diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index d77872d3..c0436d37 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/janet-lang/janet.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/janet-lang/janet)
[![Appveyor Status](https://ci.appveyor.com/api/projects/status/32r7s2skrgm9ubva?svg=true)](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/janet-lang/janet)
-
+
**Janet** is a functional and imperative programming language and bytecode interpreter. It is a
modern lisp, but lists are replaced
@@ -159,3 +159,8 @@ Building with emscripten on windows is currently unsupported.
## Examples
See the examples directory for some example janet code.
+
+## Why Janet
+
+Janet is named after the omniscient and friendly artificial being in [The Good Place](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Good_Place).
+![Janet](https://https://raw.githubusercontent.com/janet-lang/janet/master/assets/janet-the-good-place.gif)
diff --git a/assets/janet-the-good-place.gif b/assets/janet-the-good-place.gif
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..41a78081
Binary files /dev/null and b/assets/janet-the-good-place.gif differ