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。
在艾伦他们居住的帕拉迪岛之外，还存在一个其他人类居住的世界。当中一个国家「玛雷」与其他各国爆发战争。陷入苦战之际，他们决定要攻进帕拉迪岛，把「始祖的巨人」抢过来。在这里又看到另一群孩子们拼命求生存的身影……。
喜羊羊、灰太狼与一众小羊组成的守护者队进入篮球顶级赛事决赛，但却意外地败北，团队分崩离析。 虽然各散东西，但对篮球的热爱和对冠军的渴望让大家再次组队，参加新一届大赛，然而这次的对手更强大，他们面临更大的挑战！
1997年に東映ビデオよりHENが全2巻のOVAとしてリリース、此前一年推出过一部全13话的日剧版。
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.
