RuPaul's Drag Race (season 2)

The 12 queens arrive and start to size up their competition. Early on in the episode, they discover that some of the queens met one another prior to being cast: Sahara and Shangela, Raven and Morgan, and Nicole and Sonique. After meeting RuPaul for the first time, the queens are pushed into a photo shoot with photographer Mike Ruiz for a Gone with the Wind inspired photo shoot involving the girls straddling a cannon and a high speed fan blowing in their faces.

The first challenge consists of 12 window treatments with different style curtains, courtesy of Smith+Noble. Each queen has to choose one and make an outfit made entirely of the curtains. Raven is allowed to select her curtains first as a reward for having the best photo.

• Guest Judges: Mike Ruiz and Kathy Griffin
• Mini-Challenge: Gone with the Wind inspired photo shoot
• Mini-Challenge Winner: Raven
• Main Challenge: Outfits made from curtains and home furnishings
• Challenge Winner: Morgan McMichaels
• Bottom Two: Sahara Davenport and Shangela Laquifa Wadley
• Lip Sync Song: "Cover Girl (Put the Bass in Your Walk)" by RuPaul
• Eliminated: Shangela Laquifa Wadley
• Farewell Message: "Love you all. Turn it out... Shangela "DJ""

The girls are given a mini-challenge where they're split into teams of two (with Mystique working alone, as there's an odd number of girls) and asked to give a RuPaul doll a "bad girl" makeover. RuPaul selects Sahara and Pandora as the winners, and they're made group leaders for the next challenge.

For the main challenge, the contestants will be split into two teams and create a burlesque performance for a Hollywood nightclub to "Tranny Chaser" by RuPaul.

• Guest Judges: Kim Coles and Dita Von Teese
• Mini-Challenge: Turn "Mini-Ru" doll from a lady to a tramp in teams of two
• Mini-Challenge Winners: Sahara Davenport and Pandora Boxx
• Main Challenge: Teams compete to earn more cash performing burlesque and selling gift certificates
• Runway Theme: High Class Drag
• Challenge Winner: Sahara Davenport
• Bottom Two: Nicole Paige Brooks and Raven
• Lip Sync Song: "My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)" by En Vogue
• Eliminated: Nicole Paige Brooks
• Farewell Message: "Be Safe Bitch N.P. Brooks"

The girls enter the workroom to discover a long table, where most of the girls speculate that they will have to eat something. They're asked to play a game that RuPaul calls "Chicken, or What?", in which they participate in a blind taste test of three foods. They have to guess if what they ate was chicken or some other fried food ("what?"). Mystique and Morgan are declared the winners. They become captains and have to form their teams for the main challenge.

The main challenge tasked the two groups with creating a commercial for Disco Extra Greasy Shortening. Mystique's team creating a commercial for fish fillets, and Morgan's team creating a commercial for fried chicken. After the leaders have cast what parts their teammates would play, and after everyone has memorized most of their lines, RuPaul reveals a twist: the queens need to swap scripts.

• Guest Judges: Kathy Najimy and Tanya Tucker
• Mini-Challenge: "Chicken or What?" eating contest
• Mini-Challenge Winners: Mystique Summers Madison and Morgan McMichaels
• Main Challenge: Teams compete as feuding families in a TV Commercial for Disco Shortening in Country
• Runway Theme: Country Couture
• Challenge Winner: Tyra Sanchez
• Bottom Two: Mystique Summers Madison and Raven
• Lip Sync Song: "I Hear You Knockin'" by Wynonna Judd
• Eliminated: Mystique Summers Madison
• Farewell Message: "Balls 2 the Walls. Fishes or Bitches. You pick. Mystique."

The contestants are given a mini challenge called "The Queen is Right," where the girls are shown drag essential items and asked to bid on how much they believe the item is worth. The contestant who comes closest to the actual price wins. Raven wins the challenge, and she is rewarded by being allowed a one time call home. The queens are then asked to impersonate celebrities as part of a Match Game homage, called "Snatch Game."

• Guest Judges: Lisa Rinna and Niecy Nash
• Mini-Challenge: "The Queen is Right" bidding challenge
• Mini-Challenge Winner: Raven
• Main Challenge: Celebrity impersonations in a Match Game setting
• Runway Theme: Personal Style
• Challenge Winner: Tatianna
• Bottom Two: Morgan McMichaels and Sonique
• Lip Sync Song: "Two of Hearts (song)" by Stacey Q
• Eliminated: Sonique
• Farewell Message: "☮♥ XO Son!que "Trust" "

The contestants are given a mini challenge to decorate a white box using provided supplies and an item borrowed from another queen, which Raven wins. RuPaul then announces the main challenge of creating a wedding dress by altering weddings dresses provided to them. As an additional twist, the queens will be shooting wedding portraits using not only their girl drag, but their best guy drag as well by posing as both bride and groom for the portraits. Raven gets first pick of her wedding dress to alter, and then gets to pick the order the rest of the girls pick their dresses out in as well.

• Guest Judges: Mathu Andersen and Martha Wash
• Mini-Challenge: Decorate a box that shows who they are and they must borrow something from another contestant
• Mini-Challenge Winner: Raven
• Main Challenge: Dress up as the bride and groom in a wedding photo shoot
• Challenge Winner: Tyra Sanchez
• Bottom Two: Morgan McMichaels and Sahara Davenport
• Lip Sync Song: "Carry On" by Martha Wash
• Eliminated: Morgan McMichaels
• Farewell Message: "All you have to do is DREAM! Morgan XOXO!"

The girls arrive to RuPaul giving them a mini challenge in which they must style a wig, giving it a glam rock makeover. Pandora is declared the winner. RuPaul reveals the remaining contestants a very special and unique challenge. They must create a rocker chick outfit and perform live vocals to a rock and roll cover to RuPaul's Ladyboy.

• Guest Judges: Henry Rollins and Terri Nunn
• Mini-Challenge: Give a wig a glam rock makeover.
• Mini-Challenge Winner: Pandora Boxx
• Main Challenge: Live rock performance of "Lady Boy" by RuPaul
• Challenge Winner: Jessica Wild
• Bottom Two: Jujubee and Sahara Davenport
• Lip Sync Song: "Black Velvet" by Alannah Myles
• Eliminated: Sahara Davenport
• Farewell Message: "Live, Love and Believe!!! XO. Sahara"

The remaining girls are given a mini challenge where they "read" (insult) the other contestants. Jujubee wins the mini challenge, and RuPaul then gives the girls their main challenge for the week. Each contestant is to create an autobiography book cover and title that represents their own personal stories about how doing drag has impacted their lives.

As an additional challenge, the girls field questions via a satellite interview, where they must not only present their autobiography but also promote a new Absolut alcoholic beverage.

• Guest Judges: Gigi Levangie and Jackie Collins
• Mini-Challenge: Reading is Fundamental
• Mini-Challenge Winner: Jujubee
• Main Challenge: Come up with and promote a concept for an autobiography
• Challenge Winner: Raven
• Bottom Two: Jessica Wild and Tatianna
• Lip Sync Song: "He's the Greatest Dancer" by Sister Sledge
• Eliminated: Jessica Wild
• Farewell Message: "I love you girls! Viva P.R.! JW."

This week's challenges focused entirely on age. For the mini challenge, the girls had to match all 12 of this season's contestants to their baby pictures, including their own. The main challenge consisted of the girls taking older gay men and transforming them into their drag mothers for the runway. The contestants were also expected to perform a lip-synch with their mothers to RuPaul's song "Main Event". Tatianna got to pick who each girl would be teamed up with as her reward for winning the mini-challenge.

• Guest Judges: Debbie Reynolds, Cloris Leachman and Toni Ko
• Mini-Challenge: Quickly match the season's 12 contestants with their baby pictures
• Mini-Challenge Winner: Tatianna
• Main Challenge: Transform older men into drag mothers and perform a lip synch duet with them
• Challenge Winner: Raven
• Bottom Two: Jujubee and Pandora Boxx
• Lip Sync Song: "Shake Your Love" by Debbie Gibson
• Eliminated: Pandora Boxx
• Farewell Message: "Lick this Boxx, bitch. XOXO Love you all Pandora Boxx"

This week's challenges focused on creating polished looks for different events. For their mini-challenge, the queens had to style and accessorize identical dresses without cutting or gluing them. Tyra is the winner, and she is placed in charge of choreographing an opening number for The Diva Awards, where the queens must put together three looks for three different Diva Award ceremonies: the Teen Diva Awards, where the queens must dress like teen idols, the Diva DC Press Awards, where the queens must pull out executive realness looks, and the Diva Hollywood Extravaganza Awards, where the queens are expected to wear their most glamorous looks.

• Guest Judges: Tatum O'Neal and Marissa Jaret Winokur
• Mini-Challenge: Style and accessorize one of four identical dresses
• Mini-Challenge Winner: Tyra Sanchez
• Main Challenge: Create three different looks for "Diva Award" ceremonies (Teen Diva, Diva D.C. Press, and Diva Hollywood Extravaganza) and perform a group opening number
• Challenge Winner: Tyra Sanchez
• Bottom Two: Jujubee and Tatianna
• Lip Sync Song: "Something He Can Feel" by Aretha Franklin
• Eliminated: Tatianna
• Farewell Message: "Do you 2 the FULLEST! Love TATI"

Highlights and outtakes from the second season's first nine episodes. RuPaul reveals some never-before-seen, behind the scenes moments including the queens impersonating each other, the contestants' family relationships and the unseen moments on the main stage. This is followed by a fast-forward flashback recap of the entire season, followed by an up-close and personal look at the final 3.

Merle and Santino arrive to tell the last three queens about their final challenge - dressing in their best 80s outfits and shooting the music video for RuPaul's next single: "Jealous of My Boogie". They will work with guests who include reality star Robert Verdi, who will help the girls with fashion, make-up artist Mathu Andersen, who will direct the video and choreographer Ryan Heffington, who will coach them in a small fight sequence a la Dynasty.[5]

During the shoot, each girl is given a certain script, where they confront RuPaul and get slapped.

• Main Challenge: Shooting a music video for "Jealous Of My Boogie (Gomi and RasJek Edit)" and acting in a scripted scene with RuPaul inspired by Dynasty
• Eliminated: Jujubee
• Farewell Message: "You are your own worst critic... let go, forgive, & live. Love, Juju B."
• Top Two: Raven and Tyra Sanchez
• Lip Sync Song: "Jealous Of My Boogie (Gomi and RasJek Edit)" By Rupaul
• Runner-up: Raven
• Farewell Message: "Keep reaching for the stars, because you'll never be one - Raven"
• Winner of RuPaul's Drag Race Season Two: Tyra Sanchez

Season 2 cast reunite to talk about their journey and The Miss Congeniality Award Winner is announced as Pandora Boxx, winning in a landslide. The queens all dance together for the last time. Sonique announces that she is in the process of gender transitioning and identifies as a girl.

• Miss Congeniality: Pandora Boxx