The Scream

Pepsi, Where's My Jet?

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“The wildest lawsuit of the 90s — and it's all true.”

How is this story even real? A 1990s Pepsi promotion jokingly offered a Harrier jump jet for seven million "Pepsi Points" — and a business student named John Leonard called their bluff, raised the money, and demanded the jet. What followed is one of the most absurd and gripping legal sagas ever put on screen.

The documentary tells it beautifully, weaving in the players on both sides — the wide-eyed kid with an audacious plan and the corporate machine that never imagined anyone would actually try. The interviews are gold, and the 90s nostalgia is just the cherry on top.

By the end, it's hard not to feel Leonard got ripped off. He played by the rules Pepsi wrote, beat them at their own game, and still walked away without the jet. The court may have sided with the corporation, but the court of public opinion — and this series — sides firmly with him.

It's a stranger-than-fiction story about ambition, advertising, and the fine print, and it's absolutely worth your time. He should have got the jet.

What to know before you watch

Is Pepsi, Where's My Jet? worth watching?

Yes — a stranger-than-fiction documentary about the student who demanded the fighter jet Pepsi jokingly advertised. He should have got the jet.

What is Pepsi, Where's My Jet? about?

The true story of a college student who tried to claim the Harrier jet Pepsi jokingly offered in a 90s ad campaign — and the legal battle that followed.

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The verdict

9/10