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" Bitch Perfect" is the second episode of the eighth season of the American television series RuPaul's Drag Race. It originally aired on March 14, 2016. The episode's main challenge tasks the contestants with performing choreography in a sketch inspired by Pitch Perfect. Ester Dean, Lucian Piane, and Jamal Sims are guest judges. Chi Chi DeVayne wins the main challenge. Dax ExclamationPoint and Laila McQueen place in the bottom and are both eliminated from the competition after a lip-sync contest to "I Will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor.
AB Soto leaves, then RuPaul then reveals the main challenge, which tasks the contestants with performing choreography in a Pitch Perfect-inspired sketch Bitch Perfect. The two winners of the mini-challenge select their teammates. The two groups (Team "Lady Bitches" and Team "Shady Bitches") begin to rehearse. RuPaul returns to the Werk Werk Room and meets with each group to ask questions and offer advice. RuPaul invites any interested contestants to use the confessional room called the Shade Tree. On the main stage, the contestants rehearse with guest choreographer Jamal Sims.
On elimination day, the contestants make final preparations for the sketch and the fashion show. Kim Chi and Dax ExclamationPoint talk about their weight losses. Kim Chi reveals to the group that she is a Virginity. Chi Chi DeVayne talks about her upbringing and experience with gangs. On the main stage, RuPaul welcomes fellow judge Michelle Visage, as well as guest judges Ester Dean, Lucian Piane, and Sims. The contestants perform in Bitch Perfect. RuPaul reveals the runway category ("Movie Premiere Realness"), then the fashion show commences. The judges deliver their critiques, deliberate, then share the results with the group. Chi Chi DeVayne is declared the winner of the main challenge. Dax ExclamationPoint and Laila McQueen place in the bottom and face off in a Lip sync contest to "I Will Survive" (1978) by Gloria Gaynor. Both contestants are eliminated from the competition. Both return to the Werk Room to leave mirror messages for the remaining contestants. Back on the main stage, RuPaul is shown calling someone to ask if they are available.
Bitch Perfect references various RuPaul songs, including "Jealous of My Boogie", "Geronimo", "Superstar", and "Adrenaline".
Buffy Flores ranked the "I Will Survive" performance fifth in Pride.com's 2016 list of the show's seven worst lip-sync contests to date, writing: "So much could have gone right with a song like this, but it all ended up so wrong." Kevin O'Keeffe ranked "I Will Survive" number 73 in INTO Magazine 2018 "definitive ranking" of the show's lip-syncs to date. In 2019, Visage said "I Will Survive" is her least favorite of the show's lip-syncs. Sam Brooks ranked the contest last (number 162) in The Spinoff 2019 "definitive ranking" of the show's 162 lip-syncs to date, writing: "I mean, there's kind of no question here as to what lip-sync is the worst in the show's history. It's the one where they sent two queens home for barely knowing how to perform 'I Will Survive', a song that is so emotionally legible and universal that a toddler with the barest conception of life or death could do a passable run at it." Writers for Vulture called the lip-sync performance "poor" in 2019. In 2023, Michelle Konopka Alonzo of Screen Rant wrote, "While Dax's performance was lackluster and uninspiring, Laila's lip-sync was slightly better until she made a fatal mistake. As soon as Laila took her dress off, the look on RuPaul's face immediately indicated that neither Laila nor Dax would be saved; in hindsight, there's little doubt that Laila would've stayed if she had kept her clothes on."
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