Better Titles for TV Episodes

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Neil Gaiman’s Doctor Who episode “The Doctor’s Wife” was outstanding IMHO. However, its title seems a bit fan-fictiony. I thought “Thieves” would be better.

Has anyone ever thought of another episode of Doctor Who or any other show (Yes, I’m thinking about ST-TNG) which could have a better title? What would it be? (Note that the quality of the episode itself doesn’t matter.)

ST-TOS often had excellent titles, usually derived from literature, such as “Wolf in the Fold,” “Is There in Truth No Beauty?” and “Conscience of the King.”

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Gaiman wanted to call it “Bigger on the Inside,” but was overruled by the BBC.

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That would have been great.

Regarding ST:TNG, the problem is generic titles like “Inheritance” - quick, is that the one about Picard’s pseudo-son, Data’s pseudo-mother, Beverly’s family ghost, Tasha’s sister, or the time-traveling Alexander?

In the first seasons of Next Generation my friends and I made up fake titles for several Next Generation episodes:

Instead of “The Child”, how about “Is there in Troi No baby?” (Has a nice original Trek sound doesn’t it?)?

Instead of “Unnatural Selection”, how about “The Deadly Bore”

And instead of “The Naked Now”, “The Naked Not Again” seems more appropriate.

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I forget the real title, but that episode of Buffy where a demon cyberdates Willow will always be “Malcolm in the Internet” to me.

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My wife referred to “Conspiracy” as “Crunchy Bugs.”