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{{Infobox television Wang Yuan Wang Yuan }} iPartment ({{zh|c=爱情公寓}}; pinyin: Aìqíng Gōngyù), is a sitcom from Mainland China. It was produced by Shanghai Film Group Corporation and Shanghai Film Studio, aired by Jiangxi TV in August 2009, with 20 45-minute episodes. There are four episodes in total. .
 * show_name         =Ipartment
 * image             =I Partment.jpg
 * caption           = Sitcom Comedy Comedy-drama
 * format            = Narrative in past tense
 * camera            =Multi-camera
 * picture_format    =1080i 16:9 (HDTV)
 * runtime           =45~49 minutes (no advertisements)
 * creator           =Wei Zheng
 * director          = Wei Zheng
 * film editor       = Zhenying Zhou
 * film location     = {{CHN}}Shanghai
 * Seasons           = Four seasons+side story(5 in total)
 * executive_producer =Yu Gong、Xiaojian Zhang、Yanping Wang Zheng Wang、Yan Wu
 * starring          = {{nowrap|Kingscar Jin,Evonne Zhao,Michael Chen,Loura Lou,Sean Sun,Kimi Li,Eric Wang,Deng Jiajia,Jean Lee,Vanessa Zhao
 * opentheme         =  "This Is My Future" by Amber Kuo
 * endtheme          = “I remember” by Peishan Yan (season 4),“Closer” by Zhenhuan Luo (season 3)
 * language          = Mandarin
 * country           = {{CHN}}]
 * channel           = {{CHN}} Jiasu TelevisionSeason one
 * num_episodes_0      =20
 * first_aired       = {{start date|2009|8|5}}
 * last_aired        = {{end date|2009|8|15}}
 * channel_1       = {{CHN}} Dongfang Television、Guangdong TelevisionSeason two
 * num_episodes_1  =20
 * first_aired_1 = {{start date|2011|1|24}}
 * last_aired_1 =
 * channel_2   =  {{nowrap|{{CHN}} Anhui Television、Hubei Television、Shanxi Television、Dongfang TelevisionSeason three}}
 * num_episodes_2  =24
 * first_aired_2 = {{start_date|2012|7|31}}
 * last_aired_2 = {{end_date|2012|8|12}}
 * channel_3 = {{nowrap_begin}}{{CHN}} Anhui Television]、[[Heilongjiang Television、Dongfang Television、Hubei TelevisionSeason four{{nowrap_end}}
 * num_episodes_3 = 24
 * first_aired_3 = {{start_date|2014|1|17}}
 * last_aired_3 = {{end_date|2014|1|28}}
 * imdb_id      =
 * tv_com_id   =iqiyi.com、pps.tv、youtube.com
 * website       = http://movie.douban.com/subject/3926132/

Investors and Producers
Ipartment is owned by a social network company, the four founders are Taiwanese, it is funded by JAIC and CyberAgent from Japan. "Ipartment" was a tool for promoting the social network website "Ipartment" at first

Season 1
Zhanbo Lu,a graduated student from abroad, met Wanyu Lin, a ambitious rich girl who tried to escape from her family for freedom on the bus. They decided to go to the "Ipartment" to attend a wedding that is hosted by Lu's sister, Yifei Hu, and the Xiaoxian Zeng. Meijia Chen met Ziqiao Lu, her ex-boyfriend, at the wedding by accident. Shenqi Guangu wanted to find the Aisen Apartment, but he was tricked to decide to live at Ipartment by Meijia Chen and Ziqiao Lu who wanted someone to share the rent with them.

Season 1.5
Season 1.5 was funded by Intel Season 1.5 was only shown online and it's 5 episodes, 80 mins in total. It first released on June 7th, 2010 on [youku.com]、[iqiyi.com]、[sina.com]“野蛮女友”再次客串 《爱情公寓》上演网络版，爱情公寓官网 However, season 1.5 was not related to neither season one or two. It was full of advertisement from [Intel]

Season 2
Zhangbo Lu and Wanyu Lin became lovers and traveled abroad. Meijia Chen left the apartment. The relationship between Yifei Hu and Xiaoxian Zeng was still unclear. Guangu and Ziqiao Lu were still living in Ipartment. They met Wei Zhang at the washroom, who was going to get married. So they decided to host a single night party for Wei Zhang, but Wei Zhang missed the wedding because of the party. Therefore, he stayed have to stay at Ipartment. Youyou Tang, who was an actress, lost her job and she stayed with her cousin Ziqiao Lu. Yumo who lost her love and found Yifei(classmates) to stay at Yifei's place.

Season 3
After won the million dollar prize, Xiaoxian Zeng was still living in Ipartment, but his money was froze. Baoqiang Wang bought the pub under Zeng's name. Meijia Chen came back to Ipartment and brought back two men who looked like Guangu and Ziqiao. Youyou told Meijia that these men are not her Mr.right, and Meijia found out that Youyou was right. They became friends. Ziqiao Lu and Meijia Chen became close friends again. Guangu and Youyou fell in love with each other. However, Zeng was still afraid to confess to Yifei. After traveled the world, Zhanbo Lu wanted to engage with Wanyu Chen, but Wanyu decided to study at Milan instead of marriage, so she chose to leave the Ipartment. Yifei, Xiaoxian, Guangu, Youyou, Ziqiao, Miejia, Zhanbo had a good time living at Ipartment and they became not only roommate but also true friends.

Season 4
Even though Xiaoxian Zeng and Yifei Hu were making progress on their career, their love story were still full of difficulties. Although Miejia and Ziqiao were in relationship, Ziqiao were still cannot change the fact that he wanted to meet new girls. Guangu's career was on the right track, but there were small uncertainties in the relationship between him and Youyou. Zhanbo left for the green organization, because he found his passion in protecting the environment. There were love, help; there were sadness, lost; there were passion, ambition, Ipartment witnessed the growth of the youth, they were a close friends and the stories would not be ended.

Theme Song
The opening theme “This is My Future” is one of the songs from Amber Kuo’s album “Invisible Superman”. It was released on December 25th, 2007. The opening song was covered by Director Zheng Wei’s wife Meiwen Chen. There isn’t a closing theme song until season three. “Closer” is the closing theme for season three, which is covered by Zhenhuan Luo. Also, there is a new closing theme song, called “I remeber...” from Peishan Yan.

Season 1
“Ipartment” was produced by Internet SNS and traditional communication, there were few news and rumors when it was shooting. According to CEO Jiaing Zhang from Ipartment, he is thankful to director Wong Kar-wai, who was a partner with him for My Blueberry Nights. As a result, Zhang got a chance to meet the vice president Tianyun Wang from Shanghai film Group Corporation, Which led to the birth of Ipartment.

Season 2
When the season one released to public, the crew had already planned to start the season two It started on Feburary 2010, due to the documents, actors and script. It finished shooting on May. . In order to collect ideas and stories from people, the crew organized a Internet activity for people voting and writing the plot of the eposide.

Season 3
Ipartment 3 started on July 13th,2011. The 8 most popular actors and actresses was back in Season 3.

Season 4
After Ipartment 3, the plot of Season 4 became the hot topic. After the crank up of Season 4, Michael Chen posted a photo of Demolition of the site, and the other actors and actresses left some sad comments, which made people feel that season 4 was the end of Ipartment. However, director Yuan Wang said season 4 was not the end, they were preparing a film.

Comments and controversy
The plot, story and cast of Ipartment are similar to AmericanComedy “Friends” and “How I met Your Mother’’, therefore, people called it “Chinese Friends”. There were compliments and criticism at the same time. Also, Ipartment was considered to be a well-translated eposide. Moreover, it was criticized for Plagiarism by several international media.

Criticism
“Ipartment” is the same style as American eposides. For example, it was considered that the acting, narration, style is similar to “Friends”. There were also example shown that “Ipartment” season 1.5 was plagiarized from “The Big Bang Theory”. . Season 3 was still considered to be plagiarism. Director admitted that “Ipartment” was influenced by the American style, there were many elements that were taken from American eposide, but he didn’t agree that the story was the same as the “Friends”. However, he said he did learn from the plot of the “Friends”, and he believed that “once there is imitation, there will be progress. Due to the plagiarism of the book “Diary of Bao Lai” on August 4th,2012, “Ipartment 3” apologized to the writer Bao Lai, and paid for the fine.

Links

 * 电视剧《爱情公寓》官方网站
 * 爱情公寓第一季备案公示
 * 爱情公寓第二季备案公示
 * 爱情公寓制作单位网站