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Originally Posted by BigDaddyCool
Now that it has been mentioned Holmes/House, similiar names. Both have an addiction to pain pills and solve mysteries of sorts.
With Monk, they are both detectives, but I don't see any other real connection but i don't know either well enough to care.
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Both House and Monk demonstrate a near-encyclopedic knowledge and an ability to makeleaps of logic based on keen observation of seemingly mundane items. Some elements are more obvious in one show or the other; As you pointed out, the drug addiction of Sherlock Holmes parallels in House's addiction. Also, Doctor Chase is a pretty clear analog to Watson in the sense that he very much aspires to be House, much as Watson did (Especially in later SH stories). Monk is a better demonstration of Holmes' idiosynchracies and quirks, though House better displays the brooding fits that Holmes had.
Stottlemeyer is very obviously based off of Lestrade, though the character has less animosity than professional jealousy. The choice of Sharona, a nurse as a "sidekick" for Monk is probably significant, though I wouldn't go into too much detail on it.
House has actually done the traditional Sherlock Holmes-ian deduction on a couple of episodes, more as a parloer trick than anything else.
Anyway, quite a lot of parallels.