The Time Travel Episode

"The Time Travel Episode" is two-part episode of the sixth and seventh seasons of the animated comedy series On The Way: The Animated Adventures, which premieres in the United States on Fox on May 17 and September 27, 2026. In the episode, inventor Lawrence creates a time pad, set to the 1980s. Bringing along Jake and Gillan. Accidentally, being knocked off, Lawrence gets stranded in the '80s, with Jake and Gillan arriving back in a totalitarian utopia of the present, with the their only solution to repair the timeline.
"The Time Travel Episode" is written by show creator Xavier Mosley and directed by Greg Colton. "The Time Travel Episode" features guest appearance by Grey Griffin as Unice, as well as Rider Strong and Dana Davis, who are part of the voice cast of Star vs. the Forces of Evil, in which Griffin is also a part of.
== Plot ==
=== Part One ===
Lawrence creates a time pad and tests it out. Jake and Gillan overhear and plead to come with him, which he does. However, Lawrence has no timeline on his mind to go to, where Jake decides to go to 1986. Lawrence chooses the date and the trio gets on the time pad.
Upon arriving, Lawrence warns the duo not to interfere with anyone or anything until he comes back. Despite their trust to him, Jake and Gillan interfere with something harmless to them, such as going to a fast-food restaurant for lunch and watching a football game from a neighbor's window. However, before going back to the spot they came to, Jake is then confronted by a boy who thought he was ogling his girlfriend from her looks, but he admits he wasn't as he was looking at the pad at the distance she is staring at, followed by saying he is not her type. Thinking he assaulted her as she is African-American, he starts to fight him, which Jake instead flees from him. Jake uses a man's skateboard and the guy chases him with his car (à la Back to the Future skateboard chase scene). Jake dodges him and the man crashes into a dumpster.
Lawrence, amazed and surprised by the event, returns with supplies and the three get on the time pad to check the present. Before doing so, they need to travel somewhere no one can see them. They go to an empty alley and set it to go back to the present. Lawrence, however, is then taken off the time pad by a cat that lunged at him, only with Jake and Gillan going back to the present without him. The duo return inside their apartment. Hoping everything is alright, they head outside only to find Corpus Christi altered into a Utopian totalitarian society run by a middle aged Lawrence. Jake and Gillan roam around the altered timeline.Category:On The Way: The Animated Adventures episodes
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