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Cathal Gunning has been writing about movies, television, culture, politics online and in print since 2017. He worked as a Senior Editor in Adbusters Media Foundation from 2018-2019 and wrote for WhatCulture in early 2020. He has been a Senior Features Writer for ScreenRant since August 2020.

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Cathal is a network sitcom expert and has spent years writing about the genre from The Simpsons to The Conners. His longstanding obsessions include horror franchises such as the Scream series, animated comedy shows like South Park and Rick and Morty, and everything ‘80s from Top Gun to Stranger Things.

Latest Articles

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Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life (2016)
Gilmore Girls Revival: Why Sookie & Dean Are Hardly In A Year In The Life

Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life brought back the original cast for the miniseries, but why did viewers see so little of Dean and Sookie?

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Mission: Impossible Proved 12 Years Ago That It Can't Replace Tom Cruise (& It Shouldn't Try Again)

The Mission: Impossible franchise already tried to replace Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt and failed, proving that the series shouldn't attempt this again.

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South Park (1997)
Every Banned South Park Episode (& Why They Were Controversial)

Over 25 seasons, South Park has seen only 6 out of more than 300 episodes banned and censored. What made these outings so uniquely controversial?

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Buffy The Vampire Slayer (1997)
10 Actors You Forgot Starred In Buffy The Vampire Slayer

From Pedro Pascal to Wentworth Miller, Buffy the Vampire Slayer featured many soon-to-be superstars who played minor guest roles on the '90s series.

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Top Gun: Maverick's Ending Hints 1 Wasted Character Will Get A Better Story In Top Gun 3

One of Top Gun: Maverick's most high-profile supporting stars had a disappointingly small role in the sequel, but Top Gun 3 could still fix this.

Charlie Heaton's bemused Jonathan stands in a desert and stares in Stranger Things season 4 1
Stranger Things (2016)
Stranger Things Season 5’s Bigger Jonathan Story Is Very Concerning For 1 Reason

Stranger Things season 5 is setting Jonathan Byers up for a bigger role, but this might be terrible news for the character and the show itself.

Johnny Galecki's Leonard talks to Jim Parsons's Sheldon and Kaley Cuoco's Penny in The Big Bang Theory 1
The Big Bang Theory (2007)
The Big Bang Theory's Original Title Highlights Its Best Premise Change

The Big Bang Theory's original title centered the show's initial premise, but this plot was wisely dropped as the show focused on new cast members.

Iain Armitage as Young Sheldon and the Big Bang Theory cast looking shocked 1
Young Sheldon (2017)
Young Sheldon Season 7 Has A Devastating Way To Bring Back The Big Bang Theory's Main Characters

Young Sheldon season 7 can bring back The Big Bang Theory's main characters for cameos when the spinoff finally addresses one major canon event.

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Welcome to Derry
Welcome to Derry’s Pennywise Change Risks Ruining Stephen King’s Villain

Welcome to Derry's attempts to flesh out Pennywise's story means the prequel to Stephen King's IT will struggle with finding a fitting main character.

Gillian Anderson's Scully and David Duchovny's Mulder looking concerned in 2016's X-Files revival-1 1
The X-Files (1993)
8 Things That Need To Happen To Make Disney's The X-Files Reboot Work

From Mulder and Scully's return to monster of the week episodes, Disney's more diverse X-Files reboot needs to get a lot of elements right to succeed.

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South Park (1997)
South Park: Not Suitable for Children's Hero Brings Back A Randy Problem That Hurt 2 Earlier Specials

South Park: Not Suitable for Children still can't decide if Randy is the show's main character and the special introducing a new hero didn't help.

Peter Facinelli as Carlisle Cullen and the other Cullen family members in Twilight 1
Every Cullen Family Member Without Special Vampire Powers In Twilight

Only a few members of The Twilight Saga's Cullen family had vampire super powers. However, this is often contradicted by the franchise's movies.

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The Conners (2018)
The Conners Never Explained Roseanne’s Missing Son (Can Season 6 Fix This?)

The Conners season 6 still has a chance to explain what happened to Roseanne's missing son, since it's unclear if the sitcom retconned his existence.

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Rick and Morty (2013)
How Many Times Rick & Morty Escape The Fear Hole In Season 7’s Finale

Rick and Morty seemed to make it out of the Fear Hole numerous times in season 7's finale, but how many times did they actually escape in the end?

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Young Sheldon (2017)
Young Sheldon’s Best Finale Proves That TBBT's Later Seasons Were Better

The popularity of Young Sheldon's season 2 finale proves just how much The Big Bang Theory's later seasons improved on the sitcom's original premise.

Kunal Nayyar's Raj sits looks glum on a couch in The Big Bang Theory 1
The Big Bang Theory (2007)
1 Raj Detail In The Big Bang Theory Accidentally Created A Weird Actor Paradox

The Big Bang Theory's Raj created a weird paradox when he referenced a real-life TV show that features one of his sitcom's major supporting stars.

The Simpsons dressed as The Addams Family on a cruise ship in The Simpsons season 35 episode 9 1
The Simpsons (1989)
The Simpsons Season 35’s Weakest Episode Yet Brings Back 5 Major Problems

The Simpsons season 35 episode 9 brought Taika Waititi to Springfield, but the outing also uncovered the show's biggest issues from recent seasons.

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South Park (1997)
A South Park Christmas Episode Secretly Teased Cartman’s Character Change, 21 Years Earlier

An early South Park Christmas episode hinted at a big Cartman character change that season 26 followed through, thus shifting the show's tone.

Collage of Brendan Gleeson as Colm Doherty and Colin Farrell as Pádraic Súilleabháin in The Banshees of Inisherin 1
The Banshees of Inisherin Ending Explained

Martin McDonagh's The Banshees of Inisherin pits Colin Farrell against Brendan Gleeson; here is what the movie's ambiguous ending really means.

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Rick and Morty (2013)
Rick & Morty Introduces 1 Big Change For Season 8 After Solving A Problem Created In The Decade-Old Pilot Episode

Rick & Morty's season 7 finale saw the meek Morty challenge Rick's control of his life, but this power dynamic shift happened in a surprising way.

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