Chase becoming House over the years (House MD)

this video emerged thanks to this scene that I love 10:35

[pumpkingamebox]

- Doctor Chase, nice to meet you.
- Nice to meet you, I’ve heard your name.
- Most people have, it’s also a verb.

[tylerjb]

There is a scene in one of the episodes where Chase is recovering from the stabbing where he has his classic lightbulb moment. He's walking down the hall and hands his crutches off to someone behind him, limping towards the patient's room just like house had done on multiple occasions. It was honestly the most straightforward parallel in the show.

[tommapar]

I love how when Chase comes back (again) he goes "The prodigal son has returned!" and then hugs him, it's like some part of him was actually happy to see him, and the dumbfounded look on Chase's face when he gets hugged by House, lmao

[stangadoboaradreaptaomoara]

The scene where Chase pops tic-tacs he found at a patient’s house like House pops Vicodin was my fav bit of foreshadowing this

[dimasherran]

I love how at the end of the series Chase's suit is Gray.
Neither White like Cameron nor Black like House

[KARTOONOG]

Chase laughing at House's witty comebacks in the first season was the biggest indication that he would end up being just like House.

[iancuspinera]

The first time I finished House MD, reading "Robert Chase, MD" on the glass door in the end of the show was amazing. I believe every single one of us knew Chase was the one among the team. He's not House, refused to be like House, but he took every lesson from that journey and became a better doctor and person.

[HailAnts]

The fact that the show runners knew from the beginning that Chase would one day become House and continued to follow thru with that plan for eight years is a testament to the show's quality..

[brendanblanks]

It's funny how elegantly this demonstrates how we perpetuate ourselves and those who come before us into those who come after us. Foreman becomes Cuddy, both always questioning House ethically. Cameron becomes Wilson, both always questioning House morally. Chase becomes House, both always questioning House medically. It fits.

[adimajumdar]

Thumbs up for Jesse Spencer, who played Dr. Robert Chase and then immediately played Lieutenant/Captain Matthew Casey on Chicago Fire for 10 seasons. Spencer acted on TV from 2004-2021 straight. What an effort. He also had to speak in an American accent for those 10 seasons. Impressive work

[lilybolanos]

Foreman wanted to be House, but Chase didn’t which is why he was destined to be House because house didn’t want to become himself either. They just wanted to save ppl

[rileydavidson]

Anyone else love that little smile house gave when Chase and Taub walked in for the first time since rejoining his team

[andrew]

I'd support a sequel set around Chase running the diagnostic team. Even if it would be only for a season or two.

[AnvilPro]

Chase being fired by House at the end of season 3 felt like a huge moment at the time. Like Foreman quits, Cameron quits, Chase is the only one House sends away. Why? Because he was the only one House thought was ready.

[gouthamjayakumar]

"And the prodigal son returns " and that hug made my
It's so

[CzechMirco]

Foreman and Chase ended up exactly where they should - at positions that best suited their personalities.
Foreman was always the conservative voice of caution. He was always preferring the more mundane safer options of what is wrong with the patient with treatments that are less dangerous and less invasive. And only when those are exhausted he would go for the rare and crazy ones. Also he is prone to dismiss certain symptoms or related information if it simplifies the diagnosis. Which makes him the ideal "Cuddy" - i.e. ideal Dean of Medicine. Someone with authority, who values House and his unorthodox methods because he knows that it brings results and is able to shield House from external harm, but who at the same time fights him teeth and nails when House pursues some overly crazy idea. His ability to put up stoically with House's various shenanigans also helps.
Chase on the other hand was at the beginning House's yesman, who went along with the craziest ideas just fine. He wasn't hindered either by conservativism like Foreman nor by over the top concern for patient's well-being like Cameron (don't take me wrong, there is nothing wrong with being a compassionate doctor but in Cameron's case it hindered the search for the diagnosis, she would have been content with simply keeping the patient all cozy and safe). He learned to supress his compassion just like House did, only for different reasons, thus he seemed similarly callous. But it transpired throughout the series that this particular mix made him much better diagnostician than the other two, he solved most of the cases in comparison to all the other fellows. And once he had his "eureca moment", he pursued it as stubbornly as House.

[Profile__]

I remember a clip, but I forget the episode, where House is doing something super illegal to the point in which he even allows the other doctors to leave the room to relieve them of responsibility. Instead of leaving, however, Chase just closes the door and sticks with House.

[luiyung]

Chase is like House without all the miseries, House tried not to let Chase becomes "House 2.0".
He guides Chase to become the better "House", he see his younger self from Chase. Sometime I just feel this is more like a parent-child relation than a teacher-student relation.

[pinkskie]

In a way, the fact that House retains his cane through the show, while Chase ends up not having one, can be taken as a signal of the core difference between the two. House's history and pain has permanently marked him; it's irrecoverable, "managed" crudely through addiction and external assistance.
Chase, on the other hand, gets back on two feet, but with a similar limping gait; having still suffered, also marked by that pain, but in a way that has not left him permanently disrupted as a person.

I'm probably reading way too deep but I think it's a fun thought regardless.

[alf.]

And Chase was usually the only one who'd smile at House's jokes.