 " The Sponge Who Could Fly " , also known as " The Lost Episode " , is the 19th episode of the third season and the 59th overall episode of the American animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants . It was written by Paul Tibbitt , Kent Osborne , and Merriwether Williams , with Andrew Overtoom and Tom Yasumi serving as animation director and Mark O 'Hare as the director of the walk cycles in the beginning of the episode . The episode was produced in 2002 and aired on Nickelodeon in the United States on March 21 , 2003 . 
