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Do you smell that? It's the minty scent and feel of a woman returning to the Werk Room.

EW's exclusive sneak peek (below) at the next new episode ofRuPaul's Drag Race season 13 features the revival of a legend, as Peppermint's legendary season 9 makeover subject (and key member of the camera crew), Sarge (a.k.a. Winter Green), click-clacks back in the house (WITH heels!) as part of this week's mini challenge.

The clip begins as the queens enter the Werk Room after a fiery exchange on the main stage between Kandy Muse and Denali, but brighter things are ahead for the dolls as they leave the dreaded "Who should go home?" question behind them and prepare for RuPaul's delightfully absurd game show Are You Smarter Than the Pit Crew?

The contest tasks the remaining queens with answering trivia questions about RuPaul's Drag Race hertory, and the categories are as hilarious as the answers ("Backrolls" features questions exclusively about Alyssa Edwards). One of the questions about past makeover challenges prompts a quick cut to Sarge, who dons a pair of shiny ruby heels as he mans the camera.

Perhaps the most amusing moment, though, occurs when Utica buzzes in to answer when RuPaul asks which contestant coined the catchphrase "Bam!" but can't recall Alexis Mateo's name.

In the end, math ace Kandy Muse—who begins the episode by praising Tina Burner for winning "$25,000" in a prior mini challenge, despite the queen's winnings actually being $2,500—wins the game by answering a question about, well, math.

RuPaul closes the clip by introducing this week's maxi challenge, which will pit the queens against each other as they create their (Heidi-hydrating, hopefully) soft drinks using their personal brand. They must come up with the flavor, design the can, and produce a 45-second commercial with their own original jingle.

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Just in time for convention season, Iron Fist Clothing (not to be confused with Iron Fist, the Marvel superhero) has unveiled a Spring/Summer capsule collection entitled Super Bitches that features pin-up styled artwork of superheroines and villains. Known for their eclectic catalogue of monster-themed high heels and glam collaborations with RuPaul's Drag Race, the LA-based clothing label collaborated with artist Lora Zombie to create this cheeky comic-inspired print to showcase fierce and empowered super-women in a shared feminine and feminist light.

In early 1992, I interviewed RuPaul at the Tommy Boy Music offices in New York City in preparation for the label’s release of his debut album Supermodel of the World. At the time, I was the creative director of Dance Music Report, a trade magazine for DJs and the dance music industry, which was owned by Tom Silverman, founder of Tommy Boy, so it made sense to hire me to do the bio. I was also a RuPaul fan.

I knew Ru from his 1986 Funtone USA album RuPaul Is Star Booty (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) and from his bumpin’ 1991 single, “I Got That Feeling,” produced by Larry Tee and Eric Kupper featuring Lady Bunny on background vocals. I also knew Ru from seeing him performing at clubs like Larry Tee’s Love Machine and The Roxy.

Present at the interview, in addition to RuPaul and myself, were Tommy Boy publicist Laura Hynes and Randy Barbato, co-founder with Fenton Bailey of World of Wonder, which would go on to produce RuPaul’s Drag Race. I knew Randy and Fenton first as The Fabulous Pop Tarts (think a hyper-camp version of the Pet Shop Boys), particularly for Gagging on the Lovely Extravaganza, their second album released in 1992 on Funtone USA, RuPaul’s original Atlanta-based record label.

The tape, now an MP3 after sitting in a mixtape shoe box for 30 years, starts with chit-chat as Ru, Randy, Laura and I settle in for the interview. Ru and Randy talking about the record store I managed in Cincinnati before I moved to New York in 1991, me recognizing Randy from the Pop Tarts, our mutual friend, the journalist Laurie Pike, and for some reason, Bryan Adams.

You hear music faintly in the background not because we were recording in a bustling record label office, but because in my rush to get to the interview, I’d grabbed a random promo cassette tape, and like the true professional that I was, recorded over it. (Sorry, Vernel Brown!)

The RuPaul bio that

American drag queen, actor and musician (born 1960)

RuPaul Andre Charles (born November 17, 1960) is an American drag queen, television host, singer, producer, writer, and actor. He produces, hosts, and judges the reality competition series RuPaul's Drag Race and has received several accolades, including 14 Primetime Emmy Awards, three GLAAD Media Awards, a Critics' Choice Television Award, two Billboard Music Awards, and a Tony Award. He has been dubbed the "Queen of Drag" and is considered the most commercially successful drag queen in the United States, with Fortune saying that he is "easily the world's most famous drag queen." In 2017, RuPaul was included in the annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.

Born and raised in San Diego, California, RuPaul studied performing arts in Atlanta, Georgia, before relocating to New York City, where he became a popular fixture on the LGBT nightclub scene. He achieved international fame as a drag queen with the release of his debut single, "Supermodel (You Better Work)", which was included on his debut studio album Supermodel of the World (1993). As a recording artist, he has gone on to release fifteen studio albums. RuPaul was a spokesperson for MAC Cosmetics in 1994, raising money for the Mac AIDS Fund and becoming the first drag queen to land a major cosmetics campaign.

RuPaul's Drag Race was created in 2009 and has gone on to produce seventeen seasons in the United States. The show has also seen success internationally and there are several international variants of the show, including RuPaul's Drag Race UK (2019–present) and Canada's Drag Race (2020–present). There are also several spin-offs of the main show, such as RuPaul's Drag U (2010–2012), RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, (2012–present), and RuPaul's Secret Celebrity Drag Race (2020–2022). His other te