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 Florence enter a game show, Gillan becomes an outcast, Sherrie is revealed to be a fangirl of a kids' show, Jake hangs out with Florence, 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, Florence 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 Florence 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 (Florence Sara 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 Florence'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.

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.