Given her performance on that season (and Jinkx's legendary lip synch), I don't think it was a shocker, which is why I purposefully left her off.

The final 5 usually sees an unexpected/disheartening sashay away:

While watching the episode, I was complacent when Ru critiqued the bottom 3. Surely, Courtney would be sent to LSFYL against DL in order to light a fire under Courtney's ass for the finals. Only after Ben was shockingly nominated, did I think back to earlier in the episode and his tempting the foreshadowing gods quote…

Why should you be crowned America's Next Drag Superstar?

Entering the arena once more:

Haha, hi John, I like your visual re: item 6.

Oh! In regards to your bleach question — someone answered below, but the chemical I actually should've used was Acetone. Hard to remember such things on 4 hours of sleep.

Sorry to break the 4th wall, but I enjoy the discussion: