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On Family Members, they cut a member of a familiy out of the show! A little girl!

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this entire show should be wiped out without a trace / explanation, i doubt ANYONE would give a sh*t.

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OMG they sent her to Mandyville!!

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I love this show.. I was just recording it cause it came on after How I met you mother..but after I got caught up with most of my other shows we started watching this...

It started slow but with not much else on the tivo and most shows on 2 month break it got better by 3rd show..and now me and my wife love it.

On the Holly charater...they should have had something happen to her with Richie's wife. I also miss Yonk.

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I read somewhere that she left the show when she was told her involvement was going to be reduced. As far as I can tell she wasn't fired, she quit.

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It was reported back on 1/12 that she was dropped because of the "creative changes" (after episode 12). The producers said "Due to creative changes, Lucy Punch is no longer a cast member. She is a superb actress and did a fabulous job. We hope to work with her again in the near future."

I suspect they will deal with Holly leaving the show as I've heard they still intend to use her husband Perry (Sam Harris).

The show has taken some heat for not being very ethnically diverse (the little white daughter named Oprah was a sclose as they've gotten) so you may see some characters of different ethnicites popping up.

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The thing to keep in mind with missing from the credits/etc is that due to contracts and or union rules if you're in the credits, you get paid something (maybe not full episode rate) even if you're not in it.

That said I hope they give her character an exit of some kind (goes into seclusion when she catches her husband with another (wo?)man?)

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I absolutely love this show. So much so that when I finish watching it on TiVo, I don't delete it and then watch it again once or twice before the next episode comes out.

I must be in the even smaller minority of those who liked Holly. I thought she was hilarious, especially when working with Kyle and his partner that she couldn't understand. The Thanksgiving episode? C'mon, that was funny!

Speaking of minorities, the producers last show - FRIENDS - also took some heat for rarely having minorities. Didn't seem to hurt it.

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By the way, while I appreciate that CBS is showing full episodes of the show on their site, who made the call to put them in Real Player? Seriously? Real Player? Who still uses that crap?

Sorry, guys. Big fan. Not big enough to install Real Player on my computer.

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So Joel, does this mean you are watching the class again?

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I like this show and I was really shocked when they've just thrown her away. It was quite cruel.

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I'm glad they finally got rid of the dead weight. Thanks to Friends the American public is not able to follow a half-hour comedy with more than 6 main characters. For this show (which is a gem) to have a fighting chance, they had to slim down the cast. When this kind of situation presents itself, it's usually easiest to get rid of the least favorite character or the character with the least growth potential. Of course either way in this situation it would've been Holly. I do hope that they give her character some closure, like sending her off to report on something somewhere far away.

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I heard somewhere that they are cancelling the show, and it is to be replaced with the new show Rules of Engagement. Can anyone comfirm that?

I Love the show and don't want to see it leave!!

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On No. 13: According to thefutoncritic.com, "The Class" season finale is March 5, with "Old Christine" sliding into that time slot the following week. The "Class" order was just a few short of a full season.

I'm really disappointed to see Lucy Punch get dropped. Instead of dumping her, I wish the show would use her like Janice from "Friends" or Newman from "Seinfeld" -- occasional appearances for comic relief.

I thought her Holly Ellenbogen character actually worked and was one of the reasons I stuck it out this season.

I wonder about the chances of a renewal: CBS won't need much help next season, and they're not scared to ax a show that's doing good but not great. (See "Joan of Arcadia.")

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I like the show. It is rather funny. As for her being axed. I didn't really see her as being part of the show anyway.

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I actually enjoyed the character. I loved the scenes when they showed Kyle and his partner watching her on tivo and replaying her getting hit by a stop sign over and over.

I think it was kind of cruel of the producers to just wipe her out of existence like that. I feel bad for the actress.

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It seems strange that they would end one episode with Richie's wife (Fern?) calling her on the phone and telling her "I'm gonna get you!" after Richie lies and tells her that Holly is who he met after heir separation. Why set that confrontation up and not complete it? The writers could certainly have had fun with a confused confrontation between a jealous and bitter Fern and a confused and goofy Holly. If they wanted to write her off they could easily have had Fern wimp out at the last minute unable to bring herself to kill Holly - only to have Holly have a goofy and fatal accident as she leaves. Or have Holly laugh it off only to find herself in the role of the jealous and bitter wife when she walks in on her gay husband with another man. Or have Holly get an assignment as a travel correspondent and give her occasional appearances in a sort of "Peterman" role from Seinfeld. It's clear from these passing thoughts why I'm not a sitcom writer, but any of them are better options than pretending she never existed. I still don't understand why they set up that confrontation only to pretend it never happened.

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Tracy, I never stopped watching the show. I just got sick of reviewing it, especially saying the same thing every week.

I'll admit the show's gotten better, but it might be too late to save it. It goes off the air on March 5, when its season finale airs, and I'm wondering if its going to come back at all.

Oh, and riffing off the disconnect by JJ, here's another question: when did Kat acquire that British boyfriend of hers? I'm wondering if there's a missing episode in there that CBS decided to either not run or run later in some re-packaged form.

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Kat got the new boyfriend in the previous episode; it was a major plot point ("Why doesn't he call?")

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I just finish telling someone about the show and it's overweight 8 character cast. I watch yesterdays and I'm like "oh, I was wrong....it's seven? No. That's not right. Where's the reporter?"

Considering I've only seen three episodes (hated it at first, but the last two, it suddenly clicked), that is telling that even I caught it.

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