In a message dated 6/1/99 2:07:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time, okuhn@UCSD.Edu 
writes:

<< 
 When does she look at him like that?  Frankly, I think people are always
 making Sasami out to be more than she is (The only target of GS besides
 Ryoko).  Dispite what many think, she is still just a little girl, IMHO.
 She is easily amazed, tactless, and let a man, who her sister deemed fit to
 lock away, out because she was bored.
  >>

 I believe that Sasami was created to be the straght man for all trhe jokes.