With all the salacious puns and unsavory visuals floating around the Internet this week, I realize that we all need a Weinervention - me most of all. Therefore, I promise that this is my last posting about Weiner - at least until he pulls out of the New York mayoral race. That last line is just the kind of infuriating, self-justifying, doublecross-filled (and double entendre-laced) announcement the man himself has been relying on since this latest sexting/ phone sex scandal has materialized.

Two Sundays ago, WNET, the local PBS outlet in New York, aired the documentary "The Real Men and Women of Madison Avenue." Featuring interviews with George Lois, Mary Wells, and Jane Maas, among other stalwarts of the creative revolution, the show provided a bit of relief for our "Mad Men" cravings. But let's face it: the question most viewers want to ask of the real Mads is: "Was there really that much drinking, sex, and cheating going on?" The answer seems to be a definitive "yes."

Let's start by asking the Passover question: What made Cannes different this year from all other years?

Season six began in hell -- well, actually, Don Draper was physically in Hawaii, lying on the beach next to his adoring, model-perfect, bikinied wife. That would be the average person's heaven. But with his trademark penchant for self-sabotage and creating chaos, Don brought along his own hell -- Dante's Inferno -- courtesy of his downstairs neighbor Sylvia.

It's hummable, shareable, and even snack-able, if you like cute, candy-colored animated blobs that look like Fruity Pebbles, but some how end up decapitated, electrocuted, or oozing rare fluids from their bean-shaped bodies. (All in the most charming ways, of course.)

The title of this season's second-to-last episode (yikes!) is "The Quality of Mercy," which comes from Portia's famous speech in Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice." Lest Shakespeare seem too highfalutin' a reference, the writers also liberally sprinkle in allusions to "South Park," Patty Duke, The Monkees, "Plop plop fizz fizz" and Roman Polanski.

The big daddy of all advertising award shows, the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, kicks off on June 15. But this season, alongside all the usual cocktail-fueled networking, client-stealing, and wee-hours frolicking, a less fun reality has surfaced: how shockingly few women are on award show juries in general.

Titled "Favors," this was one of the season's most surprising, brilliant, but difficult-to-watch episodes, featuring extraordinary performances from the entire cast -- but actors Jon Hamm and Kiernan Shipka deserve extra kudos. bHow many times can poor Sally lose her innocence? And how many times can Don survive all hell (or his inner Dick) breaking loose?

Uh, oh. Whenever I hear the phrase "L.A. trip" combined with "Don," I reach for my revolver. Flashbacks! Sadness! Pools! Suits! Weirdness! Anna!

A killer episode that takes a stab at some of Mad Men's major themes, "The Better Half" answers one of the leading existential questions of our time: "Who wears short shorts?"