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House’s biggest gamble sees Chase leave the titular character’s team, but this is absolutely for the best.

From the first episode of House to the finale, Chase provides plenty of amazing moments. The doctor’s looks may be the first thing others notice, but underneath, his medical knowledge and overall personality are just as integral to his character. Robert Chase is a standout, and his best moments are full of humor, drama, and emotion.

10 Chase Shares His Experiences With BDSM

Season 1, Episode 20 - "Love Hurts"

The arrival of a dominatrix in the season 1 episode “Love Hurts” results in Chase revealing more about his sexual history than anyone expects. After Foreman and Cameron try to rescue patient Harvey from being strangled, Chase announces that he knows the woman. In a later conversation, he explains how the pair had met. This is a brilliantly comical moment in House, in which Chase talks about a past relationship with a banker who enjoyed being burned.

Although the three finding out about Harvey’s lifestyle helps them in their investigation, it’s hard not to find the moment funny. Cameron’s facial expression when she hears about Chase’s past escapades is hilarious, and House’s mocking remarks about torturing him make the scene just that much better. Chase’s dating life is rather complicated throughout House. This moment weirdly foreshadows just how complex it becomes later on. Although he and Cameron are one of the best couples in House, his banker ex may easily be his most normal relationship.

9 Chase Encourages Masters To Get Two Sisters To Fight

Season 7, Episode 12 - "You Must This"

Martha M. Masters is the most junior of all of House’s team of doctors. The young prodigy frequently pushes back against House’s methods and dishonesty, but despite her clear talents, she still needs help from time to time. In the season 7 episode “You Must This,” the team works together to help a young waitress, Nadia, who has a tense relationship with her older sister, Elena.

After realizing that Nadia’s stress levels and overall condition worsen with Elena’s presence, Chase fantastically advises Masters to trick the siblings into fighting so they can study her further. This moment highlights Chase’s character in House, especially how he compares to the titular character.

Chase is far more optimistic and invests in the patients more than House

The huge smile and thumbs up that he offers Masters when his idea is successful is heartwarming, but also laughable because it shows that Chase is very similar to House. Chase is far more optimistic and invests in the patients more than House, but there is a clear link between the two when it comes to using inventive ways to solve a problem.

8 Chase's Struggles With His Faith

Season 1, Episode 5 - "Damned If You Do"

“Damned If You Do” provides some interesting context to Chase’s past before House season 1 when a nun is itted. Chase’s reaction to finding out that the woman is a religious figure isn’t the best at first, and he mentions that he hates nuns. But later on, he starts to open up to the patient after learning more about her past.

Chase previously attended seminary school after graduating from high school, and although he no longer practices his faith, his religion is still an underlying part of his character. Chase’s faith continues to crop up throughout the show, but “Damned If You Do” establishes this part of him.

He manages to overcome his complex feelings about Catholicism and mentions his mother’s death a decade prior, and even though he doesn’t directly say the two are connected, it’s clear that his rough upbringing has an impact on his religious doubts. Chase isn’t the greatest character in House’s earlier seasons, but this moment gives him some humanity and proves he’s more than just House’s shadow.

7 Chase Does A Shot Off A Stripper At His Bachelor Party

Season 5, Episode 22 - "House Divided"

“House Divided” is a season 5 episode that proves Gregory House is a complete jerk, but the bachelor party is also one of Chase’s best moments, too. Chase’s celebration in the lead-up to his wedding is a wild one, which starts with him being arrested by immigration because his work visa has expired.

The party itself is very stereotypical, and in a drunken state, Chase is encouraged to take a shot from the belly button of stripper Karamel. However, Karamel uses a strawberry body butter that sends Chase into anaphylactic shock. Even though Chase is in the depths of his bachelor party and enjoying himself, he immediately notes something isn’t right.

This moment shows that even when intoxicated, Chase’s smarts take over, but he doesn’t have enough time to do anything and collapses to the floor. Thankfully, Chase makes a full recovery, no thanks to House. Considering everything Chase does for House, it’s irritating that he doesn’t get to truly enjoy his own bachelor party because of House’s delusions, his last night of “freedom” before marriage.

6 Chase Tackles A Patient On The Hospital Roof

Season 1, Episode 2 - "Paternity"

It’s commonly considered that Chase’s character development gets better as every season of House progresses and that in the show’s earlier installments, he is reduced to the titular character’s lackey. However, in the second episode of House, “Paternity,” Chase proves that he is so much more than this.

High school lacrosse player Dan is itted to the hospital with night terrors and double vision, but he disappears from his room in the middle of the night and is found on the roof in a disorientated state. Dan believes he’s playing lacrosse and heads toward the edge, and without thinking, Chase throws himself toward the teen.

Chase astonishingly manages to tackle Dan to the ground, saving him from falling to his death, in one of the character’s most heroic moments throughout the show. Even though Chase calmly tries to talk the half-conscious Dan away from danger, the doctor knows what has to be done and puts himself at risk for his patient. This moment cements that although he looks up to House, Chase does things that his colleague would never dream of doing. ​​​​​​​

5 Chase's Speed Dating Bet With House

Season 6, Episode 14 - "Private Lives"

Season 6’s “Private Lives” is one of the funniest episodes of House, in which Chase decides to reenter the dating scene and attends a speed dating night after his split from Cameron. Chase takes House up on a bet, claiming that his looks aren’t his only redeeming quality, and he pretends to be an unemployed, unintelligent American, which results in a hysterically funny interaction between him and multiple vapid women.

Chase’s false persona is very different from his true self. He hilariously insults a chocolatier and tells her that her profession is obvious because he can “tell by [her] hips,” but she isn’t offended and agrees with him, which proves House’s original point.

Chase also tells another woman that he plays video games with a shrug, but her only response is to ask if he is a professional, to which he calls her “bro.” Chase is clearly a catch and much more than just his appearance, but his ridiculous attempts to invalidate House’s claims flop.

4 Chase's Sarcasm While Caring For A Siezing Child

Season 3, Episode 2 - "Cane & Able"

While Gregory House’s best quotes in House are often the most memorable, Chase’s sarcasm is the basis for some of the show’s most underrated lines of dialogue. In the season 3 episode “Cane & Able,” Chase and House meet 7-year-old Clancy, a young boy who repeatedly hallucinates about being abducted by aliens. The kid believes Chase is an alien, too, but when the doctor starts to draw his blood, Clancy has a seizure.

Clancy’s father panics and begins to shout at Chase, who points out that his response is far from helpful. Chase has several hilarious lines in “Cane & Able,” including his painfully bad joke about Foreman’s mother. However, “Yeah, yell at me. That'll fix the kid” is a brilliantly underappreciated quote from Chase.

The way he mutters this while still maintaining his attention on Clancy is fantastic, and it shows that he is confident enough to make the quip while the life of a child is in his hands. This moment does, however, once again highlight how similar Chase is to House, especially in the show’s later seasons. ​​​​​​​

3 Chase Takes Over From House As Head Of Diagnostic Medicine

Season 8, Episode 22 - "Everybody Dies"

House’s divisive finale doesn’t give everyone a satisfying conclusion, but Chase is one of the few characters whose story is wrapped up well. In season 8, Chase realizes that he isn’t viewed as an equal of House and quits, but he returns when the titular character is believed to be dead. In the show’s last episode, “Everybody Dies,” Chase finally becomes the head of Diagnostics and has moved into House’s old office.

This is amazingly fitting for Chase, especially as a lot of his character's journey focuses on him being compared to House and his career aspirations. Earlier in the episode, Chase even acknowledges that House is a difficult person, but he and Cameron also note that the genius’ ability to love isn’t the most obvious.

Even though he returns, his decision to leave isn’t wrong, and there isn’t anyone else who is more deserving of running Diagnostics than Chase.

A significant part of why he quits is that Chase doesn’t think he can stand on his own without House, but he concludes that he is more than capable and needs to forge his own path. Even though he returns, his decision to leave isn’t wrong, and there isn’t anyone else who is more deserving of running Diagnostics than Chase. Chase doesn’t become House’s replacement but rather his upgrade.

2 Chase Punches House

Season 6, Episode 8 - "Ignorance Is Bliss"

While House and Chase’s relationship is generally solid, one moment in the episode “Ignorance is Bliss” shows that Chase doesn’t always put up with the titular character’s nonsense. The repeatedly teased relationship between House and Cameron is a terrible House storyline, so it makes sense that any comments he makes about Chase’s romance with her are badly received.

House provokes Chase for having no suggestions about a patient’s condition, threatens to call Cameron, and gets a punch to the jaw in return. Chase and Cameron’s divorce in House is on the horizon at this point, and although the papers aren’t signed, their relationship is clearly over.

Chase does everything he can to avoid any conversation about what has happened to his marriage, and the fact House knows the reasons behind it makes it that much worse. Even though Chase claims that he uses the punch as a distraction to get others to stop asking about Cameron, it’s still frustrating that House’s comments are so cruel. However, it is a brilliant moment from Chase, regardless. ​​​​​​​

1 Chase Kills A Brutal Dictator

Season 6, Episode 3 - "The Tyrant"

While Chase makes some questionable decisions in House, the one he most regrets, albeit unnecessarily, is in the season 6 episode “The Tyrant.” James Earl Jones guest stars as President Dibala, a ruthless African dictator who frequently voices his opinions about warfare, believing that his rule of terror is a good thing. However, after Chase learns of Dibala’s plans for a massacre, he fakes a test result that causes the patient’s death.

Although “The Tyrant” is far from a sad episode of House where a patient dies, it’s still shocking. Chase breaks several codes of conduct surrounding medical ethics by allowing this to happen, but it’s also a crucial moment for his character development.

He stops a horrific mass murder that would shake up society worldwide, turning the deaths of many into the death of one. Chase feels a lot of remorse after this, and even though he gets away with it, he loses his wife in the process. However, this is arguably Robert Chase’s bravest moment in House, and it proves that his morals and sense of justice are more important than anything else.

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