Soap Operas

In the fictional universe of Soap Operas, do you think Soap Operas exist? Most movies acknowledge that movies exist. Most TV families own a television. So do Soap Operas play against a backdrop where somewhere in their universe on television a Soap Opera is playing? And if so, don't you think at one point in the history of the genre, somebody on a Soap Opera would have pointed out that their life was just like one? "Wait, the priest that married us is the father of our twins? This is exactly like...like... something that would happen to us! I'm sorry, I thought I had a point to make!!"