In the late 1990s, the Scott Miracle Gro Company began to work on a secret project called “Dolphin Lundgren,” which detailed action to be taken for an inevitability the company believed would someday happen: when the Earth was so superbly landscaped with the help of Scotts products that the only growth sectors for the company would be on other planets.

The company enlisted the help of an alien horticulturist and explorer named Olimar to test, and eventually market, a line of extraplanetary products under the Scotts brand. The first of them, “Scotts Pikmin Turf Builder” turned out to have a side effect on certain planets: it did not grow lush grass, but instead created incredibly cute helper creatures who followed you around like obedient little puppies.

The Scott Miracle Gro company recalled all Pikim Turf Builder and Pikmin Winterizer products and has put the Dolphin Lundgren project on indefinite hold pending a legal disagreement with Olimar, who has refused to speak out on the matter publicly.