IMHO "Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List" (5.6): Rosie and Gloria and Griffin ... Oh My!

This week's My Life on the D-List didn't quite hit the heights of previous shows this season, but there was more than enough to tilt the arrow up.

Kathy heads down to Miami and meets up with Gloria Estefan, out former baseball player/now realtor Billy Bean, and runs afoul of an angry real estate lady with little patience for Kathy's humor.

And then there's Rosie O'Donnell's un-blurred bare derriere ...

In her continuing struggle to make it to the A-List, Kathy decides she needs a second house, preferably in a celeb-heavy area. She settles on Star Island in Miami, which I guess is sort of like Monster Island, only instead of Son of Godzilla and that one monster with a giant knife for a head, you've got Madonna and Sylvester Stallone.

That gives me a great idea for a movie ... it would be called Escape from Star Island, and feature washed-up celebs fighting each other and various deadly traps to get a five-minute interview with Ryan Seacrest.

But I digress ...

Kathy heads down to Miami and meets up with out former baseball player Billy Bean, who's now selling high-end (very high-end) real estate. They take a look at various gaudy mansions previously owned by the likes of Mariah Carey, and during one house showing, Kathy eats a jellybean. But not just any jellybean. A special jellybean. Which leads to an-awe-inspiring rant that more than justifies this week's up arrow. Take a look ...

The rest of the episode has Kathy hanging around with Gloria Estefan and Rosie O'Donnell, who is her usual loud, brash self. I think it would be a blast to hang around Rosie, but I could've done without the mooning scene.

Team Griffin works for a few hours at Gloria's hotel, and it goes about as well as you'd expect, with Kathy offering um, special services to callers, and invading a party filled with sweaty and shirtless frat boys.

The highlight (besides the jellybean rant) is when Rosie and Gloria accompany Kathy as she makes an offer on one of the mansions. They are mortified when she offers to pay $1.25 million for a house valued at about 20 million, but the final word is had by the female real estate agent.

In a hilarious (and I suspect, completely serious) rant, she blasts "Miss Hollywood" for wasting her effing time, and she's "got news for that bitch. If she wants to be on the A-List, real money talks here. Bullsh*t walks". I don't know what was funnier ... the speech, or the fact that she thought Kathy was serious about the offer.

Like I said, this week's episode was good, but it didn't scale the heights of "Maggie's Bucket List" or the Paula Deen show. But it still continues Kathy's resurgent fifth season.

What did you think?