House is enjoyable and is a well written character. Dr. Cox is annoying and overacted--a lot like Steven Colbert.
House is an obsessive who basically lives for his job. Cox drowns himself in work to run away from a social life but still pretends he has one. The former is an embittered misanthrope. The latter is a poser.
House MD's writing is tremendously different from Scrubs'. It would take more than a foil-cast and a hateful doctor to make House a Scrubs clone.
Last edited by Pariah; 2009-02-01 8:00 PM.