1. In this clip, Mickey steps through a mirror as if it's made of saran-wrap. Of course that's impossible, since mirrors are made of glass and metal. However, the animator uses the motion of Mickey pushing combined with the effects on the mirror looking as though he broke through it to create a convincing visual illusion. The illusion is convincing because it takes another commonly seen phenomena, in this example, saran wrap, and applies it to something with a completely different composition but a similar look, which makes it "plausible".
2. In this clip, the goose eats a lot of corn very fast (a reoccurring conflict in the story, let me tell you). This wouldn't be possible in real life, obviously, so if they had used a early 2000's direct-to-dvd trick and made something that seems possible but sped it up, it would look wrong. Instead, in this clip, he eats the corn with a motion similar to how a typewriter used to be operated, by eating a line, then pushing the cob all the way back, eating another line, etc. This creates plausibility in the same way example 1 does- by using a motion that you can't immediately place to create a more immersive animation.
3. In this excerpt from "Snow White and the Seven Dwarves", all of the dwarves besides Dopey are washing Grumpy. This one's not the best example of the "Plausible Impossible", but it does employ heavy squash-and-stretch to maintain immersion.
4. Here's another one from the animation with the goose. In this scene, he shuffles meat and bread like playing cards then stuffs all of it into his mouth at once. The motion of playing cards combined with the visual of lunchmeat and bread make the animation feel better than if he just made the sandwiches one by one and ate them.
5. Finally, another clip from the mirror. In this one, Mickey's marching around with some card soldiers. He tells them to shuffle, and they do; he shuffles with them, despite not being flat. By applying the same movement the cards use to Mickey, a convincing motion is created for an impossible situation.
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