It's not just that the two characters are so similar (and so similarly shallow), but that the comedic possibilities in their pairing would have been nothing short of inspired. Laurie, accustomed to wrapping men around her little finger with her feminine wiles, would have found Casey to be just a bit of a challenge; even when he managed to land Donna, who was obviously too good for him, he would blow her off for such scintillating activities as cleaning the carburetor in his Trans Am. If anybody could ever have put a crack in his cool exterior, though, it would have been Laurie, and not only because she was shamelessly flirtatious and similarly aloof, but because she was smarter than both Kelsos put together.
Speaking of which, how hilarious would it have been watching Michael tie himself in knots watching his ex-side chick dating his brother? That certainly doesn't seem like the kind of thing his ego would allow him to abide, and when Michael's ego was bruised, it tended to make him do awesomely stupid things. Heck, Casey and Laurie hooking up might even have prompted Michael to actually stand up to Casey (beyond spitting in his socks and skipping a few showers so he could stink up Casey's bed when big brother was out of town). A knock-down, drag-out battle of the lunkheads for the hand of the most, er, well-traveled girl in Point Place? One doesn't miss opportunities much harder than that.
We suppose there might have been a reason why Casey didn't stick around for more episodes; after all, Wilson is a movie star who was busy during That '70s Show's run starring in flicks like Legally Blonde, The Royal Tenenbaums, and the most underrated comedy of all time, Idiocracy. But it would have been cool to see how the relationship of Casey and Laurie, who undoubtedly would have made the most hysterically terrible power couple of all time, would have played out.
