The anemia and black eyeliner help too!
Well, yeah. We didn't have to deal with that ratings system crap in the 80's. That's why cartoons were so wild back then. (Starcom, Jace and the Wheeled warriors, Galaxy Rangers, Transformers, etc.) Insanely violent movie franchises like Toxic Avengers, Robocop, and Rambo got to be repackaged as children's cartoons too. IIRCC, they didn't start rating television shows until 1997 or thereabout, when the V-chip came out.