Pepsi, Where's My Jet?

The 1996 Pepsi Stuff campaign promised prizes for points, culminating in a tongue-in-cheek television commercial featuring a Harrier fighter jet. While the marketing department viewed the aircraft as a decorative punchline worth seven million points, a college student named John Leonard calculated the mathematics of the promotion and decided the prize was literal. What followed was a legal confrontation that blurred the lines between corporate hyperbole and contract law.

This miniseries tracks the absurdity of the decade, leaning into the colorful aesthetics and pop-culture optimism of the 1990s. Beyond the central legal conflict, the documentary examines the mechanics of a sweepstakes that accidentally manufactured a household name. It shifts focus between the institutional power of a global beverage company and the tenacity of an individual litigant, highlighting how a mundane marketing oversight escalated into a serious courtroom battle for the history books.