Pepsi, Where's My Jet?: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

The year was 1996, and the cola wars were raging. Despite Pepsi's celeb-soaked advertisements, Coke still held the bigger market share, so the second-place brand decided to roll out their biggest campaign ever: Called "Pepsi Stuff," it featured a soon-to-be infamous commercial implying that if you just bought enough of their products, you could use "Pepsi Points" to purchase sunglasses, leather jackets… and maybe a Harrier jet? Pepsi execs assumed the astronomical "price" of the military plane was set high enough to indicate it was a joke, but college student John Leonard saw it as a challenge, and decided to call their bluff. Enlisting the help (and funding) of mountaineering buddy Todd Hoffman, Leonard hashed out a plan to score the grandest prize of all – even if it never existed in the first place. Shot in a rollicking, irreverent style and soaked in the music and culture of the mid-'90s, Pepsi, Where's My Jet? sits down with Leonard, Hoffman, the commercial's creative team, and a truly unexpected cast of tangentially-involved public figures to tell the legendary tale of the kid who sued Pepsi for a fighter jet, and became the hero of a new generation.

Series details

• Title: Pepsi, Where's My Jet?
• Format: Documentary
• Language: English
• Genres: History, Legal
• Premiere date: 2022-11-17
• Final broadcast date listed: 2022-11-17
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Web channel listed by TVmaze: Netflix
• Typical episode runtime: 40 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 6.5/10
• TVMaze ID: 64795
• IMDb ID: tt23022276
• TVDB ID: 426382

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2022-11-17; final listed air date 2022-11-17; episode order: 4.

Source and licence

Adapted from Pepsi, Where's My Jet? on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.