Great Episode Titles
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Thanks. I haven't seen that movie in ages, but I was sure the title had to be connected to the "dancing with the devil" phrase.
Law & Order also had an episode recently called "Skate Or Die". That's a good one because of the video game of the same name, where every so often the protagonist (skating) would be interrupted by a booming voice yelling "SKATE OR DIE!!!!" and then be chased by a swarm of bees. 
I'll agree pretty much anything from Andromeda. I also loved all the fake quotes from famous aliens that they would use at the beginning of each episode.
Favorite fun titles from Torchwood:
"They Keep Killing Suzie"
"A Day in the Death"
South Park has a lot of fun ones:
"Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset"
"Death Camp of Tolerance"
"Trapped in the Closet"
"Scott Tenorman Must Die"
"Breast Cancer Show Ever"
"Night of the Living Homeless"
"Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow"
"Good Times with Weapons"
"The Return of 'The Fellowship of the Ring' to the Two Towers"
"Child Abduction Is Not Funny"
"Jared Has Aides"
"The Wacky Molestation Adventure"
"Cartman's Silly Hate Crime"
"Sexual Harassment Panda"
"The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka"
"Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride"
Angel: "The Girl in Question." I love how it refers to both the A plot of Angel & Spike in Rome trying to "rescue" Buffy from the Immortal and the B plot of Illyria impersonating Fred so that Fred's parents won't realize that she died.
Doesn't Captain Kirk cite that Shakespeare passage at some point when seducing one of the aliens?
Favorite fun titles from Torchwood:
"They Keep Killing Suzie"
"A Day in the Death"
South Park has a lot of fun ones:
"Stupid Spoiled Whore Video Playset"
"Death Camp of Tolerance"
"Trapped in the Closet"
"Scott Tenorman Must Die"
"Breast Cancer Show Ever"
"Night of the Living Homeless"
"Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow"
"Good Times with Weapons"
"The Return of 'The Fellowship of the Ring' to the Two Towers"
"Child Abduction Is Not Funny"
"Jared Has Aides"
"The Wacky Molestation Adventure"
"Cartman's Silly Hate Crime"
"Sexual Harassment Panda"
"The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka"
"Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride"
Angel: "The Girl in Question." I love how it refers to both the A plot of Angel & Spike in Rome trying to "rescue" Buffy from the Immortal and the B plot of Illyria impersonating Fred so that Fred's parents won't realize that she died.
Doesn't Captain Kirk cite that Shakespeare passage at some point when seducing one of the aliens?
All good choices. I was also a fan of "No Other Sons or Daughters", "Sold Under Sin" and "Something Very Expensive".
A few others:
Oz :
"A Game of Checkers"
"Losing Your Appeal"
"Napoleon's Boney Parts"
"Orpheus Descending"
"Next Stop, Valhalla"
"Exeunt Omnes"
Sons of Anarchy
"Hell Followed"
"The Revelator"
"Small Tears"
Prison Break
"The Killing Box"
"Five the Hard Way"
"Greatness Achieved"
"The Legend"
"Killing Your Number"
Journeyman
"Home By Another Way"
"The Hanged Man"
Jericho
"Semper Fidelis"
"One Man's Terrorist"
"Termination for Cause"
"Patriots and Tyrants"
Lost
"Raised By Another"
"All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues"
"Whatever the Case May Be"
"Two for the Road"
"The Glass Ballerina"
"Tricia Tanaka Is Dead"
"The Man From Tallahassee"
"Because You Left"
NewsRadio
"Super Karate Monkey Death Car"
"French Diplomacy"
"Stupid Holiday Charity Talent Show"
Titus
"Sex with Pudding"
Arrested Development
"Best Man for the GOB"
"Motherboy XXX"
"The Immaculate Election"
I thought TNG's "The Arsenal of Freedom" would have worked better as simply "The Arsenal" because I spent the episode wondering what "freedom" had to do with the story.
"We'll Always Have Paris" would have made a good episode title for a Voyager story...
"Bitter Suite" was a clever title for the Xena musical, both as a musical reference and the tone/theme of the story.
"We'll Always Have Paris" would have made a good episode title for a Voyager story...
"Bitter Suite" was a clever title for the Xena musical, both as a musical reference and the tone/theme of the story.
Several TOS, TNG and DS9 episodes had great titles. Voyager tended to have one-word titles, although I really liked a couple.
TOS- Wolf in The Fold
The Conscience of the King
A Taste of Armageddon
Patterns of Force
Spectre of the Gun
And the Children shall Lead
All Our Yesterdays
TNG- Where Silence has Lease
Up the Long Ladder
Best of Both Worlds
The Mind's Eye
A Matter of Time
All Good Things...
DS9-(Long List)
If Wishes were Horses
Distant Voices
The Die is Cast
Rules of Engagement
Nor the Battle to the Strong
In Purgatory's Shadow
By Inferno's Light
Sacrifice of Angels
Who Mourns for Morn
Far Beyond the Stars
Wrongs Darker than Death or Night
In the Pale Moonlight
Take Me out to the Holosuite
The Emperor's New Cloak
Field of Fire
Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges
Badda-Bing, Badda Bang
The Changing Face of Evil
Tacking Into the Wind
The Dogs of War
What You Leave Behind
VOY- Eye of the Needle
Course: Oblivion
For non- Trek, I only really know nuWho and RD, so here's my favourite titles from those series:
Doctor Who: The Unquiet Dead
The Parting of the Ways
The Shakespeare Code
42
Blink
Last of the Time Lords
The Sontaran Strategem
Silence in the Library
Red Dwarf: Waiting for God
Confidence and Paranoia
Thanks for the Memory
Gunmen of the Apocalypse
Tikka to Ride
Stoke Me a Clipper
Back in the Red
Only the Good...
TOS- Wolf in The Fold
The Conscience of the King
A Taste of Armageddon
Patterns of Force
Spectre of the Gun
And the Children shall Lead
All Our Yesterdays
TNG- Where Silence has Lease
Up the Long Ladder
Best of Both Worlds
The Mind's Eye
A Matter of Time
All Good Things...
DS9-(Long List)
If Wishes were Horses
Distant Voices
The Die is Cast
Rules of Engagement
Nor the Battle to the Strong
In Purgatory's Shadow
By Inferno's Light
Sacrifice of Angels
Who Mourns for Morn
Far Beyond the Stars
Wrongs Darker than Death or Night
In the Pale Moonlight
Take Me out to the Holosuite
The Emperor's New Cloak
Field of Fire
Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges
Badda-Bing, Badda Bang
The Changing Face of Evil
Tacking Into the Wind
The Dogs of War
What You Leave Behind
VOY- Eye of the Needle
Course: Oblivion
For non- Trek, I only really know nuWho and RD, so here's my favourite titles from those series:
Doctor Who: The Unquiet Dead
The Parting of the Ways
The Shakespeare Code
42
Blink
Last of the Time Lords
The Sontaran Strategem
Silence in the Library
Red Dwarf: Waiting for God
Confidence and Paranoia
Thanks for the Memory
Gunmen of the Apocalypse
Tikka to Ride
Stoke Me a Clipper
Back in the Red
Only the Good...
Alias:
"Truth Be Told"
"Second Double"
"Full Disclosure"
"Search and Rescue"
"Before the Flood"
"All the Time in the World"
Angel:
"I Fall to Pieces"
"Five by Five"
"Are You Now or Have You Ever Been"
"Through the Looking Glass"
"Slouching Towards Bethlehem"
"Spin the Bottle"
"Apocalypse Nowish"
"A Hole in the World"
Battlestar Galactica:
"Kobol's Last Gleaming"
"A Measure of Salvation"
"He That Believeth In Me"
"Sometimes a Great Notion"
"A Disquiet Follows My Soul"
"Someone to Watch Over Me"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
"Never Kill a Boy on the First Date"
"Lie To Me"
"The Harsh Light of Day"
"The Weight of the World"
"Once More, With Feeling"
"Conversations With Dead People"
"Lies My Parents Told Me"
Lost:
"All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues"
"Man of Science, Man of Faith"
"The Glass Ballerina"
"Tricia Tanaka is Dead"
"The Man Behind the Curtain"
"Through the Looking Glass"
"The Shape of Things to Come"
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
"Through the Looking Glass"
"Improbable Cause"
"The Die is Cast"
"Paradise Lost"
"In Purgatory's Shadow"
"By Inferno's Light"
"Ties of Blood and Water"
"Favor the Bold"
"In the Pale Moonlight"
"Treachery, Faith and the Great River"
"It's Only a Paper Moon"
"What You Leave Behind"
Making this list, I realized that three of my favorite series have named episodes "Through the Looking Glass". And I have to say, they are three completely different types of episodes.
"Truth Be Told"
"Second Double"
"Full Disclosure"
"Search and Rescue"
"Before the Flood"
"All the Time in the World"
Angel:
"I Fall to Pieces"
"Five by Five"
"Are You Now or Have You Ever Been"
"Through the Looking Glass"
"Slouching Towards Bethlehem"
"Spin the Bottle"
"Apocalypse Nowish"
"A Hole in the World"
Battlestar Galactica:
"Kobol's Last Gleaming"
"A Measure of Salvation"
"He That Believeth In Me"
"Sometimes a Great Notion"
"A Disquiet Follows My Soul"
"Someone to Watch Over Me"
Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
"Never Kill a Boy on the First Date"
"Lie To Me"
"The Harsh Light of Day"
"The Weight of the World"
"Once More, With Feeling"
"Conversations With Dead People"
"Lies My Parents Told Me"
Lost:
"All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues"
"Man of Science, Man of Faith"
"The Glass Ballerina"
"Tricia Tanaka is Dead"
"The Man Behind the Curtain"
"Through the Looking Glass"
"The Shape of Things to Come"
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
"Through the Looking Glass"
"Improbable Cause"
"The Die is Cast"
"Paradise Lost"
"In Purgatory's Shadow"
"By Inferno's Light"
"Ties of Blood and Water"
"Favor the Bold"
"In the Pale Moonlight"
"Treachery, Faith and the Great River"
"It's Only a Paper Moon"
"What You Leave Behind"
Making this list, I realized that three of my favorite series have named episodes "Through the Looking Glass". And I have to say, they are three completely different types of episodes.
Then Smallville and Rescue Me have some of the best episode titles ever!
BSG, Babylon 5, Buffy, ANGEL, and Firefly all had awesome episode titles. Here's some of my favs:
BSG
33
Six Degrees of Separation
Tigh Me Up Tigh Me Down
Kobol's Last Gleaming
Valley of Darkness
Fragged
The Farm
Home
Lay Down Your Burdens
Occupation
Exodus
Taking A Break from all Your Worries
The Son Also Rises
Crossroads
Guess What's Coming to Dinner
Sometimes a Great Notion
A Disquiet Follows My Soul
Blood on the Scales
Daybreak
Babylon 5
Midnight on the Firing Line
Born to the Purple
And the Sky Full of Stars
A Voice in the Wilderness
Chrysalis
A Spider in the Web
The Geometry of Shadows
In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum
The Long Twilight Struggle
Comes the Inquisitor
A Day in the Strife
The Hour of the Wolf
The Deconstruction of Falling Stars
The Very Long Night of Londo Mallori
The Paragon of Animals
Objects in Motion
Objects at Rest
Buffy
Never Kill A Boy on the First Date
I Robot You Jane
Out of Mind Out of Sight
Some Assembly Required
Killed By Death
Faith Hope and Trick
Band Candy
Earshot
The Harsh Light of Day
Goodbye Iowa
This Year's Girl
The Yoko Factor
The Replacement
Listening to Fear
Into the Woods
Blood Ties
The Weight of the World
The Gift
Life Serial
Once More with Feeling
Tabula Rasa
Normal Again
Same Time Same Place
Conversations with Dead People
Bring on the Night
Lies My Parents Told Me
ANGEL
City Of
Lonely Hearts
I Will Remember You
Are You Now or Have You Ever Been
There's No Place Like Plrz Glrb
That Vision Thing
That Old Gang of Mine
Fredless
The House Always Wins
Apocalypse Nowish
Habeas Corpses
Long Day's Journey
Shiny Happy People
The Magic Bullet
Just Rewards
Harm's Way
Soul Purpose
Smile Time
A Hole in the World
Not Fade Away
Firefly
Serenity
The Train Job
Shindig
Our Mrs Reynolds
Jaynestown
Out of Gas
Objects in Space
BSG
33
Six Degrees of Separation
Tigh Me Up Tigh Me Down
Kobol's Last Gleaming
Valley of Darkness
Fragged
The Farm
Home
Lay Down Your Burdens
Occupation
Exodus
Taking A Break from all Your Worries
The Son Also Rises
Crossroads
Guess What's Coming to Dinner
Sometimes a Great Notion
A Disquiet Follows My Soul
Blood on the Scales
Daybreak
Babylon 5
Midnight on the Firing Line
Born to the Purple
And the Sky Full of Stars
A Voice in the Wilderness
Chrysalis
A Spider in the Web
The Geometry of Shadows
In the Shadow of Z'ha'dum
The Long Twilight Struggle
Comes the Inquisitor
A Day in the Strife
The Hour of the Wolf
The Deconstruction of Falling Stars
The Very Long Night of Londo Mallori
The Paragon of Animals
Objects in Motion
Objects at Rest
Buffy
Never Kill A Boy on the First Date
I Robot You Jane
Out of Mind Out of Sight
Some Assembly Required
Killed By Death
Faith Hope and Trick
Band Candy
Earshot
The Harsh Light of Day
Goodbye Iowa
This Year's Girl
The Yoko Factor
The Replacement
Listening to Fear
Into the Woods
Blood Ties
The Weight of the World
The Gift
Life Serial
Once More with Feeling
Tabula Rasa
Normal Again
Same Time Same Place
Conversations with Dead People
Bring on the Night
Lies My Parents Told Me
ANGEL
City Of
Lonely Hearts
I Will Remember You
Are You Now or Have You Ever Been
There's No Place Like Plrz Glrb
That Vision Thing
That Old Gang of Mine
Fredless
The House Always Wins
Apocalypse Nowish
Habeas Corpses
Long Day's Journey
Shiny Happy People
The Magic Bullet
Just Rewards
Harm's Way
Soul Purpose
Smile Time
A Hole in the World
Not Fade Away
Firefly
Serenity
The Train Job
Shindig
Our Mrs Reynolds
Jaynestown
Out of Gas
Objects in Space
Surprised no ones mentioned Farscape. A lot of their episode titles were witty and funny.
"Throne for a loss"
"I. ET"
"Back and back and back to the future"
"Bone to be wild"
"The way we weren't"
"Home on the remains"
"My three Crichtons"
"Won't get fooled again"
"A clockwork Nebari"
And many more.
"Throne for a loss"
"I. ET"
"Back and back and back to the future"
"Bone to be wild"
"The way we weren't"
"Home on the remains"
"My three Crichtons"
"Won't get fooled again"
"A clockwork Nebari"
And many more.
From Heroes:
"0.7 %"
"An Invisible Thread"
From Supernatural:
"The Monster at the end of This Book"
"Jump the Shark"
"I believe the children are our future"
From Farscape:
"Into th Lion's Den: Lambs to the Slaughter"
"Into th Lion's Den: Wolf in a sheep clothing"
From Veronica Mars:
"Look who's stalking"
"I know what you'll do next summer"
"0.7 %"
"An Invisible Thread"
From Supernatural:
"The Monster at the end of This Book"
"Jump the Shark"
"I believe the children are our future"
From Farscape:
"Into th Lion's Den: Lambs to the Slaughter"
"Into th Lion's Den: Wolf in a sheep clothing"
From Veronica Mars:
"Look who's stalking"
"I know what you'll do next summer"
Or maybe the song, the movie and the DS9 episode title have nothing to do with each other. I just happened to listen to Natalie Merchant's "Build a Levee" (from "Motherland" album) again and I noticed the same phrase used - it's a folksy song about a mother warning a daughter not to be seduced by the "devil", and she mentions she could meet the devil "in the pale moonlight". Based on all those different mentions, I presume that there is probably some old folk belief that you could meet the devil in the pale moonlight?
(For anyone interested, these are the lyrics of the Natalie Merchant song:
When I was just a little girl my mamma said to me
"Beware of the the devil my child in the dark rocky places he'll keep.
Beware of the devil my child. Beware of his charming ways.
You'll fall under an evil spell just looking at his beautiful face.
You gotta build yourself a levee deep inside."
"Don't go walking by the riverside alone in the pale moonlight.
He'll come up upon you girl with no earthly body in sight
Come up on you girl and and he'll whisper something sweet
Then take you where the waters rise so high and run so deep."
"You gotta build yourself a levee deep inside.
Gotta build yourself a levee deep inside.
Build yourself a levee girl when the waters run high."
Now when I was just a little girl my mamma said to me
"Beware of the the devil my child but if by chance you should meet
Beware his cold dark eyes full of bold and unholy deceit.
He'll tempt you with a whirling pool of lies
And promises he'll deny or that he will never keep."
"You gotta build yourself a levee deep inside.
Build yourself a levee deep inside.
Build yourself a levee girl when the waters run high."
"Beware of the the devil my child in the dark rocky places he'll keep.
Beware of the devil my child. Beware of his charming ways.
You'll fall under an evil spell just looking at his beautiful face.
You gotta build yourself a levee deep inside."
"Don't go walking by the riverside alone in the pale moonlight.
He'll come up upon you girl with no earthly body in sight
Come up on you girl and and he'll whisper something sweet
Then take you where the waters rise so high and run so deep."
"You gotta build yourself a levee deep inside.
Gotta build yourself a levee deep inside.
Build yourself a levee girl when the waters run high."
Now when I was just a little girl my mamma said to me
"Beware of the the devil my child but if by chance you should meet
Beware his cold dark eyes full of bold and unholy deceit.
He'll tempt you with a whirling pool of lies
And promises he'll deny or that he will never keep."
"You gotta build yourself a levee deep inside.
Build yourself a levee deep inside.
Build yourself a levee girl when the waters run high."
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