Mental Engineering is produced by 
Porcupine Productions
St. Paul, MN

Catherine Reid Day
  Executive Producer

(651) 387-3333

mailto:crday@mentalengineering.com

"Mental Engineering could not be more relevant"
The New York Times

"Mental Engineering is the most interesting weekly half hour of social commentary and criticism on television."
Bill Moyers

"there is nothing else like it on the air."
ABC World News Tonight

"Funnier than "Politically Incorrect," more nuanced than "Ebert and Roeper"... 

...the only weekly panel discussion show with the guts to take on the sacred cows of television — TV commercials."
TVBARN

"unprecedented and indispensable... 

...dares to sling stones at commercial Goliath's and stick out its tongue, as well...

 ...pioneering!... 

..."Mental Engineering" critiques TV commercials on TV. Think about it. What a radical notion... 

...(Host John) Forde and a panel of media-savvy quipsters screen TV commercials and tear into them like a school of piranhas... 

...In a world in which just about everything is bought and paid for, "Mental Engineering" is priceless."
Minneapolis Star Tribune

"a tank of pure oxygen... 

...no one else in the greatest consumer colossus the world has ever known is doing anything like this.... 

...a glib, mocking, infectuously irreverent, half-hour ripsawing of America's advertising industry... 

...(Host John Forde is) An odd mix of Bill Maher, Alex Trebek, Noam Chomsky, and an unrepentant yippie, Forde presides over a quartet of similarly impertinent, overeducated, cultural bomb throwers... 

...deceptively unthreatening... 

...Forde and cast are basically tearing the fetid gizzards out of glossy, emotionally manipulative and downright deceptive advertising."
Saint Paul Pioneer Press

"hilarious"
Swing Magazine

"an entertaining Sneak Previews-style dissection of TV commercials, conducted by the affably intelligent John Forde... ...tune in."
USA Today

"definitely anti-rut.... ...(Host John Forde is) Jim Carrey with a Master's degree."
Associated Press

"brainy comedic riffs on contemporary culture... 

...coherent, respectful dialogue"
City Pages

"Smart, funny people... 

...shocking to see television biting a food bearing hand."
Chicago Tribune

"You can't come up with a concept better suited to non-commercial TV... 

...It dares to violate one of TV's last taboos: the sanctity of commercials.  The show's creator and moderator, John Forde, doesn't simply rate a TV spot's entertainment value. With the help of four funny, provocative panelists, he pries out the moral and societal values clenched within ads."
Electronic Media