What Is the Jon Hamm Dancing Meme?

The Jon Hamm dancing meme is a TikTok trend built around a nightclub scene from Apple TV+ series Your Friends & Neighbors, edited to the 2010 track “Turn the Lights Off.” In the clip, Hamm sways with his eyes closed under blue club lights, creating a relaxed, dreamlike mood that users repurpose as a looping visual for their own captions and emotions.

Instead of focusing on the show’s plot, TikTok turns this moment into a pure “vibe edit.” Creators overlay text about mentally checking out, quiet happiness, or small personal joys, using Hamm’s calm dancing as a universal visual for logging off from stress and slipping into their own world.

Origin: From Apple TV+ Club Scene to Viral Clip

The footage originates in episode eight of Your Friends & Neighbors, where Jon Hamm plays Andrew “Coop” Cooper, a recently divorced and unemployed ex–hedge fund manager who has started stealing from his neighbors.[1][2] In that episode, Coop has a slow, almost hypnotic dance in a club, eyes closed and seemingly detached from everything around him, which editors later isolated and transformed into a standalone clip.

Online, the scene was re-edited with lowered saturation and paired with DJ Kato and Jon Nørgaard’s “Turn the Lights Off,” giving it a softer, nostalgic tone.[1][2] Once this version hit TikTok, users began stitching it into their videos or using it as the main visual, turning a quiet character moment from a prestige TV series into a looping, context-free mood that anyone could claim as their own.

The meme taps into TikTok’s 2025 appetite for simple, cinematic edits that act as emotional shorthand rather than punchline-driven jokes.[2] Because Hamm’s dancing is visually striking but narratively neutral, creators can attach almost any feeling to it—relief after finishing work, cozy delusion, introvert bliss when plans are canceled, or the quiet thrill of being right in an argument.[1][2]

This flexibility, combined with Hamm’s familiar face and the soothing “Turn the Lights Off” soundtrack, makes the clip highly shareable and endlessly reusable.[1][2] The trend also underscores how today’s internet culture repurposes random scenes from prestige TV as communal mood boards: a single, out-of-context shot becomes a widely understood symbol for mentally checking out and enjoying a private, internal party, no matter what is happening in real life.