The Duggar Kids Legit Hate Chaperoning Each Other’s Dates

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Jill is just over chaperoning Josh and Anna.

They’re back and forth is basically making her sick, and she so much as says so while talking with the producers. “Now if it’s two [chaperones] you can have a conversation,” she says. “But if it’s just one chaperone, a lot of times they’re just, you know, two lovebirds and they aren’t thinking too much about other people there with them and so you have to have a lot of patience to just sit there and listen to ‘I love you, I love you.’” Cue the eye rolls — from Jill and from us.

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Jana’s not thrilled at the idea of it either.

As Michelle gathered the older girls around to explain the night’s plan, you can tell Jana is just already over it. “Josh and Anna are gonna go out for supper and so they have to have a chaperone. It might be nice just to flip a coin or draw straws or cast lots or something to see who gets to go between whoever is eligible,” Michelle says, and this is not a face of someone who’s hoping to draw the short straw.

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Jill’s looking pretty dead-eyed at the idea of it, too.

After all, you don’t exactly draw straws for something everybody wants to do. There are no real eager volunteers here in the Duggar house.

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Even back when “rebel” Jinger was following the rules, she was already tired of the responsibility.

“Being on your own, bad things can happen and so it’s good to have a chaperone,” Jinger tries to explain. “That way you can be accountable to your parents and… I don’t know!” Yeah, she seriously just gives up halfway through.

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When the girls are called over to pick a name from a hat, Jessa looks like she wants to sink into the ground.

This is not the face of someone looking forward to a night out with family. Lucky for her, Joy pulled out Jinger’s name.

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When they are chaperoning, they kids just kind of linger in the background.

Although with this couple, you want to have as much space from them as you can. Jill wasn’t joking about their constant “I love you”s.

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John-David, Jana, Jinger — none of them are here for it.

Which makes total sense considering how nauseatingly all over each other Josh and Anna are being.

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See what we mean?

In this clip, they literally just said, “I love you,” to each other at least three times. “And we just keep doing that back and forth and they’re like in the background,” Josh said in a joking way while being completely, 100% serious.

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Jinger literally threw up her arms and rolled her eyes when asked about how chaperoning was going.

“Oh, it was great,” she sarcastically deadpanned to the cameras.

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Jill didn’t even seem to like being around Josh at all when he was courting.

Forget chaperoning, she basically just couldn’t stand him. “Just anytime you’d see him sitting there and he wasn’t doing anything or whatever, he’d just be like, ‘Awww,’ at the world and you knew what he was thinking about of course,” she said with an eye roll.

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And cousin Amy, naturally, finds the whole thing completely ridiculous.

“I would ditch my chaperone,” she says and laughs at the whole idea of it. “You don’t want me being the chaperone. I will pretty much let them peel off,” she tells Jim Bob, who promptly decides that wild cousin Amy is out of the running when it comes to helping keep his kids pure.

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Josh just got a kick out of the whole thing.

“It’s important that we have chaperones [with us] because we want to make our marriage very special,” he said, trying to be vaguely serious at first. But he just couldn’t help himself later on when explaining how John-David and Jana Duggar ended up chaperoning one of his dinners with Anna. “We chose Jana and John-David. We thought why not have a double date?” he joked. “We are from Arkansas!” Gross.

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And Josh continued having a good old chuckle at the whole thing even out in public.

“Cameras make good chaperones, don’t they?” he joked with Anna while they were out to dinner and Jana and John-David desperately tried to pretend they were anywhere else. Too bad Josh didn’t have cameras around more when he was younger…