"Poor Showing"

The TV networks should pick up on what's trending:    How about a game  show where the contestant who, in the opinion of the judges, best completes the sentence, "I was so poor that______"   wins  his or her way into the semifinals, to be voted on later by the viewers.  Or, instead of those strained and innocuous anecdotes that Jeopardy contestants are forced to relate, each could come up with a poverty legend, much more in vogue now than telling tales of their cat's antics.  Or, all the Survivor and/or Big Brother contestants could be required to bring in and eat off  their own salvaged  coffee tables, and the one who gets the sickest moves up to the next level.  The possibilities are endless----think Charles Dickens.