Pepsi, Where's My Jet?

Pepsi, Where’s My Jet? follows John Leonard, a 20-year-old student in Washington State who takes a Pepsi commercial at its word. The ad says that seven million Pepsi Points can buy a Harrier fighter jet, so John builds a plan with his older friend Todd Hoffman and sends Pepsi a check for about $700,000. Pepsi rejects the claim, and the fight grows into a federal court case about jokes, promises, and what an advertisement can legally offer. The four episodes mix old footage, acted-out scenes, legal drama, and a light but sometimes serious 1990s tone.

John and Todd’s friendship, John’s bold plan, and the long fight with Pepsi drive the story. The final episode also follows Pepsi’s Number Fever contest in the Philippines, where a printing mistake helped create mass anger, violence, and deaths. The show presents Pepsi’s promise as careless and its legal defense as self-protective, while it treats John as an earnest underdog. Its main ideas are false advertising, corporate power, personal courage, friendship, and the danger of making promises to ordinary customers.