David: "We love Vicki. I think she's the most famous character of all of them. She just seems to represent a particular zeitgeist, if I may say that. It was when the words Asbo, happy slapping and chav were all in the news.

She is the closest thing to pure satire we have in the show. But we're not picking on her necessarily, there is some ambivalence there - are we laughing at her ignorance or something else. For us, we really notice the fact that whenever there's an article in the papers about chavs, there's always a picture of Vicki to accompany it. You know, there's nothing scarier than those 15-year-old girls at the back of the bus going: 'What you looking at?'. They are utterly terrifying people. And I speak from experience."

Matt: "There's this attitude that Vicki is some sort of loser. She's not. She's a winner in many ways. She's strong, as strong as Thatcher. She's always at the front of the queue and she always manages to get her point across. We're not laughing at her chavness, we're laughing at the excuses she makes up. I love when people come up to me and do her voice - people do seem to really like her despite everything she is supposed to represent. Apart from being a strong person, she really is fearless. I'd say she could have anybody in a fight. Including me."

By the way, you can now get your official Vicki Pollard doll. Press the doll's hand and hear Vicki saying: "No, but yeah, but no, what happened was, was you know the Redmond sisters, they found a verruca sock in the girls' bogs and put it in Carrie's bag and she completely had an eppy and turned up to Carmel Sharma's party with a compass and stabbed Carmel Sharma, and anyway Shelly Bentley gave Craig Harmen a blowie in the shallow end for a bite of his Funny Foot.".

Also available in talking doll form are Lou and Andy and Daffyd, who, when squeezed, says: "That's exactly the kind of homophobic attitude I've come to expect in this village!"