After school, Sheldon reluctantly attended Missy’s softball practice because his mother, Mary, said it was “family time.” His father, George, was trying to teach a nine-year-old named Derek not to run to third base when the ball was in the catcher’s mitt.
His twin sister, Missy, grabbed a handful of dry loops and stuffed them into her mouth. “You’re having a satrip again.” young sheldon s02e02 satrip
“Meatloaf,” he announced, “is a culinary lie. It pretends to be a loaf, but it is not bread. It pretends to be meat, but it has crackers inside. It is the uncanny valley of entrees.” It pretends to be a loaf, but it is not bread
The bus hit a bump. Sheldon snapped back to reality. Missy was staring at him. Sheldon snapped back to reality
“A satrip. You know—when you take a normal thing and go on a sarcastic trip in your brain until nothing makes sense anymore.”
That night, the family sat down to meatloaf. George Sr. was exhausted. Mary was praying. Missy was drawing mustaches on a napkin. Sheldon stared at his plate.
Missy grinned. “That was on purpose. He made a bad call last inning.”