Badenov = Bad Enough
Right! And a double entendre with “Boris Godunov” for history/opera/lit fans.
He is also a play on the name of Boris Godunov (Good enough).
Yes, but the name was chosen as a backward play on the name, Boris Godunov ("Good Enough), immortalized as an opera by Mussourgsky about a czar of the same name. Lots of plays on words here, as was the case in almost every sentence uttered in the Rocky and Bullwinkle show. Sheer genius.
I have never watched more than a few seconds of the Bullmoose cartoons. I always thought they were terrible; apparently I am not intellectual enough to appreciate the literary play on words they contain.
OTOH, I am enough of an intellectual to appreciate the exquisite humor and hysterical story lines of the Road Runner cartoons, not to mention their most excellent video and sound effects.
LOL!