Our Siamese used to climb the curtains when she was small. She also did the dragging herself along on her side by clawing at the furniture thing that Simon's Cat demonstrates in the video. :)
Yes Maria has her "5 minutes" too but never with such an desastrous outcome. She runs several times from one end of the flat to the other, jumps over the sofa but by now she never chrashed anything. It always looks funny when she try to turn on the slippery laminate