It was the week that a million women's hearts were shattered...
It was the week of Bonfire Night, aka Burns Night, aka:
But striding high above all this, like some sort of Twitter colossus, was Monty the penguin, star of the new John Lewis Christmas advert:
Fortunately, a few tweeters were on hand to explain penguins for us:
Starting with Benedict Cumberbatch and his significant otter other, and ending with Twitter's best ideas for #FutureJohnLewisAds, here were some of the tweets about this week's news that made us giggle this week...