Float Your Boat (RuPaul's Drag Race)

"Float Your Boat"
RuPaul's Drag Race episode
Episode no.	Season 4 Episode 6
Presented by	RuPaul
Original air date	March 5, 2012 (2012-03-05)
Guest judges
Billy B Kelly Osbourne Pauley Perrette
Episode chronology

"Float Your Boat" is the sixth episode of the fourth season of RuPaul's Drag Race.^[1][2][3][4] It originally aired on March 5, 2012. Billy B, Kelly Osbourne, and Pauley Perrette are guest judges.

Episode

Kelly Osbourne (left) and Pauley Perrette (right) are guest judges on the episode.

For the mini-challenge, the contestants must gain the biggest crowd reaction in a wet T-shirt contest.^[5] Willam wins the mini-challenge. For the main challenge, the contestants create and wear a pride float based on a color of the pride flag.^[6] Following are the contestants and select colors:

• Chad Michaels - Pink
• DiDa Ritz - Red
• Jiggly Caliente - Orange
• Latrice Royale - Turquoise
• Milan - Yellow
• Phi Phi O'Hara - Violet
• Sharon Needles - Green
• Willam - Indigo

Billy B, Kelly Osbourne, and Pauley Perrette are guest judges. On the main stage, Latrice Royale, Phi Phi O'Hara, and Willam receive positive critiques, and Willam wins the challenge. DiDa Ritz, Jiggly Caliente, and Milan receive negative critiques, and DiDa Ritz is deemed safe. Jiggly Caliente and Milan place in the bottom and face off in a lip-sync to "Born This Way" (2011) by Lady Gaga. Jiggly Caliente wins the lip-sync and Milan is eliminated from the competition.

References

1. "RuPaul's Drag Race: "Float Your Boat"". The A.V. Club. March 6, 2012. Archived from the original on June 14, 2024. Retrieved June 16, 2024.
2. "RuPaul's Drag Race Recap: Float Your Boat - BUST". March 6, 2012. Archived from the original on September 27, 2023. Retrieved June 16, 2024.
3. Garvey, Georgia (March 6, 2012). "'RuPaul's Drag Race' episode 6: Showboats". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved June 16, 2024.
4. "The Drag Race RuCap: And we'll all float on, okay | Xtra Magazine". March 6, 2012. Retrieved June 16, 2024.
5. Sweeten, Jason (March 6, 2012). "RuPaul's Drag Race Recap: Ho, Ho, Ho Your Boat!". Queerty. Archived from the original on September 30, 2023. Retrieved June 16, 2024.
6. Fernandes, Mariana (November 8, 2019). "RuPaul's Drag Race: 10 Design Challenge Runner-Ups That Should Have Won". ScreenRant. Archived from the original on December 21, 2022. Retrieved June 16, 2024.