They make Chase a dumbass and no sell it in Dino Charge Episode 5, "Breaking Black"

Did the humor in "Breaking Black" work?
Seriously. This was the only thing that really bothered me with this episode.
They did the serious drama in the series good so far. Heck, I would debate that they even do it right in Samurai and Megaforce.
But the humor is really what kills this like many neo-Saban series:

• Mia's cooking
• Tensou being mistaken for a suitcase, with no laugh track and all the characters no selling it
• Kevin
• We left home at home?!

A Maori fortune teller?

1. how'd she get there?
2. is this supposed to be funny?
3. you expect a little kid watching NICKELODEON to figure out what a Maori fortune teller is? I don't know what that is. Maybe this is supposed to be some edutainment lesson, but it failed!
4. Is this supposed to make fun of Maori people? Because if so, that's just darn ignorant and racist.
5. Why does Chase and more importantly us the audience care about a object from someone who may/not be a Maori/parody? 

Chase is a Ziggy with bad humor aka Chase is a bad Ziggy, bad as in not proficient at being one.
Hmm...

I've never seen such a haphazard everyman. He sets the place on fire. He sleeps protecting something for a friend, and doesn't even bother locking the door.
Like Shelby's clumsy, but at least they set her up as some sort of Triceratops savant. What is Chase?


I just had a thought: maybe this is how Judd Lynn had wanted to write Chase, but director Charlie Haskell just wasn't able to pull it off. The dialogue and Chase's actions actually reveal a lot about his character if you ignore the awful direction they put his character: he's a guy who,

doesn't like his job,
is a millenial, wants to do fun stuff opposed to work as a janitor and undesirable, minimum wage, fast food person at the Dino Joint just trying to get by, who happens to be a Power Ranger!
It makes him very relatable, in how most people doing minimum wage jobs don't necessarily enjoy what they're doing, but are a part of this economic system which requires a lot of human labor either cuz of politics, economical reasons or Illuminati blah blah Illuminati.

Chase's character actually isn't very new for the series, albeit they could've cleaned up the kinks in the performance, whoever's fault that was.

As Ecoolarg mentioned, like Jack, he just "wanted to be a dude."

Judd Lynn has featured poor characters throughout his work. An example of an implied poor person, may be the bus driver in Episode 8 of Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue, where the man who wants to take a bus hostage is actually a man who was laid off from work as a bus driver. He then saves the day by doing a seemingly easy task by driving a bus, unknown to kids how difficult driving large vehicles is!

Chase also has a little Tommy in it, being a late, careless, "comical" character who happens to be a Dino Charge Black Ranger.