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The Pit Stop is the official aftershow for RuPaul's Drag Race (Seasons 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and 16), RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars (Seasons 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8), and Canada's Drag Race (Season 1). The show involves two people, a host and a guest (usually two previous competitors from Drag Race) in which they discuss the events of the episode. The name of the show is a pun on the pit area used during the car race where drivers can go and get refuelled, new tires, etc. during the race.
Season 8's Pit Stop was hosted by YouTuber Kingsley, All Stars 2, Season 9 and Season 10's by Raja, All Stars 3's by Alaska, All Stars 4, Canada's Drag Race, Season 13, All Stars 6, Season 16, and All Stars 9's by Trixie Mattel, Season 11's (and All Stars 4's finale) by Manila Luzon, Season 12 and All Stars 5 and 7's (and Season 9 and 10 and All Stars 9's finales) by Bob The Drag Queen, Season 14's by Monét X Change and Season 15 and All Stars 8's by Bianca Del Rio. The first three seasons aired on Logo's YouTube channel before switching to VH1's YouTube channel starting with All Stars 3.
Pit Stop Hosts[]
Kingsley
Season 8
Season 8
Raja
All Stars 2
Season 9
Season 10
All Stars 2
Season 9
Season 10
Alaska
All Stars 3
All Stars 3
Trixie Mattel
All Stars 4
Canada Season 1
Season 13
All Stars 6
Season 16
All Stars 9
All Stars 4
Canada Season 1
Season 13
All Stars 6
Season 16
All Stars 9
Manila Luzon
Season 11
Season 11
Bob The Drag Queen
Season 12
All Stars 5
All Stars 7
Season 12
All Stars 5
All Stars 7
Monét X Change
Season 14
Season 14
Bianca Del Rio
Season 15
All Stars 8
Season 15
All Stars 8
Appearances Timeline[]
NOTE: Years marked in BOLD are years where the queen hosted The Pit Stop
Series Overview[]
RuPaul's Drag Race[]
| Season | RPDR Season |
No. Episodes |
Dates | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Premiere | Finale | ||||
| 1 | 8 | 10 | March 8, 2016 | May 18, 2016 | |
| 2 | 9 | 13 | March 28, 2017 | June 27, 2017 | |
| 3 | 10 | 13 | March 27, 2018 | July 3, 2018 | |
| 4 | 11 | 13 | March 2, 2019 | June 1, 2019 | |
| 5 | 12 | 13 | March 1, 2020 | May 31, 2020 | |
| 6 | 13 | 15 | January 2, 2021 | April 25, 2021 | |
| 7 | 14 | 15 | January 9, 2022 | April 24, 2022 | |
| 8 | 15 | 14 | January 8, 2023 | April 16, 2023 | |
| 9 | 16 | 17 | January 6, 2024 | April 25, 2024 | |
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars[]
| Season | RPDR AS Season |
No. Episodes |
Dates | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Premiere | Finale | ||||
| 1 | 2 | 8 | August 27, 2016 | October, 16, 2016 | |
| 2 | 3 | 8 | January 30, 2018 | March 20, 2018 | |
| 3 | 4 | 10 | December 16, 2018 | February 17, 2019 | |
| 4 | 5 | 8 | June 7, 2020 | July 26, 2020 | |
| 5 | 6 | 12 | June 25, 2021 | September 5, 2021 | |
| 6 | 7 | 12 | May 22, 2022 | July 31, 2022 | |
| 7 | 8 | 12 | May 14, 2023 | July 23, 2023 | |
| 8 | 9 | TBA | May 18, 2024 | July 27, 2024 | |
RuPaul's Drag Race UK[]
High Tea is the equivalent series for The Pit Stop that was available on VH1's website after a week and some days each episode of the series aired. There were eight webisodes hosted by Miz Cracker with two special guests.
| Season | RPDR UK Season |
No. Episodes |
Dates | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Premiere | Finale | ||||
| 1 | 1 | 8 | October 12, 2019 | November 30, 2019 | |
Canada's Drag Race[]
| Season | CDR Season |
No. Episodes |
Dates | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Premiere | Finale | ||||
| 1 | 1 | 10 | August 6, 2020 | September 24, 2020 | |
Memorable Quotes[]
The Pit Stop (Season 9)[]
- "Yeah... Manila." (Raven)
- "If anyone has proven you can win Drag Race without being pretty, it is..." (Bob The Drag Queen)
- "Bianca Del Rio." (Bob The Drag Queen and Raja)
- "Do you have any good Michelle Visage reads?" (Bob The Drag Queen)
- "I don't, um, because I don't know who that is." (Raja)
The Pit Stop (All Stars 3)[]
- "It felt very satanic." (Gia Gunn)
The Pit Stop (All Stars 4)[]
- "I don't know what he does, but I know that he's an Olympian." (Laganja Estranja)
The Pit Stop (Season 12)[]
- "It's Fashion." (Peppermint)
The Pit Stop (All Stars 5)[]
- "You still mad?" (Bob The Drag Queen)
The Pit Stop (Canadas Drag Race Season 1)[]
- "I think Peronka is struggling mentally..." (Alyssa Edwards)
The Pit Stop (Season 13)[]
- "Do you sew? I forget." (Violet Chachki)
- "Yes, I do." (Trixie Mattel)
- "... did you sew that?" (Violet Chachki)
- "... no." (Trixie Mattel)
- "During Season 8, would you have been happy if Derrick stayed after your lip-sync?"
- "NO! No, no! In fact, if RuPaul would've said "Honestly, don't even lip-sync Derrick, just go home", I would've been like "Fair"" (Bob The Drag Queen)
- "*gasp* I came as soon as I heard!" (Katya)
- "I just heard. I came as soon as I wanted to..." (Trixie Mattel)
The Pit Stop (All Stars 6)[]
- "First of all... bitch; glamour where?" (Bob The Drag Queen)
- "If this season doesn't win an Emmy, its because of this outfit" (Bob The Drag Queen)
- "Up next, we have Ra'Jah O'Hara" (Trixie Mattel)
- "I LOVE THIS DRAG QUEEN" (Bob The Drag Queen)
- "You do?" (Trixie Mattel)
- "Cheryl Canning." (Mo Heart)
- "🎵Black stockings, white shoes; shouldn't be allowed in the chuuuuurch🎵" (Kennedy Davenport)
- "Oh my god, Kennedy!" (Trixie Mattel)
- "Um, favorite Girl Group? Probably Shangela's, um, All Stars season, that was like an amazing- hey, Kitty Girl right?" (Laganja Estranja)
- "Yeah, I was also in it, Laganja." (Trixie Mattel)
The Pit Stop (Season 14)[]
- "Well you know Shea Couleé famously only spend 700 and 50$ on Season 9." (Monét X Change)
- "And it showed." (Violet Chachki)
- "I have to sit like this *Impersonates Violets way of sitting* cause this is how Violet Chachki sat the whole episode" (Alaska)
- "OMG you noticed that right!" (Monét X Change)
- "So what are you enjoying about Season 14?" (Monét X Change)
- "By this time on my season, we were already 5 episodes into All Stars! By this time on my season, Alyssa Edwards had popped up in a mirror and said "trust the duchess"!" (Bob The Drag Queen)
- "Do you agree that Willow Smith is a master strategist?" (Monét X Change)
- "KEEP MY DAUGHTERS NAME OUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH!!!" (Bob The Drag Queen)
- "Ive had it! On my season you was happy, to send us home three, four, five at a time. But now all of a sudden everybody gets to hang out and stay and play. What's good!?" (Bob The Drag Queen)
The Pit Stop (All Stars 7)[]
- "Vivienne Pinay won last weeks lip sync-" (Bob The Drag Queen)
- "VIVIENNE. PINAY... VIVIENNE. PINAY!" (Willow Pill)
- "I like to stay busy girlll" (Eureka!)
- "GWORRRL" (Bob The Drag Queen)
- "One of my favorite quotes of yours is from All Stars you go girl....." (Bob The Drag Queen)
- "Thats it?" (Eureka!)
- "......I broke the bed" (Bob The Drag Queen)
- "Thats it?" (Eureka!)
- "I dont know, it was just missing something for me, probably comedy" (Eureka!)
- "THEY WONT BLEEP IT WHEN I SAY IT!" (Bob The Drag Queen)
- "I don't know, it was just missing something that I wish was there, probably comedy." (Eureka!)
- "Alright Monét" (Bob The Drag Queen)
- "LOVE P!NK" (Thorgy Thor)
- "Have you loved watching the All Winners season?.........." (Bob The Drag Queen)
- "..........Yeah..." (Vanessa Vanjie Mateo)
The Pit Stop (Season 15)[]
- "An orthopedic drag shoe" (Bianca Del Rio)
- "Yeah and you lost" (Bianca Del Rio)
- "I was touched by a priest....." (Bianca Del Rio)
- "I do love a good ball" (Alyssa Edwards)
- "You do? You've been known to have a couple in your mouth" (Bianca Del Rio)
- "..... I'm a good Christian woman, honey, I have nothing to say to that. Cause you picked the right time to flaunt your foolishness in front of all of my friends, fans, family, and folks at home. The absolute nerve- I'm a teacher, I'm a mentor. Talkin' all that foolishness" (Alyssa Edwards)
- "You do? You've been known to have a couple in your mouth" (Bianca Del Rio)
The Pit Stop (Season 16)[]
- "Are you fan? Do you live for the dolls?" (Brittany Broski)
- "Bitch! I did it though! Did I though?" (Bebe Zahara Benet)
- "I think it's corny." (Maddy Morphosis)
- "ROYGBIV?" (Angeria Paris VanMichaels)
The Pit Stop (All Stars 9)[]
- "Mirage...please tell her to be careful!" (Trixie Mattel)
- "I will, I tell he everyday to quit" (Plane Jane)
- "I'm obsessed with beauty and femininity so IIIIII loved Nina West" (Plane Jane)
- "YES, Oh my gosh! we love charity, we love queens, we love drag and we love GAY SHIT!" (Plane Jane)
- "Miss Conchita Wurst" (Plane Jane)
- "Double asian? you not even a single asian? (Bob The Drag Queen)
- "Jesus Fucking Christ! I thought you meant All Stars 17" (Katya)
Trivia[]
- During Season 12's The Pit Stop Bob The Drag Queen wore the same houndstooth fabric pattern in different outfits, while during All Stars 5's The Pit Stop she wore looks themed around the colours of the rainbow pride flag.
- On social media Bob has often joked that other queens and celebrities wearing houndstooth are stealing her look. During Bob's appearance on The Pit Stop for Season 13's Snatch Game, Trixie Mattel wore a houndstooth dress (which was the same dress Bob wore for Episode 4 of Season 12's Pit Stop) sent to her by Bob and joked that it was her look now.
- With the exception of Detox and Jujubee, all guest queens featured on Season 12's The Pit Stop are from New York.
- With the exception of Jaida Essence Hall, Mo Heart, and Monét X Change, all guests featured on Season 16's The Pit Stop, including Brittany Broski and Orville Peck, are first-time guests.
- Nicole Byer, TS Madison, Joel Kim Booster, Orville Peck, and Ali Wong are among the guest (or in Nicole's and TS's cases, alternating) judges who have appeared on The Pit Stop.
- Nicole has appeared twice on The Pit Stop; coincidentally, it is for two All Stars seasons: All Stars 6 and All Stars 7.
- TS appeared for the finale episode of The Pit Stop for All Stars 8.
- Joel appeared for All Stars 7, but would later become a guest judge for Season 16.
- Orville, a guest judge for Season 15's rusical episode, appeared for Season 16's The Pit Stop to discuss the rusical episode.
- Ali was a guest judge for Season 15's stand-up episode, but later appeared in All Stars 9's Pit Stop to discuss the roast episode.
- Due to the pandemic of COVID-19, episodes of The Pit Stop had to be filmed via video conference.
- The latter half of Season 12, the entirety of All Stars 5 and Canada's Drag Race Season 1, and select episodes of Season 13 had to be filmed via video conference. The first episode of the series to be socially-distant filmed was Season 12 episode 7, with Aja as the guest.
- The Pit Stop for Season 13 had Trixie in the studio with the guest on a screen. The exceptions to this are Episodes 3 and 4, when Trixie was at home on zoom with Priyanka and Jaida Essence Hall respectively; Episode 11, where BenDeLaCreme, who was presumably close enough to the studio to go in and was socially distanced from Trixie; and Episode 16, where Katya, who is a part of Trixie's quarantine pod, was socially distanced from Trixie.
- Season 12 Episode 11 was labelled as a mothers day special, this was because it was released on mothers day weekend and the host, Bob The Drag Queen, was joined by her drag daughter, Miz Cracker.
- For All Stars 5 all the guest queens invited for The Pit Stop were winners of a season of Drag Race.
- So far the only queens to host more than three seasons of The Pit Stop are Raja (All Stars 2, Season 9 and Season 10), Trixie Mattel (All Stars 4, Canada Season 1, Season 13, All Stars 6, Season 16, and All Stars 9) and Bob The Drag Queen (Season 12, All Stars 5 and All Stars 7).
- Trixie is also currently the only queen to host six seasons of The Pit Stop.
- From her combined appearances on The Pit Stop as host and a guest, Trixie Mattel is currently the most frequent queen to star on The Pit Stop, hosting six seasons of the show as well as appearing as a guest recapping Season 8 and All Stars 2.
- Laganja Estranja is the most frequent Pit Stop guest, having made 9 appearances to date; the queen with the second most appearances is Delta Work who has made 7 appearances.
- Season 13 queen Tina Burner is the first queen to appear on The Pit Stop (or an equivalent after-show) before appearing on RuPaul's Drag Race - she appeared in High Tea (the UK's Pit Stop equivalent) for the first episode of UK Season 1.
- Brooke Lynn Hytes became the first judge to be on The Pit Stop after being a guest on the finale recap of Canada Season 1.
- Cynthia Lee Fontaine, Alaska, and Farrah Moan are the only three queens who appeared as guests on the Pit Stop for a season they were on (Season 8, All Stars 2, and All Stars 4 respectively) while Manila Luzon is the only queen to host an episode of the Pit Stop for a season she was on (All Stars 4).
- Bob The Drag Queen, Sasha Velour, Trixie Mattel, Katya, Manila Luzon, Heidi N Closet, Mo Heart, Raja, Monét X Change, and Jaymes Mansfield were in episodes with a product placement.
- Bob, Sasha, and Trixie did product promotion for Bubly Sparkling Water, with Bob being in two of them as both host (Season 12, Episode 1 with Sasha as the guest) and guest (Season 13, Episode 9 with Trixie as the host).
- Trixie and Katya did a product placement for Truly Iced Tea in their review of Season 13, Episode 16.
- Trixie did product placements for Orbitz for the first three reviews of All Stars 6, with Bob The Drag Queen for Episode 1, Manila Luzon for Episode 2, Heidi N Closet for Episode 3, and Mo Heart (under her previous drag name, Monique Heart) for Episode 4.
- Trixie and Raja did a product promotion in their review of All Stars 6, Episode 8 for Barefoot Wine in line with the winery's 30-year anniversary.
- Monét and Katya did product placements for Sweet Tarts in their review of Season 14, Episode 8.
- Trixie and Jaymes did product placements and live demonstrations for göt2b's Color-Remix for two special recap Pit Stop episodes (one mid-season and one post-season) for Season 16.
- High Tea is the only season to not feature a queen from Drag Race.
- Tina Burner was a guest on High Tea prior to competing on Drag Race.
- Manila Luzon is the only Pit Stop host from Drag Race who isn’t a winner on their season.
- Barring Kingsley, every Pit Stop host so far made at least one appearance on the show as a guest before they took up hosting duties.
- The duos who have made the most frequent appearances together on The Pit Stop are Raja and Delta Work, Raja and Mariah Paris Balenciaga, Raja and Laganja Estranja, Raja and Manila Luzon, Bob The Drag Queen and Monét X Change, Trixie Mattel and Katya, and Trixie Mattel and Kim Chi, all of whom have appeared together three times.
- The Pit Stop is one of the longest-running companion show alongside Fashion Photo RuView and Whatcha Packin'.
- This is the only companion show not produced by World of Wonder.
- Season 15's premiere Pit Stop is the first episode to have two guests.
- To date, there have been five pairs of queens who have appeared as each other's host and guest on The Pit Stop: Alaska and Manila Luzon, Bob The Drag Queen and Raja, Bob The Drag Queen and Monét X Change, Trixie Mattel and Raja, and Monét X Change and Bianca Del Rio.
- Season 15's Pit Stop was filmed in December 2022.[1]
- Monét X Change (All Stars 5) and Manila Luzon, Heidi N Closet and Laganja Estranja (All Stars 6) are the only queens to appear on The Pit Stop for an All Stars season they appeared as a Lip Sync Assassin on.
- However, Manila and Heidi had not yet appeared as Lip Sync Assassins when they appeared on The Pit Stop.
- The Pit Stop for All Stars 8 Episode 6 was deleted and reuploaded to remove a reference by Bianca Del Rio to RuPaul's fracking.
- Season 9 is the Drag Race season with the most representation among its cast on The Pit Stop, with 12 out of 14 (86%) having appeared to date. The season with the second most is Season 8, with 9 out of its 12 (75%) queens having appeared.
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