外星人记者伊克斯比、皮克斯比和克罗来到一个可爱但奇怪的星球——地球，在那里他们试图了解人类和他们的爱好。
以水乡绍兴为背景，主人公机智可爱，剧情精彩纷呈，动画制作精良，歌曲清新婉丽，似缓缓展开的一轴绍兴特色江南画卷，吞吐千年文化之神韵。
In this season, the show went back to airing one new episode a week, but stayed in the hour-length format, filling up the second half-hour with episodes from previous seasons and some of the prime-time specials from the 1980s. This entire season, along with the second half of season 6, is available on Garfield and Friends: Volume 5 DVD set. Also worth noting is that here, a new theme song was added that was written by J.R. Johnston and Neil Panton. The theme was sung by J.R. Johnston. This theme song was not shown internationally, and as a result, it does not appear on the DVDs (although Garfield's quotations are kept intact). This new introduction sequence used most clips from Seasons 5-7 and a few from the first two seasons, as well as Garfield in Paradise and Garfield's Feline Fantasies. The episodes stopped using a few seconds of the theme playing in the episode title cards after season seven's fourth episode; music from the episodes were used in the title cards until the show ended, even though season six used music from some of their episodes.
张小年原本只是岩县的一名普通高二学生，但是因为李落蝉所托踏上了一条完全不一样的道路。为了保护同学，守护家人，他不断地努力找出事情真相，解决一件件难题。乔大海（胖子）是小年的同班同学，也是小年的死党。和张小年一同经历了众多难题并且一直站在小年身边给予小年帮助和支持，在解决小六之事时，张小年又结实了汤洛雪，汤洛雪看起来性格冷言寡语，但实际上遇事沉着冷静，外冷心热，总是能够在最需要的时候给予张小年最坚实的保障。“那些年我相信有一种正义存在，那些年我知道有一种命运对我有所托，那些年我为了世间苍生而努力着。”这就是张小年成长后的信念。
在这部寓教于乐的成人喜剧动画中，勇敢的动物学家与活泼的侄子和焦虑的助手一边探索世界，一边拯救野兽。
