RuPaul Roast (RuPaul's Drag Race season 5)

"RuPaul Roast" is the seventh episode of the fifth season of RuPaul's Drag Race. It originally aired on March 11, 2013.

Episode
For the episode's mini-challenge, the contestants "read" (or playfully insult) each other. Alaska wins the mini-challenge.

For the main challenge, the contestants perform a roast of RuPaul, the judges, and each other in front of a live audience.

Leslie Jordan and Jeffrey Moran are guest judges. Alaska, Coco Montrese, and Jinkx Monsoon receive positive critiques, and Coco Montrese wins the challenge. Alyssa Edwards, Ivy Winters, and Roxxxy Andrews receive negative critiques, and Ivy Winters is deemed safe. Alyssa Edwards and Roxxxy Andrews place in the bottom and face off in a lip-sync to "Whip My Hair" (2010) by Willow Smith. They are both declared the winners of the lip-sync and no one is eliminated from the competition.

Reception
Oliver Sava of The A.V. Club gave the episode a rating of 'A'. Michelle Visage considered the performance among her favorites, as of 2022. In 2022, Bernardo Sim of Out magazine called the lip-sync "iconic". Writing for Pride.com in 2023, Sim said the lip-sync was the season's best. Stephen Daw included the performance in Billboard similar list in 2024.