About

Jeremy Sleeping With Turkey Leg And Milk, also known simply as the Jeremy Sleeping Meme, refers to an exploitable image macro and reaction image featuring the character Jeremy Johnson from the Disney XD animated television show Phineas and Ferb.

The image shows Jeremy sleeping on a couch with his mouth wide open and his hands holding a turkey leg and a gallon of milk. The image was popularized as a reaction meme online in early 2024, inspiring redraws on X / Twitter that replaced Jeremy with other characters. A variant known as the Patrick, Mordecai and Jeremy Sleeping on Couch meme, which adds Patrick Star from SpongeBob SquarePants and Mordecai from Regular Show, also appeared around the same timeframe.

In April 2025, a Redditor by the name Sudowiec notably shared a story about how the meme supposedly ruined their relationship with their girlfriend, posting an update to the viral story in July 2026 and causing the meme to experience a resurgence online as people reacted to and discussed it.

Origin

Jeremy Johnson is the love interest of Candace from the children's television show Phineas and Ferb. The episode that contains the scene used in the meme is titled "Canderemy," which aired on March 5th, 2011, during the show's 3rd season.

The episode opens with Candace visiting Jeremy at his house, only to find him fast asleep. According to Jeremy's mother, Jeremy worked all day and night at the local burger joint and came home to eat an entire turkey leg and drink a whole gallon of milk before passing out on the couch (seen below).^[1]

On February 14th, 2024, the Instagram^[2] page @onlyballs_ posted an image of Jeremy sleeping on the couch holding a turkey leg and a gallon of milk alongside a caption that read, "Real." The post gathered over 43,000 likes in a month (seen below).

Also on February 14th, X^[3] user @ChildishMigster posted the image alongside a caption mocking Twomad's Death, writing, "yo dude if your gonna be afk then fucking leave / twomad."

Spread

The Jeremy Sleeping meme format subsequently spread online, especially on X / Twitter, as it saw additional usage in image caption memes and other edits, as well as redraws.

On February 15th, 2024, X^[4] user @EverythingOOC posted the image, writing, "Jeremy knew whats up," and gathering over 46,000 likes in a month.

On March 4th, X^[5] user @SenseiArgo posted two different angles of Jeremy sleeping, writing, "Ts been frying me the past 2 days." The post gathered over 60,000 likes in four days (seen below).

On March 5th, 2024, X^[6] user @THEUN1VRSE posted the image in response to a tweet asking, "$1B hit your account, wyd first." The post gathered over 20,000 likes in three days (seen below).

The clip also saw usage in caption memes over the following months. For example, on August 10th, 2024, TikTok^[9] user @rbxraw shared the clip under the caption, "Visual representation of me after work," receiving nearly 2,000 likes and 20 comments in two years.

Redraws

Various artists used the image of Jeremy sleeping as a reference for art featuring different characters in place of Jeremy Johnson as the meme spread in early 2024.

For instance, on March 5th, 2024, X^[7] user @puparomi redrew the image to show Susie from Deltarune sleeping, holding a turkey leg and milk, gathering over 28,000 likes in three days (seen below).

On March 7th, 2024, X^[8] user @wormpuppet posted a redraw featuring Ace from One Piece, gathering over 24,000 likes in a day (seen below).

Jeremy Sleeping Meme Reddit Story

On April 3rd, 2025, Redditor Sudowiec posted a story to the /r/phineasandferb^[10] subreddit about how the meme supposedly ruined their relationship, titled "The sleeping Jeremy pic destroyed my relationship." The post garnered over 920 upvotes and 170 comments in roughly 16 months, which read:

Hello everyone. I would like to share this story as a warning and maybe to soothe myself a bit in this situation.

I (23 M) have been in a relationship with my girlfriend (23 F) for over 3 years. We had our ups and downs throughout the years but we've always managed to talk things through and communicate.

One improtant thing for the story is that I have a pretty sarcastic and "mean" sense of humour. I laugh at people and may act disrespectful but only as a joke. All my friends know about that and usually they don't get offended. Alright, there were situations where I went too far but it was rare and I always tried to make it up afterwards.

Lately I saw a few posts on this sub with the picture of Jeremy sleeping on the couch. I found it really hillarious and started using it as a reaction pic. Mostly in situations when people were ranting or writing too much text about something. You know, like a "too much yapping, too long, fell asleep" meme. Usually no one paid much attention to it but I couldn't not burst a laugh whenever I saw this pic.

Unfortunately one day I think I failed reading the room. My girlfriend was visiting her family that lives in another city so she was away for the weekend. At one point she texted me a block of text about her family situation. Her parents divorcing and her aunt getting sick or something like that, I don't remember exactly. I wasn't paying much attention to the text as I was in the middle of a game so I just sent the Jeremy sleeping pic as a joke.

Then she started sending text after text, about how I don't treat anything seriously, about me making stupid jokes about everything, that she can't count on me and stuff like this. And for some reason I thought that it would be very funny to send the pic AGAIN. And in my stupidity I did just that. Sent the Jeremy sleeping pic. Again. I know it's dumb but at that time I really thought it will be funny.

She blocked me after that. I tried texting her on other social media and calling her phone but she didn't pick up. When she came home the next day she immediately started packing up. I apologized multiple times and said it was just a stupid joke but she didn't listen. She packed her stuff, took our cat and left.

Didn't hear from her since. I think she also changed her phone number as I kept trying to call her. Our friends stopped talking to me as well. I'm afraid I'm gonna get evicted soon as she was paying most of the rent. All of that because of the picture of Jeremy sleeping.

And that's the story. If I want you to remember one thing from me is to be careful with your jokes. Take care everyone.

On July 22nd, 2026, Sudowiec then made another post to the /r/phineasandferb^[11] subreddit, titling the story "UPDATE: The sleeping Jeremy pic destroyed my relationship." The story received over 600 upvotes and 110 comments in a week. The post reads:

Hello everyone.

As I noticed my old post gaining views, reposts and even people on youtube talking about it I decided to write a follow-up. At first I was hesitant but some of you were curious about how’s it going for me so here it is.

Let’s start at the beginning. Shortly after writing the original post I actually got evicted. My income wasn’t enough to support the rent so I had to move back to my parents’ apartment. Can't say they were happy about the situation but at least they allowed me to sleep on the couch until I find a new place for myself.

I have to say – losing my apartment, the breakup and the fact that majority of my friends turned their back on me got me pretty depressed. I had trouble getting up for work, at some point I even took some time off. I told my parents that I wanted to focus on finding a new apartment but in reality I just couldn’t get up from the couch. I tried reaching my ex gf wherever she didn't block me, at one point I even drove to her current place but she didn't let me in and her flatmate told me to basically get lost.

Honestly I don't know where I would be now if not for one of my friends who still talks to me from time to time. They said that maybe I should meet new people, find a new partner or something. They suggested a dating app or going to a board games club at my university. At first I was hesitant but at some point I said “what the hell” and went with it.

I'll skip the app stuff cause it’s neither interesting nor important. Just a bunch of dead-end conversations with random people or bots. The board games club on the other hand was a great idea. It was so refreshing to go there once a week for a few hours and just chill with people. My mental state actually got better and I met some like-minded people.

At one point I started talking with one girl who would come on the same day as I. We had our first longer conversation after she beat my ass in MTG. Turns out we had many similar interests and hobbies so we started texting and talking outside of the club. We became good friends, even went on a “date” or two. After some time I actually started developing feelings for her but I couldn’t really tell if they were mutual.

Then there was one week that was exceptionally bad. I failed an important exam at uni because I had to do overtime at work, got into a big argument with my parents and my depression started manifesting again. I didn't go to the club meeting and I was kinda avoiding the aforementioned girl. I just didn't have energy to talk plus I felt uncomfortable with not knowing how she felt about me. And on friday evening when I was doomscrolling on the couch she sent me a long text.

She said a lot of things, mainly that she likes me but she’s not sure if we should go further with our relationship, considering my mental state and her own problems. I read it all and in my terrible mood I decided “fuck it, if it has to go, let it go with a bang” so… I sent her a Jeremy sleeping pic.

I know what you think. Yes, it was an asshole move. But I was so done with it all that I decided that I deserve at least a bit of fun in this whole situation. However, nothing could have prepared me for what happened next. I expected an angry text, instant block and all the stuff but instead… she sent back a laughing emoji. She said that she’s just realized that she genuinly loves my sense of humour and that I always know how to cheer her up. She apologized for the long text, said she’s also had a rough week and we should talk about our relationship in person.

Long story short – we’ve been together for six months now. We’ve managed to find an apartment with decent enough rent and we’re looking forward to adopting a cat together. The Jeremy sleeping pic became kind of an inside joke for us, we still send it to each other every now and then. I can honestly say, I've never been happier.

So this is it. I find it funny how once the Jeremy sleeping pic destroyed my relationship but then it saved another. Maybe it’s never been about the pic itself but more about how it’s used and in what context. Who can tell? What's important is that it all ended well.

Thanks for reading everyone, take care.

On July 29th, 2026, the full story and the update were reposted to the /r/BestofRedditorUpdates^[12] subreddit, garnering over 2,300 upvotes and 600 comments in 10 hours.

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Patrick, Mordecai and Jeremy Sleeping on Couch

Patrick, Mordecai and Jeremy Sleeping on Couch is a redraw meme template depicting Patrick Star from SpongeBob SquarePants, Jeremy Johnson from Phineas and Ferb and Mordecai from Regular Show sleeping while sitting on the couch, their heads upturned towards the ceiling with their mouths open. The meme was shared on X / Twitter in March 2024 and became the subject of redraws that month in which artists draw their comfort characters in the same positions. The image of Jeremy sleeping with a turkey leg and milk previously became the subject of redraws in February 2024.

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