This is a solid episode, but it contains many instances of the actors' Achilles heel at CBSRMT - the foreign accent.  They struggle valiantly, and some of them succeted from story to story, but Joyce Gordon has a worse French accent than Patricia Elliott.  The German and Russian accents seem to be particularly tough, and there are some bad brogues and burrs.  The content of the stories matters more, of course, but it is annoying to hear these tone deaf attempts, and a little hard to keep a straight face sometimes.  Lloyd is one of my faves in the roll of actors, but his Irish accent always sounds like a guy with severe laryngitis.  Sheesh!