 Mark O 'Hare directed and animated the walk cycles in the beginning of the episode . The cycle originated when supervising producer at the time Derek Drymon called O 'Hare . O 'Hare said " Derek would call me out of the blue for freelance , and it was tough to know the context of stuff . " He remembered the crew gave him a " bad " synthesizer song and he was told to do " some kind of weird walk to it . " He said " I animated this bizarre SpongeBob walk and turned it in , and that was that . " Eventually , Drymon saw the cycle and referred to it as " The Lost Episode " walk . O 'Hare had no idea what Drymon was talking about until he learned it was already used in an episode . O 'Hare said " so I just figured that it ended up on the cutting room floor , like a lot of stuff you end up doing in animation . I had no idea that he was referring to the actual name of the show [ ' The Lost Episode ' ] . " The live action scenes were directed by Mark Osborne , and were hosted by Tom Kenny in character as Patchy the Pirate , the president of the fictional SpongeBob SquarePants fan club . 
