diff --git a/parsel/selector.py b/parsel/selector.py
index d734f56..e39a55a 100644
--- a/parsel/selector.py
+++ b/parsel/selector.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 )
 from warnings import warn
 
-import html_text  # type: ignore[import]
+import html_text  # type: ignore[import-untyped]
 import jmespath
 from lxml import etree, html
 from lxml.html.clean import Cleaner  # pylint: disable=no-name-in-module
@@ -275,14 +275,6 @@ def getall(
 
     extract = getall
 
-    # TODO: bring types back
-    # @typing.overload
-    # def get(self, default: None = None) -> Optional[str]:
-    #     pass
-    #
-    # @typing.overload
-    # def get(self, default: str) -> str:
-    #     pass
     def get(
         self,
         default: Optional[str] = None,
@@ -291,7 +283,7 @@ def get(
         cleaner: Union[str, None, Cleaner] = "auto",
         guess_punct_space: bool = True,
         guess_layout: bool = True,
-    ) -> Optional[str]:
+    ) -> Any:
         """
         Return the result of ``.get()`` for the first element in this list.
         If the list is empty, return the ``default`` value.
@@ -822,14 +814,11 @@ def get(
             )
 
         try:
-            return typing.cast(
-                str,
-                etree.tostring(
-                    tree,
-                    method=_ctgroup[self.type]["_tostring_method"],
-                    encoding="unicode",
-                    with_tail=False,
-                ),
+            etree.tostring(
+                tree,
+                method=_ctgroup[self.type]["_tostring_method"],
+                encoding="unicode",
+                with_tail=False,
             )
         except (AttributeError, TypeError):
             if tree is True:
@@ -975,7 +964,7 @@ def cleaned(
         else:
             cleaner_obj = cleaner
 
-        root = cleaner_obj.clean_html(self.root)  # type: ignore[type-var]
+        root = cleaner_obj.clean_html(self.root)
         return self.__class__(
             root=root,
             _expr=self._expr,
diff --git a/tests/test_selector.py b/tests/test_selector.py
index 8b5e554..ae34e9c 100644
--- a/tests/test_selector.py
+++ b/tests/test_selector.py
@@ -1356,19 +1356,19 @@ class SelectorTextTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
             </body>
             """
 
-    def test_text_get(self):
+    def test_text_get(self) -> None:
         sel = self.sscls(text="<p>title:<h1>some text</h1></p>")
         txt = sel.get(text=True)
         self.assertEqual(txt, "title:\n\nsome text")
 
-    def test_text_getall(self):
+    def test_text_getall(self) -> None:
         sel = self.sscls(text="<ul><li>option1</li><li>option2</li></ul>").getall(
             text=True
         )
         self.assertEqual(1, len(sel))
         self.assertEqual("option1\noption2", sel[0])
 
-    def test_text_cleaned_get(self):
+    def test_text_cleaned_get(self) -> None:
         sel = (
             self.sscls(text="<p>paragraph</p><style>.items</style>")
             .cleaned("html")
@@ -1376,27 +1376,27 @@ def test_text_cleaned_get(self):
         )
         self.assertEqual("paragraph", sel)
 
-    def test_text_get_guess_punct_space_false(self):
+    def test_text_get_guess_punct_space_false(self) -> None:
         sel = self.sscls(text='<p>hello<b>"Folks"</b></p>')
         txt = sel.get(text=True, guess_punct_space=False)
         self.assertEqual(txt, 'hello "Folks"')
 
-    def test_text_get_guess_layout_false(self):
+    def test_text_get_guess_layout_false(self) -> None:
         sel = self.sscls(text="<ul><li>option1</li><li>option2</li></ul>")
         txt = sel.get(text=True, guess_layout=False)
         self.assertEqual(txt, "option1 option2")
 
-    def test_text_get_guess_layout_true(self):
+    def test_text_get_guess_layout_true(self) -> None:
         sel = self.sscls(text="<ul><li>option1</li><li>option2</li></ul>")
         txt = sel.get(text=True, guess_layout=True)
         self.assertEqual(txt, "option1\noption2")
 
-    def test_text_css_multiple(self):
+    def test_text_css_multiple(self) -> None:
         html = self.sscls(text=self.html_body)
         items = html.css(".product .price").getall(text=True)
         self.assertEqual(items, ["Price: 100", "Price: 200"])
 
-    def test_text_xpath_get(self):
+    def test_text_xpath_get(self) -> None:
         html = self.sscls(text=self.html_body)
         self.assertEqual(
             html.xpath('//div[@class="product"]/span').getall(text=True),