ABC has an information page about yesterday’s Wife Swap episode featuring the Booker & Alcorn families. The family instruction manuals offer some information that was not shown in the broadcast:

• Badlands wanted to appear to promote his rap career. Regina did not want to appear at all
• Badlands leaves for work at 2am
• The Bookers are very active in their church, which was not mentioned
• Regina works for a major phone company as a supervisor in business collections and says “Being stern with customers all day means when I get home the last thing I want to do is be a disciplinarian”
• Brandon has contributed beats to his father’s CDs
• The episode was filmed during the summer, so Brandon did not need to go to school. (I thought the show made it look like the Bookers were condoning Brandon skipping school
• The Alcorns have 23 pets, which were not displayed probably because it would have made them appear softer

Video captures of the episode are available after the jump:
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(Thanks Skinnyboy) “Wife Swap” was not Eric “Badlands” Booker’s only appearance on television last night. The Food Network reran a show about record breakers. One of the segments of that show was about a burrito contest from 2002 won by Booker. Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane recorded clips from that show and uploaded them.

The plugins did not work for me in Firefox. Here are the direct links to the videos if you need them:
http://www.south-t-bar.com/video/IFOCE.ASF
http://www.south-t-bar.com/video/Steak.ASF
http://www.south-t-bar.com/video/Hamburger.ASF

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(from Mike Merrill) Liz’s receives a mention in urbanhonking’s blog for publicity received by its members.

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A live blog of Badlands Booker’s appearance on “Wife Swap” occurs after the jump:

updated beautifulbrian.com has an article about the episode and reality TV calendar has a longer synopsis than can be found in the liveblog. I will try to post some video captures later today.

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Eric “Badlands” Booker will appear on ABC’s “Wife Swap” tonight at 8pm.

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Con Chapman of thespoof.com has a preview of public television’s first televised sports programming with a quote from Eric “Badlands” Thomas.

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(from The Observer) Tom Parker Bowles, son of the wife of Prince Charles, Camilla Parker Bowles, has a written a book called The Year of Eating Dangerously, which he describes as a “travel book about weird food”. The book describes his participating in a chili eating contest in New Mexico.

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Last night’s episode of “Mind of Mencia” on Comedy Central featured the “Stereotype Olympics”. An eating contest was one of the competitions. nochelatina.com has a summary of that episode.

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IFOCE.com announces that Eric “Badlands” Booker will appear on “Wifeswap” on Monday October 9 at 8 pm eastern.

According to the Yahoo TV description, the Booker family will swap spouses with the Alcorns, one of whom is a boxer:

“Alcorn/Booker”
A former undefeated champion boxer trades families with a mother who champions competitive eating.

Booker will apparently live with Jenifer Alcorn, who retired from boxing without a loss in 2004. The (The only undefeated male championship boxer I am aware of is Rocky Marciano)

ABC has a press release about the episode. Eric’s wife, Regina, will take over Jenifer’s fighter training while Jenifer will try to get the Booker family to adopt healthier habits.

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Megamunch has a post about the Beavis & Butthead bratwurst contest The creator of Beavis & Butthead, Mike Judge, also created King of the Hill, which had an IFOCE themed episode.

Other competitive eating cartoons on youtube:
Homer Simpson tackles a restaurant’s steak challenge
Samurai Champloo episode 6 (subtitles) : Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

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Erik “the Red” Denmark’s attempt at the spot shrimp record should be coming up on http://www.kjram.com/ in a few minutes. Ray “the Bison” Meduna is serving as judge.

7:56 Erik dedicates his performance to the Washington Huskies and puts on a purple bandana.

7:59 The contest starts. Erik is using hot sauce.

8:00 The house band starts and the station cuts to commercial.

8:10 the station returns from commercial and Erik has broken the record with 1:30 left

8:12 the contest ends with the record broken. The station has yet to announce the amount.

8:26 back from another long commercial break – Erik is credited with 4 lb 15 oz. Erik says he feels great. Ray “the Bison” Meduna says the record is certified. Erik says he thinks he might have used too much cocktail sauce. Erik will do the Texas State Fair jalapeno contest next.

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A clip of Kate Stelnick on the Tony Danza show has been uploaded to youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LgSirXON1g Her waistline offers absolutely no evidence that it contained 10+ pounds of cheeseburger the previous week.

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Pat Bertoletti should appear on Regis & Kelly in a few minutes (eastern time zone)

Update 10:41 am – Pat broke the record for ice cream eaten in 30 seconds by eating 13.5 ounces. The previous record was 9.5. Brian Seiken will host the video on his site and Pat’s appearance has yet to be broadcast in the Pacific and Mountain time zones.

Update 9/8 12:07 am – Brian Seiken has uploaded a video clip to http://hometown.aol.com/beautifulbrian43/lerm.html

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Jon Bertolletti emailed me that his brother Pat will appear on the Regis & Kelly show tomorrow and will probably try to break his ice cream record. The show usually comes on at 9am on ABC, but I am not sure if it is on at that time in all cities.

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The first round of the 2005 “Gluttonous King” contest televised on TV Tokyo has been uploaded to youtube. Natsuko “Gal” Sone avoided elimination by eating 6 grams more of bread than Miyuki Iwata.

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Andrew “Skinnyboy” Lane caught a rerun of Carlene LeFevre on Food TV’s Unwrapped (originally broadcast in 2004) and managed to record the bulk of her segment and upload the clip.

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Joey Chestnut appeared on Adam Corolla’s radio show yesterday. This blog entry has a recap of his appearance. The blog says that there will be yet another rib contest in September.

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The Columbus Dispatch has a review of “This Is Not Chick Lit,” a collection of short stories by female authors. The reviewer has the following comments on one of the short stories in that book:

Most delightfully surprising is The Seventy-two-Ounce Steak Challenge by Dika Lam, who has published only a few short stories in small magazines. Her touching and hilarious story follows two Chinese-Canadian sisters on a working vacation in Calgary, Alberta, where one of them starts down the path that will take her into becoming “the champion you know and love — winner of the International Matzo-Ball-Eating Contest, title-holder of the Conch Fritter Invitational, the girl who downed nine sticks of butter in five minutes.”

A review in econoculture says that Ms. Lam is working on extending her short story into a novel.

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While two competitive eating movie projects will not reach the theaters until at least 2007, “Beerfest”, a movie in which an American beer drinking team tries to win a German contest, opens today. gwinnettdailypost.com reports that one of the drinking team members is also a competitive eater.

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The new poll asks what your opinion on the best competitive eating television program originally televised between July 5, 2005 and July 4, 2006.

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Footage from the “Glutton Bowl”, which originally aired on Fox in 2002, has been uploaded to youtube. The contents include Kobayashi setting the record for eating cow brains in his first US prime time appearance. There is also a brief clip of Don “Moses” Lerman setting his butter eating record and Eric “Badlands” Booker setting the pre-Sonya record for hard boiled eggs.

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Several new videos of Japanese competitive eating programs have been posted to youtube. The 2002 rookie contest, which is over an hour long, has been uploaded in its entirety. The top two finishers in that contest were women (the runner up is quite cute) who did not compete in this year’s “Gluttonous Queen” contest. There is also footage from the New Year’s Eve competitive eaters party of Kobayashi competing aganist an unknown woman in a restaurant where sushi is delivered on conveyor belts. Some brief clips of Tomoko Miyake eating sausage have also been posted.

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(from speedeat.com) Joe Menchetti will appear on CBS’ Early Show to promote Frank’s Red Hot wing eating contest to be held at the AVP beach volleyball contest on Coney Island Saturday. The expected time of the appearance is 8:36 am eastern. franksredhot.com has more information about the contest. go-brooklyn.com says the contest will take place at 3pm and registration will occur from 10 am to 11:30 am.

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Adam Ash has a long review of “Insatiable” / “Horsemen of the Esophagus”. He dislikes the subject matter at first, but likes Fagone’s book.

Updated 8/12 2:05 am – Jason Fagone says Adam Ash’s review was plagiarized from a Sunday Telegraph review by William Leith

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The episode of “According to Jim” in which Jim Belushi loses a hot dog eating contest to a petite Asian woman will be rerun tonight at 9:30 Eastern on ABC

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