You kids and your fancy smancy internet. Why, in my day, we had UHF and we liked it!
Gore is blood and guts. A quick slice of the knife isn't very violent, but it will get you lots of gore.
Meanwhile, Bugs and pals are cooking in ovens, getting hit with hammers, anvils, pianos, falling off cliffs, exploded by dynomite, shot in the face with a shotgun, gettin eaten by sharks and other exotic animals. Are you sure you were watching the right cartoons?