I immediately thought of this line from my favorite episode of Everybody Love Raymond. Ray's dad says: "Didn't I teach you anything, you gotta problem with your woman you don't go out and get another one. Then you got two problems."
That episode aired in 2001. I wonder if the NAT quote is inspired by that?
(Just in case you don't recognize the allusion:
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/05/what-...