User blog comment:Dorkpool/A Rant Regarding Lost Episode Stories/@comment-26268104-20160630234312

I'd argue that lost episodes are mainly episodes from real tv shows, so Candle Cove and Where The Bad Kids Go really don't count.

What I think makes a good lost episode is the cause behind an episode rather than the episode itself. Squidward's Suicide, for example, was mainly about how it was implied that the kids were killed by whoever made the episode, and therefore, it was possible that whoever did could have been working for Nickolodeon.