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From this morning's column about "The Class":

Comedy Math time, boys and girls. If the cast of "Friends" divided by 6 equals "Joey," what do you get when you take a third of the original "Friends" creative team, half of John Ritter's DNA, a quarter of the original "Joey" cast and a ninth of Broadway's "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" cast?

Pens and pencils down, everybody. The correct answer: "The Class" (8 p.m., Ch. 2), a sometimes-promising, sometimes-frustrating, always-overpopulated new sitcom that kicks off this season's odd new trend of shows about relative strangers who become best pals in a hurry.

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