If you’ve seen a meme on TikTok of “Mad Men” star Jon Hamm showing off his moves in a dark nightclub but can’t figure out where it’s from — largely because “Mad Men” didn’t feature any dark nightclubs — we’ve got you covered. 

The clip is actually from “Your Friends and Neighbors,” Jon Hamm’s much-anticipated return to television following the immense success of “Mad Men.” Hamm, who captured audiences as the enigmatic ad executive Don Draper and earned an Emmy for his performance, stars in this new series as Coop. Coop’s life quickly spirals into chaos, and this nightclub scene is a pivotal moment from the first season, which debuted in 2025. In this episode, Coop finds himself at a club with a group possibly involved in a major heist that occurred just before their night out. Amidst the revelry, Coop indulges in illicit substances, offering him a brief escape from his complicated life.

The series “Your Friends and Neighbors” opens with Coop seemingly managing well despite the challenges of co-parenting his teenage children with ex-wife Mel, played by Amanda Peet. He is a successful finance professional, enjoying a luxurious lifestyle. However, this changes dramatically in the pilot episode when Coop is unexpectedly fired from his high-profile job at Bailey Russell Capital Management by Corbin Bernsen’s character, Jack Bailey. Faced with mounting bills, Coop seizes an opportunity at a neighborhood party to pocket a bundle of cash, laying the groundwork for a life of crime. This event is witnessed by Mel and her best friend Sam Levitt, played by Olivia Munn, who is secretly involved with Coop.

Despite its distinct plot, “Your Friends and Neighbors” shares thematic parallels with Jon Hamm’s iconic role in “Mad Men.” Both Coop and Don Draper are characterized by their deception. In “Mad Men,” Don Draper is revealed to be an alias for Dick Whitman, a man who assumed the identity of a fallen comrade during the Korean War. This penchant for living a lie continues to be a compelling theme in Hamm’s latest project. As viewers delve into “Your Friends and Neighbors,” they’ll find themselves drawn into Coop’s web of deceit and intrigue, much like they were with Draper’s secretive world.

From there, Coop goes on a small crime spree, lifting watches and jewelry during impromptu dinners or get-togethers and bringing them to a pawn shop to exchange them for cash. Before long, a maid working for one of the titular friends and neighbors named Elena (Aimee Carrero) catches Coop mid-theft, and the two start working together. That’s actually, as it happens, how Coop ends up at that club; the two of them steal a painting by famed artist Roy Lichtenstein that belongs to one of Elena’s clients and replace it with a forgery, and then they go celebrate their successful heist at the club. “Your Friends and Neighbors” is extremely fun — so what about Hamm’s signature project “Mad Men?”

The funny thing about Jon Hamm’s lead role in “Your Friends and Neighbors” is that while it’s completely different from his role as Don Draper on “Mad Men” for a whole host of reasons, the two roles do share a major similarity: both characters are huge liars. Spoilers for “Mad Men” (which ended in 2015) ahead, but the whole deal with Don Draper — a successful and enigmatic advertising executive who works in the Manhattan offices of Sterling Cooper and, eventually, a new firm called Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce — is that he’s not who he says he is. Sure, it’s easy to buy that this handsome man, who womanizes his way through New York City despite initially being married to former model Betty Draper (January Jones) and having two children with her, also happens to be a decorated Army veteran, but that’s not true. Besides the constant lying he does to his wife about all of his affairs, Don isn’t even who he says he is; throughout the series, we learn that his real name is Dick Whitman. While serving in the Korean War, Dick was under the command of the real Don, and when Don died in combat, Dick stole his dog-tags … and his identity.

Don Draper and Coop might exist in different centuries — “Mad Men” takes place throughout the 1960s, while Coop’s story is firmly placed in present day — but they both have a lot to hide, and it makes sense to cast Hamm in a different yet similar role. Plus, now we have an immortal meme of him dancing on TikTok … and with the utmost respect to “Mad Men,” Don Draper never got funky in the middle of a dark nightclub.