Thank you! "Wendy's drops 'red pigtail' ad campaign"

"It was a love it or hate it kind of spot," said Bob Holtcamp, Wendy's vice president of brand marketing.

Were there actually people out there who "got the joke?" Was there even a discernible joke to the commercials? I wouldn't say I "hated" the ad campaign in the sense that I turned the channel every time it came on. But count me among the people that would say, "What the heck are they going for here?" I just think it was a stupid idea.