnt enough to stand out in a crowd of eight queens.
When Chad Michaels won as Cher, she didnt merely repeat Cher quotes or sing some known Cher songs.
But to hear others recount it, Chad was just good at doing Chers voice.
So lets talk about what makes a good Snatch Game.
Or, rather, what makes a bad one.
Its easy to recognize when something is funny.
Take Bosco, for example.
Along with the rest of the world, she correctly recognizes that Gwyneth Paltrow selling kooky products is comedic.
But merely pointing out that fact is not in itself comedy.
In Boscos case, she decides the comedy comes from the products escalating in grossness.
Last year a vagina candle, this year a probiotic made from come.
Its ridiculous and silly, to be sure, so why doesnt it work?
Well, the reason Goops $75 vagina candles are funny isnt because a vagina-scented candle is gross.
Starting there gives us a little more to work with.
), so she starts selling 2 percent milk for $40 per ounce on Goop.
Mimicking the nonsensical platitudes and non sequiturs Drew Barrymore herself could conceivably say on her own talk show?
A good place to start.
Well, now we might have a joke.
Of course, not all successful Snatch Games follow a set pattern or obey a strict set of rules.
But the most memorable ones often do.
In season 12, Gigi Goode won as a self-aware, potty-mouthed version of Sophia the robot.
As did BenDeLaCreme with her time-traveling Maggie Smith.
But there are other options.
Not a fan of painstakingly workshopping possible personas to make your impression pop?
Ironically, the frequently maligned Snatch Game of Love alleviates many of these issues.
But I cant lay all the blame at the queens feet.
Gofurther, RuPaul says.
Domore, Michelle pleads.
Dontflatline, they chorus.
Honestly, the person able to give the most astute analysis this week is guest judge Dove Cameron.
Maybe I need to go bingeLiv and Maddie.
Notably missing from the critiques this week?
Any emotion resembling anger from RuPaul.
What have the producers at RuPauls Psychological Torture Facility cooked up for us this time?
Ritual sacrifice?Hunger Gamesesque tournament?
On the contrary, this week we get … nothing.
With no one heading home, that means weve eliminated just six queens in ten episodes.
Not to mention that the gold chocolate bar is still very much in play.
Such things happen, though, and Im not writing the season off just yet.
