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Willie "Bibleman" Aames' new and humbling television show, Broke and Famous, airs on VH1 Thursday night, and according to Entertainment Tonight, the former Charles in Charge star's Johnson County garage sale -- filmed for the VH1 show in March -- will be featured on the show.


I was there with the Pitch Action News Team -- read about it here and here -- and it was really uncomfortable. Fawning housewives picked over the former Eight is Enough star's possessions and sang the Charles in Charge theme. Aames just sat there haggled over prices for mounted animal heads, DVDs and a Teen Beat, which the Crap Archivist bought for $3 (read all about the transaction in Studies in Crap and see Aames reminisce about touring with Hall & Oates after the jump). And here's the day in photos. 

I knew it was bad, but I didn't know how low Aames had sunk -- until Rugg asked to use the restroom.

"Actually the house has already been foreclosed, and I think all the utilities have already been shut down," a crew member told Rugg. "Sorry."

Awkward.

ET recently asked Aames about it, and he says now:

"I didn't want the whole world in my front yard, hauling through my memories." But with a negative $60 in the bank, he had no choice. "I was afraid I was going to lose my dignity," he recalls. On the plus side, he made close to $5400.

But he sold his prized lion head. Take it away, Crap Archivist: