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As beïng an animator myself I have to tell you that a story for short animations is created in a different way than for movies.
For a movie you can follow different types of story structure. For example "The Hero's Journey", the 3 act structure (Titanic) Begin, Middle (Big change like a ship that starts sinking), End or follow a genre specific structure.
In the case of an animated short (Looney Tunes), a short movie (Mr. Bean) or a short story(Stephen King'early work) of +- 9-12 minutes there is no time to introduce characters proporly. That's why animators use stereo types (we don't need 30 minutes to understand the relationship between Tom & Jerry because we all know that cat's hate mice).
And to create background stories for characters and environments (etc.), animators create mindmaps to place certain objects in the scene that we assosiate with a certain emotion. This also saves time. This is also done in some long movies like the shining. In one scene the kid is sitting at the kitchen table and in the background we see a knife above the kids head. Our mind detects potential danger but as a viewer we feel like we're scared without a reason (because the knife is in a safe spot, but we assosiate it with fear)! The Shining feels like 4 hours and is -blam!- scary.
Kids are very sensitive to assosiations, so it's possible that the scene excists but is invisible to us because we have different values to certain objects right now.
It's also possible that it caused some kind of lucid dream to a relative large number of people.
[Edited on 01.14.2012 11:03 AM PST]