Love watching cartoons on my days off, especially the classic (unedited) Warner Brothers flicks. But it seems with these newer "kids" cartoons the writers are no longer trying to be subtle and are attempting to match Family Guy "shock" humor.
IHMO subtlety and the slight bending of reality is what made classic Warner Brothers or the Simpsons (before the show went to crap and became a preachy family show) great. Although to be fair both cartoons, were initially made for mature/adult audiences. (Bugs Bunny and the like for adult movie/news reel viewers and the Simpsons for prime-time mature audiences).
I' enjoy off-color, tasteless, and politically incorrect humor and personally I never understood the crusade against-related violence-- hope Congress keeps track of all anvil or dynamite in the pants-related deaths. But it seems that the censors (which are government mandated) are allowing a lot of sexual or drug-related stuff to slide (although anything resembling a firearm or explosive is still heavily censored).