How I think this conversation went:

Adam Sandler: "Alright Paul, we made your artsy complicated movie, now it's time you work on my actually funny kind of movie"

Paul Thomas Anderson: "I dont know... what if it was just a short"

Adam Sandler: "Fine, fine... I got this idea. It's about a guy who looks at furnature and farts"

Paul Thomas Anderson: "Really? For a short film?"

Adam Sandler: "Well I originally had it planned for a feature length, but we could make a short film."

Paul Thomas Anderson: "Let's just get this over with quick".

Or this short could have been created because Paul needed a break from doing the beautiful complex character pieces of his first 4 films and decided to make the total opposite.

But now I want to watch Punch Drunk Love, the exact opposite of this. Fuck the Star Wars Marathon, it's over. The Paul Thomas Ander-thon continues.