小新今年5岁了，不要以为他是那种懵懂无知的小孩，他其实人小鬼大，喜欢漂亮的姐姐，收养了一条棉花糖一样的流浪狗——小白，还经常讲些无厘头的黄色笑话。小新的妈妈美伢是一个全职主妇，粗心而又有点神经质的她经常被小新捉弄得七窍生烟，爸爸野原亦经常被这两母子搞得晕头转向。 《蜡笔小新》的作者以一个5岁小童的眼光，40岁的成年人的心态去观察这个大千世界，看到了许多光怪陆离的景象，小新一家的幽默故事亦由此产生。
清水凑（上村祐翔 配音）曾经是一名水球运动员，但由于一场意外的发生，导致他在初中三年级的时候决定放弃水球这项深爱的运动，升上高中后，凑在阴差阳错之下结识了名叫冈荣太郎（西山宏太朗 配音）的男生。荣太郎是凑曾经的校友，因此十分了解凑身上所发生的那些悲惨的故事，亦十分向往能够和凑就读同一所高中。 城岛让（木村昴 配音）是水球社的社长，在他的苦心劝说之下，凑终于同意了加入水球社。曾经是游泳能手的网滨秀吾（齐藤壮马 配音）、个性十分容易冲动，大大咧咧的江尻武一（古川慎 配音）、温文尔雅性格平和的猪俣巴巴亚罗丰（畠中祐 配音），在学校里，凑很快就交上了朋友，也重新拾起了对于水球运动的热情。
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.
