Flowers on the Wall

Chart performance

Eric Heatherly version

Chart history

Year-end charts

In popular culture

• The song is used in the soundtrack to the 1994 film Pulp Fiction. In the film, Bruce Willis's character sings along to the line, "smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo" as he is driving. In the 1995 film Die Hard with a Vengeance, when Willis' character John McClane is describing his suspension from the police force, he says he was "smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo."
• The song was frequently employed as bumper music on the syndicated radio talk show Coast to Coast AM, particularly in the earlier days when Art Bell was the host.
• Kurt Vonnegut quotes the song's complete lyrics in his 1981 book Palm Sunday calling the song "yet another great contemporary poem by the Statler Brothers" and using it to describe "the present condition" of an American man who had recently departed his family. "It is not a poem of escape or rebirth. It is a poem about the end of a man's usefulness", he adds.
• In a video by The Muppets, a band of rats, The Ratler Brothers, sing the song while Beaker struggles with insomnia after being the subject of an experiment that involved consuming a large amount of coffee. The line in the chorus "smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo" is changed to be about other activities.
• Nancy Sinatra covered the song for her album Boots.
• An instrumental version of the song was used in the New Zealand TV programme A Dog's Show.
• It is the theme song of the radio series Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting.