This article is a list of episodes from the third season of SpongeBob SquarePants. It began on October 5, 2001 with "Just One Bite" and "The Bully" and ended on October 11, 2004, with the televised premiere of "SpongeBob Meets the Strangler" and "Pranks A Lot". This was the final season of the series produced before the release of The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.