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{{see also|List of MythBusters cast members|MythBusters}}

[[File:AdamSavageJul2011 cropped.jpg|thumb|upright|Savage in July 2011]]

Savage's was in Myhtbusters from 2003 to 2016. His role with his co-hosts iswas to disprove or confirm myths through testing and experiments done at different scales. His demeanor on ''MythBusters'' is animated and energetic, providing a foil to [[Jamie Hyneman]]'s more reserved straight-man persona.<ref name='usatoday'>{{cite news | first=Gary | last=Strauss | title='MythBusters' is the stuff of legends, tall tales | date=January 15, 2008 | url =https://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2008-01-15-mythbusters_N.htm | work =USA Today | pages =1 | access-date = February 14, 2010 }}</ref> Savage and Hyneman were the sole hosts of the show for the first season of ''MythBusters''. They introduced members of Hyneman's staff in the second season who began to appear regularly; [[Kari Byron]], [[Tory Belleci]], and welder [[Scottie Chapman]] appeared in the second season. In the third season, Chapman was replaced by [[Grant Imahara]], a robot builder and model maker. Filmed in San Francisco and edited in [[Artarmon, New South Wales|Artarmon]], New South Wales, Australia, MythBusters aired 282 total episodes before its cancellation at the end of its 2016 season in March. On November 15, 2017, sister network [[Science Channel]] revived the series with the new hosts [[Jon Lung]] and Brian Louden, who were selected via the competition spin-off ''[[MythBusters: The Search]]''.<ref name="Deadline 2017">{{Cite news|url=https://deadline.com/2017/07/science-channel-mythbusters-return-date-mysteries-of-the-missing-series-hosted-terry-oquinn-tca-1202136003/|title=Science Channel Sets 'Mythbusters' Return Date – TCA|last=Petski|first=Denise|date=July 26, 2017|work=Deadline|access-date=July 30, 2017|language=en-US}}</ref>

In 2019, Savage hosted the spin-off series ''[[Mythbusters Jr.]]'', featuring a team of teenagers skilled in [[STEAM fields|STEAM]] topics.