Satisfaction Guaranteed
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Satisfaction Guaranteed is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov, originally published in Amazing Stories, April 1951, and included in the collections Earth Is Room Enough (1957), The Rest of the Robots (1964) and The Complete Robot (1982).
Robot TN-3 (aka Tony) is designed as a humaniform household robot, an attempt by US Robots to get robots accepted in the home. He is placed with Claire Belmont, whose husband works for the company, as an experiment, but she is reluctant to accept him. Tony realises that Claire has a very low self-esteem and inferiority complex, and tries to help her by redecorating her house and giving her a make-over. Finally, he pretends to be her lover, and deliberately lets the neighbours see him kissing Claire, thus increasing her self-esteem. In the end, though, Claire falls in love with Tony, but the Three Laws of Robotics are slightly broken since at first Claire is very bewildered and screams when the robot hugs her. In the end, the TN-3 robot models are rebuilt.
| Earth Is Room Enough |
| The Dead Past | The Foundation of S.F. Success | Franchise | Gimmicks Three | Kid Stuff | The Watery Place | Living Space | The Message | Satisfaction Guaranteed | Hell-Fire | The Last Trump | The Fun They Had | Jokester | The Immortal Bard | Someday | The Author's Ordeal | Dreaming is a Private Thing |
| The Complete Robot |
| A Boy's Best Friend | Sally | Someday | Point of View | Think! | True Love | Robot AL-76 Goes Astray | Victory Unintentional | Stranger In Paradise | Light Verse | Segregationist | Robbie | Let's Get Together | Mirror Image | The Tercentenary Incident | First Law | Runaround | Reason | Catch that Rabbit | Liar! | Satisfaction Guaranteed | Lenny | Galley Slave | Little Lost Robot | Risk | Escape! | Evidence | The Evitable Conflict | Feminine Intuition | —That Thou art Mindful of Him | The Bicentennial Man |
