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The series is hosted by Creator/{{Rupaul}} (seasons 1-3) and judged by a panel including [=RuPaul=] and Creator/MichelleVisage (who also judge the original US '' Drag Race'' shows; serves as host for season 4) and Rhys Nicholson as the three regular judges. The fourth judge is a special guest, with a different celebrity for each episode.
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The series is hosted by Creator/{{Rupaul}} (seasons 1-3) and judged by a panel including [=RuPaul=] and Creator/MichelleVisage (who also judge the original US '' Drag Race'' shows; serves replaces [=RuPaul=] as host for the upcoming season 4) and Rhys Nicholson as the three regular judges. The fourth judge is a special guest, with a different celebrity for each episode.
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The series is hosted by Creator/{{Rupaul}} and judged by a panel including [=RuPaul=] and Creator/MichelleVisage (who also judge the original US '' Drag Race'' shows) and Rhys Nicholson as the three regular judges. The fourth judge is a special guest, with a different celebrity for each episode.
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The series is hosted by Creator/{{Rupaul}} (seasons 1-3) and judged by a panel including [=RuPaul=] and Creator/MichelleVisage (who also judge the original US '' Drag Race'' shows) shows; serves as host for season 4) and Rhys Nicholson as the three regular judges. The fourth judge is a special guest, with a different celebrity for each episode.
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* ConfessionCam: Contestants provide commentary via confessional interviews, which are recorded after the scenes they refer to, then spliced into the episode. Confessionals typically start on video, sometimes continuing as voiceover once the episode cuts back to the original scene. More rarely, there are some short voiceover-only commentaries. Confessionals are recorded out of drag.
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* ConfessionCam: Contestants provide commentary via confessional interviews, which are recorded after the scenes they refer to, then spliced into the episode. Confessionals typically start on video, sometimes continuing as voiceover once the episode cuts back to the original scene. More rarely, there are also some short voiceover-only commentaries.commentaries taken from confessional sessions. Confessionals are recorded out of drag.
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* ConfessionCam: Contestants provide commentary via confessional interviews, which are recorded after the scenes they refer to, then spliced into the episode. Confessionals typically start on video, sometimes continuing as voiceover once the episode cuts back to the original scene. More rarely, there are some short voiceover-only commentaries. Confessionals are recorded out of drag.
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* CelebrityImpersonator: The "Snatch Game" GameShow challenge is a comedy spoof of ''Series/MatchGame'' with the contestants impersonating celebrities.
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* CelebrityImpersonator: The "Snatch Game" GameShow challenge is a comedy spoof of ''Series/MatchGame'' with the contestants impersonating celebrities.celebrities such as Music/DollyParton, Creator/DrSeuss and Queen UsefulNotes/ElizabethII.
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* CelebrityImpersonator: The "Snatch Game" GameShow challenge is a comedy spoof of ''Series/MatchGame'' with the contestants impersonating celebrities.
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* PreviouslyOn: Each episode opens with a summary of the previous week's events, explaining who won and who was eliminated. This usually leads straight into a scene of the remaining contestants returning to the Werk Room after the elimination and reading the [[EliminationStatement farewell message]] written on the mirror.
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* ThisIsACompetition: There's often a little adjustment needed as the drag queens start to see themselves as competitors rather than colleagues, especially when the show's pecking order doesn't reflect their relative achievements in the outside world. Some are quite vocal in stating that it's a competition and if they win, others are going to have to lose.
-->'''Art Simone:''' I think I have the best looks. I ''know'' I have the best looks. But I'm coming to terms that this is a competition, it's now every woman for herself. Welcome to ''Drag Race''.
-->'''Art Simone:''' I think I have the best looks. I ''know'' I have the best looks. But I'm coming to terms that this is a competition, it's now every woman for herself. Welcome to ''Drag Race''.
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* GardenOfEden: Anita Wig'lit's costume for the "Born Naked" runway in season one's first episode is based around Eve and the Serpent in the Garden of Eden.
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** Elektra Shock's costume for season one's first episode "Born Naked" runway is her version of one of judge Creator/{{Rupaul}}'s own drag looks.
** Anita Wig'lit's costume for the "Born Naked" runway in season one's first episode is based on the Eve and the Serpent in the Biblical GardenOfEden.
** Elektra Shock's costume for season one's first episode "Born Naked" runway is her version of one of judge Creator/{{Rupaul}}'s own drag looks.
** Anita Wig'lit's costume for the "Born Naked" runway in season one's first episode is based on the Eve and the Serpent in the Biblical GardenOfEden.
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** Elektra Shock's costume for season one's first episode "Born Naked" runway is her version of one of judge Creator/{{Rupaul}}'s own drag looks.
** Anita Wig'lit's costume for the "Born Naked" runway in season one's first episode is based on the Eve and the Serpent in the Biblical GardenOfEden.
** Elektra Shock's costume for season one's first episode "Born Naked" runway is her version of one of judge Creator/{{Rupaul}}'s own drag looks.
** Anita Wig'lit's costume for the "Born Naked" runway in season one's first episode is based on the Eve and the Serpent in the Biblical GardenOfEden.
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-->'''Cue Card:''' HELP UTH, THIR LADY LANTH-A-LOT YOU'RE OUR ONLY HOPE, THERIOUTHLY
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-->'''Cue Card:''' card text:''' HELP UTH, THIR LADY LANTH-A-LOT YOU'RE OUR ONLY HOPE, THERIOUTHLY
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* PunnyName: As with other ''Series/DragRace'' shows, many of the antipodean {{Drag Queen}}}s choose punny {{Stage Name}}s. Examples include Hannah Conda (Anaconda), Anita Wigl'it (I need to wiggle it) and Aubrey Haive (Oh behave).
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* PunnyName: As with other ''Series/DragRace'' shows, many of the antipodean {{Drag Queen}}}s Queen}}s choose punny {{Stage Name}}s.Name}}s, some of which rely on Australian or New Zealand accents for full effect. Examples include Hannah Conda (Anaconda), Anita Wigl'it (I need to wiggle it) and Aubrey Haive (Oh behave).
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* PunnyName: As with other ''Series/DragRace'' shows, many of the antipodean {{Drag Queen}}}s choose punny {{Stage Name}}s. Examples include Hannah Conda (Anaconda), Anita Wigl'it (I need to wiggle it) and Aubrey Haive (Oh behave).
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* RRatedOpening: The first line actually said onscreen in the show's first episode, when Art Simone enters an empty Werk Room and addresses the audience, is the very Australian "Well, I'm not here to fuck spiders".
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* DualityMotif:
** For the first season's first episode Born Naked runway, non-binary contestant Etcetera Etcetera wears an asymmetrical nude-effect catsuit with a {{Hermaphrodite}} theme. One side is male, the other female.
** Art Simone's look for the first season's first episode Born Naked runway has one side of her clothed and the other seemingly naked. The judges make plenty of "two-faced" puns while she's onstage.
** For the first season's first episode Born Naked runway, non-binary contestant Etcetera Etcetera wears an asymmetrical nude-effect catsuit with a {{Hermaphrodite}} theme. One side is male, the other female.
** Art Simone's look for the first season's first episode Born Naked runway has one side of her clothed and the other seemingly naked. The judges make plenty of "two-faced" puns while she's onstage.
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* SplittingPants: The first runway theme of the first season is "Born Naked", for which many contestants wear naked-effect catsuits. As the contestants prepare in the work room, there's a BigNo shout from [[spoiler:Scarlet Adams]] as her outfit rips across the hip and buttocks, suffering what she describes as a "full back door blowout".
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* SplitScreen: Runway walks often use split screen to show a full-length view of the contestant on on side, while showing a close-up of hair and makeup, or costume detail, on the other side.
* SplittingPants: The first runway theme of the first season is "Born Naked", for whichmany some contestants wear naked-effect prosthetic catsuits. As the contestants prepare in the work room, there's a BigNo shout from [[spoiler:Scarlet Adams]] as her outfit rips across the hip and buttocks, suffering what she describes as a "full back door blowout".
* SplittingPants: The first runway theme of the first season is "Born Naked", for which
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* SerendipityWritesThePlot: [[invoked]] The first season's first episode has Creator/{{Rupaul}} judging the runway fashion show while out of drag, wearing a shirt and jacket. A HoldingBothSidesOfTheConversation sequence follows, with a second [=RuPaul=] onstage, alone in full drag, talking to [=RuPaul=] in the jacket, who's sitting with the other judges. He explains that his drag makeup was lost in transit to Australia, so he's filming this week's episode entirely out of drag.
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* SerendipityWritesThePlot: [[invoked]] The first season's first episode has Creator/{{Rupaul}} judging the runway fashion show while out of drag, wearing a shirt and jacket. A HoldingBothSidesOfTheConversation sequence follows, with a second [=RuPaul=] onstage, alone in full drag, talking to [=RuPaul=] in the jacket, who's sitting with the other judges. He explains that his drag makeup was lost in transit to Australia, transit, so he's filming this week's episode entirely out of drag.
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* LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand: In the first episode of season one, [=RuPaul=] walks onstage in full drag to introduce the contestants' first runway, with the usual "Cover Girl" theme playing. Then she introduces the judges... and the music lurches to a halt with the reveal that Ru is also sitting at the judges' desk, in shirt and jacket, out of drag. A HoldingBothSidesOfTheConversation sequence between the two versions of [=RuPaul=] follows.
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* TheUnintelligible: For the first season's audition mini-challenge, contestants have to play a character with a strong SpeechImpediment. [[spoiler:Elektra Shock]] exaggerates it as she goes, ending up completely unintelligible. She wins the challenge.
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-->'''Jojo Zaho''' Never fuck a sister. Pit Crew on the other hand, like, I'd colonise their colons.
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* AdamWesting: The first episode of season one features a video appearance by Creator/TaikaWaititi, supposedly on the set of ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder''. He portrays himself as a complete {{jerkass}} at the start of the sequence, snapping at someone offscreen, then knocking a coffee cup out of an assistant's hand.
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* AdamWesting: The first episode of season one features a video appearance by Creator/TaikaWaititi, supposedly on the set of ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder''. He portrays himself as a complete {{jerkass}} at the start of the sequence, snapping at someone offscreen, then angrily knocking a coffee cup out of an assistant's hand.
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* {{Blooper}}: At the start of the first episode of season one, Karen From Finance walks into the Werk Room for her introductory [[EstablishingCharacterMoment pose and soundbite]], but can't see the spot marked on the floor and keeps on walking. The other contestants find it hilarious, as does Karen. Once it's pointed out she goes back to the right place to deliver her line, but the initial confusion remains in the show.
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->''"I'm searching for Down Under's first Drag Race superstar. You've gotta have the right koalafications and a whole lot of Perthonaliy. Piece of piss, am I right? "''
-->-- '''[=RuPaul=]''', ''[=RuPaul's Drag Race Down Under=]'' (season 1, episode 1)
''[=RuPaul=]'s Drag Race Down Under'' is a RealityShow in which {{Drag Queen}}s from Australia and New Zealand compete in challenges to impress host Creator/{{Rupaul}}, with the winner of each series crowned as the Down Under's latest drag superstar and awarded other prizes. The show is part of the international ''Series/DragRace'' franchise.
The challenges cover things such as modelling, makeup and fashion design - as well as comedy, acting and dance performances. Each episode also includes at least one themed runway fashion show, which may or may not be related to the episode's other challenges.
As well as the challenges themselves, a large part of each show is devoted to conversation and events backstage, in the shared "Werk Room". This is where contestants prepare their costumes, do their makeup and rehearse for some of the challenges. Contestants aren't usually in drag during these segments, but still use their stage names - ''Drag Race'' largely avoids mentioning contestants' legal names unless contestants specifically share them.
At the end of each episode, contestants in the middle of the field are immediately marked as 'safe' until the next episode and leave the stage, whereas contestants at the top and bottom of the results remain onstage to hear the judges' critiques. As the series progresses, the number of safe places available steadily reduces.
After the critiques the remaining contestants leave the stage, the judges deliberate, and all of the contestants return to hear their verdict - at which point one queen is normally declared the week's winner, two are warned that they are potentially facing elimination, and any remaining queens who received critiques are also declared 'safe'.
As with other ''Drag Race'' shows, elimination is tied to a "lip sync battle" - the two contestants lip sync to a song chosen by the judges, with both queens performing onstage at the same time. The judges then decide who'll be saved and who'll be sent home.
The series is hosted by Creator/{{Rupaul}} and judged by a panel including [=RuPaul=] and Creator/MichelleVisage (who also judge the original US '' Drag Race'' shows) and Rhys Nicholson as the three regular judges. The fourth judge is a special guest, with a different celebrity for each episode.
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!! ''[=RuPaul's=] Drag Race Down Under'' contains examples of the following tropes:
* AdamWesting: The first episode of season one features a video appearance by Creator/TaikaWaititi, supposedly on the set of ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder''. He portrays himself as a complete {{jerkass}} at the start of the sequence, snapping at someone offscreen, then knocking a coffee cup out of an assistant's hand.
* {{Blooper}}: At the start of the first episode of season one, Karen From Finance walks into the Werk Room for her introductory [[EstablishingCharacterMoment pose and soundbite]], but can't see the spot marked on the floor and keeps on walking. The other contestants find it hilarious, as does Karen. Once it's pointed out she goes back to the right place to deliver her line, but the initial confusion remains in the show.
* ChromaKey: For the first season's audition mini-challenge, the contestants and a couple of the [[WalkingShirtlessScene Pit Crew]] are filmed in front of a green screen for Ru's hypothetical film ''Thar''. Despite some of the stage directions, it's only ever seen as green screen - no background or special effects are added later.
* ConfessionCam: Contestants provide commentary via confessional interviews, which are recorded after the scenes they refer to, then spliced into the episode. Confessionals typically start on video, sometimes continuing as voiceover once the episode cuts back to the original scene. Confessionals are recorded out of drag.
* DragQueen: As with other ''Series/DragRace'' shows, not only is it a contest for drag queens to demonstrate their skills, host Creator/{{RuPaul}} is a ''very'' well-established drag queen as well. In practice, much of each episode covers the Werk Room preparations and rehearsals, with contestants mostly out of drag. ConfessionCam segments, commenting on the show's events, are also filmed out of drag.
* EatingTheEyeCandy: The Pit Crew are muscular, attractive men who are usually [[WalkingShirtlessScene only wearing underwear]]. If they're helping with a challenge, the contestants are usually very appreciative -- and sometimes a little distracted.
-->'''Jojo Zaho''' Never fuck a sister. Pit Crew on the other hand, like, I'd colonise their colons.
* EliminationCatchphrase: [=RuPaul=] dismisses eliminated contestants with the same "Sashay away" used on previous English-language ''Series/DragRace'' shows.
* EliminationStatement: As with other shows in the ''Series/DragRace'' franchise, eliminated contestants usually make two different statements when they leave. The first is a final comment to the judges and cameras, before the contestant leaves the stage. The second is a message for the remaining contestants, written in lipstick on the werk room mirror.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: The first episode of every season deliberately gives each contestant a showcase to establish their drag style and persona when they make their grand entrance. Each queen walks into the Werk Room in full drag, pauses, poses and delivers a carefully chosen entrance line.
* EveryoneMeetsEveryone: The first episode of the season begins with the contestants entering the werk room in drag, one at a time. Some of them may already know each other (in season one, two of them actually co-host a New Zealand drag show), but they get some time to talk and introduce themselves before Ru arrives.
* ForeignRemake: ''[=RuPaul's=] Drag Race Down Under'' is an antipodean version of ''Series/RuPaulsDragRace'', the US show that originally launched the ''Series/DragRace'' franchise.
* FunetikAksent: One first season mini-challenge gets contestants to complete a mock-audition for a spoof film. The character has a [[SpeechImpediment strong lisp]] and the {{Cue Card}}s shown onscreen reveal that all the dialogue is written to reflect that, with spellings such as "theriouthly" instead of "seriously".
* FunWithAcronyms: As with other ''Series/DragRace'' shows, [=RuPaul=] makes repeated references to the competitors' [[CountryMatters Charisma, Uniqueness, Nerve and Talent]].
-->'''[=RuPaul=]:''' Now, I hand-picked each of you to compete because your charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent is bigger than the hole in the ozone.
* InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt: As with other shows in the ''Series/DragRace'' franchise, Ru is the host so it's ''[=RuPaul's Drag Race=]'' in the title. This doesn't happen with other {{Foreign Remake}}s that have different hosts (such as ''Series/CanadasDragRace'').
* MrFanservice: The Pit Crew team who assist with some challenges are muscular, attractive men who are usually [[WalkingShirtlessScene only wearing underwear]]. The contestants can often be found EatingTheEyeCandy, and the camera usually makes sure the viewers get a good look as well.
* OnTheNext: Every episode (aside from the season finales) cuts from the onstage ending to a set of "Next time on..." clips. The clip montage introduces the week's main challenge and normally includes some judge's comments, but doesn't reveal who's being judged. Closing credits follow the clips.
* PanelGame: The Snatch Game challenge, carried over from the original ''Series/RuPaulsDragRace'' series, is based on the panel game format, spoofing American show ''Series/MatchGame'', with contestants impersonating celebrities and then appearing in-character as the panel.
* TheRival: Invoked at the start of season one. When Scarlet Adams mentions that she's a dancer from a burlesque background, Elektra Shock says she's exactly the same and adds "come on, rivalry!". The scene cuts to ConfessionCam, where Scarlet immediately says there's no rivalry, implying that Elektra's not in her league.
* RRatedOpening: The first line actually said onscreen in the show's first episode, when Art Simone enters an empty Werk Room and addresses the audience, is the very Australian "Well, I'm not here to fuck spiders".
* ShoutOut:
** ''Drag Race's'' PanelGame challenge, Snatch Game, is a direct spoof of American show ''Series/MatchGame''.
** Season one's first mini-challenge is a mock-audition for a film called ''Thar'', introduced by Ru with a comparison to the ''[[Franchise/TheMightyThor Thor]]'' films. There's even a guest appearance by Creator/TaikaWaititi, and Creator/ChrisHemsworth's Adam's apple gets a mention.
* SpeechImpediment: In season one, Ru's first mini-challenge is a mock audition for a film called ''Thar'', in which the contestants' character is from the Planet Thickening and has a "Thickening accent" with a serious lisp. The {{Cue Card}}s have the dialogue written with a FunetikAksent, including the lisp.
-->'''Cue Card:''' HELP UTH, THIR LADY LANTH-A-LOT YOU'RE OUR ONLY HOPE, THERIOUTHLY
* TorpedoTits: For the first season's audition mini-challenge, contestants are filmed in front of a [[ChromaKey green screen]] while auditioning for science-fiction film ''Thar''. As part of this, Scarlet Adams is asked to use her "laser boobs", and acts accordingly. No special effects are added, though.
* VotedOffTheIsland: Ru normally chooses the winner of each episode, chooses the two queens who'll lip sync to avoid elimination, and then chooses which queen will go home. Given the nature of the challenges and the lip sync, there's always a subjective element to these decisions.
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