Holly and Marvyn

**Harvyn** is the friendship/romantic pairing between **H**olly Barrett and M**arvyn** Korn.

## History

In the Pilot, Holly Barrett first met Marvyn Korn on his first day as the new Head Basketball Coach at Westbrook. Holly introduces herself to Marvyn and admits that she is a "huge fan" of him. Then Marvyn asks Holly for advice on coaching girls. Holly’s first response is that she wants to say treat the girls like you would boys, but she adds that the girls he’ll be coaching are future leaders who can be overly anxious and a bit much. Her last bit of advice: “Don’t pretend, they’ll see right through it.” Then later that day Holly emerges from her office asking what just happened and Marvyn tells her it was between him and Destiny. She asks him to join her for a beer. At a sports bar, Holly learns that Marvyn doesn’t have any friends, spending all of his time thinking about basketball and how to make his team better. Holly and Marvyn bonded over their failed marriages. Marvyn having been such a workaholic that his wife left him, and Holly having had an affair behind her neglectful ex-husband’s back. Back to the topic of the team they both coach, she tells Marvyn that some of the girls are smarter than him and more powerful, given the massive fortunes they have access to. She encourages him to change his decision about Louise, adding that she’s very good at getting the upper hand. The next day Coach Korn enters after Holly and says “Welcome to 2-a-days,” telling them they will practice before and after school until their match with Laguna. At that evening’s practice, Holly tells him he’s softening already over the way he bent his rule for Louise. He laughs, telling her he’s only been there two days and he’s already made two players cry, asking if he’s made her cry, too. While the girls run drills, Marvyn and Holly go over plays on a markerboard inside his office where she confesses that they really need Louise to play in order to win. He calls Mouse and Samantha in, who are taking charge in Louise’s absence, asking them to spend time together outside of practice to get inside each other’s heads. Both girls look a little uncomfortable with the idea and he asks if they don’t like each other. Mouse thinks Samantha has a crush on her and Samantha denies it. Holly tells them they don’t have to do it and they leave. “What just happened,” Coach Korn asks Holly, looking stunned. She tells him it’s just the usual confusion girls have at this age. Back at the sports bar, Marvyn and Holly drink beer and he tells her he doesn’t think he can do this. He brings up everything that’s happened with the girls in just his two first days and asks what else he needs to know about girls, making Holly laugh. “I had no idea what I was in for,” he says, as Holly reminds him that he knows basketball better than anyone. The Laguna Niguel game has arrived and Coach Korn preps his team in the locker room, sharing a John Wooden quote that inspired him before every game. “Success is a peace of mind, knowing that you made the effort to be your best,” he says before the game starts. Even though the Sirens are playing on their home court, they’re getting clobbered with a score of 16 to 38. During a break, Coach Korn gets frustrated with the girls for all of the mental mistakes they’re making. Looking at Holly and realizing he’s being too tough, he asks for their eyes to be on him and he reveals that he wasn’t actually a good basketball player himself, his father calling him an embarrassment. Those harsh words drove him more than the John Wooden quote. “But the irony of those words is that they made me lose myself,” he adds. “I throw tantrums, I throw chairs.” He tells them to just go back out there and try their best. “Life is bigger than basketball.” He says “Do your best” may sound lame, but it’s been his secret to success all his life. “That’s all I got. That’s all I’ve ever had. What do you got?” Then Coach Korn calls his last time out, bringing the girls together and asking if anyone can hit a 3. The girls all agree that Louise is the only one who can. Holly pulls Marvyn aside and tells him to set an example and let her play.

In The Marvyn Korn Effect, the Sirens win their next game and Coach Holly congratulates the girls as Coach Korn enters, upset that all the girls did was pass the ball to Louise. They defend themselves for having won, not understanding why he’s upset. “Yes, you won. But do you know why you won?,” he asks, saying that they’re better players so they should’ve won, but they’re not a good team. Next week they play Encinitas, who has better players. “How are we going to beat them? We’re going to be the better team.” He re-institutes his “Two-a-days” schedule tomorrow at 6:00 am. “If you’re 10 minutes early, you’re late.” Then Marvyn goes to an outdoor café and has dinner with Holly who asks what he hoped to accomplish with his speech, which she feels put the girls down. “Those girls aren’t going to learn anything if all they do is feed the ball to Louise,” he explains. Holly tells Marvyn that she thinks he enjoys being mad, which he brushes off, saying compliments lose their value if given too freely. She asks him to tell her something other than basketball that brings him joy. He first tells her Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin, but she says it has to be something alive. “My daughter Emma,” he says. Arriving at their morning practice, the Sirens enter the court in their socks and tell Holly their shoes are missing. Coach Korn enters with a bag full of their shoes and tells the girls they can be a great team if they listen to him. “I don’t want you to think of being here as a punishment, think of it as a testament to my faith in you.” The girls are stunned by the pseudo-complement, which he says has value because he hasn’t cheapened it. He dumps out the bag of shoes and their laces are missing, dropping a bunch of laces on the ground. He tells them he’s going to teach them his full basketball system from the ground up, starting with how to tie their basketball shoes. At afternoon practice, Coach Korn has the girls moving around the court with imaginary basketballs. Marvyn has a meeting with Principal Sherilyn Thomas and Ms. Grint and Holly wishes him luck, but he tells her she’s coming with him. As Marvyn and Holly approach Sherilyn’s office, they see Ms. Grint and George Pappas inside. Walking in, they find that the principal wanted the school counselor to be present. “I want you to know I’m on no one’s side here, only the side of the girls of Westbrook,” George Pappas says, which Holly shoots down as being what they’re all there for. George reveals that many teachers are concerned about Marvyn being around the students with his past record. Sherilyn addresses him directly, saying that her answer has been the same every time he’s brought it up, which is that Coach Korn has been thoroughly vetted. Marvyn asks if they can speed things up and Sherilyn cuts to the chase, telling Ms. Grint that she can either reschedule her lecture to not conflict with the basketball practice or offer the players an opportunity to make up the assignment. Ms. Grint is not happy. Walking down the hallway, Marvyn tells Holly “You just witnessed the Marvyn Korn effect.” She says she thought the effect referred to the chaos he leaves in his wake, adding that Ms. Grint isn’t one to forgive and forget. Back in the gym, Marvyn tells Holly that he’s going to defy Sherilyn’s orders and she says the next ESPN ticker will announce that he was fired from coaching a girl’s high school team. Calling the team over, he tells Olive, Mouse and Samantha that they’re going to take the lecture instead of attending his practice. He also tells the girl’s they’re going back to one practice a day. They look disappointed. In the parking lot, the Sirens stop Holly and ask her what happened, saying they feel like Coach Korn just gave up on them by going back to one practice a day. She tells them it wasn’t up to him, sharing that some teachers felt he was pushing them too hard. They press her for more information and she says, “It’s not for me to say, but between us, Ms. Grint can shove it.” Marvyn is back on the beach for his morning run the next morning when he passes the basketball court, where he sees the entire team plus Holly practicing. They joke that it’s purely coincidental and Holly accidentally has a second whistle on her, too. Since it’s not at school, they say it’s “Not an official practice.”

In TCKS, after practice, Marvyn walks into Holly’s office and realizes he’s never been in there before. “Aren’t you supposed to be picking up your daughter?,” she asks him as he leaves. Marvyn comes into the gym to find Holly leading practice. “What are you doing here?,” she asks. “I thought you were picking up Emma.” He tells her he did and now he’s back, with Holly adding that she can’t believe they’re living out of a hotel. He tells her that he can’t be away if they’re going to get the team to D2. Then sometime later, Holly sees that Marvyn is still in his office and asks what he’s doing. He’s reviewing plays of the next school they face, but Holly says he should be home with his daughter. Holly finds Marvyn in his office working too late. “Do you know what time it is?,” she asks him, adding that she thinks he’s afraid of Emma. She says it’s weird that he came up with the D2 goal the same day Emma arrived. Marvyn gets defensive, saying “She’s my daughter, I’m with her a lot.” Holly says now that he’s the sole parent, he doesn’t know what to do. “I don’t know you and you don’t know me,” he snaps, getting a phone call and turning his back to take it where he finds out that his father just died. Then Holly ask “Everything okay?” Then Marvyn replies “Yeah. I’ll see you tomorrow.” Then two days later Marvyn and his daughter Emma go to his father's funeral. Holly and the Sirens sent flowers to where Marvyn's father's funeral is being held. Returning to practice, Holly is coaching and when Marvyn enters, Destiny speaks up and tells him how sorry they all are. Samantha asks if she can give him a hug, which leads to a group hug with all the girls. Holly watches as Marvyn catches her eye and nods his head. In her office afterwards, Marvyn asks how she’s doing and apologizes for snapping at her. While he was away, Holly figured out a strategy for an end of game play he was working on. He realizes that she’s capable of coaching in his absence and he says “I gotta get going. I have a daughter you know. Priorities.”

## Moments

### Season 1

#### Pilot

* Marvyn shakes Holly’s hand when they first meet.
* Holly admits that she is a "huge fan” of Marvyn.
* Marvyn asks Holly for advice on coaching girls.
* After Destiny leaves the room Holly checks up on Marvyn to see what is going on.
* Holly invites Marvyn out to grab a Beer with her.
* They bonded over their failed marriages.
* Marvyn asks Holly what happened to her marriage and admitted that he did some research on her before they met.
* Holly and Marvyn opened up to each other about their failed marriages.
* Marvyn teases Holly asking her “I didn’t make you cry, did I?” and Holly chuckles.
* Holly and Marvyn go to the Sports Bar after Practice
* Marvyn says “I can’t do this.” Holly encourages him that he can do this.
* Holly tries to calm Marvyn down when he is yelling at the girls in the locker room.
* Holly smiles at Marvyn after the game.

#### The Marvyn Korn Effect

* Marvyn offers to buy Holly dinner.
* Holly tells Marvyn “I think you like to make me mad.”
* Marvyn takes Holly’s Burger because she is not going to eat it.
* Marvyn tells Holly that him and Ms. Grint are meeting with Sherilyn later that afternoon and asks her if she would like to come, Holly replies that she would like to be anywhere but there and Marvyn tease Holly by saying he told Sherilyn that she is coming.
* Marvyn tells Holly that she just witnessed “The Marvyn Korn Effect.”

## Quotes

#### Prom!

Marvyn: Listen, Holly...

Holly: Marvyn.

Marvyn: Should we talk about last night?

Holly: Yeah. Uh, I think we're both grown-ups. Right? And we got caught up in an emotional moment, and we both did something that we never would've done if we were thinking clearly

Marvyn: Right.

Holly: Right?

Marvyn: Yeah. Absolutely. I wouldn't--

Holly: We don't need to make a big deal out of it.

Marvyn: No. No. No, we shouldn't. You're right. No.

Holly: Let's just, uh-- (*sighs*) Let's just forget it even happened.

Marvyn: Yeah, exactly. I just wanna say, though, that thing we did, that we wouldn't have done if we were thinking clearly, you did it first. (*sighs*)

Holly: Wow. Okay.

Marvyn: You kissed me first, I mean--

Holly: Yeah, I felt you were in a vulnerable place, Marvyn.

Marvyn: Oh, really? That's--Is that what you're telling yourself? That you kissed me 'cause I was in a vulnerable place?

Holly: Yeah.

Marvyn: I don't think so. I think you kissed me cause you're attracted to me.

Holly: Oh, no I kissed you because I felt sorry for you.

Marvyn: You felt sorry for me? I've been kissed a lot of times in my life.

Holly: Have you?

Marvyn: Yes, I have. And that was not a "I feel sorry for you" kiss. No.

Holly: Oh, no, it was. It was a pity kiss.

Marvyn: Pity kiss?

Holly: Uh-huh.

Marvyn: Well, so was mine. Mine was a pity kiss too. Because I didn't want you to be embarrassed if I didn't kiss you back.

## Trivia

* Holly was Marvyn's first friend at Westbrook.