diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 48bfd5ef0..189450632 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ lint:  ## Run a `lint` process on Hera and report problems
 
 .PHONY: test
 test:  ## Run tests for Hera
-	@poetry run python -m pytest -v
+	@poetry run python -m pytest
 
 .PHONY: workflows-models
 workflows-models: ## Generate the Workflows models portion of Argo Workflows
diff --git a/docs/examples/workflows/global_config.md b/docs/examples/workflows/global_config.md
index a48e5fb3f..721162467 100644
--- a/docs/examples/workflows/global_config.md
+++ b/docs/examples/workflows/global_config.md
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
     global_config.namespace = "argo-namespace"
     global_config.service_account_name = "argo-account"
     global_config.image = "image-say"
+    global_config.script_command = ["python3"]
 
 
     @script()
@@ -43,14 +44,19 @@
           command:
           - cowsay
           image: docker/whalesay:latest
-      - name: 'say'
+      - name: say
         script:
-          command: ['python']
-          image: 'image-say'
-          source: |
-            import os
+          command:
+          - python3
+          image: image-say
+          source: 'import os
+
             import sys
+
             sys.path.append(os.getcwd())
+
             print("hello")
+
+            '
     ```
 
diff --git a/examples/workflows/global-config.yaml b/examples/workflows/global-config.yaml
index dd7f52e5e..7a3dfed37 100644
--- a/examples/workflows/global-config.yaml
+++ b/examples/workflows/global-config.yaml
@@ -11,12 +11,17 @@ spec:
       command:
       - cowsay
       image: docker/whalesay:latest
-  - name: 'say'
+  - name: say
     script:
-      command: ['python']
-      image: 'image-say'
-      source: |
-        import os
+      command:
+      - python3
+      image: image-say
+      source: 'import os
+
         import sys
+
         sys.path.append(os.getcwd())
+
         print("hello")
+
+        '
diff --git a/examples/workflows/global_config.py b/examples/workflows/global_config.py
index 5d60eff61..6ede4a240 100644
--- a/examples/workflows/global_config.py
+++ b/examples/workflows/global_config.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 global_config.namespace = "argo-namespace"
 global_config.service_account_name = "argo-account"
 global_config.image = "image-say"
+global_config.script_command = ["python3"]
 
 
 @script()
diff --git a/poetry.lock b/poetry.lock
index 29d181b0a..c1df6d384 100644
--- a/poetry.lock
+++ b/poetry.lock
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# This file is automatically @generated by Poetry 1.4.0 and should not be changed by hand.
+# This file is automatically @generated by Poetry 1.4.1 and should not be changed by hand.
 
 [[package]]
 name = "anyio"
@@ -715,6 +715,31 @@ files = [
     {file = "lazy_object_proxy-1.9.0-cp39-cp39-win_amd64.whl", hash = "sha256:db1c1722726f47e10e0b5fdbf15ac3b8adb58c091d12b3ab713965795036985f"},
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "markdown-it-py"
+version = "2.2.0"
+description = "Python port of markdown-it. Markdown parsing, done right!"
+category = "dev"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.7"
+files = [
+    {file = "markdown-it-py-2.2.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:7c9a5e412688bc771c67432cbfebcdd686c93ce6484913dccf06cb5a0bea35a1"},
+    {file = "markdown_it_py-2.2.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:5a35f8d1870171d9acc47b99612dc146129b631baf04970128b568f190d0cc30"},
+]
+
+[package.dependencies]
+mdurl = ">=0.1,<1.0"
+
+[package.extras]
+benchmarking = ["psutil", "pytest", "pytest-benchmark"]
+code-style = ["pre-commit (>=3.0,<4.0)"]
+compare = ["commonmark (>=0.9,<1.0)", "markdown (>=3.4,<4.0)", "mistletoe (>=1.0,<2.0)", "mistune (>=2.0,<3.0)", "panflute (>=2.3,<3.0)"]
+linkify = ["linkify-it-py (>=1,<3)"]
+plugins = ["mdit-py-plugins"]
+profiling = ["gprof2dot"]
+rtd = ["attrs", "myst-parser", "pyyaml", "sphinx", "sphinx-copybutton", "sphinx-design", "sphinx_book_theme"]
+testing = ["coverage", "pytest", "pytest-cov", "pytest-regressions"]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "markupsafe"
 version = "2.1.2"
@@ -775,6 +800,18 @@ files = [
     {file = "MarkupSafe-2.1.2.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:abcabc8c2b26036d62d4c746381a6f7cf60aafcc653198ad678306986b09450d"},
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "mdurl"
+version = "0.1.2"
+description = "Markdown URL utilities"
+category = "dev"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.7"
+files = [
+    {file = "mdurl-0.1.2-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:84008a41e51615a49fc9966191ff91509e3c40b939176e643fd50a5c2196b8f8"},
+    {file = "mdurl-0.1.2.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:bb413d29f5eea38f31dd4754dd7377d4465116fb207585f97bf925588687c1ba"},
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "mypy"
 version = "1.0.1"
@@ -970,6 +1007,18 @@ files = [
     {file = "ply-3.11.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:00c7c1aaa88358b9c765b6d3000c6eec0ba42abca5351b095321aef446081da3"},
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "pprintpp"
+version = "0.4.0"
+description = "A drop-in replacement for pprint that's actually pretty"
+category = "dev"
+optional = false
+python-versions = "*"
+files = [
+    {file = "pprintpp-0.4.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:b6b4dcdd0c0c0d75e4d7b2f21a9e933e5b2ce62b26e1a54537f9651ae5a5c01d"},
+    {file = "pprintpp-0.4.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:ea826108e2c7f49dc6d66c752973c3fc9749142a798d6b254e1e301cfdbc6403"},
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "prance"
 version = "0.21.8.0"
@@ -1051,6 +1100,21 @@ typing-extensions = ">=4.2.0"
 dotenv = ["python-dotenv (>=0.10.4)"]
 email = ["email-validator (>=1.0.3)"]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "pygments"
+version = "2.14.0"
+description = "Pygments is a syntax highlighting package written in Python."
+category = "dev"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.6"
+files = [
+    {file = "Pygments-2.14.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:fa7bd7bd2771287c0de303af8bfdfc731f51bd2c6a47ab69d117138893b82717"},
+    {file = "Pygments-2.14.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:b3ed06a9e8ac9a9aae5a6f5dbe78a8a58655d17b43b93c078f094ddc476ae297"},
+]
+
+[package.extras]
+plugins = ["importlib-metadata"]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "pyproject-hooks"
 version = "1.0.0"
@@ -1142,6 +1206,22 @@ tomli = {version = ">=1.0.0", markers = "python_version < \"3.11\""}
 [package.extras]
 testing = ["argcomplete", "hypothesis (>=3.56)", "mock", "nose", "pygments (>=2.7.2)", "requests", "xmlschema"]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "pytest-clarity"
+version = "1.0.1"
+description = "A plugin providing an alternative, colourful diff output for failing assertions."
+category = "dev"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=2.7, !=3.0.*, !=3.1.*, !=3.2.*, !=3.3.*"
+files = [
+    {file = "pytest-clarity-1.0.1.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:505fe345fad4fe11c6a4187fe683f2c7c52c077caa1e135f3e483fe112db7772"},
+]
+
+[package.dependencies]
+pprintpp = ">=0.4.0"
+pytest = ">=3.5.0"
+rich = ">=8.0.0"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "pytest-cov"
 version = "4.0.0"
@@ -1161,6 +1241,23 @@ pytest = ">=4.6"
 [package.extras]
 testing = ["fields", "hunter", "process-tests", "pytest-xdist", "six", "virtualenv"]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "pytest-sugar"
+version = "0.9.6"
+description = "pytest-sugar is a plugin for pytest that changes the default look and feel of pytest (e.g. progressbar, show tests that fail instantly)."
+category = "dev"
+optional = false
+python-versions = "*"
+files = [
+    {file = "pytest-sugar-0.9.6.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:c4793495f3c32e114f0f5416290946c316eb96ad5a3684dcdadda9267e59b2b8"},
+    {file = "pytest_sugar-0.9.6-py2.py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:30e5225ed2b3cc988a8a672f8bda0fc37bcd92d62e9273937f061112b3f2186d"},
+]
+
+[package.dependencies]
+packaging = ">=14.1"
+pytest = ">=2.9"
+termcolor = ">=1.1.0"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "pyyaml"
 version = "6.0"
@@ -1251,6 +1348,26 @@ idna = {version = "*", optional = true, markers = "extra == \"idna2008\""}
 [package.extras]
 idna2008 = ["idna"]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "rich"
+version = "13.3.3"
+description = "Render rich text, tables, progress bars, syntax highlighting, markdown and more to the terminal"
+category = "dev"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.7.0"
+files = [
+    {file = "rich-13.3.3-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:540c7d6d26a1178e8e8b37e9ba44573a3cd1464ff6348b99ee7061b95d1c6333"},
+    {file = "rich-13.3.3.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:dc84400a9d842b3a9c5ff74addd8eb798d155f36c1c91303888e0a66850d2a15"},
+]
+
+[package.dependencies]
+markdown-it-py = ">=2.2.0,<3.0.0"
+pygments = ">=2.13.0,<3.0.0"
+typing-extensions = {version = ">=4.0.0,<5.0", markers = "python_version < \"3.9\""}
+
+[package.extras]
+jupyter = ["ipywidgets (>=7.5.1,<9)"]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "ruamel-yaml"
 version = "0.17.21"
@@ -1379,6 +1496,21 @@ files = [
     {file = "sniffio-1.3.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:e60305c5e5d314f5389259b7f22aaa33d8f7dee49763119234af3755c55b9101"},
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "termcolor"
+version = "2.2.0"
+description = "ANSI color formatting for output in terminal"
+category = "dev"
+optional = false
+python-versions = ">=3.7"
+files = [
+    {file = "termcolor-2.2.0-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:91ddd848e7251200eac969846cbae2dacd7d71c2871e92733289e7e3666f48e7"},
+    {file = "termcolor-2.2.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:dfc8ac3f350788f23b2947b3e6cfa5a53b630b612e6cd8965a015a776020b99a"},
+]
+
+[package.extras]
+tests = ["pytest", "pytest-cov"]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "toml"
 version = "0.10.2"
@@ -1527,4 +1659,4 @@ yaml = ["pyyaml"]
 [metadata]
 lock-version = "2.0"
 python-versions = ">=3.8,<4"
-content-hash = "a9be7ef38b884976411795505ac0c5175f8374bb24b32ff4eac51c885766a759"
+content-hash = "7e0fbd207804f888fdafe22eca755001f3cf9ec9cb8b5a6b50759c393bea09af"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 329d62c99..7a8c21da8 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ types-PyYAML = "*"
 jsonpath-ng = "^1.5.3"
 datamodel-code-generator = {extras = ["http"], version = "^0.17.1"}
 types-requests = "^2.28.11.12"
+pytest-clarity = "^1.0.1"
+pytest-sugar = "^0.9.6"
 
 [build-system]
 requires = ["poetry-core>=1.0.0"]
@@ -59,7 +61,7 @@ max-line-length = 119
 target-version = ['py38']
 
 [tool.pytest.ini_options]
-addopts = "--durations=5 -vv --cov=hera --cov-report=term-missing --cov-report=xml --cov-config=pyproject.toml"
+addopts = "-vv --cov=hera --cov-report=xml --cov-config=pyproject.toml"
 filterwarnings = [
     # Hide the hera.host_config deprecations
     'ignore:.*is deprecated in favor of `global_config.GlobalConfig',
diff --git a/src/hera/shared/_global_config.py b/src/hera/shared/_global_config.py
index c1a041abd..d8084f801 100644
--- a/src/hera/shared/_global_config.py
+++ b/src/hera/shared/_global_config.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 from __future__ import annotations
 
 import inspect
+from dataclasses import dataclass, field
 from typing import Callable, Dict, List, Optional, Type, Union
 
 from ._base_model import TBase
@@ -9,6 +10,7 @@
 _HookMap = Dict[Type[TBase], List[Hook]]
 
 
+@dataclass
 class _GlobalConfig:
     """Hera global configuration holds any user configuration such as global tokens, hooks, etc.
 
@@ -27,12 +29,12 @@ class _GlobalConfig:
     namespace: Optional[str] = None
     _image: Union[str, Callable[[], str]] = "python:3.7"
     service_account_name: Optional[str] = None
-    script_command: Optional[List[str]] = ["python"]
+    script_command: Optional[List[str]] = field(default_factory=lambda: ["python"])
     _pre_build_hooks: Optional[_HookMap] = None
 
     def reset(self) -> None:
         """Resets the global config container to its initial state"""
-        self.__dict__.clear()  # Wipe instance values to fallback to the class defaults
+        self.__dict__ = _GlobalConfig().__dict__
 
     @property
     def image(self) -> str:
diff --git a/src/hera/workflows/script.py b/src/hera/workflows/script.py
index 32450aadd..4c14762d5 100644
--- a/src/hera/workflows/script.py
+++ b/src/hera/workflows/script.py
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
 import textwrap
 from typing import Callable, Dict, List, Optional, Union
 
+from pydantic import validator
+
 from hera.shared import global_config
 from hera.workflows._mixins import (
     CallableTemplateMixin,
@@ -43,13 +45,20 @@ class Script(
 
     container_name: Optional[str] = None
     args: Optional[List[str]] = None
-    command: Optional[List[str]] = global_config.script_command
+    command: Optional[List[str]] = None
     lifecycle: Optional[Lifecycle] = None
     security_context: Optional[SecurityContext] = None
     source: Optional[Union[Callable, str]] = None
     working_dir: Optional[str] = None
     add_cwd_to_sys_path: bool = True
 
+    @validator("command", pre=True, always=True)
+    @classmethod
+    def _check_command(cls, v):
+        if v is None:
+            return global_config.script_command
+        return v
+
     def _get_param_script_portion(self) -> str:
         """Constructs and returns a script that loads the parameters of the specified arguments. Since Argo passes
         parameters through {{input.parameters.name}} it can be very cumbersome for users to manage that. This creates a