It's pretty cool how the episode develops, with people seemingly misusing words in throw away conversations. Soon the misuse and substitution of nonsense words in the wrong context starts to build up until Klein can't turn around without someone calling a breed of dog an "encyclopedia" or refer to their anniversary as a "throw rug." The nonsense continues until Klein (or the viewer) can't understand entire sentences, and of course, no one around him can understand him either, including his wife (Annie Potts).
Things come to a head when his child becomes sick and has to be rushed to the hospital, and luckily the language barriers don't stand in the way of saving the kid's life. Still, when it's all over, Klein still can't understand anyone, and no one can understand him, and this segment ends with a particularly touching and bittersweet moment when Klein sits down in his child's bedroom to open a "how to read" book for children and start to learn from scratch.
Craven's actors do really well with the changing language – even though they're using the wrong words for everything, everything sounds like natural speech and seems totally convincing. If you came in halfway through the episode, you might think you're going just as crazy as Klein thinks he is.
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