Episode Guide
s05e01 Tami tries to comfort a new girl who is being teased for her large breasts but who is too inhibited to be near a naked girl.
s05e02 Dr. Padova coerces Tami into demonstrating an “extended orgasm” machine for biology class.
s05e03 Terri has a dream in which Tami goes crazy, trying to steal everyone else’s clothes off their bodies.
s05e04 Jen and Tami circulate a petition demanding that Rule #1 be abolished but everyone is afraid to sign it.
s05e05 Dr. Padova discovers that Tami’s brain waves during orgasm can be used as battery power.
s05e06 Jen tries to go naked in solidarity with Tami but is arrested for indecent exposure.
s05e07 Based on Tami’s responses while on the “machine” Dr. Padova designs a special classroom “chair” for Tami.
s05e08 As a carpentry class assignment Tami tries to replace ceiling tiles just before an alumni meeting but the ladder is mysteriously kicked away from beneath her feet.
s05e09 The Board of Education debates funding for special “chairs” for Tami for each classroom she is in.
s05e10-e11 (two-part episode) Part One: Tami is forced to fight off the attempts of Mr. Stamp, her social studies teacher, to give her clothes and shoes and finally makes a claim for sexual harassment so as to avoid the punishment of Rule #1. Part Two: The rationales given by Tami and Mr. Stamp at the sexual harassment hearing are decidedly convoluted.
s05e12 Just before Christmas Tami is accepted at a college in Vermont which has no inkling of her nudity. She gets drunk with her friends to celebrate and then has a dream where an angel shows her what the world would have been like with a clothed Tami Smithers.
s05e13 As part of an experiment Tami undergoes an SAT test while in her special “chair”.
s05e14-e15 (two-part episode) Part One: Principal Harris announces that, due to chronic discipline problems, Tami will be punished at weekly special assemblies until discipline improves. Tami’s own behavior has been spotless and the students don’t believe Harris would really do this.
Part Two: At a special assembly Tami’s nipples are stretched with clips and she is given a tabasco enema. Discipline immediately improves.
s05e16 On the Senior Trip to Philadelphia the class discovers that the museums and restaurants won’t allow a naked girl inside despite the cold rainy weather.
s05e17 Tami’s cousins from Ireland make a surprise visit for St. Patrick’s Day.
s05e18 At the school’s Spring Picnic the Fashion Police girls trick Tami into sitting on a plate of jelly which attracts a swarm of bees.
s05e19 Tami’s balance beam performance at the Regional Gymnastics Finals starts unpleasant and ends worse due to the strong laxatives Wanda had sneaked into her water bottle.
s05e20 Tami falls into a patch of poison ivy and applying calamine lotion becomes a daily ritual for her friends in the school lobby.
s05e21 Tami is faced with going to Vermont for college orientation weekend.
s05e22 Rod and Tami talk about their post-high school relationship.
s05e23 Tami’s dreams of college life always end with her clothes getting ripped away.
s05e24 Tami tries to deal with Jen’s declaration that she’s gay and is attracted to her.
s05e25 The Senior School Musical is disrupted when stage hand Tami mishandles catwalk ropes and is suspended over the stage from one foot until the Fire Department comes to the rescue.
s05e26 Through a random lottery in Poetry class Tami’s assignment is to write and recite a poem about the joys of different kinds of shoes.
s05e27 Tami is given the job of measuring everyone for graduation gowns and handing them out but is denied one herself.
s05e28 (Series Finale) Tami is allowed to wear a mortarboard at graduation, and looks forward to going away to college in Vermont where Rule #1 will no longer apply and she can finally wear clothes again . . . but . . .!
Must admit, I like the sounds of esps 02 & 05
Any chance of them being fleshed out to a full length story?
Thanks.
The stories would not be that long (they’re only “30 minute episodes”). I’ll work on it.
Sorry . . . I tried but I ran into a big problem: what to do about Tami’s parents? There is no realistic way they would acquiesce to her being stripped and having to go naked all the time. That is a problem that can’t be ignored, at least with me.
See the comments for “The Girl in the Mirror” on this site, and also my analysis of the situation here:
https://www.donnylaja.com/post/a-character-naked-since-birth-and-is-the-only-one-naked-response-to-a-reader
(Scroll down to the middle of the post: “What about her parents?”)
In “The Unintentional Nudist”, none of the writers (TrackJim, me, Katie) could find a good solution. And that was with the action taking place at college. With her parents hundreds of miles away, the issue could be ignored. With Tami in high school, going home to her parents every day, it can’t be.
This doesn’t need to be a problem, does it?
If school rule #1 is enforced without any deeper reasoning or explanation, why further scrutinize the motivation of her parents and not the school? Why can’t her parents just keep her naked too?
I think the issue you have, or that the Tami stories may have run into with her parents is this idea that ‘every character loves Tami’ – she’s always wildly popular and loved and accepted by friends and family. Her parents keeping her naked contradicts this. But is that a problem? Why not shake it up?
Maybe Tami doesn’t live with kind and supportive parents. Play into fairytale tropes and have her live with a wicked step mother! Maybe the same woman is the principal of the school, giving consistent power in both settings? Why does she keep Tami naked? Out of spite? Jealousy? Why does the evil step-mom do anything to Cinderella?
Or maybe her parents have been convinced by the school that Rule #1 should apply 24/7 – All students are expected to represent and uphold the reputation of the school even when away from it after all.
Maybe she’s deathly allergic to clothing or has developed since puberty this embarrassing condition – like when Tami redresses in the original story only to suffer a suffocating panic attack. Maybe as part of that she always suffers amnesia of the event – so to her it’s like the world is keeping her naked with no explanation.
Maybe the school or town rule predates Tami. Maybe the town used to be on the frontier and a ‘Tami Smithers’ from long ago commited some terrible crime and the town made bylaws of enforced nudity specific for her to punish her or drive her out. The problem is that our Tami shares her name with that historical Tami – and no one repealed the laws! Maybe her parents moved them to town not knowing, and now they can’t leave because the home they bought is in negative equity.
My point is – No excuse will ever make perfect sense – but that doesn’t mean something can’t be invented or changed if you go about it creatively or with a fresh eye.
You could lean into horror tropes, in this ‘Tami’s nightmare’ reality maybe everyone but her agrees she should be forcibly kept naked. It doesn’t need to make sense, if anything, that undercurrent of something being ‘wrong’ with everyone is unsettling – it gives Tami something supernatural to rail against.
The rules of Tami stories, the tropes, might actually be the problem. You’ve created a rod for your own back and it’s preventing you from looking to anything new. This isn’t a criticism, just an observation, maybe you have found the exact combination of kinks and tropes that works for you – which is fine, but don’t be afraid to experiment. A vibrating bikini doesn’t have to be included in every story…
There will never be a ‘realistic’ reason why any institution would keep a single girl naked – but readers are able to suspend their disbelief for even the weakest excuse if everything else continues ‘realistically’.
Wow. Much to think about here. You are correct when you say “there will never be a ‘realistic’ reason why any institution would keep a single girl naked”. Perhaps . . . in Tami’s home town there is one of those idiosyncratic traditions . . .
Thanks for your response, which is unusually thoughtful.
I have to agree with TrackJim’s solution that it was happening hundreds of miles away, thus could be ignored, with Tammi’s embarrassment adding to the fact she couldn’t complain.
When went she did return to home that they wrote off as college craziness, being supportive parents, not wanting to hard question her about it all
Episode 16 sounds interesting. 😛 Well okay, let me rephrase, they all sound interesting, but that one appeals to me the most. :p And I know these are brief synopses and nothing else, but it’s still nice to see anything new from you. 😀 Keep up the good work, Donny 🙂
Thanks very much! I imagine Tami trying to find shelter, hiding under awnings, in corners, with her friends Terri and Rod and Tyrone and Jen bringing hot food out to her. (Of course, they’re not allowed to give her anything to wear.) It could become a furtive adventure through the tourist sites of D.C., like her nighttime stowaways in “‘Tami Smithers Was Here'”.