Well, these guys finally start to make sense. Clearly they recognize the problem with forcing a student through Shaun's English class, and they both seem to support this former student, Dev, who chose to pursue other studies rather than attend Shaun's class.

The course of the discussion reveals that Shaun mainly put the effort of teaching on other students as he deferred answering direct questions from Jon indicating that he could not remember specifics about class but only remembered that a lot of other students were involved. Wow! What a teacher! He remembered that he had students! Nor could he remember what they "studied" in class. Dev had to fill in the gaping holes in Shaun's memory. In the midst of all of Shaun's confusion, hilariously he finds inspiration in Dev's recounting of the forgotten wisdom Shaun once espoused. Either Shaun has lost a significant aspect of his humanity, or Dev simply miscredits wise tidbits that he intuited while sitting bored in Shaun's class.

I won't dwell on this too long because I hear from my sources that these guys are going to do a commentary on this episode. I will save further critique until then.

Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart / CC BY-SA