On The Way: The Animated Adventures (season 5)

On The Way: The Animated Adventures' fifth season airs on the Fox network between September 22, 2024 and May 18, 2025. The showrunner for the fifth season is Chris Sheridan. Mike Scully and Tim Long executive produced the season as well.
During this season, Jake enters the Corpus Marathon to prove he is the greatest runner, Jake, Gillan and Flo enter a game show, Gillan becomes an outcast, Sherrie is revealed to be a fangirl of a kids' show, Jake hangs out with Flo, Lawrence gets picked into being a main character in a cartoon series, Gillan becomes a snitch, Chalmer tells a story about a previous job he had, Lawrence goes to an anger management class, Flo proves Lawrence wrong that unhealthy food will not effect her heart, Jake brings both Sherrie and Gillan together (which becomes a hassle), Todd becomes a paparazzo, and Flo enlists Gillan, Jake and Sherrie to set up a surprise for Lawrence for their anniversary.
The season reaches to the series' 100th episode, "Blueyonder and Companion at the Awards". The DVD box set will release on December 2, 2025.
== Production ==
The season was executive produced by the series' regulars George Lucas, Xavier Mosley, Mike Scully, and Tim Long. Scully and Long served as the showrunners throughout the season.
The series' main cast consisted of Xavier Mosley (Jake), Sean Giambrone (Lawrence), Tucker Albrizzi (Gillan), Jey Livings (Flo Richard) and Ariel Winter (Sherrie MacLayne).
A new recurring characters gets introduced. Edna's old college roommate Cloris Simmons, was introduced in the episode "Out with the Old School, In With the News". Lori Alan provides the voice of Cloris in the episode, but doesn't return in any of the next episodes of the season until the following ones. Guest stars include Kaitlin Olson as Flo's new friend, Kerry, Trey Parker as game show host Thomas Harv, The Simpsons cast member Hank Azaria as Leon, Chalmer's old friend and features Dana Gaier and Kristen Wiig returning from the first season reprising the Gavins from "New Meat". Recurring cast member Zendaya, the voice of Courtney, is written off the series in the final episode.
The season's 21st episode reaches the series' 100th episode, which consists of Jake and Gillan's comic becoming a popular animated short.
== Episodes ==
No. overall	
No. in series	Title 	Synopsis
80 	1 	"Jake and Flo" 	Jake spends time with Flo after getting his phone back from up the top of her house. He then becomes a nuisance from wanting to spend time with her. Meanwhile, Sherrie enlists Lawrence to be her tutor.
81 	2 	"Out With the Old School, In With the News"	Edna meets her old roommate from college who's become a well known reporter.
Guest star: Lori Alan as Cloris Simmons
82 	3 	"Friends vs. Game" 	Gillan, Jake and Flo get on the prime-time game show Friends vs. Game.
Guest star: Trey Parker as Thomas Harv
83 	4 	"Tough Lovers" 	Lawrence and Flo break up, due to there different lifestyles and personalities. Jake and Gillan try to get them back together.
84 	5 	"The Return of Denise Gavin" 	The Gavins move next door to the Richards, which leads to the regained rivalry of Flo and Denise.
Guest star: Dana Gaier as Denise Gavin and Kristen Wiig as Ms. Gavin
85 	6 	"Go, Jake, Go!" 	Jake claims to be a great runner, which he plans to prove in the Corpus Marathon.
86 	7 	"Poparazzi" 	Todd becomes a paparazzo for having a new job in the newspaper business.
Guest stars: Jay Leno, John C. Reilly & Steven Wright as themselves and Jack Black as Ed "Big Daddy" James
87 	8 	"Voice of Non-reason" 	Lawrence gets chosen for being a voice for a cartoon series.
Guest stars: Jim Cummings, Jess Harnell, Julie Bowen, Alanna Ubach and Matt Stone as themselves
88 	9 	"The Second On The Way Christmas Special" 	Sherrie does her best to be nice for Christmas from help from Flo and the Boys.
89 	10	"Dr. Phil" 	Cleaning Chalmer's office, Jake finds his resume in a file drawer and goes through it, finding out that he was a doctor. He and the others ask him why he used to be.
Guest star: Hank Azaria as Leon
90 	11	"15 Years Later..." 	In the future, Jake lives his life as a deadbeat still living in the apartment, Gillan had died in a car accident, Lawrence and Florence are married and Sherrie's married to Reggie.
91 	12	"Lawrence in: Rough Rage" 	Lawrence goes to an anger management class to control his anger more.
92 	13	"Health Issues" 	Flo rebels against Lawrence by proving that eating unhealthy without getting a heart attack. Meanwhile, Sherrie and Jake compete with their old rivals visiting town.
Guest stars: Zach Callison as Burt and Nancy Cartwright as Stepheny
93 	14	"PowderPuff Fanbase" 	Flo spills the beans on Sherrie being a fan of The PowderPuff Girls, which makes her become a laughing stock at school.
94 	15	"Gone Gillan" 	Gillan becomes an outcast to his friends as well as other people he knows. Leading to leave town.
95 	16	"Friends Without Benefits" 	Jake tries to choose between Gillan or Sherrie, so he decides to be hanging out with both of them together.
96 	17	"New Gal" 	Florence befriends a girl who takes advantage of her.
Guest star: Kaitlin Olson as Kerry
97 	18	"Gillan the Squealer" 	Gillan snitches on many students in the school, as well as his best friend.
98 	19	"Swiss Family Richard" 	Flo's workaholic parents go on vacation.
99 	20	"Flo and Lawrence's Anniversary" 	Flo gets Sherrie, Gillan and Jake's assistance to plan a surprise for Lawrence on their 5th anniversary of the day they fell in love.
100 	21	"Blueyonder and Companion at the Awards" 	After Jake and Gillan adapt their comic book into a short, it gets a nomination for an Annie Award.
101 	22	"Sing(ers)" 	Sherrie teams up with a musical duo of both vocal and music.
Guest stars: Cyndi Lauper as Carolyn and Kristen Bell as June
== DVD release ==
The DVD boxset for will be released by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment in the United States on December 2, 2025, seven months after it has completed broadcast. The DVD release features bonus material consisting of animatics, deleted scenes, and commentaries on every episode. Animated menus are included, and are actuate to the DVD cover, which continues on later releases.
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