Litigation value: $500,000 to Toby; maybe a couple of bucks to Pam.

Welcome back Toby to The Office! For your trouble, how about a sizable money judgment courtesy of Michael Scott, Dwight Schrute, and the good folks at Dunder Mifflin! Invasion of privacy, intentional infliction of emotional distress, assault . . . the list goes on and on. You’d think with all this action, Toby’s facial expression would have changed at some point during the episode. Alas, it’s not in his repertoire.

It’s been a while since we’ve had an episode containing such blatant improper behavior — and clear liability on behalf of the company. Whether it was Michael threatening Toby, Michael setting up Toby for a crime, or even Ryan and Kelly just making out in front of Toby (that really explicit, lippy making out, like in Top Gun — nasty), Toby endured a lifetime’s worth of emotional distress in just one workday.

Often times, we’ll give some advice in this spot (e.g., what to do about office romances, how to handle pregnancy discrimination, etc.), but the only advice I could give after seeing the “Frame Toby” episode is this: Don’t plant weed (or Caprese salad) in an employee’s desk and call the cops on him; don’t provoke fistfights with employees; and don’t try to get your receptionist in a situation where another employee tries to keep hugging and kissing her even if she struggles.

Sometimes, it’s too easy. That’s what she said.