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.
Adult Swim宣布《瑞克和莫蒂》推出一部衍生剧:日本动画风的《Rick and Morty: The Anime》,佐野隆史(《神之塔》)执导,已获预订整季10集,被描述为一个关于“这个很棒的家庭”的新故事,独立于主线之外,但会包括《瑞克和莫蒂》的主题和事件。
佐野隆史此前打造过两部《瑞克和莫蒂》的衍生短片:《瑞克和莫蒂对抗种族灭绝者》和《瑞克和莫蒂外传姐姐遇见上帝》。