IVIV (1) Bigfoot's TV commercials "a relentless terror squad of small children" (9)

[Doug Millison]

" Bigfoot's scripts featured a relentless terror squad of small  
children, who climbed all over the model-home furniture, peformed  
insubordinate cannonballs into the backyard pools, whooped and  
hollered and pretended to shoot Bigfoot down, screaming 'Freak Power!'  
and 'Death to the Pig!' " (9)

The W.C. Fields reference seems to peg BB's screen attitude towards  
kids (recalling the time somebody asked Fields how he liked children:  
"Barbecued").

The image here first reminded me of the "100 children" motif in  
Chinese painting, scenes crowded with children engaged in all kinds of  
activities but generally wholesome and life-affirming; that seems far- 
fetched.   But, the scene as described here might be seen as something  
from an Our Gang/Little Rascals film, as directed by Charles Manson,  
minus the blood, i.e. cleaned up for the Tube.

I wonder if there's a scene in an Our Gang film similar to what  
Pynchon describes here.  Been looking, haven't found one yet online.

…sez Google:

[… ]The first time I met Hunter S. Thompson, he arrived in my office,  
two hours late, wearing a curly, bubble-style wig and carrying a six- 
pack of beer in one hand and his leather satchel stuffed with  
notebooks, newspapers, tape recorders, booze, et cetera, in the other.  
He was wearing the wig because he had shaved his head during his bid  
to become sheriff of Pitkin County Colorado. The story of that  
campaign, “Freak Power in the Rockies,” was his first piece in Rolling  
Stone, and we never quite stopped. Hunter began writing “Fear and  
Loathing in Las Vegas” in the basement of my home in San Francisco. In  
1971 he became our full-time correspondent and moved to Washington,  
DC, to cover the 1972 presidential election. Hunter’s work in Rolling  
Stone became legend; it changed things for everyone. Hunter became an  
extraordinary and celebrated literary figure, Rolling Stone became a  
meaningful voice in national affairs, and political reporting and  
writing were forever restyled and reshaped. It was one of those rare,  
fated, supercharged collaborations.[…]
http://www.jannswenner.com/Bookshelf/20_Years_Of_Rolling_Stone.aspx


The Manson Family Murders 40 Years Later: Fromme's Upcoming Parole ...
Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a notorious associate of Charles Manson, ...  
the home in the victims' blood including "DEATH TO PIGS" and "HEALTER  
SKELTER" (sic). ...
http://crime.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_status_of_other_manson_family_members

"Terror squad" reverberates with more recent film and real life  
history, too.