On The Way: The Animated Adventures (season 9)

On The Way: The Animated Adventures' ninth and final season airs between September 2028 and May 2029. It will then release on DVD on October 2, 2029.
During this season, the teenagers go up into space and meet an advanced alien race ("They Came From Earth"), Jake sells foreign back market items to a resident in Marylin ("The 'Far From Home' Story"), Todd becomes a member of the Corpus Lodge Club ("Welcome to the Club"), Lawrence investigates on the missing school plaques ("Lawrence Private Eye"), Jake competes in a dancing competition ("Dance, Dance, Competition"), and Gillan prepares to leave Corpus as his family accepts him back.
== Production ==
The ninth season of On The Way: The Animated Adventures is produced after the release of the movie and contains the same amount of episodes of the last six seasons.
Mike Scully serves as showrunner. The executive producers for the season are Chris Sheridan, Scully, Steve Callaghan, Tim Long and Greg Daniels, who had produced the sixth season.
Family Guy writer David A. Goodman, who has written the series' film, joins as one of the writers on the show. Dana Gould, a writer on The Simpsons, also joins the writing crew.
Guest stars for this season are Keegan-Michael Key, Rob Riggle, Dee Bradley Baker, Jeffery Tambor, Glenn Close, Amy Poehler, Jason Alexander, Christine Lakin, Hugh Laurie, Reagan Gomez-Preston, Joe Mantegna, Ken Jeong, John Kassir, Adam Driver, Thomas Middleditch, Sarah Silverman, William Daniels, Rachel Ramras, Aziz Ansari, Meredith Salenger, and Zooey Deschanel.
== Episodes ==
No. overall	
No. in season	Title 	Synopsis
167 	1 	"They Came From Earth" 	After accidentally pressing the "Evacuate Planet" button in the lab, the Boys and Girls get sent into space, having to be abducted by an advance alien race.Guest star: Dee Bradley Baker as the alien race
168 	2 	"Car Trouble" 	After watching an episode of Day Cruiser, Jake decides to get him and the Boys a car, which is modified with a hover system from the hover pad by Lawrence, for better transportation.Guest star: William Daniels as BOAT
169 	3 	"Beat 'Em Up, Box Them Down" 	Gillan and Jake gets challenged by professional beatboxer Vanessa Bills.Guest star: Reagan Gomez-Preston as Vanessa Bills
170 	4 	"Dance, Dance, Competition" 	Jake signs up for the dancing competition at the dance studio.Guest star: Jeffery Tambor as Karl
171 	5 	"Lawrence Private Eye" 	Lawrence investigates on the missing plaques at the school.Guest star: Hugh Laurie as Detective Narrator
172 	6 	The "Far From Home" Story 	The Boys travel to Marylin to meet a customer who bought foreign items on back market from Jake.Guest stars: Rob Riggle as Dave, Jason Alexander as Store Owner and Keegan-Michael Key as Dexter
173 	7 	"Convention-Conned" 	Sherrie brings her the Boys and Flo to the first annual Powderpuff convention, in celebration of the 20th anniversary of the original series. Unfortunately, her rare Andrea gets swipes for a knockoff. She enlists Jake to get it back.Guest stars: Meredith Salenger as herself and Abigail, Rachel Ramras as herself and Agnes, and Tara Strong as herself and Andrea
174 	8 	"Twenty Minutes in the Micro-world" 	Lawrence's malfunctioned and abandoned shrink ray is put to the test by Jake and Gillan, whereas they get shrunk to the size of an insect and must return to normal size.
175 	9 	"From the East Pole to the West Pole"	Flo forgets about sending her Christmas letter to her sisters, so she brings Lawrence and Jake for assisting her on her trip to Arizona.
176 	10	"Sherrie's Sassy Sax" 	Sherrie buys Gillan's old saxophone, which later becomes obsessive to her, and an annoyance to her father.
177 	11	"Father, Daughter, Doctor Shocker" 	Todd takes Sherrie to his job on Take Your Daughter to Work Day. Meanwhile, Gillan refuses to go to the doctor to get his tooth pulled.Guest stars: Aziz Ansari as Mr. Riley, Ken Jeong as Dr. Ted and Sarah Silverman as Nurse
178 	12	"Concert Band" 	Sherrie brings Jake and Gillan to her first concert, which goes in shambles as the show is sold out, so the two conduct a plan to meet the band in person.Guest stars: Electric Light Orchestra as Power Chorus and Kevin Michael Richardson as the bouncer
179 	13	"Barely Illegal" 	Sherrie gets talked into taking marijuana by a student, where it puts her in a hallucinative and delusional state. Lawrence discovers about her addiction from finding it hidden in her locker and warns the school and Todd about it. She eventually gives it up and starts a campaign to band drugs from school.
180 	14	"Petty Woman" 	Flo finds herself to believe that she is less important and needed in her friends' lives, which she tries to prove wrong.Guest star: Zooey Deschanel as Brizzy
181 	15	"Former Scientist" 	Looking back to his previous inventions, Lawrence is reminded that they had been causes to terrible events, and believes his next one will be as his previous, so he retires as an inventor and lives a "normal life", much to Jake and Gillan's dismay.Guest star: David Hyde Pierce as Eric
182 	16	"Quarternuise's Substitute" 	Superintendent Quarternuise suffers an injury and temporarily replaced by an abusive principal of a foreign wayward school.Guest star: Nick Kroll as Güter Strokelwagner and Glenn Close as Quarternuise's girlfriend
183 	17	"Welcome to the Club" 	Todd joins a club called "The Welcome Wagon" and becomes fond of it.Guest star: Amy Poehler as Janet, head leader
184 	18	"Some Assembly Line Required" 	The success of their Blueyonder and Companion franchise, with its comic books, short film, and spin-offs, its popularity gets it its own toy line.Guest star: Adam Driver as CEO
185 	19	"Another Glimpse Into the Future" 	As a sequel of "15 Years Later," set 23 years from the present and seven years after the aforementioned episode, Jake decides to start dating, Sherrie gets a divorce due to her life with Reggie, and Flo throws Lawrence out of her home from having to deal with his inventing around the house over the years.
186 	20	"Return of Sonny Jonahs" 	Sonny returns to Corpus from his family's staycation at Houston.Guest star: Thomas Middleditch as Sonny Jonahs
187 	21	"Rough Time" 	After Gillan had an intervening argument with my Jake who was arguing with Lawrence about a broken window on the their car, followed by preventing Jake from slamming his door in rage, he no longer becomes their supporter and decides to be as far away from them until further notice.
188 	22	"Goodbye, Gillan" 	Gillan's family arrives to Corpus to bring Gillan back in their lives, much to Jake's heartbreak.Guest star: Mark Wahlberg as Gillan's dad, Cristine Lakin as Gillan's mom, Tex Hammond as Gillan's brother and Matreya Scarrwener as Gillan's sister
== DVD release ==
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment releases the ninth season on October 2, 2029 on DVD, becoming the last season to be released on home video. The following seasons will be available through digital purchase.
Set Details	Special features
Special features
* 22 episodes
* 4-disc set
* 1.78:1 aspect ratio
* Languages:
** English 2.0
* Subtitles:
** English SDH	
* Introduction from Xavier Mosley
* Deleted and extended scenes
* On The Way Q&A
* Bonus episodes:
** "Carry On My Wayward Daughter"
** "Russia Hour"
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